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A buzz cut, or wiffle cut, is a variety of short hairstyles, especially where the length of hair is the same on all parts of the head. Rising to prominence initially with the advent of manual hair clippers, buzz cuts became increasingly popular in places where strict grooming conventions applied. In several nations, buzz cuts are often given to ...
A dome-shaped short haircut with the bottom razored into a V shape. Step cut: A measured style in which the hair takes the form of cascading steps. Surfer hair: A tousled hairstyle. Tail on back A men's hairstyle made by growing the hair out in the back like a small tail. It is widely seen in India. See Rattail. Updo
This is known as a “horseshoe flattop” or “shoe”. Regardless of the form, the flattop is usually cut with electric clippers, using both the clipper-over-comb and freehand techniques on the top and detachable blades on the back and sides. [1][2][3][4] Flattops are typically groomed with wax pomade (known as butch wax in the 1950s [5 ...
Greco-Roman hairstyle. Detail of two men from a drinking party scene on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater (510-500 BC) [1] In the earliest times the Greeks wore their κόμη (hair of the head) long, and thus Homer constantly calls them κᾰρηκομόωντες (long-haired). False hair or wigs were worn both by Greeks and Romans. [2]
Hi-top fade. Hi-top fade is a haircut where hair on the sides is cut off or kept very short while hair on the top of the head is grown long. [1] The hi-top was a trend during the golden age of hip hop and urban contemporary music of the 1980s and the early 1990s. [2] It was common among young African American males between 1986 and 1993 and to ...
The high and tight is a military variant of the crew cut. It is a very short hairstyle, characterized by the back and sides of the head being shaved to the skin and the option for the top to be blended or faded into slightly longer hair. It is most commonly worn by men in the U.S. armed forces. [1] It is also popular with law enforcement ...
Pixie cut. A pixie cut is a short hairstyle, generally short on the back and sides of the head and slightly longer on the top, with very short bangs. It is a variant of a crop. The name is derived from the mythological pixie. [citation needed]
Crew cut. A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, [1] graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp (pompadour) at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal. [2][3 ...