Temple fade (hairstyle)

The rest of the hair is left the same length, usually 2–5 cm (0.8–2.0 in), depending on the preference of the client.

The hairstyle's origins emerged alongside New York barber's Shape-Up, edge up, or line up hair style worn by inner city youth and hip hop artists in the early 1980s.

It was trendy mainly in the larger metropolitan areas of the Eastern United States, such as New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Providence, Rhode Island, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.

[citation needed] In 2023, the haircut became part of a meme after musician Ericdoa had a YouTube livestream singing impromptu songs, including one where he sang "Imagine if Ninja got a low taper fade"; the segment was recognized for the absurdity of its lyrics, especially contrasting the preceding song about how the death of Ericdoa's own grandfather affected him.

The low taper fade clip subsequently went viral, culminating in Ninja revealing in a TikTok video that he got the haircut.