How Long Is Medium-Length Hair For Men & What Are The Best Styles? (2024)

Thanks to relaxing professional dress codes with regards to hair length, medium-length hair for men has certainly increased in popularity. Indeed, they’re an excellent stylistic alternative to short-length hair.

In this quick guide, we will introduce you to medium-length hairstyles, their different lengths, as well as our detailed hairstyle guides:

• Best Medium-Length Hairstyles
• How Long Is Medium-Length Hair For Men?
• How To Style Medium-Length Hair

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Medium-Length Hair For Men

The popularity of men’s medium length hairstyles has dramatically increased over recent years. This is largely thanks to more relaxed attitudes towards men’s hair length and increased tolerance of liberal styles. In this short guide, we’ll briefly define medium length hair.

We also provide a variety of medium-length hairstyle guides for men, which you can read about below in detail.

Different Medium Length Hairstyles For Men

You can read all about specific hairstyles that we cover by clicking on one of the icons below! Remember, knowing face shapes is invaluable when discovering different hairstyles so to know what will suit you best. You can identify your face shape with our handy guide.

How Long Is Medium Length Hair?

A medium-length hairstyle can be defined as anything between 2 and 4 inches (5 and 10 cm) long. However, they often featured a combination of cuts, which can be very short on the back and sides. For example, the Fade or Undercut hairstyles combined with lavish volume on top are very popular among many men.

Note that medium length hairstyles aren’t uniform. They may feature areas where the hair is kept clipped short as part of the style. Nevertheless, with them all featuring at least one longer than average element, they are each considered part of the same group.

Men who favour medium hairstyles often do so for the freedom it provides in expressing their identities. With the increased volume, there are a plethora of options available for style such as angular Fringes or energetic Faux Hawks. Some styles also remain relatively safe choices for professional environments. Nevertheless, men working in conservative professions should contemplate on whether they are entirely appropriate.

However, these styles do require more maintenance than short haircuts and the those considering them should take this under consideration. Men with medium length hair should be careful not to neglect it or it may quickly became unruly. Furthermore, time should be taken to decide whether these properly reflect the wearer’s personality.

How To Style Medium-Length Hair

As we often bring up, the best hairstyles compliment you and wardrobe to define the personality you want to project. Therefore, try to look at it architecturally rather than going in as you would a mere garden chore.

Medium length haircuts offer rich styling opportunities that not only look fantastic but can make the wearer feel great. With manyfashionable choices available, there is certainly the right hairstyle for you.

Moreover, a this type ofhairstyle is highly beneficial to men whose face shapes require accentuating or emphasising particular features.

You will notice that we base our evaluations of hairstyles by face shapes. If you aren’t yet familiar with yours, head to our identifying guide to learn more.

What Next?

Learn more about men’s hairstyles and how to style them for your face shape with more resources:

• Identify Your Face Shape
• Men’s Faux Hawk Hairstyle
• Pompadour Haircuts For Men
• What Is An Undercut?
• How To Speak To Your Barber