MOLI VIEW™

Bleach it colorless, dye it black, grow it, blow it out, tease it, destroy it, and forget it. It's a hairy full circle once again. The tightest, skinniest lip-service jeans, lots of guy-liner and lip-gloss and hairspray. Luckily flat irons are now readily available — they really help tame the frizz factor that wasn't as easily gotten rid of in the '80s. No need to use the ironing board, as was done in the '60s. Long hair on men is back and big!

There are combos of new wave meets glam rock 'dos. Emo rockers and hipsters are sporting cock rock hair, cock rockers sporting new wave hair — it's all one big tangle! Rockers with beards and 'fros, rappers with long straight weaves. Flavor Flav on his show Flavor of Love has the highest flat-top hair — with his own flavor, of course — that I have seen since Kid N Play!

Big hair has cometh in all shapes and textures. The afro is and has been back, bigger than in a long time, for all races. There's mid-length skater and surfer hair on young men and pre-teen young boys all over the world; it's like stepping into the movie set of Dog Town and Z Boys.

The thing is, back when hippies grew their hair in the '60s, they grew it in protest of lots of things. It was a political statement of civil rights, peace, dodging the draft. Bikers, rock bands, students — everyone was growing it. Having short hair was being a part of the system, long hair was anti-system. Later, when '80s glam rock took it to the next level with super-feminine makeup, it seemed long hair was less of a political statement and more of a teetering line of a femme style coupled with overt sexuality. Straight-up metal and grunge took it back to more of the classic hippy style. Today we see all of these happening at once.

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