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In the unpredictable time of the pandemic, in many situations in life one has got used to the fact that things do not go according to plan.
Now, however, it is important to get used to a haircut that looks as if everything went completely wrong during the long-awaited visit to the hairdresser.
Even experienced hairdressers did not see the return of the mullet trend, the abbreviation for "long front, short back", coming in 2021 and justify it as a whim of the Corona period.
“You can actually speak of a small revolution in bad taste.
Maybe also because home office and lockdown make us more willing to experiment, ”says Armin Morbach, Schwarzkopf hair expert.
Often the haircut is also described as “front business, back party”.
Which would also clarify its suitability for everyday zooming, during which you not only wear sweatpants under the table with a chic blouse, but now the hairstyle on the back of the head can also get a little wilder.
From Bowie to Rihanna
Anyone who has not grown the mullet anyway because of the closed salons seems to have deliberately cut it now.
If the hairdresser consciously chooses a mullet after the lockdown, the wearer may seem willing to take risks at first, but in fact he is indecisive in the premier league.
David Bowie aka Ziggy Stardust in 1974
Source: Redferns / Gijsbert Hanekroot
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Whether female or male, short or long hair, the cut always works.
The mullet has fans of all genders.
Since the heyday in the 1980s, it has been worn by stars such as David Bowie and later also by footballer David Beckham, who made it socially acceptable with glitter earrings outside of the music industry.
One of the advocates of the cut was Dolly Parton, who once said: "The higher the hair, the closer to God."
Vokuhila fan from the very beginning: Singer Dolly Parton
Source: Getty Images / Erika Goldring
In the noughties, the fringed cut had completely disappeared from the scene until it was rediscovered in the social media age by the Gen Z icons Zendaya and Rihanna.
Morbach sees something in common with the eighties: "While only the lengths were styled voluminously in the 1970s, the volume here comes straight from the crown." Especially with men, the trend continued into the 1990s.
Musician Billy Ray Cyrus became known with this haircut back then, today his daughter Miley makes it her trademark in lockdown.
Rihanna is responsible for the next-gen mullet
Source: WireImage / Don Arnold
You can lend a hand - but you shouldn't
Contrary to expectations, Miley Cyrus' mullet was not a professional star hairdresser at work, but her mother, as she told on the TV show by comedian Jimmy Kimmel in December 2020.
After the singer was unable to use her stylist because of the lockdown, Tish Cyrus reportedly said, “Well, I can cut your hair, but I only know how to cut a hairstyle, and I've been doing it for your father since 1992 and for your brothers ”.
Kimmel then joked that the singer was "born for a mullet, so to speak" because of her family history.
Because: Miley Cyrus' godmother is Dolly Parton.
Prototype: Billy Ray Cyrus with Miley Cyrus in 1994
Source: Getty Images / Rick Diamond
The modern mullet, is that possible?
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Although you can still discuss the shape of the head with other haircuts, the mullet is all about a little courage to rebel.
Because can this cut really suit someone at all?
Yes.
Because the current mullet trend differs from the look of David Bowie, Billy Ray Cyrus and Dolly Parton.
However, anyone who is not Miley Cyrus, whose fashionable misdeeds one is now used to, should better not let the haircut be missed on their own and by working from their mother.
It is better to hire a professional to do this and have a modern mullet cut based on the Rihanna model, the so-called "soft mullet".
Gucci muse Zumi Rosow
Source: Getty Images for Nordstrom / Mat Hayward
The way Gucci muse and DJ Zumi Rosow and “Game Of Thrones” star Maisie Williams wear it, the cut hardly has anything of the questionable style of the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic.
The more contemporary variant is characterized by a wider tail at the back of the head and many voluminous layers that merge into long bangs.
This is an important part of the hair trend, which was also shaped by the corona situation.
"Soft Mullet" for actress Maisie Williams
Source: Getty Images / Christian Vierig
"In lockdown we see many outgrowth looks, for example the 'curtain bangs'", says Morbach about the overly long bangs, which, as the name suggests, cover the forehead like an open curtain.
The new mullet looks less like an independent short hairstyle on the top of the head with a foreign body on the back of the head, but creates a soft, almost harmonious transition between the two extremes.
A hip change, especially for curls
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But the mullet is not only universally suitable for all genders and lengths, but also for every hair structure.
If you are looking for inspiration for curly hair, you should orient yourself to model Mica Arganaraz, who walked the catwalk for Chanel with her curly mullet just this week.
Curly mullet: Model Mica Arganaraz
Source: Getty Images / Antonello Trio
Or Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris.
As a designer, she not only helped knitwear out of its slippery image, but also made herself coveted in the model world with her nerdy look of nickel glasses and messy mullet.
After signing her modeling contract with the renowned IMG agency, she made her catwalk debut at Fashion Week in New York last month.
Ella Emhoff at a talk during New York Fashion Week
Source: Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows / Dimitrios Kambouris
Hair experiments are the only joy in lockdown
But it's not just the rebellious look of the haircut itself that made it so popular.
There is also a psychological component behind the decision to choose a mullet, which can have a beneficial effect on mood in the Corona period.
“We are experiencing a counter-trend towards understatement.
People long for change, adventure and experimentation ”, says the Schwarzkopf hair expert Morbach, who speaks out against the narrow-mindedness in the choice of hairstyle when a new haircut brings people back some joy.
Morbach finds conciliatory words for the idiosyncratic trend: “Even if that happens through a look like the mullet.
From my point of view, there should be no 'hairshaming' today. "
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