Recently, a strange phenomenon has gripped the students of Boulder High School by the throat. A mysterious occurrence, known as buzzing your hair, bleaching it, and letting it grow into a weird limbo-like state otherwise known as “frosted tips.” Though it might not have been intentional, this hairstyle and many other fresh cuts have resurfaced, like the notorious boxy bowl cut and the Wolf cut.
Frosted tips aren’t exactly bad, other than them inducing extreme flashbacks to 2015, and many people have the capacity to pull off the style. It is, however, very interesting to see this style resurface. However, the most important question of all time according to everyone, (don’t fact-check that), is why these hairstyles are taking hold of everyone.
There is surely no chance that every super deep alt teenage boy at Boulder High had the same genius idea of bleaching their buzzcuts and letting them grow out. These frosted tips are likely due to the fast-paced nature of social media trends which easily influence the youth.
Some people hold a distaste for this rapid fad-chasing lifestyle, but I personally love it. People are finding incredible outlets for self-expression, and if that expression comes in the form of a One Direction-esque hairstyle, who am I to judge? I love Zayn! Bring back the bowl cut, who cares! If you like it then that’s really all that matters, and if anyone ever tells you otherwise, just remind them that if they don’t like it, they should just be grateful that it’s not their hair.
Regardless of the very obvious trendy hairstyles around the school, Boulder High students seem to have their own preferences around hair. After a short survey consisting of 6 people, we got some insight into what hairstyles are actually trending.
We asked students, (and one teacher), what they thought of certain hairstyles based on previous suggestions, and what we got were some strong opinions. One sentiment came from Liz McLaughlin (‘25) about raccoon stripes. She said the hairstyle’s “slayage” comes from the outfit: “If you’re wearing like an eclectic, kind of like tight fitting outfit it looks really good, but any other outfit, I feel like it looks terrible.” McLaughlin’s opinion highlights how often a hairstyle can either compliment a look in its entirety or just straight-up disrespect it. Furthermore, when asked what her favorite hairstyle was, McLaughlin said her own haircut, the shag.
Another hot-take comes from a teacher from Boulder High’s own social studies department, Ben Hesse. When shown a picture of a shag-haircut (not McLaughlin), Hesse said short and simply, “lots of layers, bangs, and attitude.” Even our humble faculty has a thing or two to say about popular hairstyles. Additionally, during our interview with Hesse, he mentioned the bowl cut as a highlighted hairstyle.
Other honorable mentions are mullets, man buns, face frames, buzzcuts, and neon-dyed hair. At the end of the day do what you want with your hair! It’s your hair for a reason! No hate. This was just an interesting experiment to see what’s really growing on student’s minds about hair.
