Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
List of """masculine""" hairstyles added after 4.0:
- The WoL monk one (assuming it's the one you mention)
- The samurai WoL one (the one in GCI)
- Yotsuyu's brother hairstyle
- The samurai ponytail that resembles Hien's
- The pvp one with the little beads
- The pvp one that is the "feathered"
- Cloud Strife hairstyle (but it's under very limited circumstances - might be available in the future somehow)

I'm missing something? That's more than 1 style per major patch.

Edit: Since I'm already there, listing the same, but for "feminine" hairstyles:
- Gyr Abanian Plait
- Eureka Pyros hairstyle
- The one with bangs and straight long hair, although who wears it is a MALE lalafell (Krile's colleague in Eureka), but it looks girlish
You have a point regarding some of these. I honestly had forgotten about Hien's hairstyle (probably because my personal opinions on the hairstyle are that it's just an ugly look) but it was added. As for some of the others mentioned, the fact is that despite them appearing on male characters in the game, they actually look very feminine. It's not a bad thing if you want to have a more feminine looking male character, do whatever makes you happy, I'm simply commenting on the lack of options for more, I guess, western style male haircuts. It seems more of the male hairstyles added in are contemporary Japanese male hairstyles that will look more feminine to my perspective.

Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Indeed - and you have to keep in mind Square Enix's design tendencies as to what are "male" hairstyles to begin with! (Would anyone have considered Estinien's hairstyle to be intended for a male character if it just got added to the game as a unisex hairstyle, not connected to anyone specific? And things like the ponytail and 'Samsonian locks' (long straight hairstyle from PotD) are used for male characters more often than for female.


For reference, this is the list of unisex hairstyles available in the character creator (not counting extra purchased/acquired ones):

This is exactly what I'm saying, thanks for posting the hairstyles. Of the 22 here, 13 look like they were designed with female characters in mind while the other 9 are either male or unisex, even if those hairstyles were all intended to be male or unisex.