Most galleries show you a photo and a name. This one tells you the length you have to start from, the textures it genuinely works on, what it does around a receding hairline, and how often you will be back in the chair. Pick one and try it on your own photo — the first two previews are free.
One clipper length all over, roughly a number 2, with the edges cleaned up.
Also called: clipper cut, number 2 all over, grade 2 buzz
The shortest clipper length that still leaves hair, about 3 mm all over.
Also called: number 1, grade 1, shortest buzz
Short and tidy: tapered sides with a little length left on top, graduating slightly shorter towards the back.
Also called: short back and sides, classic crew
Short tapered sides with a blunt fringe brought forward onto the forehead.
Also called: cropped fringe, caesar crop
Short tapered sides with a choppy, forward-styled top that sits messy on purpose.
Also called: messy crop, textured french crop
Uniformly short all over with a straight fringe cut horizontally across the forehead.
Also called: short forward fringe
One clipper length all over at roughly 10 mm, edges cleaned.
Also called: grade 3 all over, military cut
Sides that fade from short up to your existing length, starting low near the ear.
Also called: low fade, subtle taper
Sides faded from very short at the bottom up to length, with the blend starting around temple height.
Also called: medium fade
Sides taken very short high up the head, leaving a strong block of length on top.
Also called: high and tight
The fade goes all the way down to bare skin at the bottom before blending up.
Also called: bald fade, zero fade
A fade that curves down behind the ear instead of running straight across.
Also called: curved fade
A fade that radiates in a semicircle around the ear, leaving the back long.
Also called: ear fade, temple burst
Sides and back gradually shortened towards the edges, with no clipper line anywhere.
Also called: gentleman's taper, scissor taper
Sides taken to one short length with a deliberate step, not a blend, up to the long top.
Also called: disconnected undercut
Low tapered sides with a textured fringe worn forward and slightly to one side.
Also called: textured fringe with low taper, messy fringe
Length on top swept diagonally across the forehead from a soft side parting.
Also called: side part with fringe, swept fringe
Volume lifted up and back at the front, with shorter tapered sides.
Also called: textured quiff, modern quiff
A tall, rounded wave of hair swept up and back from the forehead.
Also called: classic pomp
All the length combed straight back from the forehead.
Also called: combed back, slicked back
Sides kept short with a strip of length through the centre, styled upward.
Also called: fohawk
A defined side parting with the top combed across and the sides tapered.
Also called: side part, classic comb over
Mid-length hair parted down the middle so it falls in two soft sections either side of the forehead.
Also called: middle part, curtain hair, eboy hair
Mid-length hair swept back off the face and falling naturally over the ears and collar.
Also called: grown out, swept back medium
Mid-length with plenty of internal texture, worn deliberately undone.
Also called: tousled medium, casual medium
Short and textured at the front and sides, with deliberate length left at the back.
Also called: mullet, shullet
Heavily layered mid-length hair with a soft fringe and lots of movement.
Also called: rock shag, layered shag
Long enough to reach the collarbone, swept back and left to fall naturally.
Also called: surfer hair, long flow
Long hair with layers cut through the length so it moves instead of hanging flat.
Also called: long layered men
Grown to a length that ties back cleanly, with the sides long enough to reach.
Also called: top knot length, tie-back length
One length to the shoulders with minimal layering.
Also called: shoulder skimming
Short all over with soft layers, a little more length on top and a wispy fringe.
Also called: short pixie, cropped pixie
A pixie with noticeably more length on top and at the front, so it can be swept.
Also called: grown out pixie, pixie with length
A short pixie with a proper fringe across the forehead.
Also called: pixie with fringe, french pixie
One clipper length all over, with the outline softened rather than squared off.
Also called: feminine buzz, shaved head
Between a bob and a pixie: short and layered, but with enough length to sit around the ears.
Also called: bob pixie hybrid, short shag
A pixie with one side or the nape clipped short underneath the length.
Also called: shaved side pixie
One clean length, cut level, usually landing at the jaw.
Also called: one length bob, chin bob
A short bob sitting between the ear and the jaw, with a fringe.
Also called: parisian bob, bob with bangs
Shorter at the back, angling longer towards the front.
Also called: angled bob, graduated bob
A jaw-length bob styled with real bounce and volume rather than sitting flat.
Also called: bouncy bob, voluminous bob
Stacked and short at the back with a strong angle down to longer front pieces.
Also called: stacked bob
A long bob landing around the collarbone, cut mostly to one length.
Also called: long bob, collarbone bob
A collarbone-length bob with layers and lived-in texture.
Also called: choppy lob, beachy lob
A bob cut level with the chin, all one length.
Also called: short bob, jaw bob
Long length kept intact, with much shorter layers built around the face.
Also called: face-framing layers long, 90s layers
Heavy layers with volume at the crown and wispy ends, halfway between a shag and a mullet.
Also called: wolf, shag mullet hybrid
Shoulder-length with soft layers throughout and a curtain fringe.
Also called: modern shag, shoulder shag
Shoulder-length with gentle layers for movement, nothing dramatic.
Also called: classic layers
Shoulder-length with layers styled into big bouncy volume and flicked ends.
Also called: bouncy blowout, flicked ends
Long hair with layers cut through so it moves and does not sit flat.
Also called: layered long hair
Length kept, with shorter pieces cut only around the face.
Also called: money piece layers, front layers
Long hair cut straight across with no layers at all.
Also called: blunt long hair, no layers
Long hair cut so the back forms a soft V rather than a straight line.
Also called: v shape long hair
Long hair with a softly rounded U-shaped perimeter.
Also called: u shape long hair, rounded perimeter
A fringe split at the centre so it sweeps away either side of the face.
Also called: curtain fringe, split bangs
A full fringe cut straight across, sitting at or just above the eyebrows.
Also called: straight across bangs, full fringe
A light, airy fringe you can partly see through.
Also called: soft bangs, see through bangs
A long fringe that grazes the eyelashes and blends into the length at the sides.
Also called: long fringe, eyelash bangs
A fringe swept diagonally across the forehead to one side.
Also called: side fringe
A very short fringe sitting high on the forehead, well above the eyebrows.
Also called: baby bangs, mini fringe
Curls kept full on top with the sides tapered short.
Also called: tapered curls, curly fade
Layered curls with volume through the crown and shorter pieces around the face.
Also called: curly layers, curly wolf
The natural curl pattern shaped into an even rounded silhouette, no straightening.
Also called: natural curl shape, curly cut
Hair twisted in sections while damp, then unravelled for a defined stretched coil pattern.
Also called: two strand twist out
Natural volume shaped into an even round silhouette with a sharp lined edge at the front.
Also called: rounded afro, shape up
Short natural coils kept even on top with a soft taper at the sides.
Also called: low cut coils, short natural
A bob cut on dry curls so it sits round rather than triangular.
Also called: curly lob, bob for curls
Sides faded very short with a tall block of coils left on top, shaped flat.
Also called: flat top, high top