Faux Hawk Haircuts: Classic Spikes with Modern Styles

April 21, 2024BruceDayne

The faux hawk, also known as the fohawk, is a modern men’s hairstyle with longer, spiky hair on top and a short taper, fade or undercut on the sides. This cut offers a stylish look, blending edgy punk allure with contemporary sophistication to achieve a versatile, charming alternative to the classic mohawk.

The latest faux hawk styles feature a timeless, playful and easy-to-maintain aesthetic, making them a popular choice for guys seeking a cool vibe that also works in professional settings. These adaptations look more like a quiff with defined, spiky styling than the retro punk-rock symbol for rebellion and non-conformity.

From short to long, a faux hawk can provide fresh inspiration for those daring individuals willing to experiment with a trendy style.

Popular Faux Hawk Haircut Ideas

Short Faux Hawk

A cool, short faux hawk is a popular style that offers a striking, masculine appearance with minimal effort. The cut, characterized by a short layered top and faded sides, delivers modern edge with dimension and structure. Ask your barber for a mid-to-high skin fade and incorporate a v-shaped back for a seamless blend. Maintain natural flow with a sea salt spray, or lock your look in place with pomade for a textured, matte finish.

Faux Hawk Fade

A faux hawk fade is a fresh, trendy haircut with impressive versatility, allowing guys to experiment with everything from a low taper to an edgy burst fade. The faded back and sides highlight the longer top while ensuring a sleek, timeless feel. Your barber should perform a clipper fade while leaving length at the front and around the crown to texturize with a styling cream. Add lift to shorter styles by blow-drying the hair upward and back before blasting it with cool air to establish an all-day hold.

Modern Faux Hawk

The modern faux hawk is an awesome hairstyle for guys involving a burst faded cut paired with a short, textured wider strip of hair across the top, creating a sharp silhouette. This iconic variation naturally works with a mid or high burst fade to emphasize contrast. Grow out the hair to achieve high-volume spikes that settle into place with a strong-hold pomade. Add a few choppy layers through the length to enhance movement and flow.

Low Fade Faux Hawk

A low fade faux hawk modernizes the classic style with classy blended sides, making it the perfect look for professional men who need to abide by a strict corporate dress code. The spiked front and voluminous crown bring visual interest to the style, but the lack of clipping and V-shaped back bring classic refinement to the cut that looks more natural than sharper fades. Keep the hair short, but feel free to scissor-cut the top and use a medium to strong-hold product for lifting your spikes.

Mid Fade Faux Hawk

A mid fade faux hawk is a versatile, contemporary style with personality, combining a voluminous, messy top with faded sides for a cool, textured appearance. This version starts higher on the head, typically tapering down from the temples. Slick the hair back for an elegant look or unleash your rebellious side by spiking damp hair upward with a firm-hold pomade or wax. Graduating the back brings structure to the style while emphasizing the seamless cut and cheekbones.

High Fade Faux Hawk

Dramatic and daring, a high fade faux hawk achieves a high-contrast feel by creating sharp sides that taper close to the skin. Removing weight from the sides draws the eye to the voluminous top, and it’s worth emphasizing dense locks with purposeful, thick spikes to give this textured style more oomph. A sexy line up and a clean shave will bring striking dimension to square, angular faces for an ultra-masculine, punk aesthetic that lets your natural features shine.

Faux Hawk Taper Fade

A faux hawk taper fade is a classic haircut for guys seeking a ruggedly handsome look that blends edge and versatility, offering something suitable for any occasion. Infuse volume into the punk-inspired style using a vented brush and blow dryer before spiking the front backward with pomade or matte clay for effortless lift. Mixing clipper techniques and scissor-cutting lets the subtle taper blend beautifully into a full beard to create a masculine look that enhances a strong jawline.

Textured Fohawk Fade with Beard

A textured fohawk fade looks dashing with a grown-out stubble beard, bringing balance to your look while maintaining a modern feel. The bulk is point-cut to create a rough, slightly messy look, and the sides fade from the temples for a gradual transition into an immaculately trimmed beard. This style works on virtually any hair texture but looks best on thick, straight hair. Apply sea salt spray to damp locks and add depth around the front by blow-drying the hair for a natural finish.

Textured Faux Hawk with Drop Fade

A dramatic drop fade, a modern cut characterized by an arc shape that curves around the head, gives a textured faux hawk an edgy appearance. The hair gradually tapers down the back for a dynamic touch while setting it apart from a traditional mohawk’s shaved sides. The lower-grade fade contrasts against the textured top, creating a unique aesthetic that exudes confidence. Ask your barber to neatly define the hair around the nape to bring light structure to this rebellious look.

Messy Faux Hawk Undercut with Beard

A messy faux hawk gets dramatic flair from an undercut and beard, creating a bold style with striking contrast and a rugged, Viking-inspired feel. Grow the top long, ask your barber to use thinning shears to remove bulk and add layers to the mix for lightweight movement. While a disconnected undercut with ultra-short sides looks edgy, a close crop offers a more seamless transition into your full beard. A medium-hold pomade or matte wax should keep your hair in place, but feel free to use a salt spray for a more relaxed, windswept finish.

Blonde Faux Hawk with High Fade

A blonde faux hawk with a high fade is an attractive look that elevates your style and commands attention. Ask your stylist for cool platinum or warmer honey-toned highlights for a natural look against dark roots. The sharp, high fade pulls focus to the textured spikes, creating the illusion of fullness on even the thinnest strands.

Low Taper Faux Hawk

A low taper faux hawk embraces class and texture to achieve a timeless style. This look combines conservative, scissor-cut sides with a rock-and-roll spiked top. The taper starts relatively low on the head and blends effortlessly into longer hair. Without a fade, the cut is wearable and the extra inches allow you to spike up or slick back your hair depending on the occasion. Leave the locks long around the fringe and keep the back shorter to emphasize the smooth transition across the head.

Messy Faux Hawk Fade

A messy faux hawk fade is a stylish hairstyle that concentrates the spikes in the middle with tousled, unkempt styling. Spiking the locks forward brings effortless height to the front and crown, while an edgy mid fade offers a bad-boy edge to the choppy layers. The disheveled finish makes this ideal for guys who prefer a relaxed grooming routine.

Short Faux Hawk with Buzzed Sides

A short faux hawk gets a fashionable vibe from striking buzzed sides, creating an ultra-masculine appearance that’s comfortable and manageable. Leave a couple of inches of hair on top and roughly spike the hair with a hard gel to achieve a shiny, sophisticated style. Buzz the sides close to the skin for daring contrast against your faux hawk, and wear a full, well-groomed beard for balance. Pairing elements of the classic buzz cut and the edgier mohawk, it’s the best of both worlds if you want to leave a lasting impression.

Edgy Faux Hawk with Razor Fade and Beard

An edgy faux hawk brings on-trend volume to your look while retaining the traditional feel of a mohawk with a daring razor fade and beard. Instead of a typical taper with a seamless gradient, the razor fade brings completely shaved sides to the mix to channel the punk-rock era. Style the thick top with a dollop of pomade to texturize it, and grab a beard trimmer to keep your facial hair well-groomed and squared off to elongate the face.

Low Drop Fade Fohawk

A low drop fade is a stylish addition to any fohawk, offering a precise, dipped appearance around the ear and the back of the head for a sleek and modern look. The drop fade lets guys retain more length and texture on top, creating a wider faux hawk that balances denser locks. Scrunch the hair lightly at the root for subtle texture or deliberately pull the hair into separate spikes for a more dynamic feel. Complement the stylish dropped appearance with a stubble beard expertly trimmed around the chin and jawline.

Disheveled Faux Hawk with High Taper Fade

The disheveled faux hawk brings a new level of unpredictability and chaos to the style, enhancing the precision of the high taper fade. The hair is left long enough to brush up and back like a quiff. While you might prefer a spiked appearance at the weekend, the cut’s extra length allows you to slick it back or brush it into submission for formal occasions.

Classy Faux Hawk with Low Fade

A classy faux hawk with a low fade is a refined and sophisticated style that minimizes contrast and choppiness for a balanced and harmonious look. Ask your barber to keep the top relatively uniform and lightly push the fringe backward with pomade or matte wax for subtle lift. The low fade tapers toward the neckline from ear level, creating a polished feel with natural flow that doesn’t sacrifice excessive length on the back or sides.

Trendy Faux Hawk with Skin Fade

A badass faux hawk with a skin fade is an inspiring cut that shows off your edgy personality while making a fashion-forward stylistic statement. The high skin fade offers a clean, refreshing canvas that lets the faux hawk shine. Inject personality into this sharp, defined style with silver highlights or a dapper, tapered beard.

Spiky Faux Hawk High Fade

A spiky faux hawk with a high fade isn’t for the fainthearted, but this dramatic style brings incredible texture to shorter, thick locks. The sides are buzzed close to the skin on a short guard and faded high on the head to create a distinctive separation against the spiked top. Boost volume with heat to embrace a grungy aesthetic and lock your rigid spikes in place with a hard, high-shine gel.

Brushed-Up Faux Hawk with Disconnected Undercut Fade

A brushed-up faux hawk will make a striking impression for guys with naturally thick locks who want to pair the style with a disconnected undercut fade. Enhance your hair’s natural volume by working mousse through the top and brushing it directly upward with a vented round brush. Keep the sides closely cropped and faded high to achieve clear contrast between the severe undercut and the swooping hawk.

Long Faux Hawk Fade

A smooth fade complements a long faux hawk hairstyle by emphasizing the length and definition while adding sharp contrast to the look. Longer hair requires time and patience but the striking profile will be worth the wait. A strong hair product will be essential to maintaining the style throughout the day. Ask your barber for a high or mid skin fade for a visually-attractive touch.

Curly Faux Hawk

The curly faux hawk is a flattering, stylish men’s hairstyle that will showcase your curls with a fresh fade on the sides, embracing the volume and texture to enhance the look. This cut features a low drop fade that blends into the skin and keeps the thicker curls cropped for easy maintenance and styling. A good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner will keep your hair healthy while minimizing dryness and frizz.

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A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part Two: Modern Brands

April 21, 2024BruceDayne

A Guide To Chambray Shirts – Part Two: Modern Brands

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By Manish Puri

In part one of this guide, I provided a brief history of chambray and why it became the de facto choice for work shirts, before turning my focus to casual shirts on the market that are reproductions of traditional US work shirt models.

In this second part, I’m covering chambray shirts made by brands that tweak and update the historical templates - shortening them for modern sensibilities, removing a pocket, taking in the waist etc - which can make them more contemporary, versatile and easier to pair with tailoring.

I should add that the guide is still focused on casual shirts - those with pockets, contrast stitching, roomier cuts and softer, smaller point collars.

The Anthology Workman Indigo Raw Chambray Shirt - $200

Of all the shirts in this guide, The Anthology’s Workman is the one that’s closest to a dress shirt.

The general fit, whilst not slim, is certainly tailored when compared to the more overtly workwear options. (You can see that in the flat lay images - the majority of the shirts are cut straight whilst The Workman is shaped through the waist). The collar band sits higher and is slightly stiffer. And the colour is also stronger than the more washed-out versions, which I think helps make it appear a fraction smarter (although it too will fade over time).

On the other hand, the smaller collar points, contrast stitching, locker loop, flapped chest pocket and vintage cat-eye buttons (in mother of pearl) are all features inherited from the shirt’s workwear forebears, and soften the formality.

I think this union makes The Anthology shirt a particularly versatile choice, as it can quite effectively pull a double-shift as a (fairly) casual shirt that sits comfortably with tailoring, and thanks to the collar band, even a tie (above).

The other appealing element of all The Anthology’s shirts is they’re sold on an MTO basis (and, as a result, take three weeks to make). There’s a helpful video on their website explaining the process, but essentially it involves selecting your collar size (unusually for casual shirts, The Anthology’s collar goes up in quarter-inches for the most common sizes) and then adjusting the waist, back length and sleeve length by up to 4 cm from the default measurements. That’s over 8,000 size permutations (my maths teachers would be so proud).

I think it’s an ideal choice for readers that don’t want to go down a full MTM/bespoke route but need to make a few common tweaks to get a better fit.

Whilst this guide is focused on the classic blue chambray, it would be remiss of me not to point out that I also have The Anthology’s vanilla chambray shirt (above) which I absolutely love (and actually wear more often than the blue).

It’s off-white in colour and textured with tiny vanilla-seed like flecks. A great piece for tonal dressing and an easy way to ‘warm up’ an outfit in lieu of a white shirt.

Bryceland's Teardrop Chambray Shirt - £225

If you pop into one of Bryceland’s stores or their online shop, you’ll find not one but four chambray options. Each one with a distinctive design and silhouette, taking inspiration from a specific period in American history.

The half-zip shirt (£249) is a fuller-cut option that works well as a layering piece in winter or worn dégagé - unzipped and untucked with a nonchalant roll of the cuffs - in the summer.

The design is no doubt partly inspired by the Big Yank Zipper Ace shirt (above right) that was released in the 1930s for “those that like the quick convenience of putting on a shirt in two seconds flat” (you can read more about that brand in part one).

The sawtooth westerner (£249) recalls the cowboy shirts of the 1950 with a broad chest that contours into a nipped waist.

The denim version was the first Bryceland’s product I ever saw and purchased, and it instantly hooked me on the brand, although it does have an exacting silhouette for anyone (like me) that is straight through the trunk. There are days, usually after I’ve spent the weekend at my Mum’s being force-fed samosas, that I would love the waist to be just a fraction more forgiving.

The USN chambray (£195) is stylistically quite similar to the Buzz Rickson 1940s model featured in part one of this guide. The main differences are the buttons (Bryceland’s are white) and the extra stitching through the left chest pocket to create a separate pen pocket.

The other significant difference is fit - specifically length. While the Buzz Rickson shirt was a bit shy in venturing past the upper thigh, the Bryceland’s USN has no such reservations. It runs long, Peter-Jackson-Extended-Cut long, which is true to the original style of these shirts - the size 38 and 40 are roughly 35 inches long.

Bryceland's USN shirt is sold in both raw and washed chambray.

If this appraisal so far makes me sound like a sartorial Goldilocks - this one’s roomy, this one’s long, this one’s a little squeezy on my tum-tum - then can I say the teardrop chambray shirt is just right.

Patterned after one of Bryceland’s co-founder Kenji’s vintage Lee shirts, it's a comfortable and well-proportioned shirt that I think most clothing brands today would typify as “classic fit”.

I chatted with Bryceland’s London manager Ben, and he thought, based on the manufacturer’s label, that the Lee shirt dates to the 1950s. That seems consistent with this ad from 1951 (below) where the khaki shirt in the middle looks to be identical to the teardrop design.

I loved the easy simplicity of the design - symmetrical, neatly scalloped chest pockets and small gathers of fabric under the yoke are really the only embellishments.

Combined with the solid construction and double stitching of the seams, it meant I had little hesitation in taking a shirt (size medium) home with me - even though I was only meant to be trying it on for this guide!

Drake’s Bleach Blue Cotton Chambray Button-Down Popover Shirt - £275

A button down, popover shirt is a foundational piece within the Ivy tradition. If you need proof, Jason Jules’ superb book Black Ivy is stocked with photos showing men in both short- and long-sleeved versions - including Miles Davis in a terry cloth popover (below left).

At the same time, a popover style (especially in chambray) harkens back to the very earliest US work shirts and overshirts for sale at the turn of the 20th century - like the ones in the Sears Roebuck & Co catalogue from 1897 shown below right.

And so, to my mind, this shirt is a genuine Ivy-Workwear hybrid, making the Drake's one of the more interesting styles that I found on my hunt: a great alternative option for those readers that already have a more orthodox model.

Because popovers need to pass over the shoulders when you put them on/take them off, I’ve found it can help to have a touch more room in the body than you might for a full-placket shirt.

The medium did fit - but in the same way that I used to like my dress shirts to fit a dozen years ago. Alas I’m no longer in my 20s and I’m not going for a night on the town at Tiger Tiger. Plus, this ain’t a dress shirt.

The staff at Drake’s had anticipated this (they clearly know their product) and had already discreetly deposited a size large in the fitting room - an altogether better option for me with a bit more room in the arms and belly.

So, unless you like a particularly trim fit, I’d size up in this shirt.

Honourable mentions

Every year I see the Kenneth Field chambray shirt (above) land in The Merchant Fox’s shop, and every year I inexplicably delay purchasing it just long enough for it to sell out.

Admittedly, I’ve not actually seen the shirt in person, but the slubby texture of the Japanese chambray always catches my eye. The style is similar to the USN designs we’ve already covered, but with a flap chest pocket on the right hand side.

I’ve been told by The Merchant Fox that there’s limited manufacturing of this piece. However, a small restock is expected in the summer, so if you too like the look of the shirt I’d recommend signing up at their mailing list to avoid disappointment.

Manish is @the_daily_mirror on Instagram

Read Part One in this series on chambray here