A mullet by any other name is still a mullet. You know the haircut right? Short top, long back. The hockey player haircut. The “Yup-Nope” (“little off the top?” “Yup” “little off the back?” “nope”).

It’s almost as if halfway through their haircut these guys noticed a sign that says “haircuts $10″ and realized they only had five on them and had to end it early.

In the states, the Mullet is considered something of a white-trash style. No one rocks the mullet and is proud of it (unless they also proudly rock Nascar T-shirts and drink 40′s of Bud).

In Canada, hockey players, and wannabe hockey players, rock the mullet; and for them it’s accepted. Being good at hockey in Canada will allow you to get away with any number of other shortcomings (like fashion sense).

Citizens of Madrid, Spain however, take the mullet to a whole new level. My brother and my friend Alex had warned me about the mullet scene in Madrid, but I still wasn’t prepared for what I saw in my time there. The guys had well groomed fashion mullets. When I say fashion, I mean it in the sense that these guys put in serious time/work on their hair despite their mullet hairstyle. These guys obviously paid to have their hair cut into mullets because they liked it, not because they lacked the funds for a proper haircut. They also applied a good deal of hair product to their mullets. They were gelled, spiked, teased, and dyed; they were fully groomed mullets.

The chicks in Madrid seemed to dig the mullet (on their men) as well. In the states, if you see a good looking girl dating a guy with a mullet, it’s a safe bet that they are cousins or she’s into dudes who play ice sports or race cars. Not so in Madrid.

What is worse? Having a mullet and not caring because you have no fashion sense…or having a mullet because you DO care about your appearance and THINK it is fashionable? I really can’t decide. Please put your two cents in. I’m losing sleep here people.

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