Hipster Boy Haircut Rules

At the Animal Collective show last night, there were many fashion abominations manifest in hipster outfits. I enjoyed observing these so-called fashion a-bombs, and would like to report some notable anthropological trends amongst this demographic.


There are two types of hipster boy haircuts of note:

1. The short cut that grows out to the long, shaggy, shapeless hair mess.

2. The managed do.

The managed do is a little more interesting, often more flattering, though the maintence required can skew the do to ridiculous. A few rules of a successful-looking managed do include:

• paying a lot for hair highlights, but not washing the hair for several days to achieve some kind of hipster shabby chic paradise of the head
  

• what I call "the tidal style" can be applied to the hair where the hair on the left side of the head is whooshed forward with some type of hair product, while the hair in the front is whooshed to the left to create some kind of peak with the hair on side of the head

I will also note that the shirtless vest look seems to be back in rotation with the hipster demographic. I can only shudder at the sight. I actually saw this look applied with a dog tag style bolo tie and the "tidal style" hairdo mentioned above.

Fashion A-bomb!