
How to Wear a Beanie With Long Hair
Keep Your Locks From Freezing with These Beanie Styles for Long Hair
The winter months mean inclement weather and freezing temperatures, and if you’re into snowsports it’s the most wonderful time of the year. But whether you’re ripping powder lines or making snow angels, cold weather means potential damage to your locks. That's why you should know how to wear a beanie with long hair.
It’s especially important to protect your locks from freezing, which can cause drying, breakage and other heinous damage you don’t want to inflict.
Warm, Stylish and Super Simple
Beanies are a cold weather fixture, tried and true for protecting your mane from the elements while keeping your head toasty with swaggy style.
Beyond their obvious benefits, beanies are a versatile tool for guys with flow, offering fast and reliable solutions to common longhair problems, like keeping annoying loose hair out of your face and providing critical wind blockage at high speed.
They’re super easy to wear and perfect for days when you don’t feel like dealing with your hair, and they provide the ideal solution for awkward stage hair.
And let’s be honest, wearing a beanie with long hair just looks badass.
Wearing a Beanie With Long Hair
How do you wear a beanie with long hair? Sounds easy, just slip it on the old noggin and you’re good to go. But there are lots of options for wearing a beanie with long hair, and depending on how much you want to flex your locks, some offer more protection for your mane than others.
These beanie styles not only address environmental hair considerations, but offer different style options and a chance to get creative. In the video below we demonstrate how to wear a beanie with long hair using a few of our favorite beanie styles.
Further below are photos of additional beanie styles, followed by some common beanie/hair questions, and finally we consider what makes the best beanies for guys with long hair.
How to Wear a Beanie With Long Hair
For tips on wearing a hat with long hair, visit 16 Hat Styles for Guys With Long Hair

Ralph Wearing “The Stinger”
Cuff down, super slouch style, showing LET IT RIDE

El Rubio Wearing “El Gato Gris”
Cuff up, classic hair flow, jovial disposition.
Ralph Wearing “The Wasp”
Cuff down, gazing thoughtfully, showing LET IT RIDESheath Your Mane

El Rubio Wearing “El Gato Gris”
Cuff down, hair flowing with bonus hair whips.

El Rubio Wearing “The Hornet”
With an expression as if to say, “wow...this is really cozy.”Rep It Hard
With A Soft Lid from The LonghairsExcellent for skiing, snowboarding, winter and outdoor sports, not as great for wakeboarding but easy to pack for trips and getaways.
El Rubio Wearing “The Smokestack”

El Gustavo Wearing “El Gato Negro”

Common Questions With Beanies and Long Hair
Is it bad for your hair to wear a beanie? No, but also not good to wear a beanie all day, every day.
How do you wear a beanie without messing up your hair? The styles demonstrated here won’t mess up your hair.
Is it rude to wear a beanie indoors? It’s generally considered bad manners to wear a beanie indoors, especially at the dinner table.
Does wearing a beanie slow down hair growth? No, but wearing a beanie all the time certainly won’t help it grow faster.
The Best Beanies
For Guys With Long HairWhat makes a great beanie for guys with long hair?
We’ve worn a lot of beanies. As our hair grew long long for the first time we had a chance to see how our beanies fit and performed in the process.
After seven decades of combined research, we are proud to offer our own line of beanies designed for guys with long hair.
Rep it loud and proud with a dope soft lid from The Longhairs. When they see those bound shears, they’re gonna know you LET IT RIDE.
Comments
Beanie 2 is my favorite, I would also rock the one with the ball. And for the real outdoorsman how about a sick camo and even a bright orange one, I know some long haired hunters who would love that.
Got to rep for the hunters!
Let’s get one thing straight; I don’t have a big head. I have a normal noggin and I come from the land of the Toque (took) and that’s the Great White North. So I’m an experienced “beanie” wearer. But these days, when I try to wear one it starts out sitting normally on my head but as I move around and a few minutes pass, the beanie climbs up my head and sits like a stupid bubble on top of my head. I don’t have a big head and I have long hair but the hair on top of my head isn’t any different. But, especially with a shorter beanie that is supposed to sit close to your head, they always climb up for some reason. I’m vexed! I’ll still buy one and hope that it turns out to be the one that fits perfectly.
When can we expect to see these beanies for sale? Digging #2
They already were on sale and sold out. Probably be fall or winter when we’ll do a re-release.
Love’em all, but the pompoms gotta go.
Pompoms didn’t make the cut!
Dude beanie 2 and 3 look fucking sick!
I’m liking the way beanie two looks, I like the low pro
Roger that!
It’s all about #1, but gotta be long enough so there’s some bagginess hanging off the top. Beanie #2 and #3 are too 2010, and pom poms are only acceptable for chicks or if you’re on the slopes (and even that’s a push). Also, keep it black, keep it classic, keep it cool. Bonus points for black on black.
Colin, roger that! Thanks for your thoughts amigo.
I think a bigger logo and a bunch of colors like red, blue and yellow would be cool!!!
If you guys make beanies, could you make different colors like red, blue, yellow? With a giant logo on it?
Roger that!
I prefer beanies with as small as logo as possible.
Thanks for the feedback Alejandro.
Hey guys. My hair keeps falling in my face now. Keep on debating if I should start wearing in a poney tail. It’s in the awkward stage I think. My bangs hang to just below my chin now. My back is probley 3″ past shirt collars. Don’t ever plan on getting a hair cut again. Do you guys think it’s time to Start wearing the poney tail or do you think that’s to short yet?
Yo Mace! If you can start tying it up into a ponytail, do it! 3″ past the collar sounds good, but it’s more about if your bangs will reach back and stay in your tie. So if you can tie all your hair back and it stays, you’ve made it through the awkward stage. Welcome to the team, amigo.
Great Video Man!! I’ve been wearing mine with two twists one either side, it’s great for when your trying to look like a Viking snoop Dogg!!
Keep up good work!!
Hell yeah man! Send a picture of that when you get a chance. Thanks for writing in.
Those Bernie’s were ?, Just didn’t care too much for the one with the ball.
Thanks JC!
Great video (shout-out to Phoebe Young); the tips are spot-on. Although I’ve had long hair my whole life I’ve never thought through the wearing of the beanie. Thanks guys!
She’s got a promising video career ahead!
And if you’re in the awkward stage (like I am) I part my hair down the middle and it right over my ears and put the beanie on. It looks sick and keeps the hair out of your face. This works with longer hair too but not quite as practical.
Just like that! Great tactic ES, thanks man.
Wow beanies, great idea! I would love to rock the long hair pride with one of these bad boys. Just a thought though, I notice there are no non-slouch fit beanies to vote on. I for one like the original beanie fit! That being said, I’m in love with the pom pom version!
Roger that! Thanks for the feedback man.
He’s excited to see what you guys have coming in the future! He has the advantage of mom being a knitter so he has several, but on can never have too many slouch beanies!
Thanks for writing in Jessica! Give your son a high-five from The Longhairs.