“Under-cut” hair-style takes a turn towards the Tibetan monk look

Let me preface what I’m about to say with this: There are a lot of people I know who fall under the following criteria, it’s absolutely nothing personal, and I like you all as people, but what you’re doing is buffoonery, and you need to re-evaluate your life.

I guess the problem started back in late 2013, right after Macklemore became a pop-culture fixation, and everyone started loosely interpreting the “under-cut” hair style (originally popularized by hipsters).

It has since devolved into several variants, as well as merging with another puzzling hairstyle, to create an absolutely mind boggling effect on primarily, young white males’ scalps.

Its two most extreme deviants are The Tibetan Monk, and the Cranial Circumcision.

Until the good folks at Merriam-Webster consider this their jurisdiction, I will try my best at defining them.

The Tibetan Monk: In which the wearer probably received a decent rendition of this haircut at its conception, but the recipient has since either stopped combing/gelling his hair and/or it’s now slightly too long, creating an unkempt mop on the top of his head.

The Cranial Circumcision: Looks like what it sounds like. This person wanted to get in on the Macklemore haircut, but his hair was a little long, and he had a friend cut his hair for him. They cut it slightly too low, creating an odd, roughly inch-wide lip around the head, usually right above the ears.

The second hairstyle I referred to is hard to describe, since I don’t want to dignify it by calling it a ponytail. Do you remember Alfalfa, from the Little  Rascals? Just imagine if he grew his hair a few inches, but that one part still sticks up, so instead of slicking his hair down he was like, “Screw it,” and just put it in a tiny-tail in that same spot. Again, I blame the hipsters for this.

Still with me?

Now take those two ridiculous concepts and smash them together as if you were a Marvel/Disney executive. It’s not a perfect science, but the usual effect is disturbing when seen on a mostly-grown man. I’m not even going to attempt to define it, I couldn’t do it justice, and I hope you’re never faced with the uncomfortable circumstance of wondering whether or not to tell someone that their hair looks like someone tried to fix a haircut that a five-year-old attempted to do themself.