26 of the Most Amazing Shag Hairstyles
The Difference Between a Modern Shag & 80s Rocker Girl Hair
The shag hairstyle is very rock'n roll -- casual, mussy and visually effortless. Think "bedhead." The typical features that make up a shag hairstyle include choppy ends, loads of layers around the crown and lots of texture.
The shag works on almost every hair texture and in every hair length. One has to be careful with the shag because a hairstyle with too many layers can appear dated. Search online for shag hairstyles (or on Pinterest) and the images that appear show women with hairstyles that seems straight out of 1999.
Think Jennifer Aniston on the early "Friends" episodes or guys with mullet hairstyles.
The modern shag is choppy, has lots of texture but doesn't resemble an 80s hair band. The images in this gallery show off the very best shag hairstyles today.
More on short hair:
Alexa Chung's Super Popular Shag Hairstyle
She's sort of the inventor of the modern shag hairstyle and Brit It Girl Alexa Chung has worn a version of it from short to long to shoulder-length to somewhere between the chin and shoulders as seen here for almost a decade.
See a photo gallery of Alexa Chung's best hairstyles.
Lisa Rinna
The key to Lisa Rinna's sporty shag haircut is to not over-style it, according to hairstylist Kerrie Urban in Allure Magazine.
Urban says to avoid products that make your hair stiff (think gels) and instead opt for styling creams with a medium hold.
More on short hair:
Arizona Muse
I love this shag hairstyle on model Arizona Muse. It's the perfect example of wash, scrunch and go. The shag looks best when air-dried or blown dried with a diffuser. Always scrunch from below.
More on short hair:
The Best Shag Bangs on Pinterest
I absolutely love these rocker girl hairstyles that work so beautifully on women with thick hair like me. Note the super heavy bang and the air-dried look.
Karlie Kloss
This is a great medium shag cut for women with some natural wave in their hair. Karlie Kloss's hairstyle, pictured here, is extremely trendy at the moment and has been featured in magazines, newspapers and online as The Style to Have. Read more about Kloss and her iconic hairstyles.
More on short hair:
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is famous for her shag hairstyle.
To get this look, ask your stylist to cut choppy layers from front to back with shorter layers framing your face. Use a molding gel to style hair.
More on short hair:
Julianne Hough Shag Hairstyle
Another great short shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
Dianna Agron
Dianna's mussy do here is a great example of a modern shag hairstyle. Mimic this look with texturizing spray scrunched in. Let hair air dry. Or blow dry until hair is 80 percent dry, then scrunch and let it air dry the rest of the way.
More on short hair:
Dawn Olivieri
I love this version of Dianna Agron's shag because it's just the right amount of shaggy and sophisticated. Since bedhead remains soooo very popular, this look will carry you through another year without looking so 2014.
Maria Valverde
This shag hairstyle is longer in the front, shorter in the back.
More on short hair:
Jennifer Lawrence's Shag Hairstyle
Shag hairstyles are basically bobs, long bobs, long hairstyles and even pixies, but with choppy ends and lots of layers. Here is a great example of a long bob "shagified."
More on short hair:
Carine Roitfeld Shag Hairstyle
Allure Magazine asked Mark Townsend, Jennifer Lawrence's hairstylist and the man behind her shag hairstyle, for the stories behind this new cut. Here's what I learned:
On the inspiration for the cut
"It wasn't for a role...it was totally spontaneous. Her hair had quite a bit of damage from all the coloring, so I thought we'd take about four inches off, but she kept telling me to take off more and more.
I was the nervous one, because she had never said she wanted to go shorter before, but she was so excited. I ended up cutting about eight inches."
Did Lawrence bring in a picture like normal people do?
"She had a picture of Dianna Agron. It was a cut with choppy layers."
What did she think of the length?
"She loved it from the first chop. She couldn't stop running her fingers through her hair as I was cutting. When she was getting dressed, she said, "Oh my god, it feels so good, it's never been this short!"
More on short hair:
Tori Spelling
The shag hairstyle isn't just for women in their teens and 20s. Here, French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld (she's in her 50s!) models a gorgeous shag hairstyle. Note how mussy and casual it is.
More on short hair:
Marley Shelton
This is another gorgeous shag hairstyle, modeled by actress Tori Spelling. You can get this look by curling hair around a large-barreled curling iron.
More on short hair:
Emmylou Harris
This is another version of a wonderful medium-length shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
A Long Shag Hairstyle With Side-swept Bangs
Another example of an older woman with a shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
Ashlee Simpson
You can have long hair and a shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
Model Edie Campbell's Short Shag Hairstyle
Here's another example of a long hairstyle that's also a shag.
More on short hair:
Kate Mara's Ombre Shag
This shag hairstyle is great because it's both shaggy and short, making it an interesting look that won't be seen on everyone.
Lauren Conrad Cut Her Long Hair Off at the End of 2014
Note the center part here and the blonde ends.
Model Freja Beha Erichsen is Famous for Her Shaggy Locks
Here's a photo from Lauren Conrad's Instagram account showing off her shag cut which she got at the end of 2014.
Alexa Chung with bangs
There aren't many shots of model Freja Beha Erichsen available on the Internet, but I found this gorgeous shot by photographer Adam Whitehead on Pinterest. Erichsen is known for her shaggy long hair.
See more of Whitehead's gorgeous fashion shots on his Website.
Alexa Chung
The secret to a great shag hairstyle lies in the cut. Ask for choppy ends and layering. Your stylist may need to create layers with a razor. Don't be afraid of the razor. It helps add movement to hair and allows the stylist to remove heaviness from hair. As for bangs, they work great with the modern shag, but you can skip them. Personally I love a long side-swept bang paired with a shag hairstyle.
Product application is also important. You want to add texture to hair with a salt spray or a pomade. After you apply the product, squeeze hair to work in the product and shape with your fingers. You may want to twist large sections of hair and let them dry in place.
More on short hair:
Julianne Hough
Alexa Chung is famous for her various shag hairstyles (See them here). She's worn the shag short, shoulder-length and long. Here she also has bangs.
More on short hair:
Next Up: Check out the Year's Hottest Hairstyles
I can't stand it when my hair is overly done. You know what I'm talking about -- blow-dried to perfection with not a hair out of place. No matter the hair length, I prefer mussy. When my hair is short and blow-dried straight, it looks like helmet head, when my hair is long and straight, it looks staid. When I get my hair cut, the minute I walk out of the salon I want to wet it and muss it up.
Turns out I'm not alone, I recently read that the actress Kirsten Dunst insists on choppy ends because she hates her hair to look done.
And I keep reading about more and more stylists who muss up cuts for photo shoots.
To get the mussy look, follow these tips:
1. If you have straight hair, ask for choppy ends when you get your hair cut. Then scrunch hair and let it air dry.
2. For curly girls, ask for layers to be cut into hair so that the fullness is not on the ends. There's nothing worse on curly hair than the A-frame hair, where the ends fluff out like a fluffy skirt. Muss up curls by allowing them to airdry and twisting curls into thick ringlets as they dry.
3. Got wavy hair? Skip the flat-iron and embrace your waves. With a great cut, you never have to flat-iron again. Hair should dry naturally into a gorgeous shape. Women pay big bucks to get hair like yours. Freshen hair with gorgeous highlights, instead. ,br> 4. Add texture with a texturizing spray. I love Shu Uemura's Liquid Fabric.
More on short hair:
Here are some of my favorite short hair articles and galleries:
The shag hairstyle is very rock'n roll -- casual, mussy and visually effortless. Think "bedhead." The typical features that make up a shag hairstyle include choppy ends, loads of layers around the crown and lots of texture.
The shag works on almost every hair texture and in every hair length. One has to be careful with the shag because a hairstyle with too many layers can appear dated. Search online for shag hairstyles (or on Pinterest) and the images that appear show women with hairstyles that seems straight out of 1999.
Think Jennifer Aniston on the early "Friends" episodes or guys with mullet hairstyles.
The modern shag is choppy, has lots of texture but doesn't resemble an 80s hair band. The images in this gallery show off the very best shag hairstyles today.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Alexa Chung's Super Popular Shag Hairstyle
She's sort of the inventor of the modern shag hairstyle and Brit It Girl Alexa Chung has worn a version of it from short to long to shoulder-length to somewhere between the chin and shoulders as seen here for almost a decade.
See a photo gallery of Alexa Chung's best hairstyles.
Lisa Rinna
The key to Lisa Rinna's sporty shag haircut is to not over-style it, according to hairstylist Kerrie Urban in Allure Magazine.
Urban says to avoid products that make your hair stiff (think gels) and instead opt for styling creams with a medium hold.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Arizona Muse
I love this shag hairstyle on model Arizona Muse. It's the perfect example of wash, scrunch and go. The shag looks best when air-dried or blown dried with a diffuser. Always scrunch from below.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
The Best Shag Bangs on Pinterest
I absolutely love these rocker girl hairstyles that work so beautifully on women with thick hair like me. Note the super heavy bang and the air-dried look.
Karlie Kloss
This is a great medium shag cut for women with some natural wave in their hair. Karlie Kloss's hairstyle, pictured here, is extremely trendy at the moment and has been featured in magazines, newspapers and online as The Style to Have. Read more about Kloss and her iconic hairstyles.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is famous for her shag hairstyle.
To get this look, ask your stylist to cut choppy layers from front to back with shorter layers framing your face. Use a molding gel to style hair.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Julianne Hough Shag Hairstyle
Another great short shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Dianna Agron
Dianna's mussy do here is a great example of a modern shag hairstyle. Mimic this look with texturizing spray scrunched in. Let hair air dry. Or blow dry until hair is 80 percent dry, then scrunch and let it air dry the rest of the way.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Dawn Olivieri
I love this version of Dianna Agron's shag because it's just the right amount of shaggy and sophisticated. Since bedhead remains soooo very popular, this look will carry you through another year without looking so 2014.
Maria Valverde
This shag hairstyle is longer in the front, shorter in the back.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Jennifer Lawrence's Shag Hairstyle
Shag hairstyles are basically bobs, long bobs, long hairstyles and even pixies, but with choppy ends and lots of layers. Here is a great example of a long bob "shagified."
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Carine Roitfeld Shag Hairstyle
Allure Magazine asked Mark Townsend, Jennifer Lawrence's hairstylist and the man behind her shag hairstyle, for the stories behind this new cut. Here's what I learned:
On the inspiration for the cut
"It wasn't for a role...it was totally spontaneous. Her hair had quite a bit of damage from all the coloring, so I thought we'd take about four inches off, but she kept telling me to take off more and more.
I was the nervous one, because she had never said she wanted to go shorter before, but she was so excited. I ended up cutting about eight inches."
Did Lawrence bring in a picture like normal people do?
"She had a picture of Dianna Agron. It was a cut with choppy layers."
What did she think of the length?
"She loved it from the first chop. She couldn't stop running her fingers through her hair as I was cutting. When she was getting dressed, she said, "Oh my god, it feels so good, it's never been this short!"
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Tori Spelling
The shag hairstyle isn't just for women in their teens and 20s. Here, French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld (she's in her 50s!) models a gorgeous shag hairstyle. Note how mussy and casual it is.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Marley Shelton
This is another gorgeous shag hairstyle, modeled by actress Tori Spelling. You can get this look by curling hair around a large-barreled curling iron.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Emmylou Harris
This is another version of a wonderful medium-length shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
A Long Shag Hairstyle With Side-swept Bangs
Another example of an older woman with a shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Ashlee Simpson
You can have long hair and a shag hairstyle.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Model Edie Campbell's Short Shag Hairstyle
Here's another example of a long hairstyle that's also a shag.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Kate Mara's Ombre Shag
This shag hairstyle is great because it's both shaggy and short, making it an interesting look that won't be seen on everyone.
Lauren Conrad Cut Her Long Hair Off at the End of 2014
Note the center part here and the blonde ends.
Model Freja Beha Erichsen is Famous for Her Shaggy Locks
Here's a photo from Lauren Conrad's Instagram account showing off her shag cut which she got at the end of 2014.
Alexa Chung with bangs
There aren't many shots of model Freja Beha Erichsen available on the Internet, but I found this gorgeous shot by photographer Adam Whitehead on Pinterest. Erichsen is known for her shaggy long hair.
See more of Whitehead's gorgeous fashion shots on his Website.
Alexa Chung
The secret to a great shag hairstyle lies in the cut. Ask for choppy ends and layering. Your stylist may need to create layers with a razor. Don't be afraid of the razor. It helps add movement to hair and allows the stylist to remove heaviness from hair. As for bangs, they work great with the modern shag, but you can skip them. Personally I love a long side-swept bang paired with a shag hairstyle.
Product application is also important. You want to add texture to hair with a salt spray or a pomade. After you apply the product, squeeze hair to work in the product and shape with your fingers. You may want to twist large sections of hair and let them dry in place.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Julianne Hough
Alexa Chung is famous for her various shag hairstyles (See them here). She's worn the shag short, shoulder-length and long. Here she also has bangs.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Next Up: Check out the Year's Hottest Hairstyles
I can't stand it when my hair is overly done. You know what I'm talking about -- blow-dried to perfection with not a hair out of place. No matter the hair length, I prefer mussy. When my hair is short and blow-dried straight, it looks like helmet head, when my hair is long and straight, it looks staid. When I get my hair cut, the minute I walk out of the salon I want to wet it and muss it up.
Turns out I'm not alone, I recently read that the actress Kirsten Dunst insists on choppy ends because she hates her hair to look done.
And I keep reading about more and more stylists who muss up cuts for photo shoots.
To get the mussy look, follow these tips:
1. If you have straight hair, ask for choppy ends when you get your hair cut. Then scrunch hair and let it air dry.
2. For curly girls, ask for layers to be cut into hair so that the fullness is not on the ends. There's nothing worse on curly hair than the A-frame hair, where the ends fluff out like a fluffy skirt. Muss up curls by allowing them to airdry and twisting curls into thick ringlets as they dry.
3. Got wavy hair? Skip the flat-iron and embrace your waves. With a great cut, you never have to flat-iron again. Hair should dry naturally into a gorgeous shape. Women pay big bucks to get hair like yours. Freshen hair with gorgeous highlights, instead. ,br> 4. Add texture with a texturizing spray. I love Shu Uemura's Liquid Fabric.
More on short hair:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
Here are some of my favorite short hair articles and galleries:
- How to Tell if You'd Look Good With Short Hair
- The 6 Hottest Short Hair Trends
- 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Hair Texture
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