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I remember someone else posting about their unintentional mullet. I've been growing for about 3 months now and a mullet is developing. Do I wait it out?
Wait it out. I think people worry too much about the "mullet". You probably don't have anything close to a mullet. Just Google mullet and see some of the pics that come up. Remember the hair at the base of your skull is most likely the same length as the rest of your hair. It just has a head start down your back. Not to mention that you could end up with page boy hair by cutting too much in the back.
good luck,
Bruce
I also was worried about the unintentional "mullet," so I googled the term and found enough pictures to make me realize that the mullet is a style that, like many other styles, must be created and maintained through trimming.
As Bruce said, it's not that the hair at the base of your scalp is truly any longer than your bangs, it's just further down and thus APPEARS to be longer (in fact, many haircuts leave you with hair that is actually loner on top than at the base of the skull]. Over time, this difference in starting points is what gives hair that natural "V" shape in the back.
Good luck, and remember that you are [probably] your own worst critic.
Mouse
for those worried about aullet my MPB has gotten to
be enough that I let the hair grow I will have a "skullet"
and the only way I can avoid having a skullet is by keeping my head compleatly shaved or hair very short.
so if you look at it that way a mullet is not so bad after all.
Btw I am not worried about it if I am ment to have a skullet or be bald so be it
Yeah that was probably me. I´m alive and kicking in mullet land. Just wait it out and when everything is starting to get longer, cut back a few cms every third month. At leats that´s the advice I got. :)
"Just wait it out and when everything is starting to get longer, cut back a few cms every third month. At leats that´s the advice I got."
If you cut back a few centimeters every 3rd month, you'll be cutting off just about everything that grew in those 3 months. I'd say just avoid the scissors altogether until you've achieved some really considerable length and then, if absolutely necessary, trim conservatively where needed.
What you have is almost certainly not a mullet. Unless you are keeping the top, front and sides trimmed it can't be a mullet.
Mullet: business in the front. party in the back
What you probably have: Party all over!
Most people I find don't call it amullet either, so the "teasing" factor isn't a problem. Recite the above to the confused ones and then flip your hair over your eyes. "See? No mullet."
Here's to party in the front as well,
-Christian Epp