The coiffure à la Titus was a short and choppy cut. Bangs were left long over the forehead, and the hair was cropped to the top of the neck in the back. Initially popular with Republican men, by the mid-1790s the hairstyle was also sported by women.
It became fashionable amongst young women to opt for a drastic chop, baring their necks and mimicking prisoner appearances right before their deaths. When someone was to be beheaded, their hair was cut short so the blade could sever their head from the body with no interruptions.
This was a layered cut usually with some tresses hanging down, named after the Roman Titus Junius Brutus, a character in Voltaire's play Brutus, when the actor François-Joseph Talma shocked audiences by performing (in fact initially another character) with short hair and wearing a toga.
From the time of Egyptian King Ptolemy I, the Ptolemaic queens wore the 'melon hairstyle' with its segmented sections resembling a melon or gourd," Kleiner says.
Both men and women had chopped their hair close to the nape of the neck. It was the style, a nod to victims of the French guillotine whose hair was shorn before execution. Some even wore red scarves around their neck, a gory symbol of the fatal slice.
deathhawk (plural deathhawks) A mohawk hairstyle with voluminous teased or backcombed hair, common in the deathrock subculture.
What Is a Mixie? "A mixie is an edgy haircut that is longer in the back, like a mullet, and short in the front, like a pixie," celebrity hairstylist Jenny Cho explains to Byrdie.
The bixie is called the bixie because it combines elements of two distinctly recognizable hairstyles — the bob and the pixie — and creates a new hairstyle in a gray (but very cute) area. "A bixie cut is equal parts pixie cut and a bob," says stylist Andrew Fitzsimons.
2. Sideswept Bixie. This is perhaps Princess Diana's most iconic hairstyle to date. Her perfectly shaggy pixie is just so chic, even today.
And hairdressers are seeing requests for “the undone Marilyn bob” surge as women seek a modern take on the classic bob hairstyle made famous by the Hollywood icon.
Hershey cut: The Hershey cut is a cross between a wolf cut and a regular layered do. It's essentially a more wearable mullet. It's effortless and low-maintenance because it doesn't always need an immaculate blow-dry. Lee Joo Young and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon opted for a sleek air-dried version.
Spiked on top and long toward the neck, Bowie wore his mullet with a full face of make-up, cut-to-the-navel glam rock shirts and belted trousers. This hairstyle personified the 1970's and subsequently inspired groups of mods and rockers to adopt the look for years to come.
The "bobcat" haircut is a new twist on the "wolf cut" you've seen all over TikTok. The trend features a bob haircut with lots of shaggy layers. See how to style the bobcat haircut with long or short hair.
Use of the guillotine continued in France in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977. In September 1981, France outlawed capital punishment altogether, thus abandoning the guillotine forever. There is a museum dedicated to the guillotine in Liden, Sweden.
Other than a few mouthfuls of broth, she would take no food. At 8 o'clock, she was made to change into a plain white dress, under the watchful eyes of her guards. Then the executioner attended to her and used his scissors to chop off her hair. Marie Antoinette fashioned herself a bonnet to cover her head.
The Waterfall Cut is such a beautiful cut that suits medium to long hair that's straight, wavy or curly. The soft, rounded layers, waves and curls cascade like a waterfall. In the shape of a upside down teardrop, tapering into a softly rounded V-shape at the ends.
Dutch boy (plural Dutch boys) A type of bob haircut with straight bangs and hair cut horizontally above the neck.
Kids these days refer to mullets under different terms – lettuce, flow, salad – but nonetheless, they are back in style. The cut is closely associated with both hockey and lacrosse players, as the hair flows elegantly out of the backs of 0 helmets.
"Ghost layers, as the name implies, create a look that appears to be one length at first glance, but ultimately contains light layers within the hair." Here are some hair types, textures and styles that could benefit from ghost layers.
The beehive is a woman's hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backward pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of nature's beehive. It is also known as the B-52 due to a resemblance to the distinctive nose of the Boeing B-52 airplane.
The broccoli haircut, also known as the zoomer perm or bird's nest cut, is similar to the indie-inspired looks of the 00s, featuring shaved or faded sides and a whole lot of volume and length on top.
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.
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.
The mohawk (also referred to as a Mohican) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center. It is today worn as an emblem of non-conformity.