Punky Hairstyles For Girls

Punky Hairstyles for Girls

Punk culture arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a rejection of mainstream society and government. In "Pretty in Punk," Lauraine LeBlanc writes "Punks protested against the constraints imposed by conventional norms," expressing their disapproval through music and fashion. For the first time, many women found a music scene where they were not simply sex symbols and their fashion sense was often androgynous. Women manipulated their hair with dye and gels and sometimes shaved it all off. Modern punk hair cuts borrow from the same basic styles of that era and are often colorfully dyed, dyed black or bleached.

Short Bleached Hair

Penelope Houston, who led the band "Avengers," wore her hair in this style in the late 1970s. Women mix developer and bleach powder to get the result of light blonde or white hair, and the cut can vary from looking like a male businessman's cut, the way Houston wore it, to something a bit longer and spiked with gel.

Mohawks and Fauxhawks

Mohawks are traditionally created by shaving the sides of the head, leaving a strip of hair from the face to the neck down the center of her head. That hair is usually spiked into multiple spikes, or gelled straight up. For black women, sometimes the mohawk is picked out. Fauxhawks are less extreme versions, in which the hair is left longer on the sides and may be teased in the longer center strip or spiked less dramatically.

Spiked

Hair of any length and cut can be made punk by gelling chunks into outward spikes. Some choose a few sections of hair to spike and gel other parts down, others spike the entire head in all different directions.

Shaved

Another particularly ambiguous punk look for women is a neatly shaved head. Simply, women may shave their entire head, defying the norm of women wearing their hair long. Some women tattoo their heads or wear multiple piercings on their ears, which are made more of a focus without hair blocking the view.

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