I want to talk about a hairstyle that's been obsessing my mind lately. Sometimes, when I think of a fad or fashion (current or not) that I find particularly ugly, I start twisting it around in my mind, wanting to find some way to make it appealing and, well, awesome.
Today's ugly fashion turned trendy: the mullet
I've just always taken it for granted that the mullet it one of those things from the past that almost everyone agrees was a mistake, and the few who don't concur are those people who actually wear them. Now I haven't by any means changed my opinion on the regular type of mullet that pops into your head when you hear the word, but one day something happened, I don't know what, and I stopped myself from automatically dismissing this hairstyle as I've always done. It may have been that my own hair had reached one of those dreaded awkward stages, having been a short bob grown out a couple inches, and I was turning over in my mind ways i could reshape it. and now I'm obsessed.
so obsessed, in fact, that I took a pair of scissors into the bathroom with me, set up a second mirror so I could see the back of my head, and took a couple hours hacking A LOT of layers into my hair. The result: the hair at the nape of my neck is a few inches past my ears, and the hair on the crown of my head is only a couple inches long. This story has a happy ending: I love it.
Maybe I shouldn't have made this post until I took pictures of my hair, but I apologize and promise to get some up.
Really, I think it works! You can't have it too short in the front like the standard 80's mullet:
AWFUL
But if you get more of a gradation of layers, and keep some of it a little longer in front and really just go for a more shaggy look, it can be quite short on top:
COOL
All the girls in my drawings have this hairstyle lately, and once I scan some in I'll get those up, too.
Here are some more pictures of cool shags I found:
and I love Milla Jovovich's hair in Resident Evil 3
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