Boy Scene Hair
For any of you out there who are foolish enough to think that scene hair is a fashion, think again! More and more it appears to be a lifestyle as opposed to a hairstyle. It won’t be going anywhere soon so you might as well resolve yourself to making friends with scene or taking the next ship up to outer space. Too funny, but depending on your age you might feel like you are in the far reaches of the cosmos right here and now. There appears to be a well founded evolution to scene hair and it has been here over the last few decades. What started out as Punk in the late 70’s and early 80’s evolved to Grunge somewhere in the late 80’s to early 90’s. Grunge then morphed and mutated into Goth which in turn gave birth to Scene. Get it? It’s easy really, once you draw a family tree. Punk begat Grunge and Grunge begat Goth and Goth begat Scene. Sounds like a distorted biblical genealogy doesn’t it? It just might be, depending on which evolutionary path you’re on. At any rate, it has been here a while, it continues to grow (someone must have fed it after midnight) so try to understand it.
There is short scene hair, medium scene hair and long scene hair. You will see boy scene hair and girl scene hair and there are no rules as to who wears which length and when. It is known for its jagged, choppy over the eye bangs. Scene hair is ultra straight and puffy (in past lives known as “teased”) and as for color, well, that is where conformity ends. In the beginning it was black with chunks of neon colors randomly placed. Recently bleached blonde has become an acceptable alternative to the black foundation of the style. Chunky colors are no longer mandatory. Quite often scene kids will forego the black dye or chemical bleach but may have some semi-permanent chunks of bright color. If you are still unable to identify scene hair there are scene hair pictures you can glance through on an online scene hair gallery. At the same time you will be introduced to scene makeup. Look at the eyes. If you spot heavy black eyeliner or eyeshadow you are in the right place. Oh, and don’t forget to take a look at scene fashion. You will need to learn to identify a “scene” if you happen to meet one on the street.
As for how to control them, I haven’t found a way yet. If I do I will surely pass it along. In the meantime, since they are living among us, you may have some options which should tide you over until I can come up with a better idea. You could always try to fool them and go scene yourself with scene hair and scene makeup. But since you don’t know the language, that might be too risky. Or, you can ignore them and hope they go away. (I tried that with my bills and it doesn’t work!) It just might be in your best interest to reach out in peace. After all, scene may not be all that’s lurking about out there and we may need them on our side. Who knows from whence the next invasion will come?
