OK... So, apparently your name MATCHES your hairstyle

Blonde, red, dark or fair; bun, straight or curly…. your hairstyle can say a lot about who you are as a person.

And not just whether you are a good laugh.

In fact, according to a new study published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, your hair actually matches your NAME. 

Yup.  

People can apparently match names to faces, and participants in the study were even able to correctly guess names based solely on hairstyles.

“In one study, our participants picked the depicted person’s correct name by only looking at their hairstyle when the face itself was blurry,” the lead author of the study, Yonat Zwebner, told Allure last week. 

“Hairstyle is presumably one of the most controlled features in people’s faces. So it is possible that we choose a hairstyle that fits the stereotype of our name.”

The theory all boils down to stereotypes, and how we view them. 

"Expectations are many times based on stereotypes. We already know from previous research that names have stereotypes."

"Therefore, like other stereotypes, one may indeed become more and more like his/her name expectations, including appearance. This is strongly supported by the fact that our participants chose names according to hairstyle alone."

So that means we can blame our constant need to put our hair in a bun on our name… and not the fact that we haven't washed it in a while.

Now THAT is something we can totally get behind.