(All photos submitted by Kaleigha Cramer)Īccording to the public Facebook group supporting Ezra’s journey, Cramer posted, “Ezra has always had long hair and most recently within the last year, has decided to have it cut into a mullet – just like his favorite singers: Morgan Wallen, Joe Diffie, and Blake Shelton. “And he’s the only one from Alabama in the finals.” “We had some photos that went viral in July… Several people after the photos went viral say that ‘you have to enter him in this’,” said Ezra’s mother, Kaleigha Cramer. That’s down from the initial 500 applicants and a first-round cut down to 100 kids. And a 7-year-old in Arab, Alabama, is using his to compete in a national championship and “shake the hate.”įairview Elementary student Ezra Cramer is officially in the home stretch of the USA Mullet Championship, an online contest to find the best mullets in the United States.Įzra is in the final round of competition with just 24 other competitors standing in his way. ![]() It’s a distinct haircut with many nicknames, but one definitive name is known by all: The mullet. Even if it looks like a Roman helmet covered with chinchilla fur.ARAB, Ala. The truth is, a person's hair should look exactly as they please. Knowing a backwards compliment when he heard one, he wrinkled his nose. "Your hair actually looks really good," I said. The other day, right out of the shower, he pushed his hair back and it actually stayed that way for a few minutes. I've tried coaxing him to the styling salon "to get it shaped up." But he interprets this as a way to subvert his personality. Flicking it back constantly with a jerk of his head bothers me way more than it does him, apparently. While he waits for his bangs to grow sufficiently enough to push back, he is dealing with a shock of hair that descends to the bridge of his nose. Our 14-year-old son is currently in the awkward transition between a Beetles cut and a Fabio 'do. With younger men, I don't see too many mullets but I do see a lot of mop-tops morphing into Fabio-style hairdos, in which long hair in the front is flung back over the crown of the head where it joins a confluence of hair strands to form a mighty river of backward-flowing locks. Consequently, home haircuts tend to follow the mullet model, clipped in the front, untamed in the back. Submitted One of USA Mullet Championships’ featured mullet styles is the Kentucky waterfall, which incorporates side burns to. People who try to trim their own hair tend to concentrate on what they can see in a mirror. Contestants are not allowed to wear wigs or hair extensions. Much of the mullet revival may be just the result of cocooning during COVID-19. Kentucky waterfall, North Carolina neck warmer, and Tennessee top hat are all terms for the mullet hairstyle. ![]() "Kentucky Waterfall," he corrected me dryly. ![]() "You mean your Mississippi Mud Flap?" I said. There is only one satisfactory answer to the question of "How do you like my mullet?" Halfway through our chat, he gathered a fist-full of hair draping the back of his neck and asked, "How do you like my mullet?" I was in a school car line the other day, waiting to pick up my 14-year-old son, when a middle-age friend pulled up beside me in a pickup truck. The only thing good about the mullet, itself a metaphor, is that it provides a canvas for more funny names.įor example: The Biloxi Beaver Tale. ![]() If you are drawing a blank, visualize Patrick Swayze in "Dirty Dancing" or late-1980s Andre Agassi - before he went bald. It's almost inconceivable to me that mullets are coming back. But this is one hairstyle I thought had been banished to the dustbin of history. If you live long enough, you'll see styles come and go. (It was actually Miley Ray Cyrus, Billy Ray's daughter, who began sporting the cut again in 2020.) This abomination of a haircut, short on the sides and long in the back, was popularized in the late 1980s and named by the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullethead," which name-checks such mullet-rocking celebs as Billy Ray Cyrus and Kenny G. TerrillĪlso know colloquially as the Tupelo Turtleneck, the mullet is said to be back in style among people who apparently don't have mirrors or self-esteem. 26, 1993, file photo, popularized the mullet, a hairstyle described in the 2001 movie "Joe Dirt" as "business in the front, party in the back." / AP Photo/Mark J. Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, as shown in this Jan.
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