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Whether it's pulling out

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the blow dryer
or turning to a self perm kit.

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All of which I know nothing about.

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Obviously boys these days
are taking their hair very seriously.

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Assistant Arts Editor Brooke Hauser
joined us with the latest hair styles

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that boys have been rocking
as they head back to school.

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Look, Brooke, as you can see,
I am a challenge.

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So I got a kick out of this read.

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But my first question is, what made
you want to write about boys haircuts?

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First of all, again,
I think you look great, but,

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I, you know,

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wanted to write about this
because I have a 12 year old son,

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Marlow,
who is very into his hair right now.

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This is a relatively new development.

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And, you know, he's been telling me
about the broccoli cut and the ice cream

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and the egger, and right now
he's wearing a fluffy fringe.

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He told me that my husband had a textured
quiff, like.

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And I was just like, what?

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What are you talking about?

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Like, where is this coming from?

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So I thought,
you know what, back to school starting.

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I think it's the time to ask
boys about their hair.

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You mentioned the broccoli.

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What is that exactly?

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And who's calling it? The broccoli?

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The broccoli.
I mean, I could actually do a broccoli.

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I think essentially you have to have,
like, pretty curly hair on the top,

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like broccoli.

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And then it's kind of like shaved
or tapered on the sides.

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And, the new Clark Kent
is rocking a broccoli cut

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in the
in the new forthcoming Superman movie.

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Some kids for whom
curls may not come as naturally to they,

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are actually getting perms to achieve
that look or using like different

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styling products to give them a little
extra curl and and fluff on top. So,

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Brooke, you have just mentioned
that there are young boys

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giving themselves haircuts
and now perm kids at home.

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I that is a recipe for disaster.

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I shudder to even imagine what is going on
in some of these bathrooms,

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but the taper fade.

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I mean, that goes back to when I had hair,
but there's a new take on it that you.

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Right? I mean, it's been around forever.

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You can't improve on a great thing,
can you?

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In this case, I think a blow out with
taper is like the taper effect

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kind of makes the hair bulk up
and blow out a bit in the back and in.

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That's the blowout.

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As I understand it.

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You know, I try not to put myself
forth as an expert.

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That's
why I went to the so-called experts,

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you know, the teenage boys in the barbers
because,

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there really are a little,
a lot of different variations out there.

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Speaking of variations that are out there,

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K-pop is influencing young men's
hair styles.

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What is going on with that?

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Because that's relatively new, right?

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Well, we have a couple of,
wonderful correspondents who went out

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and spoke with guys
at Faneuil Hall and found, one young man

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who was wearing what he called,
a dandy cut.

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And when I looked it up, it,

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you know, he did speak about the influence
of K-pop on his hairstyle.

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He likes to,

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you know, get it cut pretty frequently,
and then he'll die at different colors.

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And it seems like there's
a lot of upkeep involved.

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But I thought he looked great.

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I think it probably takes a lot of work.

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I think he,
you know, has to do some straightening.

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so on one hand you have boys
who are curling their hair and

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getting perms, and then you also have guys
who are straightening it.

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But look at broccoli.

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The vegetable isn't popular. Broccoli.

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The haircut is ice
cream is always popular.

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And now there's a haircut
called the ice cream.

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The ice cream is rough.

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it gets a rough look.

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So essentially, for the ice cream,
you know, it's called that

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because, you know, we're talking about,
like, hard serve, not soft serve.

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And like, picture a cake cone
or sugar cone and the hard scoop on top.

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And it's around kind of mound at the top.

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And then it flares out at the edges.

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And that's
what the ice cream haircut is. But

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it's it's a look.

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And sometimes to achieve it, guys again
are using like curling irons.

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I've read about guys
putting on baseball caps to kind of shape

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the mound in the middle

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and then taking like round brushes
and flaring it out on the edges.

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But if you were to scroll on TikTok,

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you would see some really crazy
looking ice cream here.

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So basically, Brooke Houser,
thank you for joining us.

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