Hair

Wavy hair gets a reputation as the “easy” texture, sitting right between straight and curly, but anyone who actually has it knows that reputation isn’t quite earned. Waves are notoriously hard to pin down. Too much product and they go flat and greasy. Too little and they frizz out into something that isn’t quite wavy…

How to style layered hair well starts with understanding what layers do. Layers are supposed to add movement, shape, and dimension, but styled the wrong way, they can just as easily make hair look stringy, separated, or oddly thin in places it shouldn’t be. The gap between those two outcomes almost always comes down to…

Styling long hair for men takes a different approach than styling shorter hair. Long hair needs regular care, a different way of thinking about washing and styling, and patience during the awkward stage when it is too short to tie back but too long to look like a finished style. This guide covers the whole…

This guide shows how to style bob hair, focusing on bob cuts only. For other short styles, see our short hair guide, which covers bobs as one section among other short styles. A bob is one of those cuts that looks deceptively simple until you’re actually trying to style one yourself. Get the technique right…

This guide is for men with curly hair only, focusing on fades, barber cuts, matte products, and crop, quiff and undercut styles; it does not repeat the full general routine. For that general routine, see our general curly hair guide. Much curly hair advice leans toward routines built around long hair, multiple products, and styling…

This guide explains how to style short curly hair, focusing on short-length issues such as shrinkage, triangle shape, using less product, and short plopping; it does not repeat the full general routine. For that general routine, see our general curly hair guide. Short curly hair sits at an interesting intersection. Everything that makes curly hair…

This guide shows how to style curly hair at all lengths and gives the full general curly routine; it does not focus on one length, one curl pattern, or one product line. Curly hair rewards a completely different approach from straight hair: it needs more moisture, more structure, and gentler handling. Straight-hair advice often fails…