The unhaircut is a nontraditional haircut in that it's not designed from the perspective of what would look good when the person is sitting upright, looking straight ahead, as all haircuts are today. Instead, the unhaircut can be performed with the cuttee in any position -- lying down, with the head tilted to the side, or upside-down. Once the hair is in position, it's simply grabbed at a certain point and hacked off, so that when the cuttee resumes an upright position, the hair falls into a semi-arbitrary, "wrong"-looking configuration.
This haircut is a lot like the emo haircut, except it's less studied and will not necessarily have to obscure the face or be dyed black or excessively styled. I imagine the hair just hanging there, in whatever shape the cut gives it. And I think the hair will be longer than most emo haircuts are--even on men, who might wear it shoulder-length. The unhaircut's other antecedent is the grown-out look that's so popular among the New York private school boys and their ilk across America. I'm sure they have a name for it, but I have no idea what it could be. The "prep school mafia hairstyle"? Anyone know?
The unhaircut says, "I realize that everything is just a construct, including haircuts," and in that way it's very postmodern. Yet ultimately the unhaircut is post-postmodern, because it makes no distinction between hair and haircut: they are one and the same.
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