At the rate that 80’s music and clothes seem to be coming back (bleeech) you can bet in 5 years time all the trendy kids will have gelled mullets with highlights.
I don’t shave my head but I have lost most of my hair, and I wear a moustache and goatee. IHHO when you have so little hair on top, you need facial hair by way of compensation.
Would somebody please tell all the fat white guys with shaved heads that they are making us look like a nation of Curlies?
Rather than call it the “mullet” look , I call the shaved head/goatee look the “clone” look. Back in the late seventies/early eighties so many men had the tousled hair with a thick moustache look of the Marlboro man or Magnum PI. Everywhere I go now, I see the goatee and/or the shaved head. Like most looks, it will pass.
Men with goatees make me weak in the knees. I like goatees and beards on men. Add a shaved head, buzz cut or crew cut and I’ll follow em anywhere. WOOF!
So, swampy…how YOU doin’? 
silenus you tease, you.
SOunds like Un Chien Andaou
The shaved head/goatee (SHG?) look was annoyingly ordinary by the early to mid-90’s. By then we were joking about going down to the local bar and counting goatees. It was pretty much a law if you were a self respecting gay man you had to have a goatee.
As with most gay male fashion, it was inevitable straight men would grab it & run with it. I’ve noticed gay men are quietly moving on now.
The difference between a mullet & the SHG though, is the mullet was relatively short lived and it was for the most part a younger person’s look. You know the 70’s & 80’s were all about hair, hair, hair. It must have been hell for aging gay men who were losing theirs. By the time you were 30 or 40 you were over the hill, resigned to a lonely, ridiculed and dateless existence of toupees and hair plugs. It probably didn’t help much that in the late 80’s & early 90’s most gay men were apparently going to die of AIDS anyway.
But gay men started surviving, and living longer. And losing their hair. I tell you, the SHG was a life saver for a lot of men. All you had to do was go to the gym, pack on a few muscles, shave your head, grow a goatee and seemingly overnight, boom! You went from over the hill at 30, to “oh my god, he’s hot!” at 40.
Which is why I think at least the shaved head look is around to stay. Men aren’t getting younger, and there’s still no good way to prevent, or disguise, MPB.
From www.eviloverlord.com:
35. I will not grow a goatee. In the old days they made you look diabolic. Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X.
So, the armpit-to-goatee transfer traumatized you for life, but you were okay with the razor blade to the eyeball scene? :dubious: 
(And yes, the movie was Un Chien Andalou.)
Here are some facts:
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In four or five thousand years of recorded history, the “Bald” look has been in for a total of maybe twenty years.
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Men still spend a lot more money trying to not be bald than they do trying to be bald.
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White bald guys look like big thumbs. Hair looks better.
No, the bald look is not here to stay. It’ll be passe within five to ten years, as will be goatees.
I’m all for some good old-fashioned gore, but pit hair is just icky.
Truly, I don’t remember the razor blade to the eyeball scene. I just remember the guy pulling the dead donkeys and the piano and the pit hair goatee man. I have a friend who looks just like him; on bad days I can’t even stand to look at him.
I’ve noticed some similarities in the demographics of the goatee-n-shave crowd and the mullet crowd. Both groups seem to be dominated by politically conservative working-class men employed in the building and construction trades.
The mulleteers are usually big fans of rock; either classic rock dating from 1975 through 1985, or 1980s and 1990s-era heavy metal. I don’t know what sort of music is identified with bald goateers; maybe the x-treeem rock played at stadiums whenever the home team scores.
Bald goateers are usually sports fanatics – especially baseball and football – based on the crowds in bars during televised games, and what’s printed on their t-shirts and sweatshirts. Mulleteers aren’t identified with sports fandom per se, but their ranks are often seen on European soccer fields, Canadian hockey rinks, and Ozark lakes known for good bass fishin’.
I usually see bald goateers driving American pick-up trucks of various vintages, with the more affluent driving American SUVs. There will always be a “Bush-Cheney 2000” sticker displayed on the rear, because “Kerry’s a flip-floppin’ faggot! Check out my eagle tattoo!” They tend to glare at you when you’re aside them at a traffic light. Mulleteers either drive pickup trucks, or American muscle cars from the 1960s and early 1970s. Fuckin’ a Chevy Nova with a fuckin’ a glass pack muffler … fuckin’ a!
Mulleteers smile from time to time. Bald goateers never smile.
You’ll find more bald goateers than mulleteers working out in gyms.
Bald Goateers are suburban in nature. Mulleteers are more rural and Southern.
Afterthought: could mullets be coming back among more than the emo/ironic crowd? Witness the current bachelor on … well, ABC’s The Bachelor.
Oh.My.God. I just realized that I’ve seen that movie…they were showing it at this punk club in Houston (Axiom?) in 1988. Right before a Game Theory show IIRC.
DAMMIT!
Why am I always the last one to know? Could y’all send out a memo or something? Just throw me a bone here. So to speak. I’ll go shave now. (Can I at least keep the cock ring?)
I’ve been saying that the goatee is the new mullet for months now.
Every goateed man between 28 and 45 I know had a mullet ten years ago. Every one.
I have a goatee. However, I would (and perhaps will) look exceedingly funny bald. I have a prominent triangular midskull ridge; when I lose my hair I figure I’ll look like a Klingon who spent the evening head-butting a disc sander.
Keep it where?
For goodness sakes, those never go out of fashion. Why would you even ask?