The Fade Hairstyle: 24 Best Looks & Styles
Simple, classy and very easy to manage – we've compiled a gallery of the best fade hairstyle inspirations for your next haircut.
After almost 2 years of on-and-off spotting an undercut hairstyle, I’m officially done with it.
What’s next? I’ve just settled down with a fade haircut. It’s a simple, classy and timeless hairstyle. More importantly, it’s very easy to manage. Or sometimes, I don’t really manage it at all. (As with other things that come with age, my tolerance threshold for allowing my hair to look messy in the public might have increased just a little. Ahem.)
Barber making a fade. Image by @dannyandcobarbers
The fade hairstyle is the more generic brother of the undercut hairstyle. In fact, undercut hairstyle is a variation of fade haircuts, and there are many types of fades: high fade, low fade, regular fade etc. In essence, a fade haircut is a hairstyle with hair on the sides and the back of your head gradually tapered in length until the hair is completely shaven (or not, depending on your fade style.) The top part is where you can have fun – curly, straight, messy, wavy, spiky… you name it.
Another reason why I really love about fade haircuts is how they can easily smarten-up any man without too much changes and styling. See example below:
Image by @alan_beak Instagram
If you’re looking for a simple, classic yet modern-looking haircut, why not go fade? Here we’ve compiled a gallery of fade hairstyle inspirations:
Fade haircut with medium length messy top
Mid fade with short messy top
High fade with classic pomp
Regular fade with long wavy top
High fade with short textured top
Low fade with long textured top
Regular fade with side parted top
High fade with crop top
High fade with quiff
High fade bowl cut top
Medium fade with side parted top
High fade with caesar cut top
High fade with ultra short top
Low fade with curly top
Regular fade with textured medium top
High fade with sweep back top
High fade with spikes
Regular fade with classic side parted
High fade with military buzz cut
Regular fade with curly short top
Skin fade with waves
High fade with heavy top
High fade with side parted quiff
High fade with slicked back top
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