Buzz Cut Fade

Buzzed top with the sides graduated shorter as they drop, blending down toward bare skin at the bottom.

Try Buzz Cut Fade on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.

Buzz Cut Fade rendered by HairGlam on a female model — Buzz Cut Fade

Buzz Cut Fade rendered by HairGlam on a male model — Same style, male render

Both renders are HairGlam output. In the app the style lands on your photo instead.

The difference from a plain buzz is the gradient: the barber steps down through guards on the sides and back, then flicks the clipper out so no line is left between lengths. Where the fade begins, high or low, changes how the whole head reads. It sharpens the outline around the ears and neck considerably. The trade-off is that a blend goes fuzzy faster than one flat length, so it wants a barber more often.

Suitsround, square, oval face shapes. Taking the sides toward skin narrows the head at the temple and leaves the top as the longest point, which lengthens a round outline and pulls width off a square one.
Hair typestraight, wavy, coily, medium density, thick. Dense hair fades most cleanly, because there is enough contrast between guards for the gradient to actually show.
UpkeepEvery two weeks, since the blend blurs before the top does, with no styling needed beyond moisturizing the scalp where it is shortest.
Ask forAsk for a number two on top with a mid fade down to skin, blended above the ear and cleaned up around the neckline.

Does it suit your face?

A photo of Buzz Cut Fade on someone else cannot answer that. Render it on your own face and you will know in a few seconds.

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Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.