TikTok hairstyles this week: the top 20 searches, ranked

The most searched TikTok hairstyles this week were "iris hairstyle" (about 4.6 million searches in 7 days) and the "aoba haircut" (about 4.0 million, up from 193,703 on 23 September). Below them: braid styles (637,081), colored hair, "no bangs", baby curtain bangs and "curly hair plopping", which went from almost nothing to 272,772 searches in one week.

We ran 10 hair searches through TikTok's own search data on 30 September 2026, from "hairstyles" and "haircut" to "curtain bangs" and "curly hair", and kept only the phrases people actually typed. This page is for stylists, salons, hair brands and anyone who wants to know what to film next.

Curtain bangs stood out. TikTok returned 17 typed curtain bangs searches, and 9 of them had no videos at all, including "trim curtain bangs" (272,972 searches) and "bad curtain bangs" (262,868).

The TikTok hairstyles people searched this week

These are the typed hair searches from our pulls, ranked by searches in the last 7 days. "Change" compares the 29 September reading with 23 September. "Videos" is how many videos TikTok matches to the search, so a low number means less competition. Curtain bangs get their own table further down.

Data: TikTok Creator Search Insights via TokConnect, pulled 30 September 2026 for 10 searches, 20 topics each: "hairstyles", "braids", "bangs", "curly hair", "haircut", "hair color", "easy hairstyles", "hair", "curtain bangs" and "hair products". Searches are TikTok's 7-day global figure. "New" means under 1,000 on 23 September. Phrases shown in lower case. Snapshot.

Searches means TikTok's "Search popularity": the last 7 days, worldwide, not a monthly number. Our TikTok search volume guide explains it.

Which hairstyles are rising on TikTok

Two searches did most of the climbing. "iris hairstyle" rose from 816,491 on 23 September to 4,623,287 on 29 September. The "aoba haircut" stayed between 150,224 and 287,656 for five days, then jumped to 825,886 and 3,953,822 in the last two.

Neither has a write-up on the usual hair sites yet, so TikTok is the place to learn what they are. The top four videos for "aoba haircut" are all 9 or 10 seconds long. The most played, with 1.5 million plays, is someone asking whether the cut would suit a round face, and another warns people off the jellyfish cut. For "iris hairstyle", four of the seven top results are captioned in Burmese, so check what the look is before you promise it to a client.

Smaller searches moved fast too:

• curly hair plopping: from 399 to 272,772. Plopping means drying curls wrapped in a T-shirt or towel.
• bangs in the wind: from 5,798 to 254,023 (+4,281%).
• braided two braids: from 6,398 to 74,577 (+1,066%).
• colored hair: from 32,409 to 298,189 (+820%), while "hair coloring" fell 24%.

The fallers were the throwback looks: "braids box braid" (−55%), "90s curtain bangs" (−54%), "y2k curly hair" (−45%) and "bangs to side bangs" (−44%). They still pull between 91,172 and 119,911 searches a week, so they are steady rather than dead.

Curtain bangs: 17 searches, 9 with no videos

Curtain bangs returned more typed searches than any other hair seed, about 2.9 million in total for the week. The pattern is useful for any stylist: people search the cut, the trim, the fail and the fix. Nine of the 17 had no videos matched, which is what TikTok flags as a content gap.

Data: TikTok Creator Search Insights, 30 September 2026. The ninth, "nino curtain bangs" (239,927), is left out because we could not tell which look it means. Snapshot.

Outside curtain bangs, "the don haircut" (179,753 searches) and "no bangs to bangs" (45,986) also had no videos matched.

TikTok's hair topic labels: read them as category size

Most of what TikTok returns for a hair search is not something anyone typed. Of 198 topics, 145 were topic labels TikTok writes itself to group many searches. They all sat between 2.1 million and 4.8 million, and most share the same curve: a few thousand on the first day, millions by the last. That shape is how you spot them.

• "bob haircuts for thick hair": 4.8 million, 425 videos
• "hair pomade and styling products": 4.8 million, 587 videos
• "wet look hair styling": 4.8 million, no videos
• "braid hairstyles and braiding styles": 4.8 million, 607 videos
• "bangs for different face shapes": 4.8 million, 437 videos
• "long hair styling after haircut": 4.8 million, no videos
• "micro bangs for flat noses": 4.6 million, no videos
• "easy exam day hairstyles": 4.6 million, no videos

TikTok topic labels from the same pulls: 145 of the 198 topics, 33 of them with no videos matched. Full list in the snapshot.

Use labels to pick a theme, like face shapes or wet-look styling, then find the typed phrase inside it. "hair products" returned 20 labels and no typed searches, so product sellers should search brand and product names instead of the broad term. The beauty trends table covers skincare and makeup the same way.

Hair hashtags and what people type after "hairstyles"

Hashtag numbers are lifetime totals, so they show how crowded a tag is, not what is hot this week. #hair sits on almost 33 million videos. Smaller tags like #hairideas and #HairTutorial average about three times more views per video.

Data: TikTok hashtag search via TokConnect, 30 September 2026. Views and videos are lifetime totals for each tag. Snapshot.

TikTok's autocomplete shows who is searching. After "hairstyles for", it suggested school, short hair, men, "ladies 2026", braids, long hair, curly hair, natural hair and "school jamaican". After "hairstyles" alone it added ideas and weddings (suggestions snapshot). Each of those is a series you could film. For picking tags, see our guide to the best TikTok hashtags.

What to post: hair video ideas from the data

Match the length to the search

The top "aoba haircut" videos are 9 or 10 seconds: people want to see the finished cut. The top "curly hair plopping" videos run 27 seconds to almost 2 minutes, because people want the steps. The most played plopping tutorial (926,732 plays, 25,354 saves) opens by saying people kept asking how she plops her hair.

Videos from TikTok video search, relevance sort, 30 September 2026. Plays and saves as TikTok showed them that day. Snapshot.

Say the exact search

TikTok says it uses captions, sounds and hashtags to understand what a video is about (TikTok Help Center). So say "trim curtain bangs at home" out loud in the first seconds, put it in on-screen text and write it in the caption. Then add two or three tags, one broad (#hair) and one specific (#hairtutorial or #curtainbangs). Our TikTok keyword research guide covers the method.

Film the fix, not only the finish

"bad curtain bangs", "curtain bangs fail" and "curtain bangs unstyled" pulled 690,638 searches between them. A salon that films a rescue cut answers all three. Face shape is another angle: the most played aoba video is a face-shape question, and "bangs for different face shapes" is a 4.8 million label.

Ask TokConnect the same question for your own service, say "silk press" or "knotless braids", and you get the searches, the weekly change and the videos already competing, in one answer.

How we got these numbers

On 30 September 2026 we pulled TikTok's search topics for 10 hair searches, 20 topics each, through TokConnect. That returned 198 unique topics. We marked 145 as TikTok topic labels, because each had the shared label curve: a first-day reading under 1% of the last and a 7-day figure above 1 million. Of the 53 typed searches left, we dropped 13 that were fragments, memes or not about hair (for example a Pokémon character), leaving 40.

"7-day searches" is TikTok's Search popularity for the 7 days to 29 September, worldwide. "Change" compares the 29 September reading with the 23 September one, and daily readings on small searches jump around, so treat a single week's change as a signal to check. We also pulled hashtag totals for "hair" and "hairtok", autocomplete for "hairstyles" and "hairstyles for", and the top videos for three searches. You can check any one topic yourself in Creator Search Insights, in the TikTok app or on desktop at tiktok.com/csi.