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Hairstyles

	Description	Name of the Style
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40.	A style of haircut where hair is cut like a Flattop, and the sides and back gradually fading from the thickness at the top, to almost bare skin. It was predominantly done by African-American youths and hip-hoppers, starting around 1986.	Hi-top fade
39.	A type of hairstyle characterized by hair piled high on the head and hanging down on the sides. It was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 17th century in western Europe. In modern times, it was popular in Western culture in the 1960s, when it was created with the help of back-combing and large amounts of hairspray.	Bouffant
38.	A hairstyle usually worn by women that is frequently seen in anime and manga consisting of straight, usually cheek-length side-cut bangs and frontal fringe. The rest of the hair is usually worn long and straightened.	Hime cut
37.	A hairstyle that was common and popular in the African American community in the late 1970s and throughout the 80s that gave the wearer a glossy, loosely curled look. Worn by Michael Jackson in the "Beat It" video.	Jheri curl
36.	A type of hair style intended to give the illusion of length and volume while keeping hair close to the head and easily manageable. Hair is arranged into layers, with the top layers (those that grow nearer the crown) cut shorter than the layers beneath. This allows the tips of the top layers to blend apparently seamlessly with layers beneath.	Layered hair
35.	A type of very short hairstyle similar to the crew cut, with the exception that the hair on the top of the head is styled to deliberately stand up (typically no more than an inch or two) and is cut to be flat, resulting in a haircut that is square in shape.	Flattop
34.	A form of Japanese traditional haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo Period and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers.	Chonmage
33.	Women's hairstyle that refers , which involves shaving the crown and occiput of the head and leaving the front, back and sides as fringes. The hairstyle is more commonly called feather cut in the United Kingdom.	Chelsea girl
32.	This hairstyle is an approximation of a mohawk made without buzzing or shaving the sides of the head, allowing an imitation of the extreme look of a true mohawk without having to commit to it by shaving the head.	Fauxhawk
31.	A hairstyle created by a member of 'The Misfits' around 1979. The sides and back of the hair are kept short, while the front is kept long and combed forward.	Devilock
30.	A haircut style that was popular during the 1950s and became a stereotypical feature of rebels and nonconformists. In this style, hair is combed back around the sides of the head. The teeth edge of a comb was then used to define a central parting running from the crown to the nape at the back of the head, resembling, to many, the rear end of a duck.	Duck's Ass or Duck's Tail, the Ducktail, or simply D.A.
29.	The American name for a type of haircut named after the sound of the electric razor, which is used to shear the hair very closely to the scalp. In the United Kingdom, the haircut is called a skinhead.	Buzzcut
28.	A type of hairstyle, short to medium length on the sides and back, with a receding hairline from the forehead back due to a natural baldness. Usually found on distinguished gentlemen and derived from the style of monks.	Fofa
27.	A particular hairstyle worn by young women. The hair is pulled back tight and tied in a bun or ponytail at the back. The supposed result is that the skin of the forehead and face are pulled up and back, producing this effect.	Croydon facelift
26.	A female hairstyle in imitation of the singer and songwriter Dido Armstrong. It was sported for a time by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former US President Bill Clinton.	Dido Flip
25.	A hairstyle that is short in the front, on the top, and on the sides, but long in the back. The hairstyle was popular during the late 20th Century, from the early to mid seventies to the late eighties/early nineties.	Mullet
24.	A hairstyle of African origin consisting of many small buns. Can also be used in an updo in place of curling and arranging hair.	Bantu/Zulu knots
23.	A hairstyle named after a drawing of a woman dressed as an English X. It involves straight hair hanging to below the ear where it usually turns under. Often there is a fringe (bangs) in the front.	Page boy
22.	A traditional style of hair grooming of African origin where the hair is tightly braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row.	Cornrows
21.	A hairstyle in which the hair extends out from the head like a halo, cloud or ball.	Afro
20.	A hairstyle which consists of shaving either side of the head, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair. Strongly associated with punk subculture.	Mohawk
19.	Style of haircut which takes its name from Madame de X. A fashion trend in the 1950s among male rockabilly artists and actors in the 1950s like Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando (The Wild One) and James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause).	Pompadour
18.	Also called as 'The Beatle haircut', is a mid-length hairstyle named for and popularised by the Beatles. It is a straight cut - collar-length at the back and over the ears at the sides, with straight bangs.	Mop-top
17.	Refers to a way of styling the hair in long, thick, upright spikes. The style, associated with the punk subculture, is so named because of the resemblance to the Statue of Liberty, although the style first arose in the London scene.	Liberty spikes
16.	A hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area.	Comb over
15.	A hairstyle in which most or all of the hair on the head is pulled away from the face, gathered and secured at the back of the head with a hair tie, clip or similar device, and allowed to hang freely from that point. It gets its name from its resemblance to the undocked tail of a horse.	Ponytail
14.	A slang term that applies to a hairstyle in which a woman's hair is tied up in two spherical or nearly-spherical buns, one on each side of her head, the term was popularized by the anime and manga series Sailor Moon. In China, there is a similar hairstyle known as "ox horns".	Odango
13.	A woman's hairstyle that is also known as the B-52, for its similarity to the bulbous nose of the B-52. The peak of its popularity was in the 1960s, and it remains an enduring symbol of 1960s kitsch. Audrey Hepburn's character in Breakfast at Tiffany's sported one.	Beehive
12.	This hairstyle is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron or can be sported naturally by people with sufficiently tightly curled hair. Also are often also known as tube curls and was most famously sported by Shirley Temple.	Ringlets
11.	Also called the boy's haircut, is a simple hairstyle with an overall short length, though not as short as a crew cut or buzz cut. This is the hairstyle that Adolf Hitler wore throughout most of the duration of the Third Reich, and was more or less the norm in the German Military during World War II.	Short back and sides
10.	A hairstyle in which the hair is parted down the middle and tied into two bundles, one on each side of the head. The style is popular among toddlers and young girls.	Pigtails
9.	A short haircut that became modern for women in the early 1920s. In the 1970s it became popular as a men's style, in which the hair is cut short, but a weighted area is left to fall between the ears and chin. In Britain it became popular in "Bloomsbury" circles before the end of the First World War, and was considered a sign of a liberated woman.	Bob
8.	A men's hairstyle, with a short, horizontally straight cut fringe. The hair is layered to around 1 to 2 inches all over. It is named after an emperor, whose images frequently depict him wearing his hair in such a manner. For American youths of the 1990s, it is also called a Clooney cut, because it was worn by actor George Clooney on the TV show ER.	Caesar cut
7.	This style starts with small sections of hair at the crown of a person's head, and intermittently, more hair is added to each section as the braid progresses down the head.	French braid
6.	A Russian name for an element of the haircut: a long lock of hair left on top or on the front of the otherwise cleanly shaven or shortly cut man's hair. The word is also used by Russians as a derogatory name for Ukrainians, as it was a common haircut of Ukrainian Cossacks, historically often foes of Russian tsars.	Khokhol
5.	A method of setting hair into curls that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s and in the late 1990s in North America and Europe.	Finger wave
4.	Worn by apprentice geisha in their final two years of apprenticeship; also called a momoware ("split peach") because the bun is split and a red fabric woven in the center.	Ofuku
3.	A haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, looking as though someone put this on the head and cut off all the visible hair.	Bowl cut
2.	A type of hairstyle, typically worn by women, where the hair is pulled back from the face, twisted or plaited, and wrapped in a circular coil around itself, typically on the back of the head or neck. Also known as a "ballet X," this hairstyle is used by all female ballet dancers (with a few exceptions).	Bun
1.	Shortest possible hairstyle without shaving the head with a razor. The style is so named as it is traditionally the first haircut given to new male recruits during initial entry into many of the world's armed forces.	Induction cut
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