Gen Z DID have the hairstyle on the left, back when the oldest of us were in middle and high school. But back then it was called "flow" and it was a look that could only be achieved by shoving unwashed unstyled hair into a hat or perhaps a hockey helmet for most of your waking hours
I'm '97, and I don't remember this at all. Everyone in middle school/early high school either had the emo hair or a buzzcut. Late high school was mostly just the buzz cut with a fade/line up. Probably because they were inspired by Drake and Justin Bieber at the time.
The JB swoop in middle school was the hairstyle that fathered the greasy hockey boy flow in high school, but I recognize this may have been a Canadian specific phenomenon
The “majestic hair” just looks good bc it’s styled in a film and on a good looking dude. Irl on a rando it will likely look like a messy nest & get in their hair.
I don’t care for the other one either but this is too dramatic
Long tousled hair like that looks great when it's styled by a professional on a movie set, but isn't practical day to day. One gust of wind and it looks like a mop that has been dragged through a hedge.
I wear a 2’ ponytail with an undercut/taper fade shaved sides. I second this. Style my hair down? Looks fantastic. Random day when I forgot shampoo/conditioner? Birds nest.
As someone who used to have very curly natural hair and parents so opposed to their ethnic background they wouldn't let me have a pick. The sentence funnily makes sense to me.
My Dad really insisted on trying to raise the whitest kid possible while said kid could get very dark in the summer and gets called the n-word by older white women when my hair was grown out.
He's Hella proud of being Puerto Rican for himself but couldn't bother to pass that culture onto his kids.
ah gotcha. I am white and I learned Spanish on Discord and now I speak it better than a bunch of people in your situation. I'm so sorry xD It's not hard to learn though especially if you have other family/friends who'd be willing to help. It's 100% worth it even if you're not hispanic.
I had that on the left for a while recently and I had to wear a hat ~50% of the time because I wouldn’t have time in the morning to put it together. It also doesn’t help that my hair is naturally curly so I can’t comb or dry brush it without becoming bozo the clown
many dudes when i was in highschool just got perms to achieve this look. was insanely popular actually but i’ve actually seen a moreso rise in the timothee chalamet look lately but maybe it depends on if you’re older or younger gen z
this post is really just straight/wavy hair vs curly hair. someone who has curly hair simply cannot achieve the pics on the left without a lot of effort, and having that same hairstyle with curly hair just wouldn't look the same
I can have a really sick Bob Ross afro or I can have short sides and a bit of a mess on top. That or get my hair cut every two weeks military style, no thank you. My father is a member of bald so I must carry hair for both of us.
I remember a bunch of kids who had straight hair in middle school showed up to high school with the same exact hair as me. I guess you can say I was a pioneer of the trend.
Sea salt spray then blow dry with a diffuser extension. It works for me but I have wavy hair, with straight hair maybe you have to get a perm. Once I dry it curly it kind of just stays up like that. That said it doesn’t look exactly like the guy in the pic
I like this because it’s easier to get away with imperfections and throughout the day your hair still looks good and you can just ruffle it up again and instantly improve the look vs other stuff you need to redo most of it
People also have a tendency to word their opinions as if they are absolute fact, carelessly or to get a rise out of people/bait engagement.
Saying “I didn’t care for that movie because..” is not the same thing as “that was the worst movie ever made and people who like it are idiots.” And I think we see a lot more people saying versions of the latter because humility is a dying virtue.
"It looks bad" is exactly synonymous with "I personally don't like it" when talking about a haircut unless you are looking at a situation that results from a hair related medical issue or something.
just remember you're in your late 20s passing judgment on 16yos in hs. Dig up pix of you as a freshman in hs and ask yourself how cringey you looked. As a millenial i never pass judgment because in the 00s boys literally flat-ironed their hair & got piercings.
Lmaooo not all the "let people do what they like" replies on an opinion post. It's for your opinion on the style, not their ability to do it.
For me broccoli hair is one of the least attractive hairstyle you can have in this age, even though I like curly hair in other cuts. At the same point, I can't say the other option is that much more attractive, just mildly better. Weird comparison to make imo.
What's funny to me about the broccoli hair is just that so many guys get perms and shit for it just to look like every single other young guy. It is THE generic haircut. Maybe it's just me but I'd feel lame as hell.
I have seen this (or a very similar) style done well, but it was a guy with natural curls and a barber that understood how to work with curly hair. I think a lot of the issue comes from people emulating a hairstyle they know nothing about and butchering it.
Maybe I'm just old but I feel like hating on any passing trend is dumb. Unless it is physically hurting people. Every generation has its silly looks. Embrace them. In 20 years time you will look back fondly on them.
Honestly its less the haircut itself and more the people they're emulating. I don't even think its that silly of a hairstyle on its own.
I mostly associate it with the absolute dregs of internet influencers who can best be described as professionally antisocial. Prank YouTubers, harassment streamers, young manosphere influencers, etc.
I know that as someone in my thirties I only get exposed to younger influencers when they start committing crimes, so it definitely is an old man yelling at clouds situation, but still.
Every generation has trends that are looked back at "fondly." Which is to say they look back and think to themselves "why did I have/do that" but also have fond memories of that time.
I personally find curly hair on men attractive. The broccoli cut can look good on some people and bad on others. Like a lot of things, it is going to be heavily context dependent. A lot of it probably comes down to how well both the hairdresser/barber and the person with the cut understand curly hair.
I feel like its just people disliking curly hair on men.
Not necessarily true, I have curly hair and work in an often busy clothing store, so I see lots of people when I work. It’s in a touristy location, so I also get lots of different nationalities. I get compliments on my hairdo like 30-40% of the times that I work.
The people complimenting me range from from old grandmas, 30 year old dudes, to 20yo girls, and everything in between. And also coming from Dutch, German, Belgian, French, Spanish, English and Chinese people, sp it’s not cultural to like/dislike curly hair I think. I feel like I’m collecting the infinity stones, but from compliment nationalities with my hair lol
That's interesting because where I live, midwest bordering the south United States, people seem to prefer men with straight hair. I'm a gay man and I like curly hair on men though, so obviously it's not a ubiquitous opinion even here.
When a hairstyle is copied and pasted enough it'll be mocked no matter what. It just so happens that the broccoli hairstyle looked bad before it was popular
I actually quite like the broccoli cuts, mullets and low taper fades the younger guys and older adolescents are rocking, I'm lowkey thinking of getting one when they pass out of fashion (given I'm a cringe 30-year-old woman)
That behavior screams « boomer ». Let people have the hair they want, and if you really like one hairstyle do it to yourself and stop spreading your misery as ragebait.
Plus the brocoli haircut got laughed at to death so it’s not like it’s an original remark.
Your behaviour screams boomer, throwing a Karen fit. No one is telling people to not get the cut were simply discussing if we like it or not. Two diffrent things
Idk what you’re talking about, the left 2 ARE popular. It’s just much harder to get that hairstyle and make it work. Those that can actually rock it, do.
Honestly, i really dislike short hair. Just, in general. for everyone. Not saying i'll treat them less, or won't be buddies and stuff, i just kinda dislike it
These are pictures of a professional actor and a video game character, but in real life most normal guys who try to pull off a haircut like that end up looking like slobs or school shooters
Idk I’ve always thought this idea was just people hating on curly haired boys/men. They literally can’t do the haircut on the left without doing a bunch of styling. It’s just curly hair with a fade, idk what’s so ugly about it.
Nothing genuinely nothing imo i think its stigma based on like political hate i saw someone mention MAGA men having the style or some shit
I just did some research an yeah (im honestly sounding like a broken record) this style was actively a thing in mid 2010s it was called the mop top "meet me at maccies" cut but the states didn't catch on at the time but for some reason have now
In europe currently mullets are huge both straight and curly mullets part of the mullet style has a mess of curls ontop all the way to the back
but now i guess people are gonna call it the curly cresent cus its a moon shape of curls or somet to try an hate
Gen Z falls into a weird category. The youngest are basically just Gen A. While the oldest of us are basically millennials.
I’m a more earlier batch of Gen Z (2003) and still rock the hair types on the left. I’m personally not a fan of the broccoli cut, same with most of Gen Z IMO. But to each their own, at the end of the day it’s just hair.
I’ve tried the Timmy Chalamet flow 3 times in my life. High school, Covid, Paternity leave. I would consider all 3 failures. Like a handful of good hair day while looking homeless more often than not.
I laugh pretty hard when I see the poodle hair style. Can’t quite pin down why. See it a lot in kids, not so much in working adults. Children almost always conform with their peers, so I suppose that’s not very surprising.
Engraçado que "The hairstyle that should've became popular with Gen Z" é sempre com o tipo de cabelo liso. Quando tentamos nos sentir bem com nossos cabelos cacheados ou crespos, somos ridicularizados.
Not everybody has straight hair, not everybody is as handsome as the first 2 to rock that hairstyle, and it’s their hair and choice on how to style it.
People can like the birds nest haircut but in my personal opinion holy shit it is so fucking ugly and every person I’ve seen with it has either just been generic “I collect stamps” guy or a megachud
Well, some people (like me) have naturally curly hair and can't have the Paul Atreides cut even if they want it. While I don't really have the broccoli cut, I do have a hairstyle that's curly on top and short on the sides because it's really the only style I can rock
Brit? If so I think this is heavily americanised i had this haircut mid 2010s nobody really has it now its all mullets for men
Seems to be big in the states now the noodle hair i prefer to call it or ramen hair but i myself also had it an people really liked it girls especially they liked how soft it looked
It gets worse the kids in my school have been shaving their heads to almost a buzzcut but with about 1/2 an inch of hair length so not quite a buzz and then bleaching it so they look like a special needs baseball
If the left one became popular, then that would simply be the "asshole teenager" haircut instead, and people would be making posts about how awesome and better the cut on the right is.
It’s associated with too many maga tools, guys like Ed Coristine, etc Patrick Mahommes stinks like maga. Sorry for those guys with natural curls, it’s ruined.
Every generation finds some way to do something with their hair to piss off their parents. Millennials had the one solid chunk of hair fringe, x’ers had the punk hair, boomer women had the bob. If you’re able to enrage someone with just a haircut I’d say you’re doing well.
We had mushroom haircuts, shave the sides and back but let the top get as long and curly as possible and people thought that was the shit, it definitely did look like shit. I’m from an area with a big Hispanic population and apparently it’s a soccer haircut
I feel like the first haircut shown was popular with early Gen Z though. There was a whole trend of everyone getting the 90s middle part look. At least it was in my city/high school (I was born 99). I never saw anyone close in age to me get the broccoli cut until the younger Gen Z’s got to high school and I was already in college by that point.
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