quiffs get you quim

In the ever changing world of my hair nothing stays the same for long and so I am now growing a quiff. OK that sentance is total bullshit but you can't open with: In the drab and stationary world of my hair things rarely change, no doubt even my new fad of a quiff will soon be disassembled.

All we really need to know is that right now, this week, today I am growing a quiff and I'm pretty damn pleased with myself. Not only have I found a style that suits me, suits my hair and doesn't look like I just rolled out of bed, I think I'm onto something a bit more global with this quiff business, i.e. I think it's due a major comeback. Quiffs have been mooching around in the sidelines for a while now, cropping up (do you get it? crop-ing?) in toned down form on the catwalks for the past few years and now upon the heads of certain celebrities such as Henry Holland, Simon Amstell and the universally hated (I refuse to believe he is anything else) Morrissey. Though I guess Mozza has had his since the 80s and just waited it out for 20 years. This has now filtered all the way down from adverts, editorial, catwalks and our much loved and emulated celebrities until you're seeing a few quiffs rocking down the high street.

The quiff is a truly iconic piece of hair sculpture that immediately reminds you of every person that has rocked a quiff past and present, the list is endless and reads like a who's who of beautiful rebels and heroes. There is something quite elementally cool about a quiff and it has, at times, a split personality: on the one hand this is the hair of a man who takes much pride in his appearance but at the same time will quite happily drunkenly brawl the evening away before heading to the workshop to re-tune his motorbike. The effeminate coiffing VS. the manly connotations. The dual life of this hair is aided by the fact that once you have your quiff set it's pretty much a low maintenance barnet, so whether you're preening yourself in the mirror or rapping a pool cue round someone's head, your hair cares not. Another point mentioning is that you won't have to shell out top dollar for this über cool do as any barber worth his salt (and most that are not) will know how to knock this up for you, negating the need to go to an expensive salon where you're paying 4 times the price for nothing more than the privilege of having a 16yr old trainee brush her breasts against your forehead as she massages your scalp.

Low maintenance, epically cool and versatile, there is a quiff for almost everybody: contemporary like the one pictured above or traditional like those below-


The Teddy Boy / Rockabilly


The Geek Quiff


The 80s Quiff

The final string in a quiff's bow is that no matter how popular it gets it will always retain a retro cool, that certain je ne sais quoi of a style that is a bit of an outsider, a hair cut you wouldn't trust to take your daughter to the prom. And that is why it is due a comeback.