Hairstyle
Unlike other animals, human beings of many cultures cut their hair, rather than letting it grow naturally. A haircut normally refers to cutting head hair, rather than other body hair such as pubic, facial or underarm hair.
Hair styles are often used to signal cultural, social and ethnic identity. Hair styles in both men and women also vary with fashion.
Groups of people who do not cut their hair:
Types of haircut:
- Afro -- curly hair allowed to grow out equally all around, popular with African Americans, but worn by others
- Beatle cut
- Buzz cut -- also called a butch cut, short all over
- Bob -- short woman's cut
- Bowl cut or Moe
- Crew cut, similar to buzz, originally worn by college rowers in 1900s to distinguish themselves from football players, who had long hair (to supplement the inadequate helmets of the time)
- DA -- for "duck's ass", combed long on sides, parted in back
- flattop -- just as it says, often combined with DA
- Devilock
- Mohawk -- both sides shaved, buzz cut in the middle
- Mohican -- both sides shaved, longer in the middle
- Mullet -- short on top, quite long on sides
- Pompadour -- big wave in the front, named for Madame de Pompadour aristocratic fashion leader of pre-Revolutionary France, mistress of Louis XV of France, Elvis Presley had one.
- Shaven head or skinhead -- not always a political statement
- Short back and sides -- "boy's haircut"
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