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Mohawk making a huge return

Written by Helen Bain

Mohawk the style, is enjoying a comeback;

In fact the Mohawk never really disappeared, writes Helen Bain. And it has a big advantage. If you're having a bad-hair day, who can tell?

WE thought we'd seen the last of the mohwaks or mohicans, but it seems they just won't go away. At first it looked like the influence of English football captain David Beckham would be a fleeting, circa World Cup, hair fad but if anything, the mohawk is growing.

David Beckham below,can be blamed for re-starting the mohawk trend;

From the Beckham-style faux- mohawk, through the low-rise but distinct Travis Bickle (as seen in Taxi Driver) style, to the full-on, stand-up, fluorescent-coloured punk-style mohawk, the style is here to stay.

Buoy hairdressers' senior stylist Michael Beel says the mohawk is enjoying a huge return.

"A lot of guys come in looking for a soft Mohican, the shorter wee one," Beel (at 25 way too young to remember the first-time-round punk-era mohawks) says. Beel prefers the softer version--sometimes termed the "fauxhawk" or " business mohawk "--than the more extreme punk variety.

"For the full-on mohawk you need to dress the whole bit to carry it off. You can't really have one if you are a corporate-suit wearer. This is a mohawk for the masses I've done little mohicans on doctors and lawyers," Beel says.

"You can just mess them up so they look like an ordinary textured cut, or you can put some product in it and push it up. You can disguise it more easily, so it's good for people who don't want a mohawk all the time."

Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom

However traditional mohawk - wearers tend to be highly dismissive of more recent, low-key imitators. Wellington tattooist Stu McKenzie, spotted with his rat Kristov (as in the vodka brand) in Cuba St, has had his naturally red mohawk for about five years.

He was born in 1979 at about the time old-time punks were first getting mohawks--he favours old-fashioned punk recipes for styling mohawks--gelatine, soap and eggs over modern hair products.

But Beckham isn't the only celebrity to sport a mohawk lately; they're being spotted on the heads of sportspeople, actors and rock stars everywhere.

Wellington tattooist Stu McKenzie, who says: `Mine is nothing to do with some stupid soccer stud I hate all those little fake mohawks everywhere. They're such poseurs.'

Pointy heads: Rock dude Robbie Williams, lacquered up to a fine peak;

Jockey Noel Harris, when he rode Mohican Brave in the New Zealand Derby.
Orlando Bloom (prompted by Lord of the Rings co-star Liv Tyler, who thought it looked cute).
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, when the Peppers played here in December.
Maybe he was copying singer Pink, who sported a mo' when she was here in November.
World-label designer Francis Hooper.
All Black Tom Willis.
The Osbournes rock brat Jack Osbourne.
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
Actors Jude Law and Ryan Phillippe.
Singer Robbie Williams.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:20

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Mohawk making a huge return

Mohawk the style, is enjoying a comeback;