3 Responses to “Short hair style for me?”

1. math whiz says:

   September 23, 2011 at 12:28 pm

   You have a beautiful face. It wont really matter what you do. It’ll take a while to grow in anyway, so you have some time. I wish you the best and hope you stay well and healthy.

   (BTW, next time you might want to remove the bra behind the door before you take a pic.
2. Shohag Mondol says:

   September 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm

   You have a beautiful face. It wont really matter what you do. It’ll take a while to grow in anyway, so you have some time. I wish you the best and hope you stay well and healthy.

   (BTW, next time you might want to remove the bra behind the door before you take a pic.
3. Steve says:

   September 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

   It is going to take a while to grow your hair longer than short crew cut length once you get out of basic. After doing so, the regular barber shop styles are possible: regular taper cut; the short pomp(pompadour) styles-crew cut, ivy league(long crew cut), flat top crew cut; butch and butch variants- burr(ultra short butch) and brush cut(long butch); and a forward brush cut. Relatively few guys fully suit a butch or burr. More suit a brush cut but a brush cut can be difficult to groom. A forward brush usually suits guys with fairly wavy hair. On guys with straight hair it can look like a short bowl cut. A good barber can design a regular taper cut or one of the short pomp styles to fully suit almost any young guy’s head shape, face and neck shape, frontal hairline and facial features. When you leave basic, you will have a short butch, probably with hn’t back and sides. You will need to keep up with haircuts and cannot just let the hair grow out which is fine and the way to grow out a short butch without it looking like a mess. So go through the short styles: short crew cut, medium crew cut, short ivy league, ivy league, long ivy league, short regular taper cut, regular taper cut. These styles are about three weeks apart for guys whose hair grows at the average rate of 1/8″ per week, though depending on military branch you may not be able to go longer than a week to two weeks without getting a fresh haircut. If you decide to try a flat top, that will set back the growing out period a little since the center of the top is cut quite short, so if you wish, try one when your hair is still at crew cut length. The point to understand with a short pomp style versus a butch is that a butch is cut one length on top so it contours with the skull shape. A short pomp style is graduated in length longer from the shorter hair at the back of the crown to the longest hair at the front hairline. This allows the short pomp front to readily form and also acts against gravity to make the style much easier to groom than a longer butch or brush cut. The general idea with a short pomp style is that when the hair is brushed back off the forehead to form the short pomp front, and the head is viewed in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal. When viewed from the front, the outline of the top hair can contour to varying degrees with the skull shape according to what best complements the face shape. Of course, a flat top crew cut appears horizontal in front profile as well as in side profile and from every angle. It takes a barber with a good aesthetic sense to design these styles to fully suit. Don’t expect every barber on a military base to have that aesthetic sense. The majority work for one contractor that runs shops on hundreds of bases. Often, the barbers just off base are competitive in price and worth giving a try. Might want to try a few of these styles now. Try a regular taper cut, then maybe an ivy league. Advise getting a jar of krew comb and one of those small flat oval plastic pocket brushes that one finger fits through and barbers sell for about a dollar. A boar’s bristle military brush is also nice to have. These items help with grooming short styles. All are available at sally beauty supply which are located everywhere as well as other barber supply houses. Also know that small details can make a big difference in how a short style appears, such as how the ear arch is outlined. A lot of barbers on military bases for some reason like to shave way into the natural hairline when outlining the arch behind the ears and this generally looks awful and makes ears that only slightly protrude appear to really stick out when the head is viewed from the back. The extent the sideburns extend down the ear can also make a big difference. Longer sideburns than a style usually takes can shorten a face and shorter sideburns than a style usually takes, if possible, can lengthen a face. A crew cut generally takes traditional short sideburns. Short sideburns extend to where the ear cartilage attaches to the skull. A regular taper cut usually takes medium sideburns. Medium sideburns extend to the top of the ear orifice. If you are going in the Marines this is the maximum sideburn length allowed, but I think the Air Force allows sideburns to extend to the top of the ear lobe. Not sure about Army and Navy. The Marines require the edge of hair growth at the nape of the neck to be tapered to the skin but the other services allow blocked edges. A tapered edge at the nape usually looks better and grows out better. A nicely outlined edge around the ear arches with a tapered edge at the nape generally looks best with a regular taper cut.
   crew cut:
   http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/e490abf8cfcc81c7_large
   http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3321d36442b66253_large
   http://i52.tinypic.com/242zxjo.jpg
   hn’t crew cut:
   http://i53.tinypic.com/f34xzr.jpg
   flat top crew cut:
   http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/46f88d11c448c453_large
   http://i56.tinypic.com/ehwu1d.jpg
   ivy league(long crew cut):
   http://i53.tinypic.com/2vdh6h5.jpg
   http://i56.tinypic.com/2rm3a6o.jpg
   Some barbers describe an ivy league as a crew cut just long enough to be parted and combed to the side, if so desired. An ivy league can also be worn with the hair brushed up off the forehead to form a short pomp front, or with the short bangs brushed down on the forehead like a forward brush cut.
   long ivy league:
   http://i55.tinypic.com/s2w5zr.jpg
   short regular taper cut, very close taper on the back and sides a few inches on top:
   http://i52.tinypic.com/25uqm8k.jpg
   regular taper cut:
   http://i53.tinypic.com/fbglfs.jpg
   forward brush cut:
   http://i55.tinypic.com/2yuzfw6.jpg
   Basic short cuts:
   http://i56.tinypic.com/2m2dye9.jpg
   http://i54.tinypic.com/102vacz.jpg
   http://i51.tinypic.com/2958em9.jpg
   http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html
   Essential barbering knowledge:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Crew_cut#Clippers.2C_Blades_and_Guards
   Grooming any of the short pomp(pompadour) styles- crew cut, ivy league, flat top crew cut- is basically the same and takes about a minute or two.
   1) Towel dry hair.
   2) Barely dip fingertips in jar of wax.
   3)Transfer wax to palms.
   4) Smooth palms over hair.
   5)Brush hair off forehead to form short pomp front.
   Whichever style you decide on, be sure to take a photo to help describe the desired haircut to the barber. If you need more photos of any of the styles discussed above let me know.
   Good Luck!