What Your Hairstyle Says About You

What Your Hairstyle Says About You

A man’s hairstyle is an intensely personal thing. We may talk about it less, we may hide it better, but we fixate on hair as much as the ladies do. The way you cut and style your hair provides clues to the rest of the world about how you see yourself, the cultural tribes you pledge to (either consciously or unconsciously). So before you arrive for that next interview or drop a line on that blonde across the bar, do yourself a favour and find out what you’re announcing with your ’do. (These predictions, by the way, are guaranteed to be as accurate as a horoscope.)

MOHAWK/Fauxhawk

You suffer from a peculiar delusion that permits you to look in the mirror, after working your hair into a crusty knife edge down the middle of your skull, and think, “Yes.” You would like to be a rebel, as long as being rebellious doesn’t involve doing anything actually illegal or scary. Maybe some E on the weekends. It’s not your fault there’s a hole where your self-identity should be. You can take the man out of the bounds, but you can’t take the bounds out of the man.

 


The Bald Spot
Your sense of style sucks. Even for a regional sales manager. One foot in the grave, son. Hey, only fooling -- that’s what you think people think when they see your deforested dome, which goes a long way toward explaining the Corvette. Funny part is, you still spend as much time messing with it as you did when you had hair. What are you doing in there? You’ve been known to ask, upon seeing a picture of yourself, “Am I really that bald?” And if you belong to that bizarre subset of balding men who resort to the comb-over, your preponderance for self-deception is truly frightening and possibly clinical