A new trend has arrived on college campuses. The "Party Bun" has joined the ranks of oversized t-shirts, dad bodies and man buns and has hit classrooms, nightlife, and even the gym. For those of you who do not know what the party bun is, it is when someone wears their hair half up and half down, and puts part of their hair in a perky bun right on top of their head.
Here are a couple of examples:
Now that you are familiar on what the party bun is, here's the truth. This is a female's attempt at their version of a man bun, and it's not pretty. It comes from a good place; it's supposed to be cute, convenient and an easy hair style to do in a short amount of time, but it has many flaws.
It looks lazy.
It looks like you attempted to straighten or curl half of you hair and didn't bother to do the rest of it. Now I understand people do not like to take the time to do their hair all the time, but if you are going to put in the effort, you might as well do the whole thing. Also, when you put the bun in place in the morning, and it starts slowly falling out throughout the day, it comes off either as a failed attempt at a half pony tail or like you just rolled out of bed.
It is today's version of the mullet.
I hate to be the one to say it, but think about. Business in the front: your hair is pulled back and out of your face, and party in the back: the rest of it is down running wild. Just like how people look back at the mullet and cringe, a few years from now, people will wonder why the party bun was even a thing in the first place.
It is distracting.
Instead of someone focusing on you and what you have to say, they are going to be looking at the ball on top of your head. If you are studying and just want your hair to be pulled back, that is understandable, but out at night people may be a little confused by it. Show people that you are proud of your hair and want to be taken seriously by letting all your hair down! Most likely, people are going to see you as more confident, attractive and willing to listen to what you are saying.
It is going to make you uncomfortable.
When it comes to wearing this hairstyle to the gym, you are setting yourself up to be that much more hot, sweaty and annoyed by the amount of hair that is still covering the back of your neck.
I am usually not one to comment on other people's styles or preferences, but this trend has made zero sense to me. Not only does the party bun look like a failed, distracting and uncomfortable hair style, but it is undermining people's beautiful hair!
So show off what you got, and do not fall into this mullet-like trend.
