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Wanted: Men’s haircut suggestions

Got a video shoot coming up in about 3 weeks, so it’s time to get my haircut. Professionally, this time.

My last 20 or 30 cuts I gave myself, often with clippers.

Suggestions? I believe my face shape would be considered oblong or oval, and my hair right now is a little longer than medium length. With no discernible shape. I have a very slight natural curl/wave.

Put links to photos in the comments, please.

And remember: outlaw. If my hair doesn’t look like it could roll out of bed, pull on some dirty jeans, have a couple of breakfast beers and then hustle pool before coming home to bang some chick whose name it’s completely forgotten, I’m not interested.

131 Replies to “Wanted: Men’s haircut suggestions”

  1. Jeff G. says:

    I’m leaning this way, incidentally.

  2. Mongerel says:

    Go with the Joe the Plumber look. He’s the biggest outlaw in the country these days.

  3. Mongerel says:

    Plus conservative chicks can spot you that way.

  4. pdbuttons says:

    mullett
    with ‘stache
    and a sly grin

    older broads dig the 3 dog nite/hudson bros. ref
    the young tighties
    joe dirt
    get ur motor running
    head out on the highway!

  5. Lisa says:

    Definitely this. You will look hot.

  6. dre says:

    The G. Gordon Liddy look screams: Outlaw.

  7. Jeff G. says:

    I was hoping for something a bit more constructive. The last time I really had my hair cut by a good stylist was when I had the duran duran thing going. Think Zohan’s Paul Mitchell cut from 1987…

  8. pdbuttons says:

    in honor to our first half black president
    i would suggesst
    half corn rows
    half fritos[glueed to your head-medusa style]
    oh- snap…too bad you didn’t ask this question before halloween

  9. Lisa says:

    I have a very slight natural curl/wave.

    Maybe this?

    Seriously, all fucking around aside. I like the haircut you showed for if you are looking for longer. If you want to go shorter, you would look decent in this. I like it because you can use your natural waves and a tiny bit of hair product to flip it up as shown in the photo, or go all beatnick and let the front down across your forhead in a broody, Jim Caveziel-ish look.

  10. pdbuttons says:

    wear a hair shirt/ jeff
    stop the mopy
    [not moby-mopy]
    get a milatary buzz cut
    added benefits
    when u pass the cops on the street
    they see ur haircut and say
    shee-it
    that musta been a cop

  11. Jeff G. says:

    I like that, Lisa. On my shortlist with this similar cut.

    The reason I like the Depp cut is my bangs haven’t grown out quite that long yet, so it should be grown in by the time I do the vid shoot.

  12. ajacksonian says:

    That whole going by the book thing just didn’t work out so well last time, did it?

  13. Lisa says:

    I am firmly in the “short to medium short” camp. I like Depp’s cut, but it is hard to pull that off without looking like a former member of Tears for Fears.

  14. pdbuttons says:

    a drug dealer told me
    get a cop hair cut
    a little on top
    bald on the sides
    put a little
    i gave to the police mans ball sticker on your car
    i haven’t got pulled over since
    it’s different for girls
    so- ladies
    don’t take offence

  15. Walknot says:

    Hair is over rated.

  16. Lisa says:

    Yes I like that one too, Perf.

  17. Dan Collins says:

    I like the tonsure. It says OUTLAW.

  18. Lisa says:

    I also say short or shortish because medium length styles such as this are super cute, but tend to be too much work for the Outlaw. And I can’t see you taking the trouble to carefully blow dry your hair and strategically apply product in the required manner to keep it from looking like you used a Flowbee.

  19. Bed hair is in nowadays, it seems. So are scaled-downed quiffs. So, if you must get a quiff, avoid the 70s types, and go for the minimalist style.

  20. Dan Collins says:

    Honestly, though, I’d go with the Nightfly.

  21. Lisa says:

    Comment by Dan Collins on 11/12 @ 8:17 pm #

    LOL. I am going to be giggling at that one for a while.

    LOL!!!

  22. Ric Locke says:

    I’m home, so I don’t have broadband and can’t see the videos.

    The outlaw-wannabees and tough guys around here are going for either pseudo-military, or very Fifties with less oil and more gel. One fairly popular cut is a cross between military “white sidewalls” and a mohawk, with hair about half an inch long on the top of the head and very short along the sides; a variant on that has it quite long on the top and gathered into a queue or ponytail in back. Another, a coming thing among the jocks, is (no shit) pretty much the sort of thing you’d have expected on, say, Bing Crosby circa 1955, with a very visible part and trimmed to clear the ears. The bit in front should of course be arranged so that the first stage of dishevelment is a lock of hair falling across the eyes.

    Black guys seem to be reverting to the “thin mat of curls” style I remember from the same era — no. 2 or no. 3 clipper all over and let it spring back. To the extent I have any preference about what other men look like, the style seems very practical and businesslike.

    It’s all very nostalgic for me.

    In this area, at least, long hair is reserved for the defiantly self-declared as useless.

    Regards,
    Ric

  23. dre says:

    Mohawk Outlaw.

  24. pdbuttons says:

    old joke
    under every ponytail
    is a horses ass

    god i sound like mcain on leno!

  25. Jeff Y. aka The Continental says:

    Dude, go retro. Go with the guy’s cut, not the chick’s.

    And Dan Collins, I have to tell you: you are one funny bastard. Tonsure. I lost my fucking tonsils laughing at that one.

  26. High and tight like a Marine.

  27. Huey says:

    Short. Very short. That way the “instructors” at the re-education, learning and tolerance camps will not be able to use hair holds as a part of their corrective instructional program for racist outlaws.

  28. Jeff G. says:

    I’ve been doing the Marine stuff for a while now. That’s what clippers do.

    I like the McQueen cut, but I’m not sure it works as well with my hair color.

    Maybe I’ll go blond.

  29. dre says:

    A blond Afro?

  30. Mr. Pink says:

    Go high and tight.

  31. Mr. Pink says:

    The reason I said high and tight is because at least then when people say you are a racist at least you will look the part. IMHO

  32. pdbuttons says:

    after the age of 35-guys stick with a haircut
    broads
    they wanna feel…young?/vibrant?
    needed?
    i don’t much care
    if u want to go get ur hair re-combobulated at $$$$ a whack
    give me a blow-job

    ok
    i love you!

  33. SarahW says:

    Sue me. I like short.

    Still have a penchant for Russell Crowe ca 2000.

  34. cranky-d says:

    My hair has a lot of wave/curl to it and gets uncontrollable when it’s longer. I like a #4 buzz on the sides and about 2 1/2 – 3 inches on top going back past the absolute top of my head and then tapering off, blended into the sides of course. Even when my hair looks wild, it doesn’t look too bad at all. It tends to want to stand straight up in front, but with the ends kind of bent over.

    Then again, from 1991 to 2005 I never had it cut or cut it myself. I had all-natural hippie hair. It seemed to break off at about, maybe, 18 inches at most. Cut it to get a job, and the job I ended up with didn’t require a hair cut. Such is life.

  35. Mr. Pink says:

    PD I have to agree. I once paid for a girls haircut and then she blew me. The love you came later though.

  36. SarahW says:

    Mcqueen is good.

  37. ThomasD says:

    Jeff trust your professional, let them show you some styles that are appropriate with what you’ve been given. They’ll know what will work with your hair. I’ve tried to go the S. McQueen route but my hair is too fine, too straight, and there is too much of it, so I ended up looking like a blond Mr. Spock.

  38. cranky-d says:

    I could also talk about the suit I bought that didn’t help with getting a job either, but that would be off-topic.

  39. ccoffer says:

    I’ve cut my own hair for the last 20 years. I do it better than anyone I ever paid. A little high and a little tight with no sideburns at all.

    The just rolled out of bed look is a precursor to the outright hippie look which begets the fabulous manly fag look a few years later.

    Hair should be no longer 3/8in when it grows from any place on a man.

  40. lee says:

    Lisa already said what I was going to, about blow drying and gels. I wet my hair, part it down the middle, and brush it straight back. Allow to dry. Run fingers through hair periodically when I remember I have hair. Outlaw baby!

  41. RTO Trainer says:

    High and tight. If you don’t want it to look military, ask to keep the length on top, but definately white-wall the sides and back.

  42. pdbuttons says:

    side topic/tangent
    dyed hair! hilarious
    i know i’m supposed to look in your eyes[ as a general-be nice thing]
    but if u got liver spots on your hands and jet black hair
    [chestnut- brown?]hair on your head…
    give it up!
    why ain’t u in vegas?

  43. ThomasD says:

    Hair should be no longer 3/8in when it grows from any place on a man boy.

    Fixed that. There is no way in hell I’m clipping or shaving my chest, legs, pits or junk. Ears and nose only when necessary.

  44. Rich Cox says:

    Flock of Sea Gulls.

    But seriously, my wife loves when I get the high and tight but still keep a few inches on top. Kind of the classic Ollie North.

    However, to paraphrase Clarence Worley “If I was in prison with Brad Pitt, I’d let him fuck me.” Yes, that is a thumbs up for your earlier link, Jeff He just can pull it off, and so could you.

  45. pdbuttons says:

    rock-a billy haircut!
    lot’s of gel
    tap ur foot
    white t-shirt
    dungarees
    white socks

    unfortunately
    ’tis only good on rock-a billy nite a t the punk rock club
    cuz in the light of day
    you look like a loser
    unless u got a cigarette pack rolled up in da shoulder of ur t-shirt
    cuz im gonna bum a cigarette off of yathen walk away
    i promise not to laugh at you
    til i round the corner…

    see u in 3 weeks-daddy-o
    thanks for the smoke!

  46. pdbuttons says:

    flock of beagles! lol!

  47. Jeff Y. aka The Continental says:

    I do a high and tight. Civilians call it a ‘fade.’ I tell ’em to use a number one clipper on the bulkheads and make it sharp topside. Since they don’t understand what I’m saying, they just cut it short and leave it long on top. They really go ape shit when I ask if I can use the head.

  48. RTO Trainer says:

    “flock of beagles! lol!”

    So?….

    Andrew Sullivan haircut?

  49. Jeff Y. aka The Continental says:

    SaraW, nice Blade Runner cut. That’s cool.

  50. pdbuttons says:

    how bout the ‘friar tuck?’
    reminds me of eggs

  51. Patrick says:

    How about a Sullivan?  Kiefer or Gilbert O‘?

  52. Jeff G. says:

    I’ve had the Blade Runner cut. A timeless classic.

  53. Patrick says:

    But for outlaw, you can’t beat Keef.

     I’m sure you’re glad you asked.

  54. Rich Cox says:

    My tight is skin. But watch out for the bump and that mole on the back. Thin the top.

    And I refuse to use product. It is under a hat all day anyway.

  55. pdbuttons says:

    i clip at # 4
    bobby orr
    i swear that’s what i say to my new barber
    we don’t talk
    ten minutes in and out….sweet
    my old barber
    ‘joe the barber’everytime…how’s ur papa?
    how’s ur brother?
    u sista..she still go to college?
    [whistles some italian opera]
    hows u mama…
    [whistles]
    when my dad died- i never went back
    i cross the street to avoid talking to ‘joe the barber’
    thank u 4 this therapy session

    high and tight!

  56. ewb says:

    Forget the cut. Nothing says outlaw like a good hat and a nice ‘stache:

    http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/authphoto_110/9391_friedman_kinky.gif

  57. Rich Cox says:

    buttons,

    I had/have a barber back home that at one point three generations of Cox males went to. After I had gone away and my grandfather passed away, I had not seen him in (my barber, Smitty) in 10 years, and he still remembered me and my cut. Last I had seen him before had been for my haircut for my wedding.

  58. Rich Cox says:

    ewb,

    And a fellow joooooooo.

  59. qwfwq says:

    Kate: You’re not that witty. Give it a rest.

  60. snuffles says:

    I’d go with the John Yoo:

    http://graphics.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2005/10/22/1129990736_4324.jpg

    Sounds like he’s drunk and I hear he’s constantly up to his second chin roll in young liberal tail out at Berkeley.

  61. pdbuttons says:

    it’s the small talk i object to
    i guess that’s y i’m here
    anti social

    or
    as joe the barber whistled “peanuts 4 sale/peanuts 4 sale-get ur fresh peanuts!”
    i would be fully aware that he held a razor to my throat
    i mite even hum a few bars

  62. Timstigator says:

    Business in the front, party in the back.

    http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/1/13254/09_2008/mullet3.jpg

  63. JD says:

    I am commenting on a thread about men’s haircut suggestions? I am going to comment first, then read the comments, because I am already starting to feel, at the very least, a little metro, if not a little light in the loafers for even thinking like this. I would keep the clipper style, 1/2 guard on the side, into a high fade with a 3 clipper on top. But I give myself a haircut every other day, and kind of look like a blind epileptic Edward Scissorhands did my hair. So, YMMV.

  64. JD says:

    Or … drumroll … MULLET !!!!!!!!!!!!

  65. Daryl Herbert says:

    Nothing says “danger: does not play well with others” like the Taxi Driver mohawk.

  66. Jeff G. says:

    I want approachable outlaw, with a hint of insouciance, people.

    Not psycho killer.

  67. JD says:

    Mine is in the process of growing out. I have shaved my head every other morning for about the last 3 years, and I am finding that I have waaaaaaaaaaaay more grey hair than I recall having before. Plus, I am at that point in growing out my hair where it just sticks straight out, because it is not quite long enough to start laying down.

  68. pdbuttons says:

    #69
    i would agree
    but the harvey keitel pimp w a bandana hair cut was equally creeps

  69. pdbuttons says:

    or the albert brooks uptight white boy fro

  70. Pablo Abu Jamal says:

    colin farrell

    That’s what my bedhead looks like. And to think I’ve been wetting into submission all these years…

  71. Pablo Abu Jamal says:

    For the record, an outlaw wouldn’t spend much time fucking with his hair. Just let it rip.

  72. Pablo Abu Jamal says:

    Shit, just pick one of these and move on.

  73. ccoffer says:

    There is a lesson in the definition of “unkempt” in that photo.

    2 hippies.

  74. Dan Collins says:

    Insouciance? Would you settle for louche?

  75. Christoph says:

    Express your feelings about Barack Obama (and mine about Ed Morrissey) with your new hairstyle in one fell swoop.

  76. Dan Collins says:

    I think you should grow a handlebar mustache and use Maccassar oil.

  77. geoffb says:

    The Brad Pitt one is nice but I think this picture is more you.

  78. Zelda says:

    I’ve always liked Keanu Reeve’s hair. Not his acting, just his hair.

    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2029884928/tt0421073

    another view

    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1455855104/tt0421073

  79. JD says:

    Maccassar oil – That has to be racist in some language.

    Since we are all generally a bunch of blithering idiots, I suggest you take the hot chick Zelda’s advice.

  80. Bob Reed says:

    OK Jeff G,
    I’m no metrosexual, but here goes…

    Since you have an oval head shape, just about anything goes; kinda like the warm and fuzzy, post-modern, world of moral relativism…

    I’m thinking that for modern times, and a badass look, why don’t you go for the modified crew cut; nothing that needs a building permit though…

    Consider this look demonstrated by Val Kilmer, or some of his other looks shown here

    And, I mean, nothing says Rebel! like some good ol’ James Dean

    Or, a tough guy like you could always go in for the chiseled Mike Nomad look…

    But nothing, I mean nothing, says OUTLAW! like the Dennis Hopper look from Easy Rider; if your hair grows quick enough to get to that length…

    While in engineering school, I always wore the long hair with ponytail look, but these days I go with more of the Mike Nomad…

    The choice is yours; Outlaw! or chic…
    Bon Chance

    Best Wishes

  81. JD says:

    Another good suggestion would be to do the exact opposite of what thor or nishit suggest.

  82. Dan Collins says:

    Zelda, just how do you distinguish Keanu’s hair from his acting?

  83. JD says:

    Dan – It is easy to distinguish. The hair has a bigger personality, and a much broader range and depth of emotion.

  84. mojo says:

    Mohawk. In International Orange.

  85. Two Dogs says:

    I will just be GODDAMNED if I am going through 92 links to see if THIS was already suggested.

  86. PC14 says:

    At times like this Jeff, you’re probably thinking just how unfair life really is, having passed you over on the whole male pattern thing and thereby eliminating any possibility of pulling off an authentic comb over.

  87. B Moe says:

    I can’t even imagine what a heartless bastard of a cop it would take to arrest the creature linked in post 93.

  88. malaclypse the tertiary says:

    60’s Tokyo Ronin?

  89. alppuccino says:

    There is no way in hell I’m clipping or shaving my chest, legs, pits or junk

    So you’re staying with the shag-carpet in the ballroom? That’s one way to go.

    Heard tell Daniel Boone let his hair grow. Didn’t have time for the barber, what with all the newspaper drives, bake sales and community theater to boot.

  90. serr8d says:

    Well, outlaw, it’s not just the hair. It’s the accouterments, and the attitude.

  91. serr8d says:

    Now, this is probably what you’re looking for. Ignore the accouterments.

  92. Zelda says:

    “Zelda, just how do you distinguish Keanu’s hair from his acting?”

    His hair grows from his head.

  93. Velociman says:

    Jeff,

    I recently went with the Papillon. Keeps the head lice down, and you don’t have to use your fellow prisoner’s glistening, sweaty back as a mirror. Plus, nothing says OUTLAW like a prison tat of a butterfly on your chest.

  94. serr8d says:

    Anyone notice how Yahoo! photos won’t retain their permalinks for longer than, say, 15 minutes? Impermalinks, then.

    Thank Gadwin for Print Screen..

  95. phreshone says:

    How about the modern Hopper. Scissors cut, as short as possible w/o standing up, light part in natural direction.

    Or Deniro in the Deer Hunter.

  96. motionview says:

    Living near Camp Pendleton, I say go for the Marine’s Marine cut, the horseshoe flat-top:

    http://www.menshairstylesonline.com/Hair/View-Hair.asp?Key=359&Title=rudy's%20horseshoe&Type=0

  97. I suggest you cut them all.

    And if you can look good in the latest Daniel Craig style, then by all means…

  98. Sdferr says:

    Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!

  99. Slartibartfast says:

    I like your hair the way it is, Jeff. Plus, you don’t have to change anything to get a bit part as a soldier from the future in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, or Terminator (N+1).

  100. Carin says:

    Nothing says outlaw light dreads on a white boy.

  101. Zelda says:

    Oh forget everything else.

    http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebsm/gerardbutler/gerard_butler_1.jpg

    And don’t bother with the hair. Just look like him.

  102. A fine scotch says:

    Bob Reed beat me to it, but the James Dean (http://www.bergen-filmklubb.no/images/James_Dean_1.jpg) is classic outlaw. Don’t know if your hair will do it, but it’s worth a shot.

  103. DarthRove says:

    As long as you have “Fuck da PO-lice” shaved into your hair somewhere, you can’t go wrong.

  104. bigbooner says:

    If you’re gonna go the outlaw way you will need to accessorize. Some sort of angry tattoo on your neck or up near your eye. No butterflies or lady bugs.

  105. Lisa says:

    Yummy, Zelda.

    Yeah if the Perf could grow freckles and red hair, then maybe he could rock this..

    Mmmmmm.

    Okay now I am going to go register on the sex offenders list. I feel creepy for harboring lust for one of Diana’s munchkins. I was a teen when he was born.

  106. Cowboy says:

    High and tight: #1 on the sides, and #3 on the top.

    I finally found someone who can cut my hair and NOT talk to me. Takes 5 minutes.

  107. Zelda says:

    Don’t register yourself, Lisa. There is nothing wrong with harboring a little lust for Barely Legal Young (Royal) Males. It’s beautiful. Natural even.

  108. Chick Voice says:

    So no one’s asked the important question. Since, you know, “clothes make the man”. Can’t recommend a “do” unless we know where you buy your clothes? Brands? What stores?

  109. Carin says:

    You know, I think we need MORE threads here at PW with links to yummy men.

  110. Lisa says:

    Definitely, Carin.

  111. Dan Collins says:

    It’s disgusting the way you objectify us.

  112. Zelda says:

    Ummmm… I denounce myself?

  113. Lisa says:

    Pinches Dan’s ass.

  114. mindlesley says:

    Your outlaw tats in Oz are a bit primitive I like neck tatoo “cut here” and knuckles love hate for Jeff. I think I understand his quandaries re self decoration. Here we have a saying: He’s so cheap, he cuts his own hair. Having been of the mind that hairdressers are a bourgeois guild, I also have styled my own locks. Maybe totally bald, earings and large mo – then the chicks will all try to seduce you from the gay path you are taking. Even try shaving higher and creating mohawk, then dyeing it bright red – it certainly says Outlaw, also is very retro. Your fetching fashionista, Mindlesley

  115. eLarson says:

    Go with the FZ

  116. Mikey NTH says:

    The only haircut that can roll out of bed and go with minimum maintenance is short. #2 blades on the sides/back and long enough on the top to brush over with just water.

    Outlaw it isn’t, but that should be just inside you. A surprise package as it were.

  117. Mikey NTH says:

    Besides, if you are going to get into a barfight, you don’t want to have long hair, which gives a foe something to grab onto. Even if you knock him down, if he has your hair in his hand, your head is going that way and that leaves you open to a poolcue in the ribs or a barstool across the back.

    Don’t give an advantage like that to an enemy.

  118. pretty boy lee says:

    Hey Mike, did you forget who you were talking to with that barfight advice?

  119. Mikey NTH says:

    #127:
    Not at all. I avoid bar fights. But it does not matter how good you are at grappling, if someone can fix you in place others can bring a world of hurt onto you. And being able to hold your head by the hair? You are fixed in place; no matter how you can hurt that guy, if he has your hair clutched hard then you are following him to the floor, and then a beat-down happens. You have to be able to move or you are dead. Like move to the door and get the hell out, because the cops will be on their way and they won’t be happy-campers. The guys that are running they won’t care about, the guys that are staying and fighting? Different story.

    Keep your keys and wallet on you. When a fight starts, you book. Use your skills to clear your way out and let them keep your jacket. Losing a jacket is better than winning a night in jail.

  120. Mikey NTH says:

    And if you do book – go back the next day and settle up with the manager. Most of them understand your motives, and will appreciate it. That helps the next time there is a problem, ’cause they can say to the cops “Not him, the other guy – he started it all. This guy is all right.”

    P.S. – Don’t bug the waitresses either – their word (as the few sober people about) is invaluable.

    P.P.S. – billiard balls make great brass knuckles – so I have heard.

  121. pdbuttons says:

    i haven’t got in a bar fight since my “friend” got in a one on one with some dude
    went outside the bar
    then another guy jumped in on my “friend”…
    i thought hey- thats not fair!
    so i jump in to fight/seperate/whatever
    then some big marine proceeded to kick my ass up and down jump street
    rubbed my head on the curbstone and shit
    i got my ass kicked!
    which-hey ur drunk- u kinda don’t feel it…
    bt 4 the next three weeks i looked like elephant man
    mirror mirror on the wall
    avoid me!

  122. i think that Daniel Craig is only second to Pierce Brosnan when playing the role of James Bond”.:

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