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Here comes the grooming: Growing pains of men’s hairstyles
S
INCE I can remember,
I have done everything
humanly possible to
my hair. I’ve dyed it,
streaked it, gelled it,
moussed it, tousled it — everything except set it on fire.
Now, I have decided to keep
it hassle-free by shaving it every
two weeks. But for many guys,
hair maintenance has become a
holy grooming ritual.
My roommate during my
first year at college would spend
at least 45 minutes in front of
the mirror each morning caking
on Dep hair gel and styling it
until it was as flawless as a
Rodin sculpture.
After he molded his hair into
a gelatinous muck of beauty, he
would spend about 15 minutes
inspecting the length of his sideburns. He’d check his profile
from both sides to ensure that
the length, the thickness and
the shape of his growing chops
were to his satisfaction.
In fact, he was always insecure about his sideburns. At
least once every hour he would
ask me, “How do my sideburns
look?” I always awkwardly responded, “They look great!”
But who was I to judge? I always kept an arsenal of Aqua
Net in my dorm. I felt that the
stiffer and stickier the hair, the
better the style.
Today, men’s hair grooming
locks: feathery, long and flowy.
Guys thought, “If the ladies can
do it, why can’t we?”
Men started to wear their
tresses a little longer, a la “Partridge Family” heartthrob David
Cassidy. The feathered, shoulder-length craze started to takeover and was worn by John
Travolta during his “Saturday
Night Fever” phase, and Donny
Osmond let his hair bounce
with glee as he flashed his
pearly whites.
This style was worn best by
Larry (played by Richard Kline),
the disco-cool bachelor
neighbor in “Three’s Company.”
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has been lavishly amplified to
luxe proportions. Guys no
longer use regular mousse or
gel; they use “product” like clay
pomades, hair wax, bodybuilding gels, sleek texture finishing creams — need I say
more?
All these products have
brought men’s hair care to the
same level as women’s hair
care. The trends in men’s hair
define a generation — even if
some are unforgivable.
The classic businessman’s cut
Like the name suggests, this
is a hairstyle that remains a failsafe. It is mostly defined as a
conservative cut where the sides
and back are relatively short
(not a fade) and the top has
enough hair to be parted or
brushed back. It’s a general
style that can be tweaked to
make it modern but still main-
JINKIES, SHAGGY: Teen
heartthrob Zac Efron sports
the emo shaggy look with
sweeping bangs, the latest
men’s hair trend that we’ll
regret in 10 years.
tain its classicism.
Hugh Laurie of the TV show
“House” is often used as a contemporary example; Cary Grant
is synonymous with the style.
The feathered ’70s
Hairstyles from this era took
a cue from the world’s fascination with Farrah Fawcett’s
curls (which looked like onion
rings) intact while driving a robotic car.
The Caesar cut
This style came about in the
late ’90s. Actually, it came in
vogue when Julius Caesar
lorded over ancient Rome. Unfortunately, all his Roman
homeboys assassinated him.
Characterized by short, horizontally cut straight bangs, the
style was popularized by George
Clooney. Hordes of men started
cutting their hair short enough
to comb the bangs forward for a
masculine China doll look.
The style died when Clooney
grew his hair out. Frat boys everywhere became confused
about what to do with their
straight-cut bangs.
ster looking like a carbon copy
of Beckham.
And for the record, I had a
faux-hawk before Seacrest did.
Peter Pan emo shag with bangs
Today’s top men’s hairstyle
trend combines the shag look of
the ’70s, the mod style of
the ’60s, the infinite youth of
Peter Pan and a splash of that
awkward modern emo flair that
the kids are sporting these
days.
I hate it.
The most bothersome thing
about this style is not the fact
that Tom Cruise has jumped on
the bandwagon, but that it uses
The ’80s bouffant
bangs.
Unfortunately, the feather
I never would grow my hair
and flow of the ’70s spilled into
out to look like a helmet with
the ’80s — and it got worse.
sweeping bangs. Didn’t we learn
Hair started to become volumiThe illustrious faux-hawk
our lesson from the ’70s? Just
nous and fluffy.
because it’s a hot trend for the
For a really good example,
When fashion designer Hedi
ladies doesn’t mean that the
check out George Michael and
Slimane gathered his hair to
men should do it, too.
Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! on
create a discreet, shorter verThe king of this style would
the cover of their “Make it Big!” sion of a mohawk, David
album. Their hair takes up 85
Beckham took the idea and ran. be tween “High School Musical”
sensation Zac Efron. With those
percent of the picture.
Fellow English pretty boy
If you want more icons for
Jude Law started to emulate the sweeping bangs, crystalline eyes
this ’do, check out any cop
style until it traveled across the and flashy smile, he is growing
show from the ’80s. Erik Espond, where Ryan Seacrest des- up to be a fine young woman.
trada’s hair as Ponch on
perately sported the ’do in at“CHiPs” was like a pillowy cloud tempt to rack up cool points.
Reach Dino-Ray Ramos draof masculine beauty.
From this, the faux-hawk
mos@bayareanewsgroup.com or
The award for best ’80s coif
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goes to David Hasselhoff. He
can’t walk down the street
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