Short hair is grown straight from the scalp. A hairstyle is the full cut: lengths for the top, fringe, sides, back and nape, a fade, a parting, curl and texture. buzz cut and short crop are simpler coats of short hair.
TabHairToolshairstyle, buzz cut, short crop, on the shelfStylesShort, Medium and Long in the hair libraryPainted areathe scalp mask, in the MASK view
A hairstyle picked in the Hair Manager: its lengths, cut and style sliders on the left, the Short cuts on the right.
Usage
Open Hair. Click a cut in the library (Short or Medium), or hairstyle on the shelf for a fresh one.
Pick the hairstyle row in the Hair Manager. Its sliders appear under the list.
Set the lengths first, then the cut (fade, undercut, sideburns), then the style (comb, parting, volume, curl).
With a parting, drag the dots on the orange line on the head to shape it. With a mohawk strip, drag the dots on its crest.
Pick a colour swatch, or set the colour as on The Hair tab.
Hairstyle controls
lengths
Control
What it does
Top, Fringe, Sides, Back
Length in each area, in millimetres.
Nape
Extra length at the back of the neck: a mullet's.
cut
Control
What it does
Fade
How short the sides and back get toward the bottom.
Sideburns
How far down in front of the ear the hair grows: 0 none, 1 to the ear lobe.
Transition
How gradually the top's length falls into the sides: 0 a step, 1 a long scissor taper.
Crown balding
The hair thins outward from the whorl.
Receding hairline
The hairline moves back from the forehead, deeper at the temples.
Fade line
Where the top's length starts, as a height up the head: low is a low fade, high a high one.
Undercut
Sides and back below the fade line cut to stubble, with a hard line.
Top ends at fade
The top's hair is cut where it reaches the fade line, so it never hangs over the faded hair.
Mohawk strip
Keeps only a strip down the middle long. The crest shows dots: drag one to lengthen, shorten or tilt that part.
style
Control
What it does
Comb
The top combed back (-1) or forward (1).
Sweep
Combed across, away from the parting.
Parting, Add part
Where the parting sits. add part gives a cut a parting: an orange line with dots. Drag a dot to move it, click the line to add one, double click a dot to remove it.
Stand up, Volume, Lift
The top stands up (quiff, pompadour); lifts at the root; or leaves the scalp straight and arcs over like a blow dry.
Gravity
How much longer hair falls.
Curl, Curl size, Wave
Coils (1 is an afro's), how wide a coil is, and a loose wave.
Roundness
The top arcs up and over from the parting instead of lying straight.
Hair whorl
The spiral at the crown: its strength, position, size and twist.
Texture
0 neat and combed, 1 messy.
Clump, Clump lift, Clump length, Clump at the ends, Clump size
Hairs gather into clumps toward the tips: how much, how they stack, how choppy, where, and how many hairs make one.
hair
Control
What it does
Segments
Points along each hair: more for longer, curlier hair.
Hair thickness, Root taper, Tip taper
How thick each hair is drawn, and how it thins at each end.
Density
At the top of the panel: how much of this object's hair grows, from 0.05 to 10. Lower grows fewer, thicker strands; higher grows more. Applied when you let go.
Buzz cut and short crop
buzz cut grows a short coat over the whole scalp, and short crop a little longer on top. Pick the row in the Hair Manager: Part chooses what the sliders edit (scalp (all), top, bang or fade), each with its length, bend, density and grey, and Strands and Segments are for the whole coat. They grow where the scalp mask is painted: edit mask, or the MASK view, moves the hairline.
TipA hairstyle starts from the library much faster than from zero: pick the nearest cut, then change it.
Common problems
What you see
Why
What to do
The hair grows on the forehead or the neck
The scalp mask covers it.
Paint the mask in the MASK view.
Strands poke through a hat
The hat presses only hair under its crown.
Shorten the top a little, or move the hat in Accessories.
