Another huge difference between a low and a high fade is how much length can be kept on top with each style. Since low fade hair is shorter, it involves more frequent visits to the barber.

This fade starts just above the ears, neither high nor low, making it a traditional medium fade. Here, the skin is shaved down to the fade with the smallest clipper guard sizes.

High top fade, and on the low top. Cutting it down, even like a low fade, these things are coming back. [Brandon] Yeah, I've been rocking this for. four or five years now, so.

Zayn Malik is a man of many hairstyles, but perhaps one of his most famous is his high fade. We got Blind Barber's Julien Howard to recreate it step by step on our not really Zayn-looking test ...