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Mullet Hairstyles
A mullet is a hairstyle that is short in the front, top, and sides, but long in the back. The hairstyle was popular from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Mullets have been worn by males and females of all ages. The mullet is distinct from the rattail, which consists of a long, narrow "tail" of hair growing from the back of the head. Mullets also vary in length from side to side and do not necessarily share a single, consistent length.
The term for the hairstyle is newer than the style. The Beastie Boys Grand Royal Magazine 1995 issue contained a piece on the mullet. The Oxford English Dictionary cites this as the first published use of the term, along with the lyrics from the Beastie Boys' 1994 song Mullet Head. The OED says that the term was apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U.S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys.[1][2] The name could have come from a scene from the film Cool Hand Luke in which the term was used to ridicule a prisoner for his low intellect.
Let’s take a look at a brief history of how mullet hair styles came to be. It was mostly musicians and band members who get so engrossed with mullet hair styles. Mullet hair styles is one of the hair style that people, especially men can’t forget together with the popular people from the 1980’s-1990’s and until present. I remember my papa get to wear this hair style where his hair has a tail and he also ties it in a pony tail. I always get to notice and tell him to cut the tail off cause when his hair is thick; he seems to be like a cave uncivilized man. But I didn’t know from now, that the hair style he was using was called a mullet.
There were also discrimination and expression of discuss for the mullet-ers, which was based on stereotypes. Despite its reputation, the mullet remains a moderately popular hairstyle among certain social groups in various Western countries. It is especially popular and even considered to be modern (vintage retro) in Portugal and in Spain and can be widely identified in the streets of cities like Barcelona. The Spanish mullet is generally shorter and lighter than a classic mullet, only using the last inch or so of hair above the hairline. It rarely extends beyond the neck. Also in Spain, the mullet is associated with two different ethnic groups: young Gypsies and young separatists from the Basque Country. It is also fairly popular among the 18–34 age groups in some East European countries, notably Romania, where it is most popular among high school aged males.
In the US and Canada, the mullet is particularly associated with blue collar men, fans of country and heavy metal music, soccer fans, and ice hockey players. Many homosexual women of the butch variety also sport this hairstyle; so much so, many see this as a social identifier. In the United Kingdom the mullet is most commonly associated with thugs, Pat Sharp or with Central and Eastern Europeans, particularly professional footballers. In Australia this haircut is associated with Bogans and Australian Rules football players, particularly those from the 1980s. In recent years, the mullet has enjoyed resurgent popularity among the hip set, in particular the emo sub-culture, probably due to its association with 1980s retro kitsch. During some light-hearted research on his show Johnny Vaughan declared that Germans, Americans, Australians, these are the real mullet men. Hip hop and poetry slam artist Sage Francis also debates the mullet as a cultural phenomenon in his 2000 EP Still Sick., Urine Trouble, as the haircut of his town in Providence, Rhode Island.
Variations in Mullet Hair Styles
Mo-Hullet
Half-mullet, half-mohawk. The sides of the head are shaven (or at least significantly short) with short hair on the front and long in the back much like a classic mullet. The mohawk mullet is also known as the "Mulhawk" to some. Also known as "The Dream Hawk." An example of the mo-hullet is seen in the professional wrestling tag team The Nasty Boys, who began wrestling in 1986, and Hiroyoshi Tenzan. It should be noted that as of 2008, Brian Knobbs, one half of the Nasty Boys, still wears his hair in a mo-hullet.
Frollet
A variation of the mullet is the "frollet" (derived from "afro mullet"), not to be confused with "frullet" (see below). This version involves an afro style haircut in the front with shaved or short sides and a full mullet in the back. Also refer to urbandictionary.com.A reversed variation of the hairstyle is the "frullet" (derived from "front mullet"), whereby the back of the head is shaved, leaving a long fringe hanging over the face in front. (Other terms include "tellum" and "reverse mullet".) The haircut is also known as the "emo mullet" due to its supposed popularity among emo music scenesters. A frullet can also mean a very curly mullet, such as that worn by A.C. Slater on the television show Saved by the Bell. See Devilock, as popularized by early '80s American horror-punk band The Misfits. During the 1980s this hair style was popular among skateboarding teens who were often a part of this punk music scene. Among teen circles the Frullet was often referred to as "The Flop" and would cover the person's eyes.Black or Caribbean versions.
In finnish the term is takatukka means “rear hair”. Sometimes latkatukka is also used, which means “ice hockey haircut” in reference to the Swedish term. Tsekkitukka means “Czech hair”, based on Czech hockey players’ hairstyle.