Current Pet Hates: Men's Hair & Women's Tattoos

ionapaul

My how I hate both of these!

The current fashion for men to have a) spiked blond highlights b)streaked blond highlights or c) faux-hawks drive me demented. Just because the untalented tools who go on Pop Idol, Popstars, Popwannabes or Big Bruva choose to look like idiots, why do a good 25% of Irish lads? I will freely admit my hair is plain and probably fairly unstylish, but at least I don't look like a fashion-slave toolbag.

Women's tattoos - specifically, 'lower-back' (also known as upper-arse) tats. The infamous 'arse-handlebars' that 50% of all Irish women under 30 currently sport. The first 5% of people to get these must be murderous in their hatred of all the bandwagon-jumping idiots to make these tats so boring and regimented. If the tat is to be seen over the top of a peaking-out thong, all the worst. The girl probably has orange skin and a bad blond dye-job as well...

Jim

I concur. Esp about the hair.

*Sassy*

I actually like the guys hair like that. I think its about time Irish blokes moved away from the boring "short back and sides". Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

My pet hate would have to be belly and back overhang on girls who blatantly can't pull off the low rise jeans with belly skimming tshirt look.

Jim

*Sassy* wrote:

I actually like the guys hair like that. I think its about time Irish blokes moved away from the boring "short back and sides". Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

You mean Irish nacks.

*Sassy*

Yeah pretty much! I mean it does look smart and all that. But a bloke with funky hair would deffo make me look. Unless he looked like a complete knob. Not everyone can pull it off!! As long as it doesn't look like he spent hours in front of the mirror carefully twisting stupid little spikes in a la Gareth Gates.

ionapaul

I don't know who can pull that look off - I am too old (late 20s) and too classy (so say I!) to dye my hair, spike my hair, and look like a wannabe Popstar tool

*Sassy*

I know a few "executive types" with kinda funky hair. I like the strip of highlights kinda look. Looks quite dapper matched with a designer suit!

Danni

Totally agree with you about the TATOO'S. Don't mean to offend anyone here but i think they're disgusting on girls. Just my opinion so don't go shooting me! Just think they're very masculine and not cute at all like some girls think. My friend was one of those eejits to get the lower back done & she's regretted it ever since. She's looking around places now to see how to get it removed

climaxer

Re the funky hair - I'm 50 50 on it - I agree with Sassy that some guys can pull it off but it does look naff on others.

Re the lower back tattoos - when people were getting them first I thought they were great and was considering getting one myself but never got around to it - glad I didnt' now because they have become so common.

skittishkitten

*Sassy* wrote:

My pet hate would have to be belly and back overhang on girls who blatantly can't pull off the low rise jeans with belly skimming tshirt look.

This would be my #1 hate of all time. I can't believe that they actually think they look good with all their pudgy parts hanging out of their clothes.

Aurther Hugh

*Sassy* wrote:

I know a few "executive types" with kinda funky hair. I like the strip of highlights kinda look. Looks quite dapper matched with a designer suit!

Dapper and mens highlights used in the same point , hehe . Dapper is classy and classic and smart and handsome. Highlights on men are the preserve of scangers, boyband members (wannabes) and boyf of hairdressers. Not classy !

logic1

ionapaul wrote:

My how I hate both of these!

The current fashion for men to have a) spiked blond highlights b)streaked blond highlights or c) faux-hawks drive me demented.

What would you suggest as an alternative?

.logic.

Zulu

I've gotta agree with the tattoo thing. Common as muck!

While I've seen some girls with little petite tattoos on the small of their back and look quite sexy - nearly everyone as gone and gotten the big triangular/celtic one. I wouldn't be so harsh as to say it's disgusting - but it looks very sad/unoriginal and common as muck.

As for the guys hair cuts - I really couldn't care less. The sadder they all look the better for me.

ionapaul

logic1 wrote:

What would you suggest as an alternative?

.logic.

Well....

Maybe just leave it simple, wash with shampoo and conditioner each day, use a brush or comb and that's that!

Though I have to admit that although I wash and condition each day, I very rarely brush or comb my hair (even though it is 'long' compared to the average Irish lad these days!)

Gillo

Any tips on that messy look?
Some days it works other days it just looks crap no matter how I try to style my hair.

Jim

After wash, shake your head. Let it air dry. My hair is very messy today.

vibrant

ionapaul wrote:

The infamous 'arse-handlebars' that 50% of all Irish women under 30 currently sport.

50%? I only know one person who has one. While you may not like the trend, there is no need for you to be so coarse about the "type of person" who gets them...

SprostonGreen

Those type of haircuts, scream English footballer wannabe wanker.

Jim

Aren't we all lovely people.

*Sassy*

SprostonGreen wrote:

Those type of haircuts, scream English footballer wannabe wanker.

Emmm..... don't see much wrong with that, a lot of them are FINE!!!!

simu

*Sassy* wrote:

My pet hate would have to be belly and back overhang on girls who blatantly can't pull off the low rise jeans with belly skimming tshirt look.

I agree. Do these people not look in mirrors? Have they no self control over their lifestyle? Why don't they stop eating junk and get some exercise?

They're always going on in papers about how people are under constant pressure to be thin but judging by the amount of flabby people I see around the place, there's not nearly enough. (I know some people may be overweight for medical/genetic readons but this is not the case for most. It's disgusting how many more overweight people there are now compared to 10 years ago).

Lemming

The "Boyband" hair-style look is the preserve of absolute pretentious, 2-dimensional f*ckwits. It's almost invariably accompanied by either and/or:

1. white shirt, unbuttoned at the top, and not tucked in at the waste
2. faded blue-jeans; y'know the ones that you pay a fortune for that have those ghastly "manufactured" faded strips? Why not wear a pair of old, faded jeans?
3. Silver/Gold neck jewellery
4. Silger/Gold wrist jewellery
5. that f*cking 'I'm hip' swagger with the bowed knees
6. Tracksuit
7. Runners

It's about as original as, well, an un-original thing.


As for girls with the overhang, yeah - t'is not the most appealing thing to spot .... *


* this is an understatement

ionapaul

Ha, funny points - one of my 'fashion consious' friends spent over €200 on a pair of those designer jeans - looks like he has either pissed himself or worse, the horrid stains down the sides! What are people thinking?!
Too many idiots with that bowed knees swagger.
All of the above points come from idiots imitating the gimps of London - WTF? Imitate anywhere but there, FFS. Shirts out, stained designer jeans, some jewellery and spiked blond hair...twats.
On a positive note I just came back from 48 hours in Germany (Heidelburg to be precise), the Germans get slagged off a lot but I have rarely seen so many beautiful, stylish and classy people*. LA and Vegas by night (well, the nicer clubs) might have more, that's about it.

*hardly any people in Heidelburg in their 20s or 30s were overweight, so no overhangs or too tight jeans (too tight because the wearer is fat that is!) - I think Irish people (girls in particular) are renowned in international circles in the fitness industry for rarely exercising after the age of 20

Wooder79

Danni wrote: »

Totally agree with you about the TATOO'S. Don't mean to offend anyone here but i think they're disgusting on girls. Just my opinion so don't go shooting me! Just think they're very masculine and not cute at all like some girls think. My friend was one of those eejits to get the lower back done & she's regretted it ever since. She's looking around places now to see how to get it removed

I always hated tattoos on women myself, and I ended up getting one recently! (it's a small one on my left shoulder blade, which is never uncovered..it's just for me) I got it as a memorial of my sister who died a little over a year ago. She loved the ink and had three tattoos (i went bat**** on her when she wouldn't cover them up when she was my brides maid!) Unfortunately for your friend, while she can have it burned off, she will just be left with a scar in the shape of her tattoo.

dudara

Please do not drag up old threads

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dudara