How to Cut a '60s Hairstyle

After all the flips and bouffant hairdos of the 1950s, the 1960s brought on a more relaxed and natural look for the most part. Young women of the '60s let their hair grow long and straight or bushy if they had curly heads. Other women started some of the twists on the bob as stylists started cutting hair in blunt asymmetrical styles.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Look at the shape of your face and decide if you have an oval, round, boxy or heart-shaped face. Look at different magazines or websites for photos of celebrities or ordinary people with '60s style hair to find an appropriate look. Figure out if you'd rather have longer or shorter hair.

2. Let your hair grow to your waist to invoke the ultimate 1960s hippie hairstyle. Just cut the ends to keep split ends from flipping your hair. The straighter, the better.

3. Think Beatles. Even though the Beatles' hairstyles were not longer than shoulder length in the early '60s, the bob that they sported with the straight bangs became very popular with both male and female fans. Cut the hair close around the bottom and longer on top to give it a more rounded, cap look.

4. Cut an asymmetrical blunt by cutting the back straight at the neckline, slanting down along the jaw line on one side. Cut the other side shorted, near to the bottom of the ear. The hair can be parted on one side with the longer hairs coming across the top or parted in the middle with straight bangs across the forehead.

5. Go really short with the hair cut close to the head and swept across the forehead to lay behind the opposite ear. The neck should be short enough to shave. The model Twiggy made this cut popular in the '60s.

6. Get a bouffant with big rollers and medium length hair. Tease the top and sides to form a full curved style with no bangs. Hair should be swept back from the face to emulate this popular style when the hair was all one length.

Resources

• Find pics of '60s style women's hairstyles