Color

• Getting your hair color right is the first step to creating an authentic-looking anime hairstyle. Anime characters frequently have bright or unnatural hair colors, such as blue, red or purple. You can achieve this look by coloring your hair with permanent or semi-permanent hair dye. If you have dark hair, you may need to pre-lighten your hair with bleach before dying it. Black and white-blonde hair is also common among anime characters.
  
  

Boys' Styles

• Boys in anime rarely have short hair. Doable anime hairstyles for boys start with mid-length or long hair. Most styles are layered and choppy, with small groups of strands separated out with hair wax. A common feature of anime hairstyles on guys are long bangs, often approaching chin length, which sit partially obscuring the face. Spiked hair is another style often seen in anime. Spikes can be recreated with a decent, strong-hold hair gel or wax.
  
  

Short Girls' Styles

• Girls with short hair in anime normally have a simple bob. To achieve this style, have your hair cut into a classic, straight bob, somewhere between chin and shoulder length. Anime characters often, but not always, have bangs cut in with a bob, so choose whether or not you want one according to personal preference. You will need to keep your hair straight and sleek to make it look authentic, you can do this with straightening irons.
  
  

Long Girls' Styles

• There are two main types of doable long girls' anime hairstyles. The first is a long, layered style, which is not dissimilar to the longer boys anime hairstyles. You need to have your hair cut into choppy layers, with long bangs. The other style is extra long hair. Many female anime characters have long, wavy hair that reaches all the way down to the base of their spine. If your hair isn't naturally this long, you can have hair extensions put in to lengthen it.