Scene Hair - Style and History

Scene hair has its basis in “emo” and is basically similar to “emo hair”, but scene hair can feature more bright colours in it. Whereas emo is the form of music, scene is the types of fashion and culture that go along with it.

Scene hairs foundation is a statement of the individuality of its wearer. It is not meant to be copied from someone else’s style, but formed or adapted to your own unique style. It should be expressive but only as long as its wearer is comfortable wearing it and feels it depicts who they are and what they are about.

Emo hair or scene hair, while worn by emo fans in their teens and beyond has also had a great influence on older fashion followers styles of hair whether they listen to or even know of the genre.

It has styling types for both males and females with not so clear differences for each. The male versions of scene hair are generally shorter than its female counterpart. It also honours both male and female styles of hair fashion and can be sometimes difficult to tell gender by the person’s hairstyle.
Most of its styles would feature dyed back hair with an array of bright or contrasting colours. It can have bangs over one or both eyes. Its is usually large in size with volume, layered, or in a chopped style or with hair accessories such as ties and bows and can feature hair extensions also.

Scene is an ever evolving entity with new fads coming in and out every so often. Skinny jeans (the skinnier the better) feature prominently for him and her as well as t-shirts of old or new bands. Eye-liner, whether it is eye pencil or liquid eye-liner, is an important fashion item with scene kids for girls and guys. Scene girls tend to wear lots of eye makeup both coloured and black forms.

Footwear mostly consists of converse and vans with some being made more unique with different touches like stylised shoe laces.
Scene hair is the most important part of any scene ensemble and requires lots of time and effort even when it looks like he/she just got up. Scene hair gives great pride and extra confidence to scene kids and helps with the devil may care attitude they espouse.
It is a great talking point for different kids on the scene when they meet new scene kids at hardcore shows.

Accessories also feature heavily with scene, some of these are black and white studded belts or coloured belts with prints, for guys. Chunky coloured necklaces can be found on girls. Oversized sunglasses are also very popular with guys as well as some piercing, but usually not heavily pierced like some other subcultures. Bandannas are also worn on wrists or around neck and fingerless gloves can also be worn.

Since scene and emo have found popularity in the 2000’s the Internet has been a massive incendiary device in it’s spreading and also in it’s evolving. Scene kids can network with each other and discuss bands and scene hair and fashion as well as subjects like photography, art, civil rights and piercings and tattoos.

Scenesters use and design their own layouts for their myspace page as an extension of their own personality and style and also as a way of attracting other similar minded souls to their page.
Scenesters are also very fond of posting many pictures of themselves with new makeup or scene hair and readily feature poses and gestures. Photoshop is used a great deal to alter or improve photos of the scenesters themselves, whether it is removing blemishes, improving skin quality or just making the photo seem more striking. As with every other aspect of Scene, image is king and will not be compromised.

Emo music began in the 1980s as a progression from the ever-increasing violent nature of hardcore punk. It became more about individuality than social unrest and began as “emotional hardcore” or “emocore”. It was far more melodic and varied than hardcore and had bitter and emotional themes on subject matter such as love. Pioneering bands of the genre were Rites of spring and Embrace.

Emo went mainstream in the summer of 2002 with the platinum selling Jimmy Eat World album “Bleed America” as well as many other emo bands making the charts. Taking back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional are two popular bands that have been labelled as emo, and marketed heavily by some of the larger record companies. And some emo fans would describe the modern version of emo as a diluted version of punk. These large record companies are flooding the market with so called emo bands, trying to cash in on the scenes popularity with the younger audience.