Emo Hairstyles
Emo started out as a type of music we saw emerge from the scenes in
the early 1980’s. Still in the creatively baby stages from the music
came the hair cuts, colors, and styling’s. Typically an outfit would be
a very tight pair of jeans or pants coupled with an evenly as tight
shirt, normally short sleeved, which usually has the name of their
favorite emo band. This put together with various other accoutrements
such as studded belts, horn rimmed glasses, and big black shoes. All
wrapped up together with an amazing haircut called an emo style has been
seen all over the emo era.
Emo hair can typically be picked out by the following guidelines:
- First there is no holdbacks to what can and can not be done.
- The Hair is typically straight.
- Dyed black is where it all started but as with everything growth is
usual and the colors that are now being inducted into emo style are well
all of them.
- The cut on a style unlike normal styles. I mean methodically placed
cuts that, yes, can to the untrained eye, look in disarray but to the emo groups it’s what is in or cool.
- Hair can be dyed in stripes, patches, or various other ways that
aren’t just to enhance the hair coloring. Big blocks of blonde put into
black hair or blue stripes pressed like an iron into blonde; the options
and ways are endless and left up to the creator’s imagination.
Now that we got that what out of the way we can tackle the ‘who’. Who
would do this to their hair? That is pretty easy to answer. Anyone who
has something to express and wants the world to see it. Generally
speaking these types of people are thought of as angst. What I mean by
that is they fall into a stereotypical group; one that wears their
emotions on their sleeves, emotionally sensitive, as it were. They’ve
also been known or stereotyped to be shy, depressed, self mutilating,
and even suicidal.
They get this stereotype because some people consider the look to be
unkempt, uncaring, and even because sometimes the depressed are drawn to
it more then others. But just because you are emo doesn’t mean you are
going to go mentally nuts or kill yourself. Many just like it better
then other stuff out there.
Onto what characterizes an emo cut compared to just a raggedy cut:
- Precision: emo cuts are made for a reason and not just because the
hair was in the way so hacked off.
- Color: color is usually coupled with another color that complements it
but isn’t the same value as itself. For example: Blue with pink stripes,
blonde with black squares, or Pink with white ends.
- Styling: although made to look messy and uncaring it’s actually very
carefully done, sculpted, and can takes a load of hair product to come
up with the final result.
So in conclusion let us not judge a book by its cover. If you see
someone with pink hair and listening to music you wouldn’t make your
worst enemy sit through just remember we are all different and hair like
music is just one way we express ourselves.
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