A Look At The Very Worst Hairstyle Trends
There’s not one person alive who hasn’t experienced a bad hair day, but there are some hairstyle disasters that have been around for decades, and David Beckham has been known to try out a few of them during his many years in football.
In the 1980s the mullet was the number one hairstyle for football stars and celebrities everywhere. But it made an appearance way back in the eighteenth century in an oil painting called ‘Blue Boy’ by Thomas Gainsborough. Two hundred years later and David Bowie’s alter ego Ziggy Stardust made it cool again prompting a revival. Ten years after that it was the height of fashion being sported by celebrities from the worlds of rock, film, sport and fashion. There is evidence of noughties take on the mullet but it has never reached the dizzy heights of the 80s.
The poodle perm was also a favourite of football stars and soap stars of that era. Kevin Keegan, Coronation Street’s Deidre Barlow and Queen’s Brian May are prime examples of this spring-coil curl disaster. Eastender’s favourite poodle Roly and its on-screen owner actress Anita Dobson began to uncannily resemble each other. Hairdressers across the UK were snipping their scissors with glee as people flocked to sit under the perm driers.
Although it is not liked by certain people, the Mohawk does not deserve the title of one of the worst hairstyle trends ever. In the early 1980s it represented a rebellion against the establishment but its origins can be traced back to the Native American Mohawk Indian tribe. More alarmingly, the Faux Hawk has recently come to prominence. The difference with this version is that the sides of the head do not have to be shaved, as one Mr David Beckham demonstrated. The Faux Hawk is now the style of choice in 2011 and is worn by everyone from accountants to radicals, which rather demeans what it originally stood for.
It is perhaps the comb-over that could steal the title of world’s worst hairstyle. A trend favoured by older members of society, it has been known to create very awkward situations for onlookers. A hairstyle so displeasing, it is no surprise wearers have suffered abuse akin to the following: “Get real mate! You’ve lost your hair. Shave, why don’t you?”
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