Hairstyle Facts for Kids

Woman with sensational hair. Afef Jnifen at Venice Film Festival.

A hairstyle is the way hair is cut and styled. A haircut may be just practical, but a hairdo suggests professional styling. The fashioning of hair is an aspect of fashion, and cosmetics, especially for females. Practical, cultural, and popular considerations also influence hairstyles.

People in many cultures cut their hair, rather than letting it grow naturally. Hair styles are often used to signal cultural, social, and ethnic identity and can be used to show social status or get attention. Generally, hairstyles are influenced by gender. Women's styles are different from men's. Fashion trends may have a great influence depending on the person.

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There is a great variety of hairstyles. This can best be explained by examples:

Men

Military cut is a buzz
Haircut from history: Julius Caesar
Flattop
Mohawk
Dreadlocks. Neater version is cornrows.
Hi-top fade
Jack Kennedy: 1961
A standard male hair style.

Women

1970s Afro
Short African hair
Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue (magazine), with a classic bob .
Another classic: the bun
Ringlets
Jazmin Boland: hair as part of an overall style
Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, photo by Lewis Carroll
Mini-braids and highlights
A high-class shaped cut
Long hair
Yulia Tymoshenko in 'up' braids
Rita Hayworth in film trailer; dyed blond.

Elderly Chinese woman with elaborate hair style. John Thomson. China, 1869. The Wellcome Collection, London
Traditional hairstyle of a Japanese bride.
The Venus of Brassempouy
An illustration showing "one of a Lady's duties - hair cutting" at a Ranch in Texas during the late 19th century. From the Wellcome Library.
Marie-Antoinette with pouf hairstyle
Movie star Rudolph Valentino.
Woman wearing a loose Afro
Most cosmetology programs in the United States require students to purchase practice heads that are made with real human hair. Students can cut, color and add permanents as they are trained in the procedures.
An astronaut gets a haircut on Skylab 3.
Hair styling in Himba tribe
Hair being straightened with a flat iron
During the late 18th century and early 19th century, powdered wigs were popular fashion. Barber's also supplied wigs and fitting of the wigs.
A one-year-old in San Antonio, getting his first haircut
NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman trims the hair of European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli in the Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station during Expedition 26. A hair clipper attached to a vacuum cleaner was used to remove the free-floating hair clippings.
Late 1st century BC portrait of a Roman woman with an elaborate hairstyle found on the Via Latina in Rome
130 AD bust of Vibia Sabina with a hairband and centre parting
George I of Great Britain (1660-1727) wore long, naturally coloured wigs, little different from those of Charles II in the 1660s
George II (1683-1760) wore fairly long white wigs
George III (1738-1820) wore short white wigs (until he went mad, when his hair and beard were often left untended)
George IV (1762-1830) wore powdered hair as a young man, then switched to a neoclassical "Titus cut"