{"id":31936,"date":"2016-02-16T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=31936"},"modified":"2016-03-11T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:09:58","slug":"living-the-mullet-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/living-the-mullet-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Mullet Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the popular misuse of the word &#8220;literally&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/jewel-of-the-month-literally-a-necklace\/\" target=\"_blank\">is mildly annoying<\/a>.\u00a0 Other times, it&#8217;s super annoying, as in this Grammys tweet from MTV.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31938\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zendaya.jpg\" alt=\"zendaya\" width=\"498\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zendaya.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zendaya-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I read that, I was like &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zANvYB93u2g\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the actress\/singer did look cute with a mullet hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 376px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/510726016\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 157.978723% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/510726016?et=2hU6xKd_T4JkqjK4nHv8cA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=h-NKRxpVTbLFa36wC7NVollhxd7scllaX0MjulPGl6I=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"376\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0But she&#8217;s definitely <em>not<\/em> the only one who can work the look. Rihanna looked as sexy as ever when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.co.uk\/beauty-hair\/news\/a22555\/rihanna-mullet-hairstyle-fashion-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">she had a mullet in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 450px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/179496807\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 132.000000% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/179496807?et=xwgqAzGVTORTRDDOTUHIYw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=m5hzW957RstdtMy0929pXu6hHWe-ZWd1jUr_PD3iKeU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"450\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>Rapper Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord looks ah-mazaing in a much more extreme mullet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31939\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31939\" class=\"wp-image-31939\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"yolandi\" width=\"498\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yolandi.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolandi Visser. I heart her.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the mullet worn by Lady Gaga&#8217;s old friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/ready-for-my-people-of-walmart-photo-op\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Starlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 416px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/482086505\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 142.788462% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/482086505?et=SbKpbtiSRzBVKaJntkcJfQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=IDj8tw3UfZ5rZ7K6tMlUkNPMqjZXpNqatcT3oqN4hkY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"416\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>And then, of course, there&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYv7qSDIRRY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>I think I look pretty good in the hairstyle I&#8217;ve had for <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ihog-gets-haircut-vicariously\/\" target=\"_blank\">years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31940\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletoct2014.jpg\" alt=\"mulletoct2014\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletoct2014.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletoct2014-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletoct2014-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Fashion Police would say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bitch_stole_my_look\" target=\"_blank\">Bitch stole my look!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31948\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletprofile.jpg\" alt=\"mulletprofile\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletprofile.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletprofile-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mulletprofile-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not really, though. Zendaya loves to change up her &#8216;do &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-beauty\/news\/zendaya-coleman-says-changing-hairstyles-are-just-wigs-video--2015303\" target=\"_blank\">with wigs<\/a>. I&#8217;m living the mullet life with my real hair!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Zendaya was inspired by this weekend&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/01\/t-magazine\/the-everlasting-power-of-the-shag-haircut.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Style Magazine story<\/a> on &#8220;the bad girl haircut,&#8221; which it called a shag. Several of the examples mentioned can also be called mullets. Among those are Jane Fonda&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067309\/\" target=\"_blank\">Klute<\/a><\/em> haircut.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31943\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31943\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/klute-600.jpg\" alt=\"Fonda in Klute.\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/klute-600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/klute-600-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fonda in Klute.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed I can&#8217;t find a page I ripped out from another magazine recently, which recommended a shaggy mullet &#8230; as long as it <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> look like Jane Fonda&#8217;s in <em>Klute<\/em>. Another example of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/never-is-the-next-new-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Never Is the Next New Thing<\/a>\u2122&#8221;?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the popular misuse of the word &#8220;literally&#8221; is mildly annoying.\u00a0 Other times, it&#8217;s super annoying, as in this Grammys tweet from MTV. When I read that, I was like &#8230; Yes, the actress\/singer did look cute with a mullet hairstyle. Embed from Getty Images \u00a0But she&#8217;s definitely not the only one who can work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/living-the-mullet-life\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,589,70,570,479],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-grammys-2","9":"category-hair","10":"category-mullets","11":"category-never-is-the-next-new-thing","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31936"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32150,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31936\/revisions\/32150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}