If your sons have moustaches and mullets ...

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... are you, like me, longing for them to go out of fashion? My eldest (21) has had his mo since last Movember and my youngest (19) grew his a short while later. The mullets have been with us for a few months too. I guess some people must find them attractive, but I'm not in that camp and would love to have my clean-cut boys back.🙂

I think it's a variation but no way would my boys call it that! I think it is closer to an Alpaca.

Yeah all the girls seem to have long shiny hair with a centre parting. More or less the same as me 30 years ago!

Paul Calf vibes!

It’s so weird, but also kind of cool on certain guys.
Hate the beard and man bun look they did for so long.
You have to be a certain type of person to have this and to carry it off

I’ve forbidden my 15 year old DS from growing a mullet or moustache - and I’m usually more of a ‘you want blue hair, ooh funky, I’ll get you some dye’ kind of person/parent. I ‘won’ by showing him a photo of his dad in the 80’s with a mullet and moustache, giving his passport photo the full 70’s porn star stereotype look 😂

This look is just wrong, on everyone, end of.

I find facial hair on teenage boys, and young men if I'm honest, to look really odd. You need to be a bit distinguished to pull it off!

But - I actually quite like a mullet, and I do like that my boys are happy to experiment at bit. I have three, 14-17, and they are lovely. Just lovely. But they do not push many boundaries at all, and as a former teenage hellbeast I'm just a bit worried they're saving it all up!

A mate if my son had one and it’s awful - worse than the ones last time around in that this is literally shaved on the sides and it all looks square and angles. But lots of men’s hairstyles are inexplicable considering how unflattering they are!

All of mine have facial hair, all with moustaches and beards ranging from the cultivated stubble look (with subtler mo) to full on mo’s and beards. I don’t have any that have mo’s without beards, because I didn’t bring up wannabe 70’s porn stars🤣🤣🤣. Similarly, some have short hair, some long hair, but no mullets as they are not cruel enough to make poor old mum have to bleach her eyeballs🤣.

That's fashion for you, I guess. I work around a lot of student-age people and to me the hairstyles aren't really mullets as such; they're more a kind of pre-mullet. Shaving the bit from the temples to just behind the ears, but never letting the rest get long enough to make you look like Billy Ray Cyrus. Someone on this thread has described it as 'alpaca head', which is hilarious and pretty accurate. Personally I find it funny that the kind of look we'd all have run a mile from when I was early 20s is now the height of fashion, but it's not something I lose any sleep over. Our lad has a 'tache and it looks pretty good on him.

I agree that most fashions look awful. The latest fashion for secondary school girls around here is to wear their uniforms with long white socks over black tights. Hot, sweaty and very unflattering.

It’s strange to think that in the 90s, socks were considered faintly embarrassing, so had to be kept black and as short as possible. Long white socks would have been ridiculed.

I'm quite enjoying my 18yo's moustache and mullet combo. It suits his general style, and I really like that he's exploring self-expression in an un-selfconscious way

We have the farmer mullet look too. Mullet, wrap round mirror sunglasses, Grassmen polo shirt(collar up)Shorts or jeans and rigger boots. They turn up to sports day like that, boss the tug of war and wander off like rural Clint Eastwoods.

I've taught teenagers for a million years and I've never seen as many hairbrushes on the desks of boys as I do now. They check themselves on their phone cameras and brush away

My 28 yo has a moustache and a beard. While he does not have a mullet, he does comb his hair forward so it is falling over his forehead. I just miss seeing his beautiful face. I do not know why he feels he should be hiding it behind all that hair.😩

The mullet is only attractive when they dress to suit it, a bit quirky, artsy, or edgy.

Mullets and tracksuits with north face puffer coats (or similar)!makes me automatically assume they are an absolute bellend.