What is the name of the hairstyle that purposely looks unkempt?

[BurtWorm]

The one that 20-something men and women alike get when they want to look like fashionable 20-somethings. It looks like an artful incompetent hacked at the wearer's head. All sorts of loose ends and spikes straggle hither and thither. It's a corporate "punk" look--much more tidy, though, and clean cut.

(I'm trying to describe someone who's got the hair style to my brother, and I'd like not to use too many words.)

[GOPisEvil]

1. I just call it "permanent bed head".

[BurtWorm]

7. You obviously know what I'm talking about!

;)

Maybe that's what it's called? "Yo, Mr. Anton. Give me a bedhead, no 'burns!"

[GOPisEvil]

10. I live in Austin. Home of the slacker look.

Seems like every male hipster wanna be has that "style".

[BurtWorm]

13. Do you dare ask them how they ask to have their hair done?

Do you say, "Gimme a Ashton Kutcher"?

[GOPisEvil]

15. Now that's a good question.

I guess that's one way of going about it.

[trof]

2. What we used to call "The Windblown Look"?

[BurtWorm]

9. Yeah!

I think everyone knows the look I'm talking about!

[JAbuchan08]

3. "unkempt? fashionably tousled?(sp)

spikiy-ish? Contrived bedhead? It doesn't really have a name I don't think.

[shoelace414]

4. the Jimmy Fallon

[wtmusic]

5. JFL

"Just f*cked look"

[BurtWorm]

16. That's plausible.

:thumbsup:

[MissMillie]

6. "Wash and Go Hair"

that's how I describe mine

[BurtWorm]

11. You wear your hair that way?

Does the stylist just leave little pieces hanging out here and there without your asking?

[tjwmason]

8. A bloody mess?

Succinct and to the point. :shrug:

[BurtWorm]

14. Is this a British phenomenon as well?

Usually hair like this starts in Britain and migrates via MTV. But I can't say I've seen a lot of Brits with this look. It's very cutesified punk.

[tjwmason]

18. There is some of it - yes.

There is a certain irony when many of these folk (more men than women over here) spend hours in front of a mirror making their hair look correctly messy. :banghead:

[BurtWorm]

20. Correctly messy!

That describes it!

[Burma Jones]

12. Tousled? n/t

[Misunderestimator]

17. Like mine?

:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

19. Your hair is like that?

Your hair style, from what I remember, is not as mannered as the style I'm talking about. This is a look that says something like "gamine" or "urchin." But it's not a gamine style, like Jean Seberg's. It's longer and less kempt.

[Misunderestimator]

23. Ah... no, mine is short.

For reference... (blotting out my face since my newest resolution is to never post my pic online again):

[BurtWorm]

24. You're more of a gamine, I think.

Nice style! :thumbsup:

[WePurrsevere]

26. Umm... how about Shag? Gypsy? Pixie?

Of course those are what we called them in the 70's :D ... but they're all tossled with lots of layers.

Sounds sort of like a style I've seen on Meg Ryan maybe... but I think that looked similar to a gypsy.

The gypsy is usually medium to short length but can be longer. It's rather sassy and looks like someone has just run their fingers through your hair. Up along the face it's cut at an angle to frame the face.

The shag was similar to a gypsy but looked like someone had let the under back grow up a bit... think Shirley Jones in The Partridege Family.

Pixie is short and cute... think Twiggie or Shirley McClain.

Of course these styles have been updated a bit and some names have been changed to make it seem like they're new and different. Also different areas and heck even hair salons may call them by different names. Another factor that may add to some confusion is that hairstylists and customers both may combine different or modify styles (BTDT).

Perhaps if you can think of a famous person that has the same basic cut and post a picture it would help a bit more or there are a few websites that show hairstyles... there are some sites you can even cyber try them on for fun. ;)

[BurtWorm]

29. I always think of Jane Fonda in Klute when I think of the shag.

But I have seen Meg Ryan with this kind of hairstyle. It's hard to find an example on line. Maybe it doesn't have a name. Maybe it's not really a style but a self-style? There's a blonde woman in a Tic Tac commercial who wears her hair this way, the ad that sells Tic Tacs as the non-Altoid ("You want to freshen your breath, not punish it for being bad.").

[tjdee]

21. The Brad Pitt?

I started to notice it after Brad Pitt did "Se7en" or "Seven" or whatever.

That's what me and all the people I know call it--"His hair is like Brad Pitt's in Seven" or "My hair looks like Brad Pitt's in Seven now".

:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

22. Brad Pitt's hair looks more imitation Richard Hell

than this style I'm talking about, which is not supposed to be threatening. The poster who mentioned Jimy Fallon above is right on the mark. I've seen him with that style. It's the kind of look someone on MTV would wear. It says "slacker" more than "punk." Not "I don't give a f*** what you think of my hair," but "Some day I've got to look for that comb." (Actually, it really says, "I paid a whole lot of money to look like I don't care what I look like.")

[Enraged_Ape]

25. I've always called it "The Surfer"

But then, I grew up on the beaches of Southern California.

[marzipanni]

27. Only their hairdresser knows for sure...

[Felix Mala]

28. The Spike

[Redstone]

30. It's the "Irritate the Old People(TM)" style.

Redstone

[BiggJawn]

31. "The Coffee Under-Acheiver"

My daughter tells me that's called "Bed Head" around her salon.