Boys Hairstyles Haircuts
Boys will be boys and that means most likely that they will get messy, like to play in the dirt and with ungodly creatures that freak their parents out. One thing a boy’s parent could do is choose his hairstyle for him, so he can look well groomed and polished while still playing in the mud.
Boys Hairstyles Length
Boys hairstyles lengths can range from short, medium or long. There are a lot of different hairstyles a young boy can have, it is up to him if he is of age or his parents when he is younger to decide the hairstyle that is right for him. Whether longs or short, there are trendy boy’s hairstyles that are suitable for every boy from toddlers to teens.
Popular Boys Hairstyles Trends
The Layered boy’s Haircut: This haircut is usually for medium to long length hairs types.
The Short Buzz Cut: This is a popular hairstyle for young boys, primarily teenagers or just before they become teens. The buzz cut is a simple cut where mostly all of the hair is shaved to an extremely low length, throughout the head.
French Crop Hairstyle for Boys: It is a great style for a boy, because it gives the hair a little personality and requires very little maintenance.
Boys hairstyles & Haircuts Picture Gallery
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:40 am
I want to see some real photos of boys hair styles? The fade, french crop style and others and been described but no photos to show my son!!! I love the internet for it’s expanse and opportunity to possibly find what you need, but this is a case where your on a wild goose chase, just for photos of hair styles! I know you all can do better…..
June 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I have to agree its almost impossible to find pictures for your kids for ideas on a new hair style There’s sites after sites for girls but nothing for teenage boys yet there the hardest to get ideas for.
June 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hello Lisa and Helen,
I appreciate your input and we are glad to say that we have now included a picture gallery for boys hairstyles. If you are looking for a particular type of haircut for boy, then let us know.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I am also very frustrated. I feel like I get sent on a wild goose chase. I give criteria for a search, and then I get site options that claim to have hundreds of photos to look at. Then I click on one and instead of ideas I get yet another list of other sites to look at. Maybe 1 out of 15 will actually show me pictures, but there are so few that it doesn’t help. I’ve now spent another hour and a half and have found nothing I can use for my 5 year old.
Please expand your gallery. The most I’ve seen at one site is 36 and they are all very short cuts. Not every mom wants a buzz cut for their son. I’d like to see some longer options.
July 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I see I am not the only mom on an extremely long goose chase. I have two weeks till the start of school and am no closer to finding a style for my five year old. I don’t want the buzz cut and am exasperated trying to find alternatives. I too would like to see some longer options.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Another frustrated mom sitting here with my 9 year old son! thanks a lot for nothing! Hardly any pictures to show him to choose from. I guess will just give him a buzz cut again.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Another frustrated mom here. My son is starting kindergarten and his face shape is best set off by slightly longer hair yet I am having no luck whatsoever on finding ideas on how to get it cut. Very frustrating.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I have been looking for a few years for a style for boys of color without luck. Other than a short cut, a fade and a slanted line I have seen nothing to choose from. When I want to get creative the barbers need a picture and none exsist. My son has long hair but needs something other than braids or no hair at all.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yep I am with the other moms. I have one son in middle school and the other in 5th grade and I am looking for older boy hair cuts. All I can say is GRRRRR!!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Well there are definately other hairstyles for boys too and not just buzz haircut only!! As shown above layered hairstyles and long boys hairstyles looks great on young boys…
September 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am
My 12 year old son has hair down his back and wants it cut into a style have searched for hours on the internet to try and just get some pictures to show him but have given up, he likes Zack and Cody’s haircut from Zack and Cody’s Suite Life so gonna go with that but I bet you when I go to the hairdressers and show them the pictures he comes out with something completely different (have had this happen with one of my other sons and he wore a hat for months till it grew out) nothing is never easy when you have three sons…. could moan about clothes, hair etc for hours on this subject but wont bore you……
September 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I just love the longer hair styles for boy now and I’ve grown my two boys’ hair out. I went to the salon to get it trimmed and the stylist said “have you tried curling it?” I said, like what????? She told me that she has probably a dozen moms who are actually curling their sons’ hair with mostly curling irons but a few with those foam rollers. She says its becoming much more acceptable to do stuff like this with boys longer hair but I’m not sure I’m ready for that. Has anyone else heard of this? I’m not in a New York or LA where you might expect this but in a middle size, fairly conservative city.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Like the other moms here, I would like to get some more pictures for longer styles on boys. I have been trying to grow out my son’s hair and its come to a point where I have to take him to a salon, especially in the front, its falling over his eyes now (hair at the back is still pretty short). His hair is silky straight and pretty thick. I really like to achieve the layered look for him but need to get a direction on how to get that .
October 5th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Well I’m in the same boat as the rest of you. Found a thousand sites but not one actually offering any help. My son’s hair has reached the poing where it’s no longer stylish. We want to move on but can’t seem to find a thing that we agree on he’s got great hair and we want to keep the most of the lenght but senior pix are in the next couple weeks and can’t find any thing so that we don’t look like a new hair cut
October 10th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Can you not just take our Mom advice already and just post a whole gallery of boy hair styles. You know, a large variety of lengths, textures, colors, and at different ages. Geez, You hairstyle websites sure know how to frustrate a mom on a mission to get her kid a decent hair style.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
In response to Annette, I’m a hairdresser and I can tell you we have several boys that get their hair curled with a curling iron after their cut. The yall have longer hair about shoulder length or longer. The get nothing but compliments from everyone in our salon and it gives them confidence to wear their hair curled more often. It does seem to be a growing trend we ahve given a few boys perms also its no big deal to us anf the boys love heir new look. As far as the sponge rollers yes we have mothers who set their sons hair every couple of days on sponge rollers. Hope this helps you make a decision, try it if your son doesn’t like his curls just wash them out.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
SERIOUSLY!! Aren’t there enough complaints now that you can do something about it? Our boys don’t want short cuts!! I have 3 boys all with long hair and there seem to be no options for cuts. It’s like the salons don’t even know what to do because they are only taught the short cuts so they end up butchering the poor kids!! This is really frustrating!!!!!!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:38 am
Annette, I’m one of those Moms who enjoy doing their son’s hair in curls and other girly styles. He’s had long hair all his life and a few years ago he asked if he could have curls, like his big sister. After some hesitation I took him to my stylist and she did some curls with a curling iron — he loved it and I could not believe how pretty he looked! She suggested I try some rollers at home so I did him in my hot rollers. Since then (He’s now 10) I’ve been doing his hair on rollers a few times a week and I take him in for a trim and roller set every couple of months. I’ve gradually added headbands, barrettes, etc. And yes, he’ll even sleep in foam curlers on Saturday night before church!
My stylist says she does probably one boy every couple of months in feminine hairstyles, brought in by their mothers. She has a couple of ‘regulars’ and she thinks it’s becoming more common.
He loves his hairdos & I think it’s fine to let boys express their girlish side as long as it’s their choice.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Traci, I was interested in your post because I’ve got a longhaired (7 year old) son and we’ve been thinking about new ways to do his hair. It’s cut in a bob off his shoulders with bangs (so cute!). We live in a fairly conservative area but I’ve seen more boys with long hair and my stylist also tells me it’s becoming more common for boys to try curls, braids, etc. Anyway I’ve got some questions:
How does your son wear his hair to school? Does he get much teasing? Do other people see him in curlers? Does he wear curlers in public? After you roll it, does he wear it down? How does he feel about having it done at the salon? Does he wear other girls’ things (like skirts), or have his nails done?
Any more information you could provide would be most helpful. thanks for supporting boys with long hair!
Best,
S
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Hey Sarah, thanks for your response! Yes, Brian does get some teasing at school but the teachers and the principal have been very supportive and have tried to teach the kids about not judging people by their appearance and so on.
For school he wears a high ponytail, or a headband, or braided pigtails. He’s been out in rollers a couple of times when I had to run errands but we haven’t run into anyone we know. I’m pretty careful about not having him be seen in rollers by his friends. Our family is familiar with his girly hairstyles and for the most part they don’t think it’s a big deal. After I roll it he usually wears it back in a headband or in 2 barrettes, although I’ve done sort of a ‘messy updo’ for him a couple of times for fun.
Other girls’ things, not really, although I did get him a pair of girls’ white keds and he wears those all the time on weekends. I’m kind of letting him figure out how far he wants to go with this – he’s tried on a couple of his sister’s old skirts and he asked me the other day if boys can try out for cheerleader. And yes, he wears nail polish occasionally but takes it off for school.
Oh yeah, as far as going to the salon – he really enjoys the attention he gets from the girls when he goes in, and they love doing his nails when he’s under the dryer and that sort of thing. But he’s still pretty shy about seen in public in rollers, even in the salon, so I let him make up his mind about it.
I’d love to hear more about your son and what he ends up deciding …. Feel free to email me at tt8847@gmail.com.
Good luck!
November 9th, 2008 at 12:58 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one having a difficult time finding pictures of boys with long hairstyles. My 2.5 year old has hair with bangs to his eyebrows and then slopes pretty steeply down the sides and is past his shoulders in the back. I think it is adorable and every time I ask him if he wants his hair like his brother’s, a traditional boy cut, he says no. He refuses to let me cut it and just trimming his bangs is an ordeal because he does NOT want me to cut his hair. I don’t need to cut it shorter, well the bangs I do otherwise it would be a mess and he couldn’t see, but otherwise I’m fine with him having long hair and I take good care of it. Anyway, as much as I think it’s cute as is, I’d maybe like to find a better way to shape it or maybe just trim it and I’d like pictures. I need some ideas to go off of and it’s been impossible to find anything. If there were more pictures of boys with long hair floating around it would help us moms and maybe everyone else would realize it’s normal for boys to have long hair too! Maybe we need our own website if no one else is going to help!
November 12th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I agree with everyone else! I have always given my boys a buzzcut and finally decided to grow out their hair and try something new. Now they have long hair and I cannot find anything new. I have to find something because my oldest is on the brink of being in violation of school rules for hair length! Why can there just be pictures of several different styles, not just the standard four: Buzz, Spike, Comb-down and side Swept? So much for the ‘helpful’ world wide web!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
It seems that a lot of guys are using curlers these days. I suppose with longer hair you would naturally have to expect it. I know a few ladies that use the foam rollers on their son’s hair. They are easy to sleep on and make for nice curly styles.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I too have heard that curlers are making a comeback, especially in regards to their use on boys. It seems that with longer hairstyles being so popular these days… anything goes! I think it’s great to see that some of the earlier taboos and stereotypes are finally being shattered. There’s nothing gay or effeminate about guys wanting to explore different styling options with their hair.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:45 am
I’m a mother who sets her sons hair on sponge rollers every other night and he sleeps in them. His hair is about 4 inches below his shoulders and he has the most beautiful curls when I take his hair down. If I see him trying to keep his hair out of his face I always put either a barrette in each side or one on the top. He goes anywhere he wants with his curls and barrettes or sometime with his hair in curlers. He is 8 and is so much a girl in his looks and mannerisms, he does wear polish on his toes and some times on his fingers, I leave it up to him if he wants me to polish his nails. He also has his ears pierced which look so cute with his curls. My email is bakerstephanie74@yahoo.com if anyone would like to chat about boys and curls
December 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Stephanie I am the mother of a long hair boy who is 6 and I to have started setting his hair on sponge rollers after every shower. He had wanted curls like mine for a long time sio I finally started about 1 yr ago. I took him to m salon and had my stylist give him a cut with bangs and some layering after the cut she curled his hair for him and you could tell by the excitment in his face he loved it. He goes every where with his hair in curls with sometimes barrettes or a headband. He hasn’t asked for polish or to get his ears pierced but I will be glad to do it for him. Does your son wear and girls cloths or have you tried any makeup on him? The salon I go to has a 12 yr old boy who gets a roller set on his long har every sat for church alon with his mother and he is usually wearing a femmine outfit.
December 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
OMG. Finally other moms like me. I have an 11 (soon to be 12) year old. He goes to a private school. He wants to wear his hair long but it can only be sooo long. We have to be careful how his hair is cut because the style can make him look like a girl. He’ll have NOTHING to do with that. So WHY is it we CANNOT find pictures of boy hairstyles? Someone please help us!
December 31st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I am a mother of a long hair 5yr old boy whos hair is about 8in below his shoulders. I have been looking for a new style for boys with long hair but have found none. I ead al the post about curling boys hair and was so excited and couldn’t wait to try it. I took my son to have his ends trimes for the holidays and endedup getting about 4 in cut and the girl put alot of layering in his hair. She asked him if he would like his hair curled and if he said no that was ok and if he said yes I would be extremely happy. She let him watch in the mirror the entire time she curled his hair and he was fascinated with his curls. She took her time and placed all the curls injust the right places and his hair looked so beautiful. we went to church that night and you would not believe all the girls aroung him complimenting his hair. I have used the curling iron twice on his hair for him and he really takes such good care of his culrs which he never worried about his long hair. When school starts back in a couple of days I plan on setting his hair on the sponge rollers for him. Thanks ladies for your suggestions Sherry
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
After reading the posts here and elsewhere about boys having their hair curled I got up my courage and asked my son (now
if he’d like to try curly boys hairstyle. He said Sure! (His older sister and I are in rollers 2-3 times a week so he’s used to the idea.) We talked to his stylist when he was in just before Christmas and she went over some options with us — curling iron, ‘wetset’ at the salon, hot rollers, and so on. He wasn’t quite ready to sit under the dryer with his hair up at the salon, so we did an experimental set that Saturday at home on hot rollers. He loved the curly boys hairstyle and so did everyone who saw him (even his Dad said “Very Nice.”) I’m still trying to figure out the routine but I’ve put him up in velcro rollers a few times since and he wants to try it for school. This will mean some extra time in the mornings but I really love his curls and we’re going to see how it goes — he’s going to try sleeping in the sponge rollers this weekend. Thanks for all the suggestions over boys hairstyles and haircuts and the brave boys in curls out there!