How do men determine which side of their head to part their hair on? Is it just a random choice, or does (or should) it have something to do with the hair’s growth pattern - the “grain”, so to speak?
Barbers’ and stylists’ comments are especially appreciated.
While it’s wet, I comb my hair back. As it dries, it falls into its natural part.
When I need a really neat look, I style it into that regularly noticed part, setting with moose, usually.
Isn’t that a little awkward? And where do you keep the moose when you aren’t (squeezing it, I suppose) onto your hair?
Men’s Health on the subject.
When I saw “moose,” silenus, I thought of you. Got any of that chili left over? 
My hair determined it for me.
Well, that particular batch was back in 1980, so…no.
In addition to what Men’s Health says, there is also the issue of which way your hair spirals. That can really mess up a look if you aren’t careful.
You don’t want to know where I keep the moose. :eek:
I loves me some elk chili. Will have to try moose sometime.
I saw a chocolate moose.
REal chocolate.
Funny how auto correct doesn’t read context.
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Back in the day, I had the part on the right because that was how I’d always done it…and I don’t know why I had it on the right in the first place. There were a couple of weeks when I experimented by having the part on the left. Now I shave it off, so I don’t worry about such things anymore.
That’s how I solved the problem as well.
I used to part it on the left due to being right-handed. Then one day a long time ago, I looked in the mirror and realized it was a comb-over, so I just pushed it all off the back. So I am a long-haired bald guy (kind of like Wm Hartnell, but before it turned white), some guys cannot handle bald, never really bothered me. Except at that Dead concert at Autzen Stadium when I forgot to bring a hat.
My mother decided before I could even handle a comb.
It depends on which side of the equator I’m on.
There’s a focal point on the back of my head – a little whirl where hair around it grows out in a circle. It’s on the left side of my head, so I have to part it into the whirl. If I try parting on the right side, I’m basically forcing a bunch of hair into the opposite direction it naturally falls.
Not sure if that makes sense, but the gist is that a bunch of hair in the back naturally falls in one direction, so your part has to abide by that.
Mine was parted on the side by my mum right from birth, I imagine. I don’t even recall which side.
But way back, when long hair was in style, I started parting it in the middle. I was at the trailing edge of the hippie movement, but I liked the John Lennon look of long hair with a part in the middle.
So, today, I have short hair, but it’s still parted in the middle in tribute to my hippie days.
There’s a little groove in my head that just seems to be the natural parting place.
Me too, though mine is on the right.
I remember as a very little kid going off to school and my Mom parting to intercept that swirl (cowlick?).
It seems these days that no one parts on the right. I don’t know if that makes me unique or a freak?
It did, just guessed the wrong context.
I got whanged on the head years ago while climbing a signal tower. That scar, from above my right ear to above my right temple, determines my part.
Don’t women also part their hair?
Being right handed, I part on the right. Just easier to reach that way. When I comb it, that is, which is rarely. I usually have the wild untamed look.