I got a hair cut
After seven long years, I have finally retired spiky (aka disheveled) hair, some three to four years since it went out of style. In recent years, I would periodically rock the faux hawk for fun, but my decade mainstay was usually spiky — until now.
Before the spike, it was an outdated Caesar cut. Before that it was a naturally curly shag and sometimes Afro cut while in high school. Before that it was a bowl cut in middle school. And before that it was a clean-cut part in elementary school — no funny business.
I’m not sure what to call my new do, but I’ve started “swirling” it from my non-parted side to my parted side, thereby disguising any part whatsoever. I guess you could technically call it a “Reverse Cowlick.” Some hipsters I see when traveling to San Francisco or New York display a variation of this cut, but much more delicately than me.
Whatever it is, I’m happy to be spike free. It was time.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I think haircuts for men is one of the most difficult things in life.
Every time I get my hair cut, I print out the most normal looking pic I can find from the internet, take it to the hair person, tell them give me that cut … then get some weird faux hawk that looks nothing like the picture.
I’m not kidding, this has happened to me multiple times at different hair places with different people. Maybe my head is shaped funny. Luckily, I find a big smile will make almost anything work.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:13 am
“I find a big smile will make almost anything work.”
Words of wisdom, mate.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hey… returning to past haircuts, or keeping them past the trend…
Courage !
I’m sporting a BILLY Idol this week…
Uncle Anthony
February 11th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I always thought you looked best with short hair, anyway. We are a family of big heads. Less hair sort of tricks the viewer and makes you look like you have a smaller head, I think . . .