Random Thoughts of Kurt Shinn

One of the dumbest haircuts I have ever seen is the Faux hawk or Fo Hawk.  Im not sure thats how you spell it, but its such a stupid look I dont even want to look it up to see how to spell it.

Heres how the faux hawk started.  Just about every hairstyle imaginable has been tried over the last 10 years.  Some have caught on and some have not.  When there is a new hairstyle, it seems as if you first spot a few people with it and it may seem kind of odd.  But after you see it enough, it just becomes normal looking.  The mullet is a good example.  The “Business in the front, Party in the back” look turned some heads initially but the more you saw it there was actually a brief dark period when it was popular.  Remember the hairdo of Kid N Play?  that was bad and it never caught on.  Even the regular mohawk, as dumb as it was, doesnt turn heads anymore.

But who actually thought to themselves “Hey I want to try something different”, and then proceeded to gel their hair to a point  at the top of their heads?  And then went out in public?  It actually makes them into a pointy conehead.  And it takes time to get it that way. 

You know how some people look back at pictures and say “I cant believe I parted my hair in the middle” or “I cant believe I had an afro”?  Well people are going to look at their faux hawk pictures in a few years and want to send out apology letters to everyone they ever came into contact with.

There is a weatherman in the Twin Cities with one of these and I am actually embarrassed for him whenever I see him.  I can’t even listen to him deliver the weather because I have to turn away.  It screams “Im trying to be trendy but I have no more imagination than to comb the hair to a point of the top of my head”.