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What is the proper name for the hair that's infront of your forehead that goes straight across?

Asked by xTheDreamer (897points) December 30th, 2009

I mean I hear people talk about bangs and fringe but which is the proper name for it. I’ve Googled bangs but it gives me some images with side swept bangs and straight bangs but when I Google fringe it gives me more of the straight across bangs.

So what I mean is what is the proper name for this kind of hair infront of the forehead: http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/2/20652/09_2008/RBilBangs.jpg

Is it called bangs or fringe or whatever?

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Sampson's avatar

Those are 100% bangs.

Specifically, those are Rachel Billson’s bangs. She’s hot.

augustlan's avatar

Bangs it is.

Haleth's avatar

I think “fringe” is the British word for it. Is that right?

HumourMe's avatar

Bangs is very much an American word. Here in Australia we only really use the term fringe.

Tink's avatar

I call that a disaster.

faye's avatar

Bang fail.

davids's avatar

It’s fringe in Australia, I’ve never heard the term “bangs” used anywhere other than on American TV/Movies/etc.

faye's avatar

Canada. Fringe is the yarn at the edge of your shawl.

TheJoker's avatar

In English the term is fringe.

faye's avatar

I speak english!

TheJoker's avatar

@faye….. sweet ;)

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

In my case, long gone.

faye's avatar

@TheJoker I don’t understand. Was I insulting somehow?

Sophief's avatar

@faye Yes I think you were.

faye's avatar

I could have written it with more words, but it was not meant to be insulting. In Canada we say bangs, and we use fringe to describe the yarn at the edge of your shawl. Better?

TheJoker's avatar

@faye….. nope, not at all! You mustn’t take anything I say or do seriously :)

Gossamer's avatar

they call it a fashion no no

sakura's avatar

in Englad we call it a fringe the big thick ones are called donkey fringes or they were when I was little!

PandoraBoxx's avatar

Straight bangs, as opposed to feathered bangs, which involve layering.

Cruiser's avatar

Unibrow!

ubersiren's avatar

I agree with those above who said those were some hideous bangs-gone-wrong.

aprilsimnel's avatar

In the US, bangs. In the UK, fringe.

SarasWhimsy's avatar

Must agree with @Cruiser on this one, I was totally going to say unibrow. Glad I read further!

pjanaway's avatar

Fringe :)

Bangs just sounds lame.

sakura's avatar

besides I always thought bang meant something else entirely!

http://www.last.fm/music/Ricky+Martin/_/She+Bangs

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