Man buns.
The
style of men pulling their hair into a knot above or behind their head
has taken male fashion by storm. While there's no man bun institute
offering official statistics, a casual stroll through any U.S. city or
college town offers ample evidence for the trend.
While most of us probably know a relative, a friend or
someone else who sports the look, science has two words that should
strike fear into the heart of anyone who has embraced the fashionable
'do.
Traction alopecia. "It's really, really common," Jackson, Mississippi, dermatologist Sabra Sullivan told
Mic.
"I see it probably once or twice a week." The condition, which causes
acute baldness around the forehead and temples, is a direct result of
hairstyles that pull the hair over long periods of time.
"They're
putting traction on the hair follicles that the hair is not really
meant to take," Sullivan said, adding the behavior could lead to
follicle death plus permanent scarring. "Traction alopecia in men is
becoming more common," she said and agreed that man buns were at least
partly to blame.
"In spite of the repeated admonitions, the pony tail in recent years
has enjoyed unusual fascination and popularity among our younger
females," Dr. Albert H. Slepyan wrote nearly 60 years ago. "It is clear
that those who wear the pony tail longer and more tightly drawn are
considered more
accomplished in the eyes of their contemporaries. It is
the prolonged pulling of the hair backward and upward into a smoothly
compacted corded hair bundle that has caused loss of hair in many of
these persons."
Experts told
Mic any hairstyle that
creates overly tight hair pulling, regardless of gender, could produce
irreversible long-term consequences. "Once you damage the hair follicle,
it will not grow back," Dennis Zuniga, a high-end stylist at New
York's Donsuki Salon, told
Mic. Stern admonition even comes from no less a source than Derek Zoolander.
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So go ahead and put your hair in a sissy looking pony tail that is longer and more tightly drawn because this is
considered more accomplished in the eyes of some of your dumb contemporaries.
Go ahead and make your hair start falling out sooner before it does normally.
You think your looking cool, you feel more accomplished and it gets you more attention if you look like a girl with a hair bun.
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Black women. Nowhere are the long-term consequences of
persistent tight hairstyling more pronounced than among black women.
"It's an epidemic," Seandee Gayden, a licensed braider in Las Vegas, told
Mic. "Most people don't want to hear the truth, they'd rather be in denial."
Gayden
said she often treats women of color with weaves and braids so tight
they require ibuprofen to mitigate the resulting migraines.
"Tight equals baldness,". "The weave does not last longer because it's tight,
it's going to make you bald."
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Editor Note
If you need attention and want to be noticed don't wear tight braids or your hear in a tight bun.
You could shave your head and get attention especially if it looks like it has been polished. :)
Something else you could do to get attention is wear a hat that looks different such as a MAGA Hat!
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