Short Brush Up Haircut: The Low Profile, Easy to Maintain Design

Introduction

This is a short brush up haircut that has classically been in vogue and is still favored by present-day gentlemen. This short hairstyle has short at the sides and the back that is faded into a somewhat longer on-top hair that is styled using spiky tousled texturizing, and lots of volume.

Benefits of the Short Brush Up Haircut

• Extremely low-maintenance
• Looks very clean and professional for work
• Stylish and modern
• Enhances and brings focus on facial contours 
• Functional for straight, wavy, or curly hair type
• Versatile: Handy to maintain, a simple rub through the hair or some styling mousse is enough.
• Longsleeve: Comfortable in hot climate
• Reveals skin fade or tapered sides

How to Get the Look?

Hair Length

• The top should be 2-4 inches long
• Sides and back must end with skin fade or short taper cut
• Best implemented, if there is some contrast between the top picture and the sides.

Key Styling 

• Have a slick back hairstyle on the back and sides or a short taper cut known as fade. This results in creating contrast with the remaining hair on top of the head. Wear it shorter to be daring and wear it longer to make a gentle statement. 
• Leave the top 2-4 inches in length depending on the preferred style. The shorter the top haircut is, the more volume and height are achievable. So the longer the top hair, the more to the side the style is going to be.
• Create a side part. Either a clean shaving pattern or a parted look pattern works with the collection.
• Apply styling product. Pomade, wax, paste as well as creams and gels are to be used in a small amount, a dollop. Use it on dry or slightly damp hair only.
• Brush the hair upwards. Take your fingers or comb move the front section up socially and brush the top hair at the back. 
• Turn the section and fronts. Bend the part a little towards the nape which assists in moving the front hair up.
• Add height and texture. Then, for the brushed-up texture, use your fingers to add more height and create more mess.

Styling Tips

• To enhance the result you may apply pre-styling powder or sea salt spray before brushing your hair up.
• If you don’t want to opt for a clear part that forces a very structured aspect go for a more chaotic textured look. 
• If the hair reverts and does not hold the style it is advisable to use a firmer pomade or wax.
• Weak hair during the day should be re-styled simply by brushing hair back up.

Features Supported By the Face Shapes

The short brushed-up cut is versatile enough to complement most face shapes:

• Oval Faces: Those on top are perfect for balancing oval faces too. One might perceive that a pile, styled look usually works best all the time.
• Round Faces: The new stylish finishing gives round faces a longer and slimmer look. Maintain a neat, orderly part rather than a sculptured one.  
• Heart Faces: The short sides assist in giving balance while the height gives an impression of an oval face.
• Square Faces: Subtle high loose insurgency at the collar, longer top, and volume tones down the square jawline abruptness. Tilting the front to go upwards also camouflages any forehead squareness.

As for features, the textured brush-up style works well to showcase:

• Beards or facial hair
• Glasses 
• Thinning hairline or aging hair
• Large and thick hair that lays flat when grows longer

Best Hair Types For This Cut:

• Straight 
• Wavy
• Thick
• Curly or kinky (when short on the sides and top)

Fine, limp hair hinders men from achieving the necessary height when they want to obtain brushed-up hair. If the hair is thin, it is important to use the right styling products and methods so it can be lifted nicely.

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How to Maintain This Style?

Daily Care

Put on the product every morning where you want hair to be – easy! Thicker or curly hair should avoid getting gel and use pomades and the final step of spray light gel is to keep the hair neat with no stiffness.

Washing

Unless you are working with heavy products frequently, this style only requires washing once or twice a week. Overwashing lifts the cuticle and reduces the volume in the brushed area. While shampooing don’t concentrate on the top lengths that are styled as much as you do with the sides and back.

Regular Trims 

That is why, people should arrange follow-up appointments after 4 weeks to sustain the novelty of the style. Your barber should taper it up and shave the topping or taper it down and take the weight off the sides. Wait any longer and the harder it is to carve with shears.  

Change It Up

Tired of the old same short flat top? Talk to the barber and ask them to just alter the part bring it closer /make it longer. Who would’ve thought that such minor changes refresh the style? Or for larger modifications attempt crop top blunt cut or brush back. These enable the length up top to lay flatter for completely different shapes, it is very few clothes that I will recommend to female friends to tailor this way.

Grow It Out  

If your hair is 5-6 inches on top, the short grow-out brushed-up no longer works. Either get a longer textured crop or quiff cut by this stage or get your hair cut. Otherwise, one can end up in the middle with the growth of an unbecoming mullet-like shape.

How It’s Compared to Other Similar Styles?

Short Textured Crop

Also has neatly trimmed sides with longer shear cut hair on top groomed to stand up. But the crop-cut hair stands straighter up rather than slanted back because the hairs at the back of the head are cropped more to line up flat with the top. Loses its round cross-section like the softer short brush up and is more box-like in cross-section.

Short Quiff

Quiff is slightly different, this hairstyle has hair on the top and front of the head combed backward and upwards forming a roll or wave. The brush-up is more dependent on the tapered sides transitioning into a sloppy-looking top half.

Short Pompadour

Pomps and brush-ups both throw the front hair up. However, pompadours have vastly more volume on top of the head and something near a bouffant paired with a line of hair and closely cropped sides.

Short Faux Hawk

Faux hawks lift hair usually at the back of the head with a midline partition forming a Mohawk-like shape at the top. Brush ups sweep angle the hair at the part and sides in a manner.

Short Caesar Cut

Their shorter tapered sides are cut with hair laying horizontally across the forehead not brushed up to resemble a fringe. They are different from the brush-up by having a horizontal line on the forehead against the angled type.  

Conclusion

For gentlemen seeking an elegant yet contemporary short hairstyle, the brushed-up cut does it. A few minutes are enough to style every morning because the tapering around the ears and neck is very accurate. The top and sides leave guys the freedom to play around during the week – messy swept back for workout days, slicked back for business meetings.

Relative to cool razor-blade fades and clean shorties with no context, the brush-up adds flavor. It can be used on any hair type and face shape as well. Indeed, receiving the cropped sides and ends often would help avoid the terrible mullet look as it grows out!

As long as there are barbers who can perform this dynamic style, look for the classy brush-up to continue being trendy for another twenty years.

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