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Throwback Thursday: Five Years of Mullets

August 1, 2019 by WendyB

My “Never Is the Next New Thing™” fashion rule states that the most provocative/grating/startling looks — the ones that make you say, “I would NEVER wear that!” — are the ones most likely to become trends, big or small.

A corollary to “Never Is the Next New Thing™” is that after you fall for a look you once loathed, you develop fashion amnesia and can’t remember life before. In fact, I only recently learned I had “Never Is the Next New Thing™”-ed myself when it comes to my mullet haircut! Another blog post took me back to a July 2011 story I did for the Huffington Post about high/low — aka mullet — hemlines for dresses. I was all over the trend when it came to dresses, but, I declared, “Mullet hairstyles are still cringe-worthy.”

When I re-read that, I was like …

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… because by 2014, I was showing off a mullet cut by my hair guru, Keith Carpenter.

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I’ve stuck with the style ever since. Here’s the spring 2019 iteration.

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Dragged myself out of bed for #mullet touchup by @keithcarpenterhair … going back to bed with better hair #hairdid #mulletmonday #mullethairdontcare #haircut #hairinspo #accomplishmentoftheday #hairstyle #hairinspiration #undertheweather #nofilter #thisis50

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I even did a YouTube video about how much I love my mullet ‘do.

So now I’m cringing over my 2011 use of “cringe-worthy. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. Take my advice and never say never when it comes to fashion!

Check out my other throwback hairstyles:

  • 1990s pixie
  • Permed in 1995
  • Short in the back with length on the top in 2001
  • A shag, I guess?
  • Natural waves in 2005
  • 2006 bob
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Filed Under: About Wendy, Fashion, hair, mullets, never is the next new thing, pictures of me, Throwback Thursday Tagged With: mullet haircut, mullet monday, mullets

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  1. Sheila (of Ephemera) says

    August 2, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    What a fun walk-back through all your hairstyles – that is hilarious that you NITNNT’d yourself on the mullets! It is a great style on you!

    And here I’ve been trying to get my slightly wavy hair to be MORE wavy – I’ll trade you!

    • WendyB says

      August 2, 2019 at 10:41 pm

      I was STUNNED when I read my 2011 post!

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