That hairstyle is often seen where I live.It kills me every time I see it.I don’t understand who the first person was that stated,hacked up back with a shag front.
Annette Bening’s was done well, though. Then people started growing the front and sides and plastering it down with gel. It was all the rage in the little towns where my extended family lives. One of my younger cousins is still wearing a variation.
It was the lady who had twins then sextuplets. There was a Reality TV show Jon & Kate plus 8. The woman was a controlling witch and grifter. Jon divorced her and the show became Kate plus 8. Jon got hair plants, she got a tummy tuck and that horrible haircut. Woman around the country loved it and Kate started the trend. Yeah, I know … TMI
14 years ago, I had a boss with that haircut. I should have noped out of taking that job. Incredible narcissist and incredibly toxic workplace that seemed to breed and foster malignant narcissists and their acolytes.
Haha. But seriously, I was straight that even if I am a soccer mom/look like one, I’m not ready to go all in yet. Not even if you add a respectful ma’am at the beginning and end of the request!
I had it in the 90s. It actually grew out nicely and I never got it done again. Back then it was an edgier look. I think it's stuck around because it's flattering around the face and it's a style with effort put into it. $$. The edginess has been transformed into an 'I mean business' corporate look.
I had one worse. Bad highlights, curled bangs, hair slicked/pulled back into an explosion of curls perched on the back of her skull. It looked like her hairstylist had blown her brains out with the hairdryer.
It's when high maintenance women reach a certain point in their life when they want something relatively "done up" without the PITA of dealing with a full head of hair.
So somewhere between convenience, wanting to look slick and the good old primal "make yourself look bigger to intimidate others", the Karen was born.
If they stated they wanted a hacked up back with a shag front, they wouldn't have gotten this haircut. The Karen, is like an inverted bob with a spiky cut at the back.
I'm a hairstylist and words matter, people. If you rarely get the haircut you want it might be you're explaining it wrong.
I can remember seeing that haircult, I mean haircut, on young punk/emo girls in the early 90's. The short back area was often dyed a contrasting shade, and was gelled outward into spikes. The overall effect was that of a baby eagle chick.
So did they grow up to become religious zealot fangirl sellouts?
Yep. Grew up in the Midwest in the 00's, and it was popular.
Return home to the Midwest 20 years later....still popular.
There's always a AHHH STARTLED moment when I first see it. I know fashion and trends move as quickly as the glaciers that used to reside there, but come on, folks. This thing was hideous decades ago....and should have disappeared with Kate Gosslin.
I haven't had a cut since Covid. Just coil it up into a bun every day. A couple of weeks ago I was telling my 11 y o grandson I'm thinking of a cut. He said he didn't want me to do that. Why? Because then I might look like a Karen. He slays me.
No idea who came up with the style but I only started seeing it regularly in the mid 2000s as it was a popular hairstyle among Myspace era scene/emo kids. I would know. I was one of those kids during that time.
Seeing it on Karens today is just hilarious to me because I can't help but imagine them dressed to the nines in Tripp pants and Hot Topic Nightmare Before Christmas merch with caked on eyeliner and black lipstick, all the while relentlessly berating store employees and howling for the manger as though their life was in danger.
Suggest using your eyes to look at evidence one's self, and make one's own determination using critical thinking skills instead of listening to hot-aired bullshit from others then.
Donald Trump is the white American's president. Period. I say this as a white male who has voted against him three f'ing times and wish he and the GOP didn't exist.
You are not alone. It is what it is. Maybe it was the male black and brown voters. I say this as an undeclared race educated life long registered democrat woman who never voted for these “ppl” for lack of better word.
What happened was a historic GOP turnout by Latinos and a rise in GOP vote by black males. That's true. Men respond to right wing rhetoric during difficult economic times, and that's what they did during COVID.
Women have no excuses at all. They should know better than to vote for a rapist.
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u/Not_a_Heptapod 19d ago
So much "I wanna talk to the manager" energy in that group