The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut
75Best Flattop of All-Time
Who had the better flattop
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If you aren't familiar with flattops or flat-top haircuts, they are cut very short on the sides with an oh, so slight taper until you get to the top of the head. Then the perfect flattop is about 3/4 of an inch long in the front, but may be a 1/8 of an inch long at the pinnacle of your scalp depending on the shape of your head. The skilled barber will make it perfectly flat with a landing strip that comes down the middle and fades into the front hairline. The landing strip is the hair on the top that is cut shortest and runs from the front to the back. The whiteness of the scalp has less of a shaddow from the longer hair on the sides and looks like a perfect place to land a toy plane.
Don't confuse flattops with a punk style cut (http://hubpages.com/hub/All-About-Punk-Hair-Styles). These are pure clean cuts. Although, nothing screams March Maddness like a freshly cut flattop. A flatop is a very special haircut that few barbars have mastered. In fact, I've only found one. For $7 in San Luis Obispo you can get the world's greatest flattop at Ray's Barbershop. I've been going to Ray and his daughter Page since I was a little kid. He's worth the trip to San Luis Obispo alone.
The flattop became popular in the 1950s and remains popular with the Marines and midwestern basketball players. We all saw hoosiers and I think a perfect flattop is a prerequisite to a smooth as butter jumper.
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Flattop Links
- Ray's Barbershop - The master of the flattop
Nobody cuts a flattop like Ray. Head to his shop on a solo mission or with the entire team. The price is right, the cuts are quick, and you can't beat the hot shaving cream around the ears trimmed with a straight razor.
Flattops Cure the World
Tired of dealing with curly hair (http://hubpages.com/hub/Curly-Hair-Pictures-and-Tips)? Get a flattop, use a little butch wax and your worries are gone. You might not end up with an award winning haircut (http://hubpages.com/hub/VMA-Best-and-Worst-hairstyles-for-2008), but if you're getting dressed up for halloween (http://hubpages.com/hub/Wild-and-Crazy-Halloween-Hairstyles) as a basketball player, then you can't go wrong with a flattop to bring the entire costume together.
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No brainer - Kid form Kid N Play gets my vote.
Interesting Hub and a great, fun poll to boot.
Nice one Paul, I got a round top being bald lol.....jimmy
I'm a purest and have to go with Chris Mullen as the greatest flattop of all time.
I am going to check around and see if I can find some "Butch Wax". Ah yes, those were the days!
It's Jack Nicholson, sorry about the typo, but I don't want to update it or I lose all the votes.
LOL! This Hub is just plain fun! I have to vote for Forrest Gump- his is a flat top for the record books, haha.
This is almost enough to make me go out and get a flattop . . . almost
Add a little party to the back of a flat-top and you have a popular variant of the mullet. Great topic!
I Luv it!
Thanks for the link I will update mine & return the fav ;)
Too bad you don't show us your own flattop ;) Nice hub!
I never looked at the flattop as a landing strip before! LOL
I wore a flat top for years. My wife said it made my head look like a thumb, though. I really miss that haircut. The ultimate in wash and wear.
The flat top hair cut is just a little more work than a buzz because of needing a little wax to get it to stand up perfectly. If you want super low maintence, go with the buzz or burr haircut
I chuckled when I saw Grace Jones was one of the poll options.
Nicely done, Paul. I always thought they were called brush-cuts because that's what the boys in my grade one class called them.
I picked Grace Jones. I love her hair :)
Great hub.
I voted Grace, too...I love finding myself in the majority on the poll votes :-)
Very good stuff to be shared up! Nice Hub and good posts..
I know that I am getting older because bald headed men look good to me LOL!
smallbizpro says:
14 months ago
Hehe, takes me back to when I had a flat top - now I just go with the all-over #1 blade :)