Punk Hair Gallery

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Punk hair styles are the ultimate in personal expression, and this punk hair gallery can help interested individuals understand the wide range of punk styles available.

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About Punk Styles

Punk hair styles are hard to define – in fact, what is punk to one person may be mild to another, and ultimately, it is up to each individual to define what is punk to them. There are several characteristics, however, that most punk styles share, including:

  • Wild Colors: Many punk hair styles have unexpected and outrageous colors, including vibrant reds, pinks, blues, greens, or other hues that are typically not natural.
  • Unexpected Shapes: Punk hair is often teased, shaved, combed, and otherwise styled into unusual and startling shapes. Mohawks are a classic example of this type of unique shape, but any sort of spikes, tendrils, and other unusual shapes can be found in punk hair.
  • Unexpected Styles: Any hair style that is truly unexpected could be categorized as a type of punk look. This may be a combination of unusual bangs with isolated curls, partially shaved styles, or any look that wouldn’t normally be considered a standard hair style.

Overall Punk Style

While punk hair styles may share these types of characteristics, the characteristics themselves do not define whether or not the hair is truly punk. Most individuals who wear punk hair styles also embrace other elements of punk culture, such as heavy metal or punk rock music, tattoos, layered jewelry (usually metallic or leather), outrageous makeup, body piercings, and unusual clothing choices. At the same time, however, just as the hair style cannot be easily defined, punk culture can vary widely as well.

Styling Punk Hair

Most people assume that punk hair styles have a single look, but in fact hair that can be classified as punk can be styled in a number of ways, and it may be long, short, layered, teased, or otherwise coiffed differently from day to day. Punk hair can be wrapped into elaborate updo styles, trimmed into fun bobs, or straightened into sleek sedu hair styles, all without losing the elements that make it punk.

Punk Hair Gallery

These pictures represent a fraction of the wide range of punk styles available; click on each picture to be taken to additional articles with related information.

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i like the bright long mohawk.. (gurl akuh)

-- Contributed by: emogurl

I love the second picture! I want to meet a girl like that! (I'm a guy)

-- Contributed by: Adrien

The bright long mohawk is ...in smart i got one but not that long HAHA

-- Contributed by: heroin bob
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