It’s official. The stacked bob is the ultimate hairstyle for women over 50. But why? What’s so special about it?
Women over 50 are obsessed with this short style’s instant youthful vibe and flattering face frame that comes in a low-maintenance but high-fashion haircut for any hair type and face shape.
Better yet, there’s a stacked bob out there for everyone! From elegant to edgy and beyond! So, without further ado, here are 35 stacked bobs to show you why this is the ultimate hairstyle for women over 50.
#1. Classic Stacked Bob with Side-Swept Bangs
If you’re looking for a timelessly dignified look, there’s nothing better than a classic stacked bob with side-swept bangs. This bob features shorter back layers transitioning to longer front layers for extra body and volume with a high-definition frame for your facial features. Then, the side-swept bangs swoop in to soften the look and showcase your eyes.
#2. Textured Stacked Bob with Choppy Layers
Want something delightfully dynamic? You need a textured stacked bob with choppy layers. This bob pairs a stacked back with choppy-textured front layers for effortless volume and movement for any hair type. Flipping out the ends can give it an extra flirty flair.
#3. Stacked Bob with Graduated Layers and Subtle Highlights
Get a trendy trio of light, lively, and lovely by trying a stacked bob with graduated layers and subtle highlights. The stacked bob gives that full-bodied shape with graduating layers for a more defined frame for your facial features. Then, the subtle highlights enhance the layers with more dimension to give your hair some life while keeping the texture sleek and simple.
#4. Angled Stacked Bob with Long Front Pieces
Go for something timeless with a slightly modern twist, like the angled stacked bob with long front pieces. The soft angle of the bob creates an illusionary line for a tighter jaw and neckline to look younger, while the long front pieces create an elongated and slimmer face for round faces. Plus, this stacked bob works on any hair type, from pin-straight hair to tight curls.
#5. Stacked Bob with Curtain Bangs
The stacked bob with curtain bangs is flawless and fashionable, with a side of soft feminine vibes. This stacked bob features luxurious lengths with stacked layers for extra volume and body that come down into a gentle face frame. Then, curtain bangs create a more defined frame with a gentle finishing touch.
#6. Short Stacked Bob with a Tapered Nape
Nothing is as clean and polished as a short stacked bob with a tapered nape. This look pairs the bob’s short frame for a younger-looking face with the clean-cut tapered nape for a modern edge to create a super chic and low-maintenance hairstyle for women over 50 with thin or fine hair.
#7. Stacked Bob with Subtle Face-Framing Layers
If you’re looking for a simple and sophisticated style, you need a stacked bob with subtle face-framing layers. This stacked bob brings that classic stacking for massive body and volume with subtle face-framing layers to complement your facial features.
#8. Voluminous Stacked Bob with Side-Swept Bangs
Want a Goldie Hawn-inspired look with that nostalgic sky-high volume and windswept movement? Look no further than a voluminous stacked bob with side-swept bangs. The side-swept bangs add that fab finishing touch, accentuating the bob’s full-bodied frame and highlighting your eyes with a tiny flirty flair.
#9. Stacked Lob with Soft Waves
Effortlessly elegant. That’s how we describe the stacked lob (or long bob) with soft waves. This cut pairs the stack’s lob’s extra layering for volume with a little more length for effortless versatility and a little more luxury.
#10. Messy Stacked Bob with Piecey Layers
Get the classic look of the stacked bob with an edgy twist with a messy stacked bob with piecey layers! Piecey layers create a magnetizing messy texture to pack hair full of full-bodied movement, giving you a lively and low-maintenance look with the ultimate unrefined edge.
#11. Sleek Stacked Bob with Blunt Ends
The sleek stacked bob with blunt ends is a sharp, sophisticated look for women over 50 who love polished and put-together looks. It is especially useful in creating a stunning style out of thinning hair. This style features clean, straight lines with a complementary angle for almost any face shape and a smooth, sleek texture.
#12. Stacked Bob with Subtle Balayage
Give your straight hair a sleek, simple style packed full of life with a stacked bob and subtle balayage. This style blends the bob with a stacked back for extra body and a youthful face frame. Then, the balayage for added dimension and a sun-kissed glow.
#13. Inverted Stacked Bob with a Short Back
Nothing blends short, sharp, and chic like an inverted stacked bob with a short back. This is the ultimate hairstyle for women over 50 who love making a statement. The inverted and stacked bob combine for a super complementary face shape with all the volume and texture your hair can handle.
#14. Stacked Bob with Long Textured Bangs
Carefree meets classy with a stacked bob and long textured bangs. Stacked layering brings robust volume and texture for the perfect blowout-inspired movement, and textured bangs top it off with a laidback vibe.
#15. Stacked Bob with Wispy Bangs
Want something trendy and tasteful with a light and airy flair? The stacked bob with wispy bangs is your new look! The bob brings the volume and movement it’s famous for, with a flattering frame for almost any hair type and wispy bangs to give the look a delightfully delicate finishing touch.
#16. Stacked Bob with Bold Color Accent
Go for a fun, flattering double shot with a stacked bob and bold accent color. As always, the stacked bob creates the perfect complementary shape for your features with full-bodied volume. The bold accent color completes the look with a cool, creative flair.
#17. Polished Stacked Bob with Rounded Silhouette
The polished stacked bob with a rounded silhouette is a tasteful and timeless style for women over 50 who love all things classic, clean, and polished. Stacking gives your hair maximum height with a smooth, sleek texture and a rounded shape that creates fuller-looking hair while softening square and oblong face shapes.
#18. Stacked Bob on Natural Gray
Celebrate your grays with grace and glamor with the stacked bob on natural grays. This magnificent bob style features subtle volume and a silky-smooth finish, giving your natural grays an all-natural allure.
#19. Wavy Stacked Bob with Tousled Texture
Bring your look a balance of laidback and lavish with a wavy stacked bob with a tousled texture. This bob is perfect for creating vivacious tousled movement, giving natural waves a supercharge in bounce and definition to make an elegant-looking, effortless style.
#20. Short Stacked Bob with Choppy Ends
Go for a mature look with a modern edge, like a short stacked bob with choppy ends. This style creates a short, super-chic shape to complement your facial features, with short stacked layers for volume and jaw-dropping choppy ends for jagged texture to vibrance even the flattest finest hair.
#21. Stacked Bob with Undercut Detail
The stacked bob with undercut detailing is a super youthful bob cut with nothing but style and a little sass. As always, the stacked bob’s frame brings the ultimate anti-aging element, while the undercut detailing gives the look a clean and trendy edge.
#22. Two-Tone Stacked Bob
Trying dual tones on a stacked bob is a beautiful and brilliant way to give women over 50 a brand-new look for their thinning hair. Of course, the super chic bob brings that complementary face frame with volume and smooth texture. Then, the two-tone highlights pack your hair full of dimension to breathe dynamic life into this style without going crazy with layering.
#23. Stacked Bob with Face-Framing Highlights
Go for a flawlessly fetching hairstyle like a stacked bob with face-framing highlights. This style brings volume and movement to any hair type, with stacking at the back for that classic bob body. The face-framing highlights are a minor finishing touch with a major impact, accentuating the bob’s flattering frame and giving your face a youthful glow.
#24. Stacked Bob with Subtle Lowlights
If you’re looking for an elegant style with a little bit of energy, go for a stacked bob with subtle lowlights! This look is excellent for giving natural grays a bit of boosted depth and dimension to enhance any hair type, but it is especially effective in defining curls.
#25. Graduated Stacked Bob with Feathered Ends
A graduated stacked bob with feathered ends is a soft yet snazzy look for women over fifty who want something fun and flirty. This version of the bob combines stacked layering with graduated angles to create a beautiful face frame for any face shape, with full-bodied movement and feathered ends that bring a light and airy finishing touch.
#26. Short Stacked Bob with Sideburns
Get a glam and girly-chic style with a slightly vintage vibe and a short stacked bob with sideburns. The short stacked bob brings volume and delicate texture with a retro flavor from the sideburns, which are also a great way to contour your facial features for a super youthful look.
#27. Angled Stacked Bob with Side-Swept Fringe
If you’re into those cool and contemporary hairstyles, you’ve got to try an angled stacked bob with a side-swept fringe! This is the ultimate stacked bob for women over 50 who love those slightly edgy styles. The angled bob brings soft volume and texture with a defined frame to accentuate your facial features, while the side-swept fringe bang adds that modern edge.
#28. Textured Stacked Bob with a Messy Top
The textured stacked bob with a messy top is an exuberant stacked bob that brings that beloved behead-glam vibe. The extra texture brings instant tousled movement to any hair, making it as effortless to style as it looks.
#29. Stacked Bob with Blunt Micro Bangs
There’s no greater high-fashion hairstyle for women over 50 than a stacked bob with blunt micro bangs. This bob features a sleek, smooth texture, perfect for thinning straight hair, and is in a shape that creates the ideal angle to create an age-defying look. Then, micro bangs add an avant-garde element with a side of Parisian flavor.
#30. Classic Stacked Bob with a Deep Side Part
The charming classic stacked bob with a deep side part is the ultimate old-school glam look in a short stacked bob shape with vigorous volume and body and timeless smooth texture. It works on any hair type but is especially suited to thicker, straight hair or soft waves. The deep side part gives this look a fab finishing touch.
#31. Stacked Bob with Choppy Bangs
If you’re looking for a show-stopping haircut, you need to try a stacked bob with choppy bangs. This stacked bob is the perfect hairstyle for women over 50 who still want to show off that rockstar edge, bringing all that beloved volume with an edgier texture topped off by charming choppy bangs for a bold and modern flair.
#32. Stacked Bob with Natural Curls
Calling all curly girls! Give your curls something smart and snappy with a stacked bob cut just for natural curls. This bob cut redefines your ringlets with boosted bounce and body cut to your curl pattern, with a super flattering shape for your face.
#33. Wavy Stacked Bob with Sun-Kissed Balayage
This one’s for our wavy ladies. Get something bright, beautiful, and beachy for your natural flow, like a wavy stacked bob with sun-kissed balayage. A stacked bob boosts your natural texture with full-bodied movement, enhanced by the sun-kissed balayage, which illuminates and defines the dimension and movement of the layers with a bright and sunny glow for your skin tone.
#34. Stacked Bob with a Subtle A-Line
The stacked bob with a subtle A-line frame is a fashion-forward and absolutely flawless hairstyle for women over 50 who want something modern and chic. This short style puts the full focus on body and volume, bringing only a whisper of texture. The subtle A-line makes the look much more approachable than the traditional A-line, making this stacked bob much more versatile.
#35. Layered Stacked Bob with a Voluminous Crown
Want a dazzling hairdo with a dash of drama? Look no further than a layered stacked bob with a voluminous crown! The stacked bob’s voluminous crown brings full height right where you need it, creating a full, voluminous shape with layers that gently frame your face and create a spark of movement for any hair type.