Country by country guides to men’s haircuts, beards and hair care: the cuts people actually wear there, the hair they are cut for, and how to ask a barber for them anywhere.
Sri Lankan hair runs curlier than the South Asian default and the island is humid year-round. A guide to the cuts that work with both, why your barber should cut it dry, and how to use coconut oil without weighing your curls down.
Most Greek hairstyle searches return marble statues. This is about hair on modern Greek men: what thick wavy Mediterranean hair actually does, the cuts that work with the wave rather than against it, and how to brief a barber.
A practical guide to Bangladeshi men’s hairstyles: the cuts that hold up in year-round humidity, how to move hair oiling so it helps instead of weighing the style down, and what to tell a barber who has never cut your hair type.
A French beard is a moustache connected to a chin beard with the cheeks shaved clean. What separates it from a goatee, a Van Dyke and a circle beard, who it flatters, and the four shaping decisions that decide whether it works.
Italian beard styles are defined by clean edges and proportion rather than by length. The twelve looks the term actually covers, which suits your face shape, and the three lines that decide whether any of them works.
A guide to desi hairstyles for the South Asian diaspora: the cuts men are actually asking for, how to brief a barber who has never cut your hair type, and shaadi-season styling that survives a three-day wedding.