Named after our ultimate '90s crushes, the heartthrob bob is a gender-fluid cut that references the cropped, layered cut that some of our favorite movie stars were wearing throughout the decade. Cameron Diaz wore hers rounded and lobe-length.
Not the bob as you typically know it. The 90's Bob is a rebellious yet chic statement haircut. It draws attention to the lips, elongates the neck. It creates movement in hair which appears to have none, inviting a sense of volume and life.
A shaggy bob is a haircut that is created using the razor cut technique to add choppy ends and textured layers that can be asymmetrical or blunt. Since the shag's conception in the '70s, the organic cut has withstood time and kept on evolving to its modern and chicer versions.
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.”
Named after famous ballroom dancer Irene Castle who popularized this cut in the '20s, the castle bob is a short-to-medium style hair length with some fringe at the front. We saw a resurgence in the bob's popularity a few years back and it hasn't lost any steam.
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.
Just as the name sounds, the bixie haircut is a combination of a bob and pixie. "It's shorter than a bob, longer than a pixie, and with the hair off the neck and midface," April Peele, a hairstylist at Salon SCK in New York City, told POPSUGAR.
The inverted bob is a bob with layers stacked at the back that gradually get longer in the front. The layers curve along the shape of your head. It is also called the gradual bob and stacked bob. Celebrity stylist Khamis Maiouf says, “In this style, a smooth transition from long to short is important.
There's been a lot of fuss over this particular men's hairstyle over the years. The one worn by all of the '90s actors your girlfriend crushed on, that you secretly—or not-so-secretely—looked up to as well. It has had many names. The “mushroom” (DiCaprio in Titanic).
Lobs are great for heart-shaped faces because the length takes the focus off the jawline and elongates the face, creating balance. Enhance a collarbone-length cut with a deep side part and shoulder-skimming layers.
: a bob with straight bangs across the front and the rest of the hair cut evenly about earlobe length.
The boy bob is typically just that little bit shorter than your average bob (even the little one), and has a masculine feel to it. That could be by way of a hint of that '90s boy band classic, curtains; a mussed-up texture, or a strategically placed hair tuck or parting. It often features a shaven or very short back.
Similar to a bob or pixie cut, a wedge haircut is a short, layered haircut with a variety of lengths. Typically, it's cut very short at the nape of the neck and features longer layers by the face.
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.
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.
'Fairy hair' involves tying (or clipping) strands of tinsel into different sections of your hair. These metallic strings give the illusion of colorful and shimmering extensions or temporary highlights.
“The skunk hair trend is when the hair is parted evenly down the middle and each half-section is colored in two, extremely contrasted shades,” Hillier explains. More specifically, one side is completely black and the other side is a stark white or an almost platinum blonde (like the animal's signature tail).
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.
The term "ghost layers" was first coined by celebrity stylist Ramon Garcia, but the style is also commonly referred to as invisible or internal layers. Essentially, it's a cutting technique involving subtle layers that are camouflaged within the hair to give the appearance that everything is one length.
The mushroom haircut, also known as the bowl haircut, is a short haircut in which hair is cut evenly short on the sides and back, while the length is left long on the top. The finished result looks similar to a mushroom head, hence its name.
But in 2022 there's a new way to wear the trend and it's called the power bob. Blunt, sleek and seriously sharp – the power bob is the chicest way to elevate your everyday short hairstyle. It fakes fullness to even the finest of locks and pulls your look together to give off an authoritative vibe.
Close behind the viral Italian bob and midi bob haircuts in terms of popularity, the collarbone bob is the mid-length chop that lets you straddle both short and long hair. Cut around clavicle length, the style has been seen recently on Florence Pugh, Barbie Ferreira and Bridgerton actor Simone Ashley.
What is the difference between the French bob and a regular bob? Aside from the fact that all the stylish French girls have one? The only difference namely is how the style is cut, the French bob usually involves a shorter chin length and the addition of blunt bangs.