Gentler take on mullet has flowed over shoulders at Winter Olympics and is now tossed on red carpets
Hair cut ideas are typically drummed up in the salon, but recently a more unconventional source of inspiration has appeared: the vegetable aisle.
“Lettuce hair” is trending. A gentler take on a traditional mullet, the new salad style consists of more subtle differences in the length between the back, sides and top of the hair. Lettuce hair features a loose and often wavy top, softly tapered sides and a feathery tail that skims the back of the neck, resembling leafy greens.
For the Wuthering Heights press tour, Jacob Elordi toned down his on-screen regency cut, tapering the sides but keeping the windswept top and tail, bringing to mind a head of romaine lettuce. The wavy locks of Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie could be mistaken for a curled endive, while the figure skater Ilia Malinin’s butter-lettuce locks add extra drama to the Quad God’s dizzying axels.
The salad style stems from the world of ice hockey, where players widely embraced the mullet during the 70s and 80s. Despite the mullet’s demise in the 90s, hockey players were slow to ditch “the party at the back” and instead toned it down, resulting in more modern lettuce locks.
