The massive mullet moment: why the hair of the world is all business in the front - the party in the back
The mules, it seems, are "back". Again. In recent years, celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X and Rihanna have hosted "back parties", while many TikTok users have made videos showing off their own (the hashtag "mullet" currently counts more than 10 billion views on the application). But Paul Mescal, star of Normal People and Aftersun and heartthrob of straight women everywhere, has somehow tipped the scales and made it official: mules, once acceptable only to hippies and Aussies, can be - and are really - sexy.< /p>
Until about a month ago I had been wearing my hair in an approximation of a mullet for just over a year . He is now a little too short in the back to count which is more due to my miscommunication with the barber (this was the first time I had risked a visit to a regular "men's" barber and I panicked) than to a real craving for -mule.
One theory on the return of the mule is that it is a product of the Covid pandemic, due to the fact that people who previously had short hair let it grow out. Mine was technically a Pandemic Mule, which debuted in late 2021, just before the Omicron variant caused it to spend a month mostly hidden in my dressing gown hood. I'm sure the increase in mules around me must have to some extent motivated my decision. But the somewhat inconvenient truth is that I had wanted a mule for a good year or two before I got one. I knew, however, that getting one would keep me at my old place of work, and I always let that sort of thing bother me a bit too much. So I waited until I got a job at the tofu-eating Guardian, where everyone was too enlightened (or at least too polite) to be rude to my hair.
While I was obviously a big wimp to let fear of what people might think get in the way of a haircut, I was not wrong to assume that a mullet would elicit strong reactions. A mullet is in some ways the ultimate “ugly” haircut, mysteriously managing to be weird and c...
The mules, it seems, are "back". Again. In recent years, celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X and Rihanna have hosted "back parties", while many TikTok users have made videos showing off their own (the hashtag "mullet" currently counts more than 10 billion views on the application). But Paul Mescal, star of Normal People and Aftersun and heartthrob of straight women everywhere, has somehow tipped the scales and made it official: mules, once acceptable only to hippies and Aussies, can be - and are really - sexy.< /p>
Until about a month ago I had been wearing my hair in an approximation of a mullet for just over a year . He is now a little too short in the back to count which is more due to my miscommunication with the barber (this was the first time I had risked a visit to a regular "men's" barber and I panicked) than to a real craving for -mule.
One theory on the return of the mule is that it is a product of the Covid pandemic, due to the fact that people who previously had short hair let it grow out. Mine was technically a Pandemic Mule, which debuted in late 2021, just before the Omicron variant caused it to spend a month mostly hidden in my dressing gown hood. I'm sure the increase in mules around me must have to some extent motivated my decision. But the somewhat inconvenient truth is that I had wanted a mule for a good year or two before I got one. I knew, however, that getting one would keep me at my old place of work, and I always let that sort of thing bother me a bit too much. So I waited until I got a job at the tofu-eating Guardian, where everyone was too enlightened (or at least too polite) to be rude to my hair.
While I was obviously a big wimp to let fear of what people might think get in the way of a haircut, I was not wrong to assume that a mullet would elicit strong reactions. A mullet is in some ways the ultimate “ugly” haircut, mysteriously managing to be weird and c...
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