Spiked on top and long toward the neck, Bowie wore his
To this day, Bowie's “Ziggy” cut remains one of the boldest and most stylish haircuts in history, from the way it spiked up on top and swooped down to a sort of mullet – but way cooler than a mullet – finish.
Antolin opened up to PEOPLE last month about working with Bowie and revealed how he crafted some of the Starman's wacky 'dos. “All of his hairdos were always a collaboration between him and I, and we always talked about the look,” Antolin said of Bowie's hair in the '70s and '80s.
No list would be complete without David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era mullet. Among the singer's many looks, this is the most iconic.
I didn't know then that his hair was dyed (“flaming red”, the iconic cut by Suzi Ronson), but in a way that makes it better: Bowie was a redhead not because of genetics, but because he wanted to be.
Spiked on top and long toward the neck, Bowie wore his mullet with a full face of make-up, cut-to-the-navel glam rock shirts and belted trousers. This hairstyle personified the 1970's and subsequently inspired groups of mods and rockers to adopt the look for years to come.
But Bowie's case was different. His eyes were the product not of genes but a teenage fistfight that resulted in anisocoria, a condition in which a person's eyes have different-size pupils. In the spring of 1962, Bowie got into a fight with his school pal — and, later, lifetime artistic partner — George Underwood.
Seen here in these screenshots from a Faces documentary and a December 1970 performance, it is clear that Rod Stewart invented the mullet. In fact, he was almost a full year ahead of his counterparts. Though this isn't the extreme mullet you'd see in the 80's, it is still a mullet at it's core.
By 1980 the Serious Moonlight star had serious ambitions to crack America and there is evidence that his teeth had been whitened although there is still misalignment. The video footage shows that Bowie had recession of the gums, with signs that his chain-smoking habit was leading to further staining.
Anisocoria is a condition where the pupils are two different sizes. The word “anisocoria” literally translates into “not equal pupil condition.” However, while Bowie had a permanent case of anisocoria, the condition isn't always lasting.
On 10 January 2016, English musician David Bowie died at his Lafayette Street home in New York City, having been diagnosed with liver cancer 18 months earlier. He died two days after the release of his twenty-sixth and final studio album, Blackstar, which coincided with his 69th birthday.
Peekaboo highlights are highlights that are generally applied to your hair underneath the top layer, so that when you wear your hair down with your normal parting, you don't see them. They are usually applied towards the front of the head, no closer than an inch or so down from your natural part.
The bixie is called the bixie because it combines elements of two distinctly recognizable hairstyles — the bob and the pixie — and creates a new hairstyle in a gray (but very cute) area. "A bixie cut is equal parts pixie cut and a bob," says stylist Andrew Fitzsimons.
Dutch boy (plural Dutch boys) A type of bob haircut with straight bangs and hair cut horizontally above the neck.
And in the 16th century, Hittite warriors sported them, along with the Assyrians and the Egyptians. In the US, the style dates back to Native Americans tribes that often combined the look with a Mohawk.
Is a wolf cut a mullet? “A wolf cut is a creative version of a mullet. It's inspired by the choppy texture of a mullet and follows a similar pattern and shape but has the softness and wearability of a shag cut,” describes Nicholas Alexander Willis, master stylist at Charles Worthington Salon.
in the 70's it was called a 'shag', that's what bowie and stewart had. in the 80's in usa it was indeed called a bi-level. it was NOT called a mullet until the 90's.
From the football field to school classrooms, the quintessential Australian haircut has made a grand comeback in recent years. The mullet - hair long at the back while trimmed short on the sides and front - has long been championed by Australian men in the 80s.
While many Southern states have high per capita mullets, New Jersey wins hands down. The other bonus from the Jersey mullets are the addition of a wife beater undershirt resplendent with gold necklace.
"'It has been my doorway of perception and the house that I live in. '" While it is not clear these were his official last words, this is the last sentiment we heard from David, spoken through his friend after his death.
Bowie's sexuality, which was always rather fluid, was somewhat jarringly on display, considering that Labyrinth was marketed toward children and co-starred an actual teenager (Bowie was 39 when the movie came out; Connelly was 16).