“Moon Bangs to me, however, are curved baby/micro bangs following the shape of a crescent moon. They live completely on the forehead and hug the cheekbones. They have texture and bulk removed for an easy grow-out.”
Also called "curved" or "half-moon" bangs, this face-framing style is cut in an arch shape. Meant to mirror the curves of your face, the longer layers extend on each side of your face while the center skims just above your eyebrows.
Half-moon bangs or crescent fringe are similar to curtain bangs but with less of a part. These eye-skimming curved bangs have a beautiful arch that falls along the brow line with a heavier weight line than most.
The word bangtail, which means to cut the hair of a horsetail horizontally so it has a flat, tassel-like end, is the origin of the word bang—the term we use to describe the fringe on your forehead.
Bottleneck bangs are one of the most popular bang trends of 2022. Bottleneck bangs are just how they sound; they resemble the shape of a bottleneck. They curve outward, with the longest pieces hitting your cheekbones and the shortest pieces across your forehead.
Basically, the bottleneck bang cut combines the face-framing wispy hairs of a traditional curtain bang cut with short, eyebrow grazing traditional bangs. It's already been seen on celebs like Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Olsen.
As celebrity and editorial hairstylist Neil Moodie explains: “A wolf haircut is a mix of the shag haircut and a mullet, but generally created on longer hair. It has shorter choppy layers on the top and longer choppy layers around the sides and back.”
Much like the butterfly haircut, butterfly bangs are all about blending varying lengths of hair. The haircut itself features short layers around the crown of the head, giving the illusion of shorter hair, meanwhile the fringe uses layers around the face to achieve a feathery look.
French-girl bangs are thick, full, and long (grazing your eyebrows or even slightly longer, depending on your preferences), and they lay across your forehead perfectly.
Side bangs tend to soften facial features that get harsh with age and bring attention to your eyes. This style of bangs will also help you to avoid your hair from falling flat.
While blunt bangs can make round faces look a little squat, side-swept bangs move the eyes diagonally across your face. The angled fringe helps make your face appear longer and, therefore, thinner.
Bangs can add a youthful quality to your face by making it appear smaller. But be careful to not have a bang that is too short. You want your bangs to come down long enough over your forehead so they don't accentuate any fine lines around your eyes.
Waterfall curtain bangs are when the fringe is layered from the shortest all the way down to the longest strands of hair. “They're sweeping layers from the face,” Hershberger says. As the waterfall name implies, there is a pouring flow to the style.
One of the most popular styles in South Korea is the air bang, also referred to as “see-through bangs” for their wispiness and the way they show glimpses of your forehead.
When film actress Veronica Lake (1919–1973) appeared in I Wanted Wings in 1941 she started a craze for a new hairstyle, the peek-a-boo bang. Her long blonde hair was parted on the left side, softly curled under at the ends, and often slipped in front of her face to cover her right eye.
The jellyfish haircut sports disconnected layers that resemble a short bob with longer layers underneath. If the name is any giveaway, it truly resembles the round body and longer, billowy tentacles of a jellyfish.
Bangs (North American English), or a fringe (British English), are strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead, usually just above the eyebrows, though can range to various lengths.
Similar to a mullet, the style features more body and volume at the crown of the head (the head of the octopus) and then longer, thinner, shag-like layers from the mid-shaft to ends (the tentacles). Though the octopus haircut is inspired by both the mullet and shag, it is neither.
A butterfly haircut combines short layers with long layers to give your hair dimension, movement and body. The short, wispy layers hit around the chin to frame your face, highlight your features and even contour a round face shape.
Meet the ponytail method, also known as "The Unicorn Cut." This DIY haircut method that's been blowing up on YouTube has people tying their hair into an extremely high ponytail that looks like a unicorn horn and giving themselves a refreshed haircut with a single snip.
The angel cut with layers is a signal that women use to notify their hairdressers that they are in an abusive relationship or are a victim of domestic abuse.
Waterfall curtain bangs are when the fringe is layered from the shortest all the way down to the longest strands of hair. “They're sweeping layers from the face,” Hershberger says. As the waterfall name implies, there is a pouring flow to the style.
"[Curtain bangs] are super low-maintenance because [they] flow into your hair naturally and you can style them however you want," says Cleveland.
Choppy, long bangs to draw attention to big eyes
For those with big eyes and thick lashes, long, choppy bangs are a great way to draw more attention to this prominent feature. This is because such bangs end right at the eyes, and instantly make them the focal point of a person's face.