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Baby mohawks: big trend in Wichita, Kansas
Baby mohawks invading America's heartland? According to the Wichita Eagle, local salons are
busy giving Wichita's infant and toddler elite the outlandish haircut more associated with punk rock than pacifiers.
Okay, maybe not busy, but it's enough of a trend to warrant an
article that's a cover story in this
month's "Wichitalk" magazine.
According to a Wichita hairdresser who specializes in children's cuts, the mohawk trend started last spring, when several parents came in requesting the dramatic cut for their children. She said some requested more conservative "fauxhawks," where the sides are shorn short but not completely bald.
"We're talking babies, toddlers, some preschoolers," she said. "It's because of that show." Apparently there's some show on MTV about some faux-punk guy who gave his son a mohawk to match his own. Man, just when I thought Wichita had suddenly become the coolest town on earth, they had to tell me everyone was just copying a reality show. I have seen a few baby mohawks in San Francisco, but I think those were just how their hair grew a la Maddox Jolie. Have you seen any baby mohawks around? Would you ever do that to your baby?
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
Abby said...That's so weird, just yesterday I was at the mall and I randomly had the thought, "What if Eli's hair started growing in naturally as a mohawk?"
I might be tempted to make Eli's hair into a mohawk, but I'm sure his daddy would put a stop to my devious follicular longings.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
Zoe said...I live in the San Francisco Bay area and I've seen a few preschoolers with this cut. My 10 month old son has a natural mohawk. I think it's really cute.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
DFZ said...We have considered it on many occasions. I would do it, but if it is becoming a trend, then forget it!
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
suburban misfit said...My daughter had a natural mohawk when she was a baby.
My son, 8, asked if he could get a mohawk at his last haircut, and when I enthusastically said "YES!" he changed his mind.
Figures.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
Lorna said...We live in Oklahoma and my 4 year old son has a fauxhawk and so does my husband. He had always had longish hair, but one day asked if he could have his hair like his daddy. His friends thought he was weird at first, but now every boy at his Mother's Day Out has one.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
phil miller said...some nights before our 6th month goes to bed i give him a fauxhawk. It is gone by morning and i do it only to make my wife shake her head at me :)
I think it would be too much for me to have my baby "walking" around with that hairstyle.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
MeanMom said...my son wore a fauxhawk for his first pictures as a baby, and a few times as he was was toddler because his hair naturally went that way. i never considered giving him a mohawk, even though his bio-father and i were "punk rock" teenagers when he was born.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:03PM
Amanda said...That's my son, Jerry, in the picture of that article! He's such a stinker! That mohawk reflects his personality. I don't spike it up all the time, just occasionally. It's just a hair-do that is fun for awhile. I don't know how long we will keep it, and when we decide to get rid of it, we'll just cut the top really short, and let the sides grow right in. Most people thinks it's pretty cute!
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