Medium length hairstyles will never go out of fashion, which is just one of the reasons why we love them. Adding layers to medium length hair creates movement and shape while keeping the style easy to maintain. These hairstyles look classy and suit a wide variety of face shapes. Ask your stylist for one of these amazing hairstyles next time you visit.
Favorite Layered Hairstyles for Medium Length Hair
#1: Face-Framing Layers
Take the classic ‘Rachel’ 90s hairstyle for a modern spin with a medium straight layered haircut. Cut correctly, these layers turn inwards to frame and highlight a beautiful jaw and face. Plus, it makes hair look extra cute in a ponytail.
#2: Loose Spirals
One easy way to dress up your hair is with a medium curly layered hairstyle. Whether you have natural ringlets or not, curls like these can be worn daily or for formal events. Brush them out for a more relaxed, beach wave vibe.
#3: Sleek Lob
A lob is not quite short and not quite long, making it a super attractive medium length layered hairstyle for Black women. A strong center part sets the tone for perfectly smooth and sleek hair that shows off your gorgeous face.
#4: Feathered Hair with Wispy Bangs
A medium length feathered layered haircut for women is truly timeless. It is especially softening on women aged 40 and up. To complete the look, add wispy, feathered bangs that are slightly parted at the center.
#5: Dirty Blonde Ombre
There is something so appealing about a dirty blonde medium layered ombre hairstyle. Done correctly, this hair can grow out forever, while looking natural and fabulous at each step of the way.
#6: Ashy Platinum
Ashy tones are a popular color choice for a medium length layered silver hairstyle. Don’t think you have to stick to gray, though; ash platinum, lilac, and even brunette have that amazing cool effect that pale babes know and love.
#7: Medium-Length Razored Ends
Conceal the breakage that often comes with dyeing your hair a lighter color by opting for a medium razored layered haircut. Your stylist can add dimension to the lower half of straight hair all while snipping off broken and fried ends.
#8: Pink Ombre
Make your look more interesting with a pink ombre, medium thick, layered hairstyle. Whether you choose a bold color combination or stick to natural colors, ombre looks add a touch of subtle interest that medium styles shouldn’t be without.
#9: Sleek Center-Parted Chestnut Hair
Sleek styles often accentuate full cheeks, but this medium layered haircut for round faces takes advantage of a strong middle part. By choosing the center, you’re essentially creating a long, lean line down the face for the ultimate slimming effect.
#10: Shag
If you have thick locks, then medium shaggy layered hair should be your go-to look. These strategically cut layers will give your hair movement and help it feel lighter. Make it feel hipster and finish it off with short, choppy bangs.
#11: Highlights and Lowlights
Give your layered look the illusion of having more texture, by adding complementary highlights and lowlights. This modern style of coloring looks fantastic with a choppy cut.
#12: Dark Waves with Full Blunt Bangs
Whether you get your natural hair relaxed or have a wavy weave put in, it doesn’t matter. Heavy bangs make this a great style to try if you have thick hair.
#13: Copper Layers with Full Bangs
These 60’s inspired tresses are too hot to handle. Mix different copper tones to create a truly eye catching look, and the perfect medium length layered hairstyle.
#14: Choppy Layers
This choppy layered look is reminiscent of the 90’s, but is making a big comeback. Seemingly random layers allow you to have volume at the top, which thins out towards the bottom. Kick out each layer slightly to show off the styling.
#15: Sleek Dark Layers with Sweeping Bangs
Medium length layered hairstyles also look great when they are straight and sleek. Choose a side parting with long bangs to add another dimension to your style, so that the eye is drawn to your facial features.
#16: Medium-Length Loose Waves
This manicured look can be worn for work or when you are out in the evening. Teaming a side parting up with loose waves helps to give the style a real touch of modern-day class.
#17: Tousled Shoulder-Length Cut
This seemingly effortless layered look suggests that you got straight out of bed looking this fabulous. Run a little bit of product through your hair every morning to help to give your layers definition.
#18: Rounded Blonde Shag with Swept Bangs
The layered long bob (“lob”) frames your face wonderfully, and it’s a great style for people who have small “pixie” features.
#19: Frame Your Face
Chin length layers at the front teamed up with longer layers at the back will help to frame your face. This style is great for an “everyday easy” look that’s still special.
#20: Highlighted Straight Layers with Side Bangs
Make thin hair look thicker with a combination of highlights and lowlights, and subtle layering. Feathering at the end of your layers will also add extra thickness.
#21: Sweeping Blowout with Rounded Ends
If your hair already has a lot of volume, use layering to help you to create a manageable yet classy style. A side parting and loose flicks add an interesting touch to bigger hair.
#22: Feathered Layers with Flipped Ends
Adding different length layers can draw attention to (or away from) certain areas of your face. Accentuate your eyes and cheekbones by creating layered bangs which flick out just below your eyes.
#23: Blonde and Brown Shag with Sweeping Bangs
Large sweeping bangs are an excellent choice for a dramatic look. The addition of choppy layers helps to add to the sexy windswept look.
#24: Updated Rachel Cut
Rachel was the queen of the medium length layered look, and the Rachel was one of the most requested haircuts in the world in the 1990’s. Bring your style into the modern era by choosing a different cut with a more timeless Rachel look.
#25: Red-Accented Angled Bob
For a super trendy look which will be slaying them in the aisles, choose a look which is longer at the front than it is at the back. Mixed bangs (both long and sweeping) will draw attention to your dramatic eyes. Add a touch of color for the killer blow.
#26: Piecey Blonde Lob with Side Bangs
This short-medium length layered look is great for people who have thinner hair. Very fine layers can be added to keep your hair looking “light” and effortless, without leading to it looking thin and unkempt. Sweeping side bangs complete the look.
#27: Face-Framing Bob
Frame your face perfectly by adding chin length layers at the front, and then slightly longer layers as you go back. For a face framing effect, keep the layers above shoulder length, and give them a slight flick inwards to follow the natural curve of your jaw. Beautiful bangs accentuate your eyes too.
#28: Side-Parted Face-Framing Layers
For an easy look which can quickly be changed up if you need to attend an important function, choose a manageable style which looks great whatever configuration it’s in. Face framing layers and a diagonal parting help to make the style look effortless. To add an evening touch, add a few loose curls to some of the top layers.
#29: 1970s Shag with Crown Volume
Bring back the 70’s with big hair and lots of layers. Use a light feathering technique to flick the layers away from your face. Curl your hair rather than flicking it to give the style a modern twist. Short layers near the crown of your head contribute to the unique, retro glamour.
#30: Sleek Brunette Lob with Curved-In Ends
Not a hair out of place! Add only a couple of layers at the front of your style and keep the rest long. Straighten your hair to make sure that it stays looking sleek and perfect. If you have a long face shape, avoid styles similar to this one.
#31: Face-Framing Layers with Side Bangs
For a casual but cool look, layer your hair around your face, and add sweeping side bangs. This is a real girl next door look.
#32: Blonde Bob with Full Diagonal Bangs
A short-medium length shaggy bob is a brilliant modern look for those who want everyday easy and gorgeous glamour all in one cut. Cut short layers on the top, and chin length layers underneath, then run a little product through your hair to create loose flicks out.
#33: Shaggy Bob
The shaggy bob is a hugely popular look. Team a side parting with layers, then run lots of product through to create a shaggy, tousled look.
#34: Rounded Brunette Bob with Wispy Bangs
Stick to one length at the back, and then bring the layers up to your chin at the front to frame your face. Gentle bangs above your eyes will help to give you a soft and sensitive look.
#35: Graduated Layers
Graduated layers are a brilliant choice if you have naturally straight sleek hair, or if you like to keep your hair straightened. Enhance your style with a side parting.
#36: Blonde Beauty
A short-medium length bob in a warm blonde color can help to make you feel playful and summery all year round, even when winter sets in. Run a little product through your side bangs to give them extra bounce.
#37: Windswept Hair
Always look like you have got wind in your hair with light layers and feathering. Cut in lots of short layers at the top of your style, and put in a little dry product to keep things light and airy.
#38: Feathered Bob
Keeping your hair at neck-to-shoulder length, blow-dry your hair away from your face using a barrel brush to create a lovely feathered layered bob. This bob brings 70s hair into the new millennium.
#39: Chunky Red and Blonde Streaks
If you want to take a slightly different approach to the highlights and lowlights trend, then you can consider adding in colors that sharply contrast your natural style, or even bring in colors which aren’t in the natural hair color spectrum.
#40: On the Fringe Back Layered
Whether your bangs are getting too long, or whether you just want to make a statement, combing back your fringe looks great. Curl it up slightly, then pin it back to allow your face to be seen.
#41: Honey-Brown Layers with Outward Flicks
If you want a look that is good enough for the red carpet, but which is quick and easy to style, choose a side parting, and light layering. Blow-dry your hair straight and then run your fingers through it to add a little extra texture.
#42: Copper Top
Copper-brown hair really suits a medium length layered hairstyle. Try to keep the layering simple, but add signature bangs for the perfect look that lets your color speak for itself.
#43: Auburn Lob with Tousled Curls
Cut in lots of layers of varying length to make a brilliant curly bob. Enhance your natural curls by drying your hair with a diffuser, or by scrunching handfuls of curl mousse through it while using a normal blow dryer.
#44: Dark Layers with Swept-Back Curls
Style your layered look with straightened hair at the top, leading down into natural looking waves nearer to the bottom.
#45: Chocolate Lob with Long Side Bangs
For hair to enhance your professional appearance, cut in classy side bangs, then keep the rest of your hair at a consistent shoulder length all the way around. Wear this style up or down.
#46: Layers with a Diagonal Part
Ask your hairdresser to cut in lots of different layers, so that your hair has a very distinctive style to it. Put in a diagonal parting to enhance your look.
#47: Center-Parted Lob with a Rounded Blowout
Use a blow dryer and a barrel brush to create volume and waves. This glamorous, big, bold bob is suitable for your own red carpet moments.
#48: Choppy Medium Layers
Cut in choppy layers all the way around your style, and then enhance your look with a choppy “bang” style.
#49: Blonde Lob with Long Straight Bangs
Make your lips the chief feature of your face with this gorgeous high fashion look that really works your bangs. Frame your face even more by adding jaw length layers at the front.
#50: Straight Layers with Heavy Side Bangs
Use soft, straight layers to frame your face, then add fashionable, heavy side bangs into the mix. This hairstyle with medium length hair is really appealing for girls.
#51: Loose Curls with Long Side Bangs
Frame your eyes with long side-swept bangs. Add loose curls to your medium length layered cut by using curling tongs or blow-drying with a barrel brush. Set with a light hair spray for Hollywood glamour.
#52: Tousled Wavy Bob with Side Layers
Add waves to your hair using curling tongs, then run your fingers through the waves to separate them out into tousled layers.
#53: Side Part
Give your medium length layered look an extreme side parting with sweeping side bangs, for a look which is bound to grab everyone’s attention.
#54: Voluminous Waves with Side Bangs
Thick hair looks absolutely gorgeous when it is full of loose waves. Give yourself even more volume by cutting in lots of layers into your top layer of hair.
#55: Center-Parted Black Layers with Flicked Ends
Brilliant black or dark brown hair looks stunning with a medium length layered look, especially if you have a natural waviness. Use product and a curling iron to flick small sections outwards for a different style.
#56: Medium-Long Hair with Wispy Bangs
This type of soft look can be achieved by brushing through your hair to remove all of the tangles. Choose your brush carefully or you could create static frizz. Wispy bangs are cute and less severe than blunt bangs are.
#57: Rounded Lob
Shorter layers around the sides and back of a lob hairstyle help to give it a gorgeous rounded shape which follows the natural curves of your head. This looks really pretty if you have petite features.
#58: Medium-Long Hair with Large Curls
The longer that your hair is, the larger and looser curls that you can make. These huge looping curls will make your hair look gorgeously soft.
#59. Lightly Layered Bangs
Lightly layering your bangs around your face will give you a very beautiful and soft look which is very easy to maintain. This style is perfect for everyday wear.
#60. Bob with a Zigzag Part
For a funky take on a classic bob style, use a non-standard hair parting. To create a Zigzag style, use a comb to drag your hair into the position that you want it in and create an obvious strong parting line.
#61: Silver and Black
A matte silver black style is a beautiful choice if you want to be different. Although it does not have the intensity that a full black style could have, Silver-Black is guaranteed to turn some heads.
#62: Neck-Length Dark Bob with Curved Ends
A longer bob is a beautiful style for the office. It is a very easy to maintain style, which you will love to wear at the office. Brush through your hair lightly to prevent any tangles and to maintain your shape.
#63: Bob with Tousled Curls
Light curls are perfect if you want a bob with width. To get gorgeous tousled curls, use a diffuser attachment when you are blow-drying your hair. Scrunch a bit of product through it for extra hold.
#64: Mauve
This hair color is both vivid and subtle which makes it an amazing choice regardless of what cut and style you have. Keep things sleek to show off your color at its best.
#65: Swept-Back Bangs
Keep your hair out of your eyes by pushing it backward and over to one side with your hand. Lifting from the roots will also help to give your style a little bit more shape and volume.
#66: Lightly Flicked Layers
For a really feminine layered look, create outwards flicks in your hair. It is easy to do this with straightening irons if you run the irons down the length of your hair and then turn the tips out before releasing your hold.
#67: Heavily Layered Lob
For a modern looking “short-medium” hairstyle, why not experiment with a heavily layered bob style. The heavy layering at the top will allow your hair to follow your face shape, while the thinner sections near the bottom will give your hair extra length.
#68: Pin-Straight Lob
Although poker straight hair can sometimes look a little bit lifeless, you can give your style life of its own with heavy bangs. This style is more effective if your hair is a totally monochrome color block, such as dark black or dark brown.
#69: Dirty Pink
Dirty pink is a very popular color among some of the world’s hottest celebrities. The color is a great choice for a slightly grungy style, because although it is non-conformist it also has a beautiful touch of femininity to it.
#70: Flyaway Bob
This style is both tamed and untamed. Although some sections of it look unmanicured, the curls are actually carefully held in place with hairspray. Give your hair a little flyaway texture by distressing the hair at the top.
#71: Long Side Bangs
Medium hair looks fantastic with subtle, sexy movement. Long layers and long side bangs are ideal for achieving that effect. Give hair a healthy blow out and add a touch of shine with a light finishing oil.
#72: Short Textured Layers
Medium length can be tough on thick, coarse hair, but lots of layers are here to help! Short layers cut throughout the hair and on long side bangs help thin out hair and give it the movement it so desperately needs. Also, be sure to get your hands on a deeply hydrating conditioner.
#73: Smoky Teal Layers with Flipped Ends
Nothing about this hair is boring. Awesome on pale skin with pink undertones for contrast, this mossy sea blue and green color gives your hair interest that it never has had before. A razor is perfect for creating loads of thin and energetic layers on the ends of hair.
#74: Tousled Waves
Soft waves never seem to go out of style. Dress up your medium hair with this easy style that is perfect for virtually every occasion. Styling tip: Switch the direction of each curl on alternating sections of hair for a natural look.
#75: Round Face-Framing Layers
This look is so amazing for long, thick hair. Don’t forget that this hair needs to be blow-dried to get the most out of the style, however. Choose this medium haircut if you don’t mind working with a round brush in the morning.
#76: Medium-Length Cherry Hair
Any babe can rock soft waves with style, but this deep cherry color will set you apart from all of the rest. Rock it if your skin has olive undertones. Your stylist can help you adjust your cherry color according to your unique skin tone.
#77: Dusty Lilac Balayage
Young women love playing with interesting colors on their medium hair. Dusty lilac is a standout choice, and the balayage effect makes it feel natural rather than shocking. Use the same toner all over for that muted, ashy look.
#78: Subtle Blonde Balayage
You don’t have to go crazy when it comes to highlights. In fact, you can spruce up your basic light brown hair with beautiful balayage highlights that surround the ends of hair and your gorgeous face. Lighter hues have the ultimate lightening effect.
#79: Center-Parted Curls
Because of their voluminous nature, curly locks don’t often need much help with creating a thick appearance. Rather, a center part steadies and controls your look, while a great curl creme hydrates and defines those locks.
#80: Ash Balayage
Blonde hair will never go out of style, but an ashy hue gives it a cool, modern twist. Add a cooling toner to your medium blonde hair for a fresh look. Invest in a solid purple shampoo to keep brassy tones at bay.
#81: Peachy Pink
Peach tones are so fresh, so why not add it to your medium hair? A pearly pink hue provides the perfect depth. We love this color on light olive skin with yellow and green undertones.
#82: Baby Bangs
Show off some gorgeous eyebrows with cropped baby bangs. These sleek bangs look great on a medium style for a sexy pin-up vibe. Create soft curls throughout the hair for this look, or go sleek for a more serious and intense feeling.
#83: Two-Tone Plum Ombre
This two-toned pink and plum ombre style is seriously so fresh and gorgeous. Who knew pink hair could look so classy? The darker plum blends so seamlessly into hair, making it perfect on the babe who is a natural brunette.
#84: Soft Platinum Curls
Create soft, Dolly Parton glamour with large ringlets on your platinum locks. Hair is best when cut in feathery layers to give your hair the illusion of thickness without feeling bulky.
#85: Golden Brunette
A golden brunette hue with hints of caramel not only catches the light in a glorious way, but it’s an approachable way to play with color. Instead of a basic, straight-across cut, feather the ends of hair and utilize the shaping effect that comes with tapered layers around the face.
Hope you have enjoyed this amazing list of medium length haircuts and hairstyles with layers and got the inspiration for your own. Choose a layered hairstyle based on your facial shape and size so that it suits you and your mid-length hair. Let us know which one you liked the most and want to try in the comments.
