Mohawk Haircuts - Mohawk Hairstyle - Mohawk Hairstyles For Men

The Mohawk is a hairstyle. In the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaved leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the centre. Mohawks became common in punk subculture in the early 1980s and were then adopted by Rivetheads with various other groups, becoming more diverse in style. Today, Mohawks are still associated with the punk subculture, but have also become part of mainstream fashion.

The Mohawk hairstyle is named for, and often associated with, the people of the Mohawk nation, an indigenous people of North America who

originally inhabited the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York.

This hairstyle was also known among other peoples. For instance, the Clonycavan Man, a 2000-year-old male bog body discovered near Dublin, Ireland in 2003, was found to be wearing a Mohawk styled with plant oil and pine resin.

Depending on how it is worn, the Mohawk can be a high-maintenance style. Regular, careful shaving or trimming is required to maintain a clean line between the shaven and unshaven (or short and long) portions of the hair; this can be especially complicated in bi- and tri- hawks.

If the hair is to be worn up, brushing, backcombing, blow-drying, and twisting are required, as well as the application of sprays and in some cases other holding agents like white or clear glue, egg whites, cornstarch, or gelatin. The amount of time required for styling may increase considerably with longer hair or complicated styles such as liberty spikes (sometimes known as a libertyhawk).

Some wearers enhance the look of their Mohawks with hair dyes. This, too can require a great deal of initial effort and maintenance, especially in styles where the color(s) form an integral part of the style. In some cases, for example, Mohawk-wearers who normally wear their hair up in a fan style dye the hair in even lines or stripes of color, either horizontal or vertical.

For us punk rockers, mohawk hairstyles allows expression while looking freaking awesome and has always been a favorite punk hairstyle. I have even heard of it compared to roosters red crown and how they are used to showoff themselves. When I sported my mohawk hair, what I focused on was getting the mohawk hairstyle has high as possible and with as much color to make it stand out. We will list some of the best mohawk hairstyles and a few of the worst.

Mohawk hair is very easy to have done. The mohawk is basically a strip of hair of varing length from either your forehead or further back that runs to the back of your head. Hair length can be long, short, spiky, wave, or any other creative shaping. Usually a mohawk is a couple of inches wide but can vary depending on the look. Using very long-lasting and very strong gel, mold the hair into any shape as long as it all flows inline. I recommend Tigi Bedhead Hard Head Mohawk because that stuff really molds your hair and allows you to get creative.

There are many different types of mohawk hairstyles and I am proud to say I have sported many of them. My tip is to v ary the size and shaping of your hair every time you go out because the different looks just look awesome. Going to thin or too wide on the strip is also a bad idea because it just doesn't give the mohawk hair look.

Long and Pointy - with this style, hair is long andmolded into sharp, pointy strands that stick upright, the strands can either go inline or stick out in varying degrees for a even more wild punk hairstyle

Short and spiky - this mohawk hairstyle uses a little wider amount of hair that is much shorter in length, it is much like a strip of carpet as all the short hairs are spike up along the strip

Horses Mane - this mohawk hair is one of my favorites because it reminds me of those old gladiator movies with their helmets with strands of horse hair flowing along the back, but here its actually on your head and it looks great, the secret here is to have medium hair length with a little wider strip which can be spike towards the center to form a triangular link