Gays and that damned Macklemore cut...

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:00pm

Ubiquitous.

Worse than the Bieber swoosh? Discuss.

Updated On: 4/14/14 at 03:00 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:05pm

What about that Tin Tin 'do that was very popular last decade? *shiver*

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 10:08pm

How do we know Macklemore is cut?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 10:18pm

I had to google to see what you meant (I couldn't for the life of me remember what his hair looks like...) I think that style has been fairly ubiquitous for a few years now...

[Tom1071]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 10:02am

Eric is right. The first person I noticed with this haircut was Derek Saathoff on the second season of A-List: New York. That aired 3 years ago before anyone knew who Macklemore was.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 4:59pm

But I agree it wasn't as ubiquitous as it has been in the last year or so. Macklemore definitely helped popularize it.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 6:01pm

... and Miley Cyrus.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 6:03pm

One of the least annoying trendy haircuts in a long time. Remember those awful shag cuts on the boys of Gossip Girl? Hideous.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 2:46am

Yeah, this isn't a new look. I don't think you can blame Macklemore. It -- and variations on this theme -- have been quite popular for a few years now with, yes, the gays as well as the young urbanites in Silverlake or Williamsburg. And let's not forget lesbians. I actually have a variation on this look myself, though not as severe. It's funny, my stylist and I travel in the same social circles and she has a lot of lesbian clients. We were laughing the other day about how there's now very little difference between her average cut/style for a 20-something lesbian and a 20-something man. (But she still gets to charge the lesbians more. Ha!)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 8:11pm

I may be defensive, because I sorta have had a variation of that haircut for 5+ years myself, though way way less closely shaved/trimmed on the sides and back. For me it's simply the fact that my hair becomes an unmanageable afro if I grow it out, and this is very easy to do and maintain myself...

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 11:25am

This cut has become popular with older Swedish women all of a sudden. It's so weird.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 7:46am

Hey, Borstal - you're predicting the headlines. Jezebel had an article about this very topic this week.




JEZEBEL: Every Dude You Know Is Getting This Haircut (w/ pics) Updated On: 4/18/14 at 07:46 AM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 8:45am

Brad's excuse is he is doing a WWII period drama. No, he is not playing a Nazi.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 12:22pm

I'm still confused by the mustache "craze"

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 6:18pm

And that second photo HorseTears posted isn't the same style of cut at all (neither is the photo of Adam Levine in the Jezebel article). It's just a basic fade. Can they really not see the difference? The "high & tight" is a classic look that's been around for about a century and the length is gradually tapered on the sides (a "fade"), not abruptly shaved. Macklemore's trendy style is a softer variation from the early 80s punk scene.

Updated On: 4/19/14 at 06:18 PM

[MikeInTheDistrict]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 10:57pm

^ THANK YOU Mister Matt. As someone who has had a fade for years, this has been driving me crazy. There was an article last year that was going around on a popular fashion forum I visit called "The Haircut All Men Should Have" (linked below)... only, the men all had different haircuts -- some were just fades, some were classic WWII-era parted haircuts like what Brad is wearing, some were wearing pompadours, and some were the severe Macklemore cut.

Suddenly anyone with hair that is buzzed on the sides and longer on top has an "undercut" (as the kids are referring to this). But the styles they're referring to all are different and have had different names for decades. For me, "undercut" refers to that haircut from the 1990s where guys had long, shoulder-length hair and shaved sides.

The Offending Article Updated On: 4/18/14 at 10:57 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 4/20/14 at 5:06pm

Ha ha ha! JailyardGuy just posted a selfie of his new cut. Yep. He's rocking this look.