Why The Mullet is the Most Popular Haircut of All Time (seriously)
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What do Marie Antoinette and Billy Ray Cyrus have in common? They both rocked epic mullets. Yep. That's right. You heard me. Marie Antoinette had a mullet.
Short in the front, and long in the back hairstyles, also known as mullets have been worn by both men and women for centuries. Allowing for a huge assortment of style varieties, mullets are even why Jane Austen had her regency curls. So, in this video, I'm going to explore why the mullet is the most popular haircut of all time, going all the way back to the 1600s. While this video is focused mainly on 18th century women's hairstyles, including demonstrating a historically accurate 18th-century haircut, the trend is obvious once you realize what you're looking at.
So, if you have found yourself googling "tik tok wolf cut" or "tik tok mullet" or if you're just having a huge moment for 1990s nostalgia, this video is for you.
Maybe.
Or maybe you're just traumatized by growing up in the 1990s and are having a different kind of moment with this whole mullet thing.
cause I know I am...
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My younger sister is a bartender, and temporarily gave herself a mullet on accident. She was horrified by all the Gen Z's complimenting it and quickly fixed it. She was born in 93 and is just old enough to remember 90's mullets. She also has amazing 3C hair that most women in the 80's would be super jealous of, so her short-lived mullet was pretty epic by 80's standards.
I love that she was horrified by being complimented xD I relate to her xD
Why would she take it away because people were complimenting her? That makes no sense.
@@nenee009 because "Oh no! The youths think I'm one of them! Dis a disgrace for my lineage"
@@nenee009 Because she hadn't realized it was a mullet and didn't want one.
@@bridgetthewench aaahhh omg, that's so funny!
"Wait? It's all mullets?"
"Always has been."
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Poor Danielle, first she's called cheap and then she gets laughed at for having Sonic the Hedgehog's haircut.
🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking Porcupine! 😂
But is her self-esteem any lower?
Would women in the 18th century ever wear their mullets unstyled (i.e. not frizzed or curled at the front)? Could you imagine the Duchess of Devonshire chilling at home with a full on 80's mullet, because she felt like having a lazy day and couldn't be bothered with having her hair styled?
No real evidence here, but I doubt it. Even up into the 1960s women would usually have a "wash and set" day for their hair. It would be once a week at most. On those days they would wash their hair, and set it into their preferred style for the week. Their hair would usually be wrapped in a scarf to sleep in to maintain the style. Each day it would be teased a little or smoothed to be freshened up. I imagine that a hair routine back then would be very similar.
An excellent day for a cap and morning gown! And perhaps a "fainting couch".
Probably this is a contributing factor to the popularity of wings, especially for men. I know there were other reasons, but man it would be so much more convenient.
@@hmbee1110
I wish, my hair would do that. I'm lucky, if I can get away with just a 'touch up' the day after washing and styling my hair. By day 3, it's guaranteed to be a bushy mess, not to mention oily at the roots.
And yes, I do use a satin pillow case - a bonnet is just too hot for me in the warmer months.
@@raraavis7782 tell me about it! i have 3b curls with lots of layers and i’m just waiting for bed heads to be in style or at least socially acceptable
I would like to point out that princess peach has a mullet. Thank you
Honestly, a lot of anime characters have it, or at least a shorter version of it
@@summernovah I was remembering all the anime girl mullets lol
Weird mullet fact though, in medieval Ireland after the English invasion a hairstyle which was described in documents as being short in the front and long at the back were banned by English for anglo-irish settlers because it was too celtic and made it hard to distinguish between Irish individuals and English ones , clearly showing that the English found the hairstyle to be pretty stylish, so yea they're a pretty old hairstyle really
Now i want to see some reenactment or living history person with a styled celtic mulet in full costume :D
Mel Gibson had a mullet of sorts in Braveheart.
omg that’s so interesting!! i really wanna learn more about ireland and scotland pre english colonization
Goes to show hairstyles are not bound to one culture, somewhere on another continent people had the same idea.
As a Celtic anthropologist, I greatly appreciate this tidbit of new knowledge!
ngl I'm totally pro-mullet. Some people can *really* pull it off, and I feel like it's often a really good option for people who need a hairstyle that frames their face nicely. That being said, I'm not planning on getting one myself anytime soon lmao
It’s the only cut that works for me..
I had a university professor about 14 years ago who rocked a great mullet. It was crew cut on top and typically sported 3 tidy braids down the back. He was probably about 50, and his hair has turned gray, and it just looked really good.
same! I think it looks fantastic honestly. it would NOT suit my face lol, but it looks amazing on a lot of people (however I was born in 2001 so I don't have the *cringe* response that older people do)
I kinda wanna try it once my hair grows some more but I agree that it doesn't suit everyone lol
Some people do look really nice with mullets and I wish I'll be included in that demographic😅
Picture it... Flash forward a couple hundred years in the future and Abby's future generations are making videos on the historic origins of the 80's mullet. Sparks joy doesn't it?
We won't be here a couple of hundreds years in the future
Side note: as a former 80s kid, who did have a New Wave mullet at one time, I only recently figured out 70s shags seem to be what became 80s mullets.
Thanks, Ma! Now help me zip up this flower print curtain..I mean dress and help me stuff my shoulder pads with more stuffing!
Hehe just in case you don't know the reference, "picture it" made me think of one thing...Sophia Petrillo from the Golden Girls. Especially since we are on the topic of the 80s and mullets hahah
Honestly, mullets being historical just makes me yearn more strongly for their Power...
The current girl iteration is one of my favorite versions and it also makes me think vaguely of Adam Curry from MYV back in the day.
in German the mullet is called vokuhila, which is short for
vo - vorne (front)
ku - kurz (short)
hi - hinten (back)
la - lang (long)
and it has such a bad connotation and is always pronounced with an barely held back gag.
In Dutch we call it "nektapijt", literally "neck carpet", we have great appreciation for the style :p
That's hilarious. But hair is in part insulation
I love that yall just called it business in the front party in the back in a slightly less cheeky way
The term mullet in America was pronounced the same way for a long time there... until it wasn't anymore.
I love how practical the Germans are. Just gonna call it exactly what it is lol
So Jared in the Labyrinth is history-bounding the 1780s via hair?
Ummm...it's Jareth😁
@@lizziegarbarini7946 ....Oh yeah. Oops? My brain was on autopilot.
No no, he's unironically wearing the hairstyle of his time. He's an immortal fae. He is just lucky that it had come back in style for the movie of course 😉
@@racek87 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
God, that movie was creepy. I watched it as a young adult and couldn't get through half of it. My friend who suggested it said it was her favorite movie as a kid was also super uncomfortable and began to question her childhood morals 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I spent most of this video looking at the length difference between the front and back of Abby's hair, and wondering when layers or bangs technically evolve into mullets. There has to be a tipping point, no?
I had an unfortunate friend in high school (in the 2000s) who had her hair thinned slightly too much & ended up with a mullet. Was NOT a good look.
Went looking for this comment because based on her definition... I think she does indeed have a mullet. 😅❤
I was just thinking the same thing! But about my own hair. I have layers and no bangs, but my hair in the front is shorter than it is in the back.
I think she just could come up with an interesting video so just played loose with the definition. Those are not mullets. Yes by her definition bangs and layers are a mullet. No, we all know that is not actually a mullet.
Before there's a million comments: "Loepsie" is pronounced like "loopsy" (or like "Lucy" with a p stuck in the middle). For the next time you reference her :)
And her name name is also Lucy if that makes it easier to remember.
Ive been wondering this forever! Been pronouncing it luh-ep-see with like a psuedo french accent this whole time.
The mullets are necessary though! Kids now days seem to skip that really rough awkward phase and go from 10 year old kid straight to gorgeous teen. At least if they have a mullet they'll have something to look back and laugh at!
Sorry, no, middle school is still a thing. No need to bring back the mullet 🤢
@@kellyzavandro456 They actually removed middle school in my country in hope that would remove the middleschoolers (or at least the bad behaviour of teens in that age), it didn't really work ;)
That’s not normal kids, that’s influencers and kids being exploited by their parents on the internet
Jokes on you most of them actually make them look good and that’s an opinion coming from someone who thinks mullets are an abomination. Awkward teen phase, where?! All I see are a bunch of made up babies. It’s like they skipped their teens and went straight to their mid- twenties.
Idk man, on the internet sure, but in every day life majority of teens/middle schoolers I see are very normal looking ('normal' as in not super mature or beautifully put together)
As a wig stylist for a local costume hire company I am indeed pleased with how easy it is to restyle some of our period wigs into shags and mullets and I'm happy others have noticed this
the only conclusion I can draw from this is that period films have deprived us of hair-cutting scenes and I, for one, should love to see this most grave oversight be rectified posthaste!
That time as a kid when you cut your dolls hair and then realized it wouldn't grow back.
Danielle's transformation into a Kingdom Hearts villain...
Tru Xehanort energy
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of Kingdom Hearts 😂 mullets are a mandatory haircut for Organization XIII
I’d love to see what Snappy Dragon would make of these cutting instructions. After all, she _is_ a professional.
Yes!!!!!
Abby, I highly recommend Janet Stephen’s Channel too , which is entirely dedicated to historical hair reconstruction. She has many videos on Roman hairstyles that relied on shorter hair in the front to create curls, ans demonstrates how adding hairpieces to modern short hairstyles was used to create different lengths too!
Oh I’ve been a fan of hers for years - her Roman work is fabulous
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll go look!
Abby: it's back!😭
Me here in southern Ohio: was it ever gone?🤔🤣
Jackson ain't foolin nobody. It's just like being in the hollar. Lol. All of us up in Columbus see ya'll.
I grew up in SC... personally guarantee that it was there in the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, and 20’s so far. 😁
There’s a fair number of places in Idaho where the Mullet never died.
Yes, I feel this too (also Southern Ohio and can confirm)
Central Ohio can confirm this too, at least in the country parts.
Anyone remember the reverse mullets of the early 2000s? Long bangs in front, short and spiked in back?
I looked on in envy but was never cool enough or willing to spend that much time on my hair lol
I had that haircut a couple of times until it became too popular with soccer moms.
I remember
OMG! Especially that Kate lady, the reality show mom with 8 kids?? Jon and Kate Plus 8! Wow was that the most extreme version of that cut I'd seen, and it was styled to within an inch of its life! 😂
Yepp! Tried it once during it’s heyday, but it was not for me. To much work with keeping the short hair spiky. But I thought at the time that I looked hella cool.
The original mullet comes from the medieval (and earlier tbh) period when warriors would cut their hair shorter in the front to accommodate helms. Trust me, you don’t want hair in your eyes while fighting! But if you’re having trouble with your helm fitting you can always bunch your hair up under it for more padding. 😉
Makes sense to me
So mel Gibson circa Braveheart
@@heatherb1700 Don’t get me started on Braveheart! My family has a tradition of commenting on bad history and fashion in movies.
You can buy mullet wigs at the halloween pop-up stores! So I'm now realizing that might be a good way to do 18th century looks on a budget, because, oh god, don't trust me with hair scissors!
I remember back in 80's when a stylist, too busy talking on the phone, grabbed a handful of my waist length hair and whacked it off above my ear with one snap of the scissors. I was beyond horrified. I had just wanted the ends trimmed a couple inches. The only way for a second stylist to make it look bearable was to give me a mullet. The front of my hair was 1 inch long and the back came down to my waist. The stylist and I both looked in the mirror and said, "Nope." So I had a mullet that looked like the 18th century ones for a couple minutes. I cried as she cut the rest of my long hair off. Mind you I went from glorious lions mane to nearly no hair in the span of about 30 minutes. I took to wearing a black felt bowler hat to try to hide my head. It took years for my hair to grow back. Sadly, it never got that long again. I have had long hair ever since. Whenever I think I might like to shorten it a bit I remember that mullet. My long hair is staying.
That's why I cut my own hair. My first husband cut a year's growth off my long hair after I asked him to snip 2 inches; I asked him if he knew what 2 inches looked like, showing him what he had done, and he accused me of overreacting. Yeah, I was married to that idiot for way too long.
Please tell me that said stylist didn't have the gall to charge you for ruining her hair!
She literally should have been arrested for assault. No one is that absent-minded. She did it on purpose because she envied your beautiful hair.
My mother gave me a mullet when I was 6 or so. My father thankfully turned her right around and sent me back to the hairdresser to cut my hair again. #thanksDad
I'm with you I will CRY if rat tails come back. Just no. Please.
I know a guy who had a rattail YEARS after everyone cut theirs off. He was the sweetest guy and I always secretly wondered what the deal was. One day he came to work and it was gone. (FINALLY!) I did make a point of complimenting his appearance that day...
I had a friend that had the tiniest rat tail. Hers was so cute.
my friend has one :) i think it’s only popular now in the punk community tbh.
In Norwegian, the mullet (the 1980s version) is known as a “hockeysveis”, where the last part basically means “hairdo”.
And 'hockeyfrilla' in swedish.
We called it hockey hair in Canada.
In Danish, we call it Swedish yarn.. lol
@@terryk6458 Serves as a useful warning system. So you don't accidently end up dating a hockey player.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
@@terryk6458 it’s hockey hair in New England/northeast US too
if i didn't care about my hair so much i would have probably cut myself a historical mullet just because i've been so curious to see how those hairstyles looked unstyled
Canadian 80s teen here - we called it "hockey hair"
MN here. Hockey hair is alive, well and never left.
Rockin' that flow! 🏒
Noooooooo! Not again!! Nearly all of my male friends in high school, including my bestie, had mullets. One dear friend spent hours longer on his hair each day than I did with spiral permed hair to my mid-back…which is saying something. I had no clue mullets had been so popular in the past, though!! This was very informative while being frickin HILARIOUS 🤣! I gigglesnorted SO many times.
I also have a dog that is occasionally attacked by Klingons. We have to keep a supply of baby wipes to assist with defense.
"Klingons" OMG 😆😆😆 We had family dogs growing up, but I only learned about dingleberries (the issue and the term) in high school. I am from now and forever going to use the word Klingons, because I grew up with Star Trek and think it's hilarious! Thanks for sharing it!!!
Hell I'll probably use Klingons for any cling-on thing - oh! Like burrs from bushes! Yank them off, growling "Revenge is a dish best served cold," and crushing my enemy beneath my heel >>:-| 😆
There's Klingons on the starboard bow
Scrape them off, Jim!
Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a-
Thus, history taught us that even mullets can look attractive, if dressed properly. Let us all sit down and recover from this shock, and lament that our fellows of the present age do not possess this skill.
Mullets ARE attractive
My hairdresser said she has never seen anything like this before. Men are coming in droves to get permed mullets. She also said that women are all asking for a shag cut. Like early 80’s Joan Jett and Joey Ramone. I’ll keep my “Rachel” cut thankyouverymuch!
Love your channel Abby!
Me, who just got a short shag: 😅 (altho i didn't really intend to get one, i actually wanted more of a mullet look)
My mother has cut her own hair and worn it in a mullet for basically my whole life, so I'm always a little defensive of the style. Super interesting to see the history of it on both sides of the 1980s.
In Danish we call it "svenskergarn" which means "Swedish yarn" ("garn" is slang for hair) or "Bundesligahår" which means "Bundesliga hair" (Bundesliga is the German football championship), so we definitely blamed our closest neighbours on its popularity.
A Pole here: you're so right about the neighbour-blaming, we call it a Czech football player's cut
In Sweden we call it "hockeyfrilla" ("frilla" here is slang for "frisyr" = hairstyle) because it used to be very common among hockey players. Strangely enough we don't blame our neighbours for this particular atrocity. 😂
I love how internationally famed the mullet was 😂
@@lauraoergel6003 It's not as if it only existed in one country, LOL
German here :) And you were absolutely right to blame us! Here it's mostly called Vokuhila -> VOrne KUrz HInten LAng (Short in the front, long in the back)
the mullet has been back for like YEARS tho. all my alternative friends have already cut off their mullet bc it became too popular lol
as an I guess wannabe alternative, I've had mine for a year so right about when it became fashion again. I'm probably just gonna keep it despite its popularity since it's just so damn practical ~
Yeah, I got a mullet in 2012 and that was after everyone was “scene”
Rattails had their comeback moment too.
Yeah this has been an alternative trend in Australia for at least 9 years. Was originally a throwback to Aussie punk ‘sharpie’ style from the 70s. Now most people I know who had them have cut them off because they’ve finally reached the mainstream 🤷♀️
You can’t convince me that Aus underground punk didn’t start this trend 💪
@@AuroraTigress yup!!! had one a few months back
Given the fact that curling irons of the day were literal *rods of iron heated in the fire* and accidents were not infrequent, I think that's probably part of the reason. "Mama, Lizzie has burnt off some of her front hair with the curling tongs!"
There's a large portion of the Australian population who looked at the mullet in the 80s, and decided that hair evolution had peaked.
Having been a hairdresser in a previous life, this was so comical to me. I laughed so hard at all of the descriptions of the mullet hairstyle and admired your brave, gallant attempt to create one on the mannequin head just made my day!! The mullet graduated into becoming what was called the 'Grecian Goddess' hairstyle which was the precursor to the iconic Farah Fawcett hairstyle the 70s that has carried over to today. The mannequin you have is very similar to the one that we all have used in learning how to cut and style hair. They all start out with long hair and by the time we graduated it was much, much shorter as we learned all of the basics of cutting all of the hairstyles of the day and those to come on that one head. All hairstyles emanate from one basic cutting style and if a student aces that, they can cut any style a patron might want. I have cut my hair for years and I've cut my husband's hair since we met. He was very nervous to say the least!! I really enjoyed this video and kudos to you for trying out these instructions. You did really well for never having done this before. Thank you so much!
Wait… so mullets are just hair that is shorter at the front and long at the back? … Does this mean that the Japanese Hime cut its a type of mullet? 😶
(looks that up) Oh...oh my...according to one of the images, I kinda had that myself for a time...No I TOTALLY didn't give myself shorter side-pieces with my ponytail because I played Final Fantasy 7 and realised Aeris's hair was a lot like mine, ha ha, whatever gave you that idea...
XD
No because the mullet is layered through the back but the Hime hair cut has a distinguished layered bangs and front bangs.
Ain't fashion fun? (Don't worry, Danielle, it will grow back. What? Oh. Sorry Danielle.)
Lmao! Now that’s funny! Danielle may not be so amused!
I'm pretty sure they can reroot them with new hair
Members of BTS and other kpop groups have started wearing mullets recently, so, I would argue, it will definitely stay trendy for a little bit.
As it should 🤗
Uggh, I really didn't need another reason to hate BTS but here we are
@@jillvasquez1010 what did they do to you?
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I am not saying that I watch your videos for the outtakes at the end, but they are always a fun little cherry on top of the info-tainment.
I buzzed my head last May, and it’s now just over a year grown out (zero touch ups). I was shocked to get a ton of compliments at work a few months ago and had to look up why… apparently it accidentally grew out into a fashionable mullet/wolf cut 😂🤷🏼♀️ Now I’m just embracing it.
I had a pixie cut a couple years ago and it definitely grew into a mullet. Unfortunately, that was not fashionable yet at the time (I mostly just embraced it ironically). One could argue that mullets are not only the most popular, but the most natural haircut of all time since that's what you get if you grow your hair out from the scalp/even length from the head.
It’s funny cause I used to gag at mullets but some people really do pull them off… not counting the country boys who just look musty
The classic 80s/90s mullet is godawful, but the short in the front/long in the back concept can look really good
The only country boy that can pull it off is Kurtis Conner
I offer young Richard Dean Anderson as Exhibit A. His hair was the first mullet I ever saw, and he totally rocked it. ;-D
@@utatanepikoV5 yee yee
I love alt boy mullets with the shaved bits and colors and piercings
I remember hearing the stories of my mother, former professional hair stylist, cutting my dad's hair in a mullet and then perming it. It was the 80s and he was in a rock band.
To be historically accurate😘, Baby Got Back is 1992.😊
I define a true mullet as two distinctly different hair styles on one head. One short and styled and from the front appears appropriate for an office job, the other, completely unrelated 'style' is just long in the back, usually unstyled with no transition lengths between the two. There is no cohesion between the front and back. The delineating line between the two styles is often (but not necessarily) at the ear. It can happen further back, but not more forward than the ear (because that messes up the "business in the front" style.)
There are variations, having more 'business' and less 'party' where it is all a 'business' cut except the bottom back section (the bottom 2"-3") is slightly longer than the rest of the hair on the head, etc.
'Short in front long in back' is SO vague a definition that simply having bangs (of any length or bluntness) would be considered 'a mullet'.
A couple of people in the montage at the start were just wearing layered feathered hair...80's yes, but not mullets, and I think i spotted one or two fauxhawks with tails, close to a mullet but not very 'business-like' for the front.)
Anyway... that's my take as a woman who watched the mullet style appear in the late 70's/early 80's, decrease in popularity in the 90's, eventually falling out of favor (THANKFULLY), and (ugh) reappear again recently.
It's funny, I'd never heard the term "mullet" back in the 80s. It wasn't until years later that the term made it to my ears. At the time my friends and I just called it, "that stupid haircut". LOL
As I understand, the hairstyle WASN'T called a mullet originally but got that name after it was no longer so much in fashion. According to wikipedia, "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, use of the term mullet to describe this hairstyle was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys",[1] who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head"...."
I had heard that you can stop hiccups by shocking the person with them. About 20 years ago I came into work and our receptionist had the hiccups. I decided to try and stop them for her.
I took out my wallet and I placed a $100 bill on the counter. I told her that if she could hiccup one more time then the $100 is hers.
She was shocked by what I did/said, and the hiccups stopped right then.
I was later asked what I would have done if she still had the hiccups. I said I would have given her the $100. I don't make false offers. I wasn't sure it would work. I took the risk. It was an experiment, I wanted to know if it could work.
Someone did this to me with fifty quid before. It worked.
It also works to just surprise the person a little haha
I clap right in front of my sister's face so the hiccups stop and they sure do
Reminded of the line in "Arabella", where they comment about their mother, who would have been in society around 1790s, "Not cut in the back At All"? which implies that the front was shorter... (I do like Georgette Heyer).
OMG that whole scene of raiding her mother's trunks I love it so much. The "striped Lustring Saque" and the "ermine trimmed velvet opera cloak". I was so jealous of the pretty things.
"I will not be beholden to a woman known as 'Leaky Peg'!" Such a fun book!
Well, I never meant to end up with a mullet, but about 2.5 years ago I went for a quarter inch buzz all over my head…I haven’t trimmed it since, except once for my bangs. It was a surprise how the hair in back grew out much faster than that at the front and crown - 🥺😱
Who knew the mullet is the MOST NATURAL form of hair growth?
As someone who has seen a few people grow their hair from short to long, yep, there is def a mullet stage. It's not particularly extreme if you don't cut the bangs in between, but it's a mullet.
@@duceagle6625 Yeah, I did trim my bangs one time early on…after that is when it got most noticeable.🙄 I guess over time, things will ‘even out’ … I guess I could get it ‘shaped’, but I really appreciate finally being able to put it up the back in a ponytail now…my hair grows very slowly🥺
Of course the second I grow out my lime green frosted tips mullet, mullets come back in style...
In Germany we call the mullet: Vokuhila. Short form for "Vorne kurz, hinten lang" meaning "Front short, back long". I don't like this cut and I never had it, even in the 80ies as a male. But the german word for it is funny.
I remember beckenbauer the football player having a mullet in the 80's 😁.
OH MY GOD, Flavian women had mullets!! The mullet goes back to Ancient Rome at least. *whimper*
Though I never would have dreamed of applying that name, that's the best way to get those towering curls up front, bigger than any '80s bangs.
Danielle is absolutely rocking that Odile from barbie's swan lake cut
My permed 2020's mullet is gaining power (and inspiration) from this video.
F.Y.I. a great way to make Sooby's (forgive spelling) butt trim look less chopped is to use "thinning shears". They are kind of a "gap tooth" scissor. They do a very nice job of blending the cuts (you DO need to angle them different ways - i.e. cut in different directions, to achieve the effect of trimmed without 'lines' of obvious cuts !)
Might be able to find a video on TH-cam?!
My sister's a dog groomer and I had a Aussie, so I know the butt fur trim tricks !
Usually, unless we're desperate, I take her to a groomer to deal with *all of that* 😂, but I wanted some cutting footage for this video, so I just started hacking away. Thinning shears would *definitely* make that a lot easier though!
Lol, now we are at the haircut of mannequin & I think they are telling you to use the "thinning sheers" ! Lol ! Well, that's too bad ! I don't think it's going to come out right, no matter how you try ! Ah, the slings and arrows of a TH-camr ! You boldly go trying to teach us some history. It is entertaining, but, I fear for your ego. You may become afraid of mannequins after this !
Back to the video !
*Sees Abby cut the first 4 inches*
Me: Is this a Final Fantasy wig tutorial?
I’d love to see Abby try to style the mannequin head into an 18th century style now.
I love the dress you're wearing for the mullet-cutting portion of this video! My daughter recently shaved her hair above her ears in roughly a 3x4 inch swatch. Her surrounding hair is only 2 or 3 inches long. She keeps saying "I have a mullet!" (...which I secretly thought, when she came out of the bathroom, but never said.)
Why do I have the feeling that Danielle is teaching flight lessons at Hogwarts?
Both Danielle and I wear our hair baby fine and long. This is the reason why I passed through the '80s and beyond without a mullet. Sadly, Danielle, being cheap, succumb to the scissors.
Stay safe in the triple-digit heat.
As a hairstylist I have to say 2 things:
1. Some of the haircut images you used as examples were more liken to the Shag and not the Mullet.
2. I believe your mannequin head was probably synthetic hair and nothing you did was going to help that cut work for the style you were going for.
But some shag cuts definitely had mullet vibes.
@@rejoyce318 oh for sure. I think the main difference between the Mullet and the Shag is the length of hair on the front and sides and how the layers blend. Mullets distinctly have no layering/blending (very disconnected cuts), while Shags have a lot of very blended/connected layering.
Danielle's "completely de*d inside and done with your sh$t" blank stare was the absolute icing on the cake when you were chopping her hair off X'DDDD also as the fellow "deep in her 30s" miserable piece of existence, I completely understand your feelings about mullet comeback
lol
Those of us deep in our 40s feel your pain, my friend.
I was in the Navy in the early 90s and the "femullet" was really popular with my shipmates. You could have the ease of styling of short hair, and then pin the long hair in the back up so that you had a regulation hairstyle.
“…a mythical place, full of wonder…..and shit.”
This is great! 😂 Also, it was really nice to randomly meet you at the airport, Abby! I hope you're having a good vacation!
It was lovely to meet you too!!!! We are definitely having a good time! ❤️❤️❤️
I for real like that last minute cut into your native advertisement way better than any TH-cam sponsor segment I’ve seen in months. Very entertaining. Excellent work!
I actually loved my old “shag” hair back in the day…lol.
Actually, there is an adorable girl who works at the whole foods I shop at and she has a RAT TAIL! LOL I was in awe of her bravery. She is adorable but it honestly has taken me a few weeks to get used to it 💕
I'd totally forgotten about the rat tail, I gagged a bit too.
I was born in 85' and I had the meanest mullet when I was younger. I'm talking feathered, long, sprayed to perfection with rave or aqua net. I wish the comment section could post pics. 😆
Video from You, Constance And Nicole all on one day!! My mom cut my older sister's hair into a mullet in the 90s when she was trying to do layers, it was hilarious, the was Much Denial.
I'm only 3 mins in and I'm already DYING. Your video essays are always so informative and so freaking funny! I'm an GenX/X-ennial, btw.
FOR THE HICCUPS: deep breath out, inhale as much as you can, hold it, then drink large gulps of water (while still holding your breath and tightening your stomach muscles). It works because it pushes the diaphragm back where it's supposed to be!
Sitting down to your videos always makes my days better. I always smile when you upload!
I have no idea why I am here. I am an not in to women's fashion history. I am not in to women's fashion. I am not in to men's fashion even, save for I wear what I want, and what I think looks good.....but as a Gen X'er Aussie bloke from the bush, who has a mullet, who's brothers had mullets, whose nephews have mullets, who in fact, just accepted everyone has a mullet sometimes, if they're lucky, I find the underappreciation of the magnificence and majesty of the mighty Mullet displayed here, to be disturbing and uncalled for.
The Mullet will never go out of fashion, it will be eternal, anyone baring one in times when it is consider unfashionable, is not so, but rather just ahead of the fashion curve, and will eventually be vindicated, when the style once more comes back in to fashion. Sheila's wear'em, blokes do, dogs can, as can horses, children can if their parents are cool and enlightened enough.
Everything, and everyone, can, if they're smart enough, wear a Mullet. Half my hair is missing... or potentially, could not be missing, but be the same hair I thought missing, which has migrated to my knuckles, back and backside. If I try to rock short back and sides, or just about ANY hairstyle out of a barbers book or magazine, all that anyone notices is my overt, and somewhat premature, loss of hair. If I rock my Mullet, everyone sees and notices the fact that I have a Mullet. No one comments on my thin, balding pate, my overly massive, exposed, hairless forehead, or any such thing. They might think it, probably DO.....but what they SAY is all about the MULLET.
What other hair style has that power? Well, perhaps if Tonsures were less ideologically weighted.... but they are... so there goes the only other contender.
Thus, it is a grave mistake to underestimate, and worse, underappreciate, the POWER of the MIGHTY MULLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@@AbbyCox See what depths of power lay hidden in cascading mane of the Mullet?
Of all the subjects you've delved, in all the videos you've ever shot and published, did you ever expect to make such a declaration, about a comment made on one, due to the subject being the humble Mullet?
I suspect not!
Mullets are like Spanish Inquisition!
Everyone expects them, actually, because they give plenty of notice, but they still have far greater power than most understand. I guess they're like magic mushrooms too, then in a way, but I'm not sure why I'm saying that, I guess it's the will of the Mullet.
If nothing else, I hope that perhaps you now have at least a slightly deeper appreciation for esoteric virtues the business/party conjoined coif.
I hate to tell you this, but we do notice and behind your back we whisper "Poor guy, his hair is slowly sliding backwards off his head." 😉
@@VeretenoVids Yet not to the front of my face, as you all feel free to with any other style.
THAT'S Mullet power.
Shags were always great. It was when the top turned into a super short men's haircut with long in the back that it turned into a mullet.
My hair is all bangs and short on the sides, with the back long, in a braid over my shoulder. I have the best of long and short hair, and can cut it all myself. I've had it that way for a very long time. Most people look better with some kind of hair around their face.
Thank you! Some here are conflating the two styles. They’re not the same.
The energy in this video is extraaa chaotic, and I love it!!
Thank you, Abby. I was waiting for this video since watching Brad's attempt.
The “Achy Breaky heart” had me bawling!!!!
Scandinavians calling it the hockey cut, Poland be like: Czeski piłkarz (Czech football player) 😂⚽
No, in Danish we 'blame' Swedes and German football players, not hockey.
This looks like so much fun!
Kitschy and educational! Nailed it, Abby! 🤩😍
Markie Post's mullet in Night Court would be my mullet goals. 😊
I'm sharing this with my friends in a specific contingent of the punk community, for they have dutifully loved homemade mullets for ages.
What?! The mullet is back. Hell no! Loved the video; you can take any topic and make a great video because you possess many talents. Love you, Abby!
Have a great vacation,
xoxo's Sandie
I just love the way you edit and do your videos! You are always entertaining and have a great sense of humor. And then the sound effects, music and images you add really make it even funnier. This one was hysterical! I was laughing right along with you.
Also a topic I never knew I wanted to know about am now happy I do.
I like the mullet, there were so many styles of that cut....waaay back when I was younger so much younger than today
When 20s bobs came into style, the hairdos with longer hair were called "cootie garages". Source: Cheaper By The Dozen, Frank B Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
I am planning on cutting all my hair short and I was thinking of cutting it all of but now that you said no rat tails I’m starting to wonder maaaayyybeee just maaayyybee I could leave a piece of hair long just because you said not to.
I found an ancestor in my family tree who was listed as a hairdresser in the 1700’s. Poor guy!
I love how you reference astrology! Maybe a history of astrology video? Or maybe how it influenced people of the past vs today 🤔
Mad max predicted the final resurgence before extinction
I recently discovered your channel, you are so delightsome!
The Chaotic Genius that imbues this episode!!! As for Danielle ... I'm having flash backs to Walter the Watermelon from How to Cake It with Yolanda Gampp. LOVED this - all of this!
Ahhh, the good old 80's "Hockey hairdo" (Swedish) or "Hockey hair" (Danish) 😁
I've never heard it called "Hockey hair" in Danish and Den Danske Ordbog doesn't mention it as a synonym either. I only know "svenskergarn" and "Bundesligahår". Where have you heard or seen "hockeyhår" being used?
Well, it's called "hockeysveis" in Norwegian at least. Swedish has a similar word. Maybe it was partially adopted into Danish too, but also not entirely, because making fun of the swedes was funnier.
@@frostflaggermus Hockey frilla.
@@MajaBiana Might be that I somehow mixed up Bundesliga hår and hockey hår. It does make more sense since hockey wasn't a big thing in Denmark in the 80's
Sorry, my friends and I may have manifested this. In our defense, my Gen X friends and this older millennial were hoping the 80s hair that came back was the over hairsprayed, gravity defying dos, not the mullet.
Ah. Helmet head. Made up mostly of perms, curling, back combing, and freeze spray.
@@itzel1735 precisely!
My friends actually rock it in HS, and I have warmed up to it by association lol
Curtain bangs is what came back. 🥺 Hate the hair in the eyes look. Curl and spray them things into submission girls!!!
I have several pictures of myself at various kids' birthday parties in the late 80s, early 90s and about half the girls (me included), had their bangs styled straight upwards, so it framed the face in a half circle kinda way.
Anyone remember that, or was it a local thing? It actually didn't look that bad, once you get over the ridiculousness factor.
Haven't seen anyone do this recently, though.
@@raraavis7782 At my school it was sort of like that. The bang was divided- The top half was curled up. The bottom half curled down. And the you did a curl to right and left - like a box of curls. Then you combed and teased it to get a “puff” - then you sprayed the puff with AquaNet, and it lasted all day. The other look was more of a triangle shape going to the side. All types of bangs involved some curling of bang hair backward. I had to endure 4th grade without the bang. By 5th grade my mother finally relented. It was totally my Anne of Green Gables puff sleeve dress moment. 😁
I cut my hair into a mullet yesterday while home sick from school. I love it