70 Trendy Butterfly Haircuts You Need to Consider for This Season

Curious about the butterfly haircut? Wondering what types are available and if it will flatter your look? Find all the answers in this inspiring article, complete with pictures. Keep reading to learn more!

What Is a Trendy Butterfly Haircut?

This haircut is defined by face-framing layers and bottom layers, often with multiple rows of layers. Check out the back view pictures below to see this distinctive feature. Can this style be done on short (bobbed), medium, and long hair lengths, as well as on straight and wavy hair types? Definitely YES! Check out below!

The Butterfly Cut vs the Wolf Haircut

The first one features face-framing and back layers with feathered ends. In contrast, the wolf cut is choppy with fewer layers at the back and less feathering. However, these styles are often combined, allowing for a mix of choppy and feathered hair strands.

70 Marvelous Ideas of This Haircut

Explore trendy haircuts of this type of various lengths and styles in the following text, complete with captivating pictures!

– Cold-Toned Blonde Haircut. This haircut complements not just curtain bangs, but also a see-through arched fringe.

– Medium-Tone Brown Rom-Com Hairstyle. This cute medium-tone brown rom-com hairstyle has pretty effortless waves cascading down and framing the face. A perfect co-star for life’s memorable moments, isn’t it?

– Fluffy Hair Style. Want to elevate your brunette hair look this season even more? This mission is possible with a chic and playful fluffy haircut like this one. Feel free to experiment with hair shades and texture, trying different styling tools and methods, and investing in good hair products that will help to hold that movement.

– One-Color Soft Brown Rom-Com Haircut. Rom-com hair strikes the ideal balance between long layers and a shag, giving you maximum volume and flow without sacrificing length. It’s like a modern take on the iconic styles of the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, offering a fresh and bouncy look that’s full of movement and life.

– Blonde Beige Cut. Behold this marvelous face-framing layering with long curtain bangs. C’est magnifique!

– Chocolate Brown Color Hair Cut. This haircut’s silhouette falls somewhere between a shag and a mullet, but with added layers.

– A Light Blonde Voluminous Style. The right shade of blonde can enhance your skin tone and eye color.

– Brown Hair Style with Caramel Highlights. Add warmth to your brown hair with caramel highlights.

– Trendy Hazelnut-Brown Cut with Babylights. Looking for an exquisite long brunette cut adorned with subtle balayage highlights here and there? Consider this breathtaking idea!

– Feathered Blonde Cut. Stylists often pair this cut with long, layered, and feathered curtain bangs for a chic look.

– Blonde Cut with Thinned Out Ends. For a lighter look at the ends, consider thinning out your hair from the midshaft.

– Trendy Korean Haircut. Achieve this look with straight hair, thin bangs, and softly layered ends.

– Light Colored Style with Dimension. Create dimension by using multiple shades in your hair for added depth.

– The ‘Rich Brunette’ Hairstyle. Embrace the rich brunette trend with the stylish silhouette for a stunning look this season.

– Black and Pink Cut. Combine two trends with the butterfly cut and colored underneath. Opting for black and pink creates a striking contrast.

– Black Colored Hair Cut. Ensure your hair is healthy for the best look with a black cut; shiny, silky hair works best. Use the right hair care products for your locks.

– Toffee Brown and Caramel Cut. Choose either a cool mix or warm shades for your hair; here, the blend of toffee brown and caramel creates a harmonious look.

– Blonde with Dark Roots Cut. Dimension can be added not only with highlights, but also with darkened roots.

– Warm Brown Medium Cut. Sometimes the layered bangs can reach half of the length of your hair. And it’s OK, but you will need to learn how to blow out them right.

– Burgundy Feathered Hair. Here you see the back view of the butterfly cut, and now you know how many layers you will have if you choose this cut too. Marvelous!

– Ashy Cut with Money Pieces. This combo looks great on this young model, but it can also be a great transitional hairstyle for seniors.

– Haircut with a Side Part. Your butterfly cut will look good with a center part and with a side flip. Don’t fear to change the part. You may even try the zig-zag one.

– Brown and Caramel Hair with Face-Framing. The face-frame is created with heavy layering and front highlights. The back of the hair is less highlighted.

– The Ombre Balayage Haircut. In this haircut only the ends are layered. The top part is completely straight. And this is one more variation of the trendy butterfly cut.

– Brown Hair with a Blowout. We have already said that the blow-out is very important in the post-salon hair care of your haircut. BTW, you will not necessarily need to style your hair with heat very often. There are many ways to create the ‘fake blowout’. Check out on youtube.

– Butterfly Haircut Transformation. If you need changes in your life, don’t just cut bangs. Call your hairstylist and book the haircut and hair coloring services. Butterfly cut will be a great idea for your transformation.

– Straight Medium Hair. If you have straight hair, the butterfly cut will give you a reason to curl/blowout the ends a bit. You will get a whole new look. Say no to boring limp locks!

– Dark Mocha Brown Layered Haircut. Long hair will definitely benefit from adding some layers here and there. All the examples of long cuts here are real masterpieces! Hard to choose…

– Haircut with Colored Front. A great idea when you or your teenage daughter get bored.

– Milk Chocolate Cut with Darker Roots. This classic shape of the haircut will flatter medium and short hair lengths.

– Gray Hair Haircut. Yes, haircut of this kind is for all age groups. And look at the gray balayage. These highlights and lowlights are just perfect got graying hair.

– Armpit-Length Haircut. With the butterfly cut you have no chance to give up on proper hair care routine. Without the right bottles and hair styling you may end up with flat locks. Good for you. Our hair is what? A crown we never take off, right.

– Dark Chocolate Cut with Curly Ends. Your feathered ends can be not only blow-out in the right manner, but also curled a bit for better definition and more volume.

– Hair with Full-Head Highlights. Your highlights can be done in strategically chosen places or full-head as we see in this picture. The layers with well-defined highlights are the ‘next level’.

– Black Hair with Ashy Highlights. Thin ashy gray highlights will make your dark locks stun. Not every woman will be bold enough to wear this head-turning combo. Are you?

– Beach-Style Blonde Cut. Beach blonde hair with highlights and layers is what all blondes who crave soft changes need this year’s summer. Maybe you will find your surfer boy? 😉

– Curled Golden Copper Hair. Volume on top, curls from the midshaft of the hair, and the perfect red-blonde shade that flatter your skin tone – these elements are all you need for your next visit to the salon if you like this picture.

– Haircut with Eye-Grazing Bangs. If you decide to cut bangs, first call your hairstylist, and then choose the fringe that flatters your face shape and hair texture. Straight hair likes all types of bangs, and long thin see-through ones are not an exception.

– Wolf-ish Cut. The border between the hot wolf cuts, shags, mullets and butterfly hairstyles is quite uneven. What we suggest is to combine the elements and shapes of several of them and create your own trendy style.

– Dark Cut Past Shoulders. Here we see the two-step layered bangs, and then a lot of layers on the ends. A scheme worth trying if your hair type is the same as the model’s.

– Raven-Black Thick Hair Cut. All dark brunettes rejoice! The butterfly haircut looks magnificent on your one-tone dark hair. This picture is proof.

– Dark-to-Light Brunette Cut. Like a classic ombre but much better, right? The bangs are also highlighted a bit.

– Orange and Peach Hair with a Fringe. The cheek-length curtain bangs are colored in a lighter peach shade here, and this looks super-stylish!

– The Minimalistic Haircut. No heavy layering, no extra texture. Just the slightest touch of scissors here and there to make the cute face-frame and add a bit of dimension.

– Haircut with Flipped Back Layers. Here we see a great idea of how to get your hair out of your face. All the layers are styled back.

– Black Hair with Some Highlights. We all know that beach-blonde looks with ‘sun-kissed’ highlights. What about the same sun-kissed highlights in brunette hair? Highlights the ends of your hair, cut your locks with layers, curl the front strands and the ends, and voila, your super cut is ready.

– Layered Medium Hair. If your hair doesn’t hold curl well, fear not. Butterfly cuts are good for such hair types as they don’t need much styling. Healthy hair + a bit of ‘flipped’ styling at the ends are all you need.

– Extra Long Butt-Length Haircut. This look is without any curling or special blow-out, so you can see how a butterfly cut can look completely straight. Stunning in any case!

– Super-Long Thick Locks. The ends of your hair can be curled with a flat-iron, with a curling wand/thong, or styled heatless overnight. With some silk curlers, or even with traditional flexi rods in socks, for example.

– Very Long Stick-Straight Hair. Even the straightest types of hair hold that butterfly-cut feel if styled right. Some practice and you will get the trick.

– Thick Brown Hair. We already know that butterfly cuts look good on types 1-3 hair, for finer and thinner hair textures too, but what it can do on the thick locks! Just look at this picture. Jaw-dropping.

– Classic Blonde Shade with Layered Texture. The standard blonde shade with a warmer appearance is great for women of all ages. Your main aim is to perfect the tone, getting rid of all the unnecessary undertones (greenish, yellowish or too warm reddish).

– Wheat-Blonde Haircut. It almost reaches the peach and strawberry blonde hair shades, but is still on the blonder side. Warm, girlish, romantic, it deserves to be tried and tested, especially during warmer months.

– Ash-Platinum Haircut. Such hair shades in hairstyles flatter women with colder skin shades.

– Medium Red-Brown Cut with Bangs. When aiming for a butterfly haircut, clear communication with your stylist is essential. Bring a picture to show exactly what you envision and request layers that start at chin level and taper down, resembling butterfly wings. Easy!

– Jet-Black Haircut. How to style the butterfly cut? There are several approaches to styling this trendy haircut. If you want pronounced, well-defined layers and good volume, use heat-styling tools. Of course, there are heatless methods to achieve a stylish look without applying heat.

– Big Waves Hairstyle. Add voluminous waves to create the illusion of fuller, thicker hair. Pair it with layers of varying lengths to enhance this effect.

– Polished Bouncy Haircut. The butterfly cut suits various face shapes thanks to its gentle, ‘one-size-fits-all’ layers that can be easily customized. Want to enhance specific features like the cheekbones? Or lips? Maybe chin, collarbone, or shoulders? Its adaptable lengths and trendy layered design will provide a personalized look for you.

– Brunette Single Color Cut. This cut would perfectly suit the pages of the most trendsetting editorials and fashion magazines! Cascading down in sultry, ebony waves, this cut frames the face with its playful layers, fluttering effortlessly like the delicate wings of a beautiful midnight butterfly.

– Warm Blonde Long Rom-Com Hair. This cut is an ode to the golden hour! Several golden hues, from the softest champagne to the richest amber, create a harmonious blend of color.

– Chic Cut with Midnight Waves. Here the butterfly cut transforms flat dark locks into a sea of soft, bouncy, and voluminous waves! It’s both a bold and wearable choice that can bring an edge to everyday elegance.

– Side Part Hair into a Center-Part Cut Transformation. The strategic money piece highlights enhance the dimensional play of light and shadow in these locks. It’s a refreshing take on the classic long bob, but made more in the ‘old money’ style.

– Easy-Maintenance Color Long Cut. This is definitely a hairstyle that will adapt flawlessly to all possible types of occasions, whether it’s a casual brunch or a glamorous soirée under city lights!

– Natural Silver Gray Cut. Embrace the elegance of your gray hair with a chic haircut like this one! This cut is pretty easy to style with the right hair tools and products. Also, learn several tricks to blow it out properly.

– Pretty Burgundy Haircut. Wow, each strand here is infused with rich, wine-inspired hues! The chin-length layered curtain bangs add playfulness to the look.

– Silk-Straight Hair with Layers and Curled Bangs. Draping like silk, this solid black butterfly haircut cascades down to armpit-length. The curtain bangs are softly curled at the ends.

– Black and Ash Rom-Com Cut. This voluminous cut is luxurious! It has it all: soft cascading layers, a flowing silhouette, natural bounce and movement, and a touch of glamour. What else do we, chic fashion connoisseurs, need?

– Dark Coffee Brown Cut with Burnt Auburn Highlights. The top layers of the model’s hair here are cut shorter. This allows them to beautifully “float” above the longer hair layers underneath! Highlights were added to the lengths and ends of this cut strategically: they enhance the dimension of the cut, making it more dynamic.

– Chunky Highlights in the Layered Cut. Chunky highlights offer a myriad of possibilities in color and placement. Whether it’s two bold strands framing your face, a thick skunk stripe for a statement look, or an array of chunky stripes throughout your hair, the options are endless. Unsure of what to choose? Trust the expertise of your colorist and follow your instincts to find the perfect match. This cut with multiple thick highlights is adorable!

– Black Cut with Blonde Face-Framing Highlights. The following black butterfly cut is elevated to new heights with these cool trendy blonde face-framing highlights (aka ‘money pieces’).

As you see, butterfly haircuts are very universally-flattering and look super cute. Is something left that stops you from trying it this year? It is the next-level layered haircut we will never be tired of. Worth our attention.