My favorite thing about being in the hair industry has got to be the ebb and flow of trends. When I first started working in a salon back in ’92, as a shampoo girl, I must have rinsed about 100 perms a day! Then when I actually established myself as a hairdresser, all the women craved the Jennifer Aniston shag. I’ve seen a plethora of trends come and go and it keeps me inspired to watch what the teenagers are up to.
My beautiful stepdaughter has definitely got me on my toes with all the colors and haircuts she sends me. Everything from pinks, blues, platinums and teals. But what I find more interesting are the haircuts she and her friends want. Looks to me like the super shag might be making a comeback!
Firstly, I have been in the hair biz for a while now, and I have seen so many of my clients go from college graduate, to dating their future husbands and wives, to having their first child. Needless to say, I don’t have many raucous teenage clients anymore. Secondly, because I have seen so many of the same wonderful clients, I feel sort of pigeonholed in a lot of the cutting I do. Most 35 year old new moms want to be trendy, but aren’t necessarily looking for downright outrageous.
But now I see there is a whole new underground trend with the rock and roll teens. Nonsensical, disconnected layers, extreme lengths, and wild colors to boot. I see many emo and punk rock kids around my neighborhood, and they all have crazy, cool hair; but some of the things Taylor, my stepdaughter, has shown me have literally blown my mind. I even showed some of the pictures to a great hairdresser friend of mine who was equally blown away.
Now these particular haircuts and colors may not take off in the mainstream, but I believe that what the kids are doing transpires into what the latest trend is stemmed from. It can be seen from mohawk to fuax-hawk, from severe asymmetry to the graduated bob. So even if you don’t want the rock ‘n’ roll layers, remember the layers you ask for originated from the madness of teens and their raving self-identification.
Would you wear an outrageous hairstyle like one of these? Or is it too extreme for your taste?
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I love the shaggy hair. But I hate it when girls tease it up all huge. I wanna get some really shaggy layers, with some blond and black highlights, a purple undertone on the backside of my hair, teal under my bangs and a few teal steaks through out. But my mom wouldn’t let me://
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I looooove the crazy hair styles and can’t wait to do it myself!! <3
daisy / 669 posts
I would love to try ~ but its just not good for working. @_@
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I think it’s cool if you’re, like, 14 and don’t have a job. I like seeing younger people having fun with their hair as long as they’re taking care of it – those bright colours usually need a good bleaching beforehand. I am not a fan of young people and extensions, though .. they are never blended, they purposely make them uneven and mismatching and I don’t see it as trendy or an expression of their style or whatever; it just makes me cringe.
I actually right now want to put bright, golden yellow in my hair – Gaga style – but I’ve been hesitant because I have two jobs and I would hate to get yelled at, haha.
dahlia / 2382 posts
Crazy hair is my trademark. LOL I dont feel like cutting it short anymore so I’m doing long styles now.
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I don’t have the time or energy for “outrageous hair” lol.
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Where I’m from that’s called “scene hair” and every teenage mallrat has that kind of cut.
Sometimes it can look decent, but I can’t help but associate that style with annoying kids.
I was actually hoping this style would die out, I’m sick of seeing it.
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the 2nd hairstyle is alright. I wouldn’t dye my hair crazy colours
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no, i’m quite simple, i just get a straight cut and add some bangs. nothing too crazy.
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My hair is shoulder-length, very layered, and bright pink. I love it.
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I love those haircuts(: Almost everyone I’m around has that!!! I did, the length bothered me, so I went butch with my length(;
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I must be getting old…those looks definitely wouldn’t work for me. I’m too busy to maintain and not to mention the cost of the cuts and processes. I tried subtle highlights…but I am back to my natural hair color now. Blond and light browns don’t work for Asian women…and definitely not the rainbow of choices available now in pinks, oranges, blues, etc. I keep it simple. Usually air dried. Blow-dried if the day calls for it. Curling iron might come out from the cabinet once or twice a year.
daisy / 723 posts
Hum… the back of my head is shaved except a plate on the nape, I have long curly hair on the rest of the head , I am sometimes red head, sometimes red, sometimes copper, sometimes close to black… so well, I think I like strange haircuts ! But I’m 22.
daisy / 630 posts
I like them, but I feel like I’m too old for really bright colors now.
I had them when I was in cosmetology school though.
Now my hair is long, dark violet, with violet/blue highlights underneath.
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I love the look, but for me it’s really unrealistic. I would hate having to style it every day and just the whole general upkeep.
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love it <3
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In one line of work, I could get away with it – and wore perhaps eight colors. When I became, as it were, more subdued, I took to wearing variegated layers, nearly waist-length and finger-tousled, using just a touch of putty to hold the pieced look in place…alternating it with a conditioner-sleeked, double-knot bun to wear at work.
I went from crimson, jade, fishbowl and royal [in something of a dip-fade coloring] to apple, fade-to-black [the colors were dominated in tones of red], to a sort of red-hearts red with gold streaks, now I’m wearing basic, silver-shot auburn hair [more appropriate for a woman who is closer to 40 than 20] but I put the styles in the way the hair is tied off.
In my time, though, there was a woman who wore a tint of sorts that gave her cotton-candy-violet hair…she was fifty-something with more-salt-than-pepper going on, but worked at an avant garde nightclub and could get away with the style.
It’s more the environment than anything, I suppose.
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The picture above definitely takes a couple steps over the line into “tacky.” I love outrageous colors and crazy cuts but just like a good piece of art there is a big difference between “lots of color” and “busy.”
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i loovvee the crazy colours and cuts, but i do not have time for the necessary maintenance anymore, so i stick with more boring stuff…boring for me, but other people seem to think they’re still out there LOL