5 Best Men’s Hairstyles For Thin Hair – Haircuts For Receding Hairlines

Thinning hair does awful things to your confidence – no matter how well you dress.

By the age of 35, two-thirds of American men experience some degree of hair loss.

And by 50, approximately 85% of us have significantly thinning hair.

As your hairline recedes and the hair on top of your head thins out – you’ll find some haircuts don’t work anymore.

So what can you do?

Search online and you’ll find the advice is always “shave your head”…but what if you don’t want to embrace the Bruce Willis look?

Here’s the good news – there are certain men’s hairstyles that work perfectly with thin or thinning hair.

These haircuts make your hair look thicker and fuller on top – and help disguise bald spots.

Today – I’m sharing them with you.

Before we get into it the haircuts – let’s lay out some ground rules:

1. Keep your hair short to minimize the appearance of thinning hair and to give your hair some lift (which makes it look like you have thicker hair).
2. Grow facial hair – it directs attention from your thinning hair to your face.
3. Avoid styling your thinning hair with heavy, thick styling products like wax. This will make thin patches of hair look flatter, thinner and more obvious. Heavier products will also weigh your hair down and clump it together, meaning your scalp will be even more visible.
4. Use lighter styling products like mousse or a hair gel for men with thinning hair – they’ll add volume to your hair and make it look thicker.
5. Never ever resort to a comb over. Seriously – this fools no one and it brings more attention to your hair than a normal haircut ever would.

First, Match The Haircut To Your Pattern Of Hair Loss

Here’s what most articles on this get wrong. They hand you a list of ten haircuts and let you guess.

But thinning hair doesn’t happen the same way for every man — and the cut that saves one guy makes the next guy look worse. A swept-back pompadour is the right call for a man losing his crown and the wrong call for a man losing his temples.

So work out where you’re actually losing it before you sit in the chair. There are three patterns, and you’re almost certainly one of them.

Pattern 1: Receding At The Temples

Your hairline is moving back at the corners and the middle is holding. This is where most men start.

What works: a cut with a short, textured fringe you can push forward. The Caesar and the textured crop both do this. They put hair where your hairline used to be and break up the hard line at your temples.

What kills you: anything swept straight back off the forehead. A slick pompadour on receding temples is a spotlight, not a disguise.

Pattern 2: Thinning At The Crown

The back of your head is going and you probably found out from a photo somebody else took. The front is fine.

What works: short and even on top — the crew cut, or the pompadour if your hairline is still strong enough to carry the length back over the thin spot.

What kills you: loose length lying flat on top. Every extra inch is another inch that has to sit across a thin patch, and hair lying flat is hair you can see straight through.

Pattern 3: Diffuse Thinning All Over

No obvious bald patch and no dramatic recession — the whole thing is just getting finer. Your part looks wider than it used to. This one is sneaky, because you notice it in bad lighting long before you notice it in the mirror.

What works: short, with texture cut into it. Ask for the length taken down and the top point-cut so the ends finish at different heights. Uneven ends catch light and throw small shadows, and your eye reads that as density.

What kills you: a hard side part and any product with shine. Both do the same thing — they separate your hair into visible rows with scalp showing between them.

Not Sure Which One You Are?

Plenty of guys are somewhere between two of these, and it’s hard to judge your own head honestly. Answer seven questions below and I’ll tell you which of the five cuts to ask for.

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Now — the five cuts. Each one solves a specific pattern, and I’ll tell you which as we go.

Haircut For Men With Thin Hair 1: Textured Caesar Cut

Inspired by George Clooney, this hairstyle for men with thin hair is cut clipper-short on the sides and back and left finger length on top.

The hair is then styled forward.

The disheveled nature of the Caesar Cut makes it look like you have more hair on top.

Style this hair cut with a light pomade or gel and brush it forward with your fingers – this will help conceal a receding hairline and thinning top.

The Caesar Cut is named after Rome’s emperor – Julius Caesar. Roman men were believers in short hair. It indicated a cultured and sophisticated civilization, unlike the barbarians that would let their hair grow long.

Haircut For Men With Thin Hair 2: Swept Back Pompadour

To achieve the Swept Back Pompadour – sweep your hair back over your head.

You need height and volume at the front and shorter sides that can be tapered – doing this makes your hair on top look prominent and thicker.

Keep your fringe long and brush or sweep it back over your head.

This haircut is ideal if you’re developing a bald patch on your crown – use the long hair at the front to sweep over any thinning area at the back.

Haircut For Men With Thin Hair 3: The Crew Cut

As seen on Channing Tatum, the Crew Cut is often known as the ‘short back and sides’. It’s the go-to cut for most men.

Leave your hair longer on the top (1 inch) and taper in the back and sides.

The Crew Cut diminishes the appearance of thinning hair because the shaved sides make the hair on top appear fuller.

If you have a bald spot at the crown, this cut should be cut very short so it blends with thinner hair.

The Crew Cut is also an ideal option for making a receding hairline less obvious.

Another reason why this is an awesome haircut for men with thinning hair is that it reduces the level of contrast between your temples and the sides of your head, with the shorter, thinner sides creating the illusion of a more even hairline.

Interesting Fact: Originated as the ‘Crew Haircut’ – coined to describe the hairstyles worn by members of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and other university crew teams, which were short to keep the hair from being blown into the face of the rower.

Haircut For Men With Thin Hair 4: The Textured Crop

Texture on top is the single best trick for thin hair, and the textured crop is the modern way to get it. Short and tight at the back and sides, a little more length left on top, and a short fringe pushed forward.

The reason it works is the cut itself, not the product. A barber point-cuts the top so the ends finish at different lengths instead of one blunt line. Uneven ends catch the light and throw small shadows, and your eye reads that as density.

This is the same idea the spiky look was chasing in the 2000s, minus the hard gel and the sharp points. It’s softer, it grows out better, and you can wear it to work.

Keep the back short and the fringe the longest part. Style it with a matte clay pushed forward and slightly to one side — never straight down, which just makes a flat curtain.

One caution on the sides: a soft taper beats a sharp fade here. A skin fade next to a thin top creates hard contrast, and contrast is what makes a thin top look thinner.

Haircut For Men With Thin Hair 5: The Buzz Cut

A buzz cut refers to any short hairstyle, usually designed with electric clippers. The obvious choice but popular with men with thinning hair because it works so well.

Shave your hair to one length (0 guard) all over your head. It’s very easy to manage because you don’t need to style it – making this another awesome men’s hairstyle for fine, thin, or thinning hair.

Because your hair is short and the skin on your scalp is visible, it completely masks the fact you’ve got thinning hair.

Also great for dealing with receding hairlines – your hairline is less obvious because of the reduced contrast between your forehead and your hair

Remember that shaving your head won’t prevent any further hair loss, meaning you might not have as much hair you remembered if you ever decide to grow it back out.

What To Actually Ask Your Barber

Walking in and saying “just take a little off, I’m thinning” gets you a nervous barber and a haircut nobody decided on. Give him instructions instead.

Say this: “Take the sides down with a two guard, leave about an inch on top, and point-cut the top so it isn’t blunt.” Those three things — short sides, an inch on top, texture in the ends — are the whole formula for thin hair.

Two more things worth saying out loud:

• “Don’t take the sides to skin.” A skin fade next to a thin top creates hard contrast, and contrast is what makes a thin top look thinner. A two or three guard leaves enough on the sides to blend.
• “Cut it dry.” Wet hair clumps together and looks thicker than it is. A barber cutting your hair wet is working from bad information, and you’ll find out about it when it dries.

Then find one barber and go back to him. A guy who has seen your head four times knows where your thin spots are and cuts around them without you having to bring it up. It’s the same reason I tell men to know their tailor on a first-name basis — and it’s worth learning how to communicate with your barber properly.

Styling Products For Thin Hair: The Matte Rule

One rule covers ninety percent of this: if it shines, it shows scalp.

Shine is reflection, and reflection needs a surface. When your hair is dense, light bounces off the hair. When it’s thin, light gets past the hair and bounces off your scalp — and a shiny scalp between strands is the exact thing you’re trying to hide. Every high-shine pomade does this to you.

So go matte. A matte hair clay, a matte paste, or a dry texture powder will all grip the hair without the wet look. Sea salt spray before you dry gives you grit to work with.

On drying: use low heat, tip your head forward, and push the roots up with your fingers. Root lift is where the appearance of thickness actually comes from. Letting thin hair air-dry flat is the difference between looking like you have thin hair and looking like you have none.

And whatever you use, use less of it than you think. Thin hair gets weighed down by a pea-sized amount that thick hair wouldn’t even notice. If you want to go further on the product side, here’s what I’ve found actually works among hair thickening products for men.

Hairstyles To Avoid When Your Hair Is Thinning

We covered the comb over already — it fools nobody. Here’s the rest of the list.

• Long hair. Length is weight, weight pulls hair flat against your scalp, and flat hair is see-through hair. Long hair is a look for men with thick hair. That’s the honest version of it.
• The hard side part. That razor-sharp line down the side of your head is a stripe of exposed scalp. It looks sharp on a full head. On a thinning one it’s an arrow.
• A heavy fringe you keep pushing down. If you’re managing it all day, everyone around you can see you managing it.
• Skin fades on a thin top. Bare skin on the sides next to sparse hair on top is maximum contrast, and contrast is the enemy here.
• The wet look. See the matte rule above. Wet-look product separates thin hair into strands with scalp visible in between.
• Anything you have to explain. If the cut needs a specific product, twenty minutes and good weather to work, it isn’t your cut.

A Haircut Is Cosmetic – Regrowth Is A Different Conversation

One honest note before we finish. Everything in this article is cosmetic. A good cut changes how thin your hair looks. It doesn’t change how much of it you have.

If you want to slow the loss or get some of it back, that’s a different conversation and it usually starts with a doctor, not a barber. I went through what the evidence actually supports over here: hair growth products for men that actually work.

Do both if you want to. Just don’t expect a haircut to do a treatment’s job.

Summary – Men’s Hairstyles For Thin Hair

So there you have it – 5 men’s hairstyles for thin hair. With all the haircuts in this article, it’s important to use the right styling products. Avoid anything which is thick and gloopy – it’ll weigh your hair down.

Always go for natural styling products – anything featuring chemicals or alcohol could irritate your scalp, making it itchy and red. (And this will show through your fine hair!)

Natural Ingredients For Hair And Scalp – What The Evidence Actually Says

• Saw Palmetto – blocks DHT, the hormone driving male pattern loss. The human evidence is thin and the effect is nowhere near a prescription DHT blocker, but the mechanism is real
• Aloe Vera Leaf Juice – conditions your hair and calms an itchy, flaky scalp. It doesn’t grow hair, but a calm scalp is still worth having when your hair is fine enough to show redness through it
• Peppermint Oil – the impressive growth numbers you’ll see quoted come from a mouse study, not from men. It does give you a cold tingle and may help blood flow to the scalp. Treat it as a good scalp product, not a treatment
• Argan Kernel Oil – rich in Vitamin E and a good conditioner. It’s also an antioxidant that helps with scalp inflammation. Use it for the condition of the hair you have, not to grow more
• Coconut Oil – the best of these for protecting the hair you’ve got. It reduces protein loss from the strand, which means less breakage. Less breakage isn’t more hair, but it is more of the hair you already have
• Rosemary Oil – the one on this list with a real human trial behind it. A 2015 study put it head to head with 2% minoxidil over six months and found comparable hair count, with less scalp itching. Slow, but it isn’t folklore

To be straight with you: none of these will regrow a hairline. Use them to keep the hair and the scalp you’ve got in good shape, and don’t let anyone sell you a bottle of oil as a cure.

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