21 Haircuts Worth Borrowing From the Boys: Brad Pitt, Harry Styles, and More

The 2014 World Cup taught Americans a lot about fútbol—and that’s not all. What we lack in understanding about offsides and fouls we’ve gained in appreciation for the phenomenon we like to call Soccer Guy Hair. And we’ll be damned if the cameramen weren’t with us. Slow-motion replays were doled out just as frequently to goals and penalties as they were to the sight of Andrea Pirlo and Guillermo Ochoa dramatically shaking sweat off their gorgeous heads of hair.

Of course, soccer players aren’t the first guys to inspire hair envy. We’d hedge our bets that a young Emile Hirsch, cruising around Venice in Lords of Dogtown, inspired just as many kids to pick up skateboards as he did women to call their nearest colorist. 

Fashion’s air-dried blunt bob owes a great debt to Kurt Cobain. And we’d like to retroactively award Taylor Kitsch’s Friday Night Lights rough-and-tumble layers with an Emmy for Best Second-Day Hair in a Dramatic Series. Below, an archive of the handsome hair worth bringing to your next salon appointment.