Softer, more natural... and favored by k-pop!

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 25

May 2, 2023 6:25 PM

This is actually true. High school boys are getting perms to get that shaggy, moppy look.

by Anonymous

reply 3

May 1, 2023 1:10 AM

NYTimes style is TWO YEARS late to the trend. At least.

by Anonymous

reply 4

May 1, 2023 1:14 AM

Not only has this been going on for years but your average guy isn't taking fashion cues from K-pop. I agree that it's TikTok that influenced more than anything.

So sick of people trying to make K-pop a thing here.

by Anonymous

reply 5

May 1, 2023 1:25 AM

R5, K-pop is huge on TikTok.

by Anonymous

reply 6

May 1, 2023 1:28 AM

Is that how all the kids are getting that broccoli stalk haircut?

by Anonymous

reply 7

May 1, 2023 1:29 AM

How dare they be, r4! When we all know how YOU'RE so up to date with all the fads and novelties!

by Anonymous

reply 8

May 1, 2023 1:36 AM

R8 As a university prof, I see it all, hunty. The poodle has been in for years now.

by Anonymous

reply 9

May 1, 2023 1:41 AM

R6 Guys aren't paying attention to the K-Pop TikToks, They're paying attention to the actual American influencers who got popular off the app, of which there are several.

by Anonymous

reply 10

May 1, 2023 1:46 AM

And I have the impression the fashion boys over age 19 have moved on, or back, to the bowl cut.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 11

May 1, 2023 1:46 AM

Wake me when the mullet comes back.

by Anonymous

reply 12

May 1, 2023 2:10 AM

As someone (a man), who grew up with naturally curly hair, and was tortured endlessly for it …

Fuck these people and the boat they rode in on.

Yes, yes, bitter party of one, but still fuck these people.

by Anonymous

reply 13

May 1, 2023 2:14 AM

I am genuinely curious. You were made fun of because you had naturally curly hair? How did they tease you? What names did they call you? That is an odd one to me.

by Anonymous

reply 14

May 1, 2023 2:21 AM

not r13 but I was called "perm head" because of my naturally curly hair.

by Anonymous

reply 15

May 1, 2023 2:26 AM

I had red hair r14, so “Bozo” was thrown around a bit.

In retrospect, it is funny how my Mom was both sympathetic, but also mentioned how she had ro curl her hair, and I should be “grateful”.

For men, there just aren’t a lot of good looks with curly hair IMHO. I will say, once I was a teenager, it had become just “wavy”, and was manageable.

by Anonymous

reply 16

May 1, 2023 2:37 AM

The fusilli hair look on men right now is a big ole NO from me.

by Anonymous

reply 17

May 1, 2023 2:39 AM

I don't remember anyone making fun of curly hair on boys. Red hair, yes. Perhaps they just threw in curly after crucifying you for the sin of red hair.

by Anonymous

reply 18

May 1, 2023 3:11 AM

The article makes a big deal about the K-drama BOYS OVER FLOWERS, but the Japanese series based on the original manga was aired 4 years earlier. The male lead's "curly curly perm" was frequently ridiculed by the other characters. Interestingly, he's currently starring as 17th-century unifier Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 19

May 1, 2023 5:10 AM

R12 mullets have already come (and gone).

by Anonymous

reply 21

May 1, 2023 7:09 PM

I see more guys with man-buns (putting their hair up) these days than this.

by Anonymous

reply 22

May 1, 2023 7:23 PM

Although Robert Reed's hair was naturally curly, he looked so much more handsome without it.

by Anonymous

reply 24

May 1, 2023 9:01 PM

Oh good goolymoogly OP (and the NYT)

Young white guys getting perms took off a couple years before COVID. People constantly made fun of them right here on DL looking like "mushroom heads" or some such slang.

The low-key claim was that they wanted to look bi-racial. Which tracks, imo. Thing is, they wanted to look like the guy I'm posting here but they all either did their perm at Hair Cuts R Us or by their mom at home so they mostly looked like freshly styled poodles. But, yeah, perms already made a comeback.

Offsite Link

by Anonymous

reply 25

May 2, 2023 6:25 PM