Face Form Finder
Hair Length Chart
Use the name as a shorthand and your own body as the ruler. Enter the distance you measure from your hairline to each landmark; the table converts your personal centimetres to inches.
| Length name | Where it ends on your body | Your distance from hairline | Your inches | What to say to a stylist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crop / pixie | Above the jawline; it does not reach the jaw. | Your cm, measured | — | “Keep it above my jawline; I do not want any length resting on my jaw.” |
| Jaw-length bob | At your jawline. | Your cm, measured | — | “Cut it to meet my jawline when dry, using my own jaw as the endpoint.” |
| Collarbone length / lob | At your collarbone. | Your cm, measured | — | “I want the visible ends to land at my collarbone, not at a generic lob length.” |
| Shoulder length | At the shoulder point. | Your cm, measured | — | “Let the ends touch my shoulder point when my hair is dry and in my usual part.” |
| Underarm length | At the underarm / armpit level. | Your cm, measured | — | “Keep the longest ends at my underarm level; show me the placement from the front and back.” |
| Below-bust length | At the lower edge of your bust. | Your cm, measured | — | “I want the longest layer to land at the lower edge of my bust on my own frame.” |
| Waist length | At your natural waistline. | Your cm, measured | — | “Cut the longest ends to my waistline; please check it against my posture, not a standard number.” |
| Hip length | At your hip bone. | Your cm, measured | — | “I want the length to reach my hip bone when dry. Please use my body landmark as the guide.” |
| Tailbone length | At your tailbone. | Your cm, measured | — | “Keep the longest ends at my tailbone. Confirm the point before removing length.” |
Your centimetres are measured on your own body. Your inches are calculated from that measurement: inches = centimetres ÷ 2.54. The table does not supply a default number because it would be somebody else’s distance, not yours.
How to measure your own hair-length target
- Use a flexible tape measure and stand straight in front of a mirror. Ask someone to help if you cannot keep the tape on the same path.
- Start at the centre of your front hairline. Run the tape over the crown and down the back of your head and neck to the body landmark named in the row.
- Measure the body path, not a loose strand of hair. This gives you a repeatable target for where the ends should land.
- Check your hair dry, in its usual part and usual texture. Curly or wavy hair should be checked in its natural dry state; also note a stretched measurement separately if you want a stylist to account for shrinkage.
- Enter the centimetres you measured. The inch value is a conversion of your own number, not a universal length category.
Why a standard inch chart is unreliable
There is no single authoritative inch number for “collarbone length,” “waist length,” or the other names on this page. Height, neck length, torso length, posture, curl pattern, and where the hairline sits all change the distance. A name can be useful in conversation, but a fixed number copied from somebody else cannot promise the same landing point on you.
That is why this chart gives landmarks and a personal conversion tool instead of pretending that one set of inches is a standard for every person.
Use face-shape advice separately
This is a length-placement page, not a face-shape styling guide. Once you know where you want the ends to land, use the face-shape tool and the linked haircut guides to decide on layers, fringe, part, and volume without turning this chart into a duplicate of those pages.