By Sejla Selimovic
Updated: August 13, 2024
6 minutes
“New year, new hair, new you”. So, it is time for you to visit your hair stylist or take the scissors in your hands to update your haircut and keep up with the latest hairstyles of 2024. But before doing that, you just want to know what kind of hairstyle trends 2024 has for you. Thus, we have looked at 2023 trends, did thorough research, and made a list of hairstyles that will make people turn their heads.
While 2024 will be all about short hair, pixie cuts, bobs, and chunky layers, long or medium-length hair and sleek haircuts are not going out of style either. So, this list has something for everyone.
Moreover, we have included one or more hairstyles suitable for all types of hair, including thin, thick, straight, wavy, or curly hair. With these hairstyles, you can keep your hair’s natural texture while looking chic and modern.
So, let us get into the details of 20 of the most stylish hairstyles of 2024.
1. Butterfly Cut Hair
If you love long hair but also want short hair, a Butterfly haircut can be your ultimate 2024 hairstyle. This haircut works best for wavy and curly hair and it adds volume to thin hair as well.
In butterfly hair, hair is cut in layers, with the first layers around the crown region of the head falling just below the chin and the last layers just below your shoulders mid-way through the back.
2. Curtain Bangs
Curtain bangs are for you if you want a trendy yet retro hairstyle. They look amazing on almost all face shapes, including strawberry-shaped, heart-shaped, and oval faces. Moreover, they work well for all straight, curly, and wavy hair.
This hairstyle makes your eyes and cheekbones look prominent. It also enhances the appearance of your facial features and allows you to experiment with different hair lengths.
3. Textured Layers
If you have fine and thin hair, try textured layers. Textured layers are great for adding fullness and volume to your hair. Additionally, styling such layers with loose curls or wavy ends makes your hair look even better.
Here, the texture is added to regular layers of hair, making the crown and head hair look thicker and healthier.
4. Short Shag
Want to create a hairstyle that illustrates your young and high spirits, short shag is worth a shot. Whether you have noodle curls, straight hair strands, or classic curly-wavy hair, it looks good on everyone.
Additionally, this hairstyle has no age limit. So, it’s time to look sassy without restrictions.
5. Blonde Bob with Shallow Roots
A blonde bob with shallow dark roots is a stylish dyed haircut that adds dimension to your hairstyle. You can get this two-toned hairstyle on a short bob or just maintain your medium-length or long hair while embracing your natural hair type. When styled properly, it gives an attractive everyday look and an occasional seductive look.
6. Central Parting
If you are not a fan of central parting, 2024 is the time to give it a try as you are gonna fall in love. It is going to be popular this year. This universally flattering hairstyle makes your face look symmetrical and like a piece of art.
Furthermore, if you have a round face, you can part your hair a little right or left to the middle line.
7. Pixie Hair with Curls
If you have naturally curly hair and want a minimalist hairstyle, pixie hair can do the job. This haircut looks like a boy cut with sleekly styled curls.
Although most people with straight hair choose a pixie hairstyle, it is the time for curly-haired people to rock it. With a little styling, curly-textured hair can look attractive.
8. Straight-Cut Shoulder Hair
If you want to keep your hair simple while following the trends, straight-cut shoulder hair is definitely for you. This sleekly cut hairstyle works wonderfully for straight and thick hair. Also, you can experiment with several styles including a voluminous ponytail, a messy bun, or a french braid.
Additionally, such a haircut is easy to take care of and you do not need too much styling or hair products.
9. Full Voluminous Curles
2024 is the time for people with curly hair to ditch it straight and stop the damage their hair goes through with such electric tools. Rather they should get curly hair care products and flatter their voluminous curly hair.
It is especially for black women to feel confident in their hereditary curls. But do not forget healthy hair care to make those curls look bouncy and shiny.
10. Classic Long Bob with Textured Ends
After the sharp-cut long bobs, 2024 will start the fashion of long, choppy bobs. It is the “I woke up like this” hairstyle that makes you look well-groomed yet cool. Additionally, it works well with highlights and dyed hair.
The long choppy bob is easy to maintain and allows multiple styling options.
11. Grown Out Crop
Viral tiktok hairstyle, the grown-out crop is the perfect cut to give your hair a soft and weightless yet voluminous and fluffy appearance. This hairstyle features invisible layers with side-swept bangs on short or shoulder-length hair.
Beachy waves look best on grown-out crop hair. But there are countless options for styling this on straight and loosely wavy hair.
12. The 1970s-Inspired Cut
History repeats itself, and so do past hairstyles. The long hair with or without feathered bangs of the 1970s is coming in style this year. This hairstyle allows you to embrace your hair’s natural texture and soft waves while looking stylish yet elegant.
13. Flippy Layers
Enough with short hair in 2024, as it is also the year to keep your traditional long haircut and add flippy layers to it.
Flippy layers are especially for textured and wavy hair as they enhance hair movement. But having straight hair should not stop you from choosing this hairstyle, as you can blow dry the layers to make them look curvy.
14. Italian Bob
An Italian bob can add more grace to your facial features if you have a small face. In an Italian bob, hair lies around the chin with the ends cut in a chunky style. It is for women whose hair thins out as they grow longer.
You can leave them open or add accessories like a little elastic band or a pretty hair clip to look more gorgeous.
15. Mix and Match Hair
The mix-and-match or mixie hair is the latest go-to hairstyle for women who no longer want to hide their sassy inner selves but are not so into shaggy hair. It features a pixie haircut with short hair in the front and a mullet that reaches below the neck at the back.
Moreover, this modern hairstyle gives nostalgic vibes making it perfect for women who want to live in the past and present together.
16. Soft Angled Bob
In a soft angled bob hair is not sharply cut along the ends. Rather the cut is more freestyle. A soft angled bob is simply a sharp straight bob on loose, textured, and wavy hair.
This hairstyle also needs minimal styling and looks amazing on oval faces. It defines the cheek area and allows the natural movements of hair while looking fascinating.
17. Wednesday Inspired Fringe
Wednesday Adam’s thick heavy bangs are going to be trendy in 2024 just the show it. These bangs reach just below the eyebrows with a middle vertical division. Moreover, you can wear braids with this popular fringe haircut to accentuate the look.
18. U or V Shaped Cut
If you have long, thick, and straight hair and want something to make people go wow, a curved haircut is for you. Curved hair, especially below the shoulders or reaching the mid-back gives a fresh college look.
Furthermore, you have so many curve options to choose from including C, V, and U curves.
19. Wolf Cut
Wolf cut is the hybrid of shaggy hair and mullet. It has short choppy layers at the chin level and long choppy layers that touch your shoulders from the sides and behind. This Tik Tok-popular haircut adds volume to the head and face region while allowing a natural hair flow at the shoulders.
20. Bob With Bangs
While most of the bobs you see would be one-length, the short bobs with bangs give an adorable appearance. You can add straight heavy bangs, see-through bangs, or curtain bangs to your bob and look chic and dazzling.
Additionally, bangs allow several styling options for a monotonous bob and add a soft texture to the hair.
Conclusion
2024 will be all about embracing the natural texture of your hair, adding layers, making the crown region look voluminous, bringing back some of the retro hairstyles, and going for very short hair like a pixie hairstyle.
Moreover, let us not forget bangs. The curtain bangs of 2023 are going to stay in 2024. But Wednesday’s thick front bangs and side-swept fringe from the 90s can also take the lead.
Furthermore, most of these hairstyles are easy to maintain and attractive to look at.
