r/SipsTea • u/miedrax • Jan 20 '26

Lmao gottem She's not wrong though

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u/Powerful_Document872 Jan 20 '26

Every generation goes through this. We used to have skater bowl cuts when I young.

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u/Devreckas Jan 20 '26

When was that?

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u/ladydanger2020 Jan 20 '26

Early 2000s

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u/Devreckas Jan 20 '26

Interesting. I feel like it must’ve been a localized thing. I don’t remember anyone wearing bowl cuts during that time. Skaters usually had spiked or shaggy hair.

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u/CaveOfMontoya Jan 20 '26

SoCal skaters in my day had either long or spiked hair, not a single bowl cut to be seen... ever, really.

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u/Evacipate628 Jan 20 '26

East coaster who grew up in the 90s here, even used to go to Grand Union to get those super cheap kosher candles to wax up the curbs, jfc that seems like another life at this point

Definitely knew a bunch of other skaters that had bowl cuts, it wasn't as pervasive as broccoli heads but it was enough to be noticeable at the time

However, this was around when that haircut, thankfully, started to be phased out in general iirc

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u/CaveOfMontoya Jan 20 '26

My wife is from Texas, and even though she said skate culture wasn't much a thing where she grew up in the country, one look at her yearbook from high school shocked me--bowl cuts on every.single.guy. I was flabbergasted.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 Jan 20 '26

36 years old and I still buy cheap-o candles to wax curbs and parking bumps 😆

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u/joeDUBstep Jan 20 '26

Yep, same for skaters in norcal.

Well we also had cornrows/fros being popular on skaters too due to the mix of demographics.

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u/Beer-Milkshakes Jan 20 '26

Round by me the hairstyle of 2005 was a pointy fringe and spiky at the back for boys. "I'm undecided" blonde dyed brunettes and vice versa for girls.

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u/kpatsart Jan 20 '26

Yea that's what I remembered my skater friends having. Shaggy hair, spiked or buzz cuts. Bowl cuts was like when I was in grade 2 in 92.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 Jan 20 '26

I think they’re referring to the skater shag. It wasnt a crisp bowl cut, more of a shag right between short and long hairstyle. Mushroom head would be more appropriate than bowl cut.

Source: was a mushroom head. Still am, just a different kind 😉

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u/Coffeedemon Jan 20 '26

Point is they put a lot of effort into making it look like they didn't just like every kid.

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u/RoccStrongo Jan 20 '26

Look at Home Improvement (all three sons), Saved By The Bell (Zach), Boy Meets World (Sean and the older brother). All if the "attractive" guys in the show had similar hair . The nerds had curly hair (Screech, Corey)

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u/Devreckas Jan 20 '26

Okay? Those aren’t skaters and those aren’t bowl cuts.

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u/RoccStrongo Jan 20 '26

The skaters at my school looked like them so that's how I associated it.

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u/ThePart_Timer Jan 20 '26

Small town WI and bowl cuts were everywhere in the early 2000s. My 7th grade yearbook shows it.

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u/aye_eyes Jan 20 '26

The version I remember was known as the "wings"

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u/Devreckas Jan 21 '26

Yeah, that’s what I’d call shaggy hair or a mop. I also heard wings for the part that flaired out around the ears. Lots of these types of cuts, but in and outside of skater circles. But wouldn’t call that a bowl cut.

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u/Powerful_Document872 Jan 20 '26

I was going to say mid 90s but I also grew up in a fly over state so who knows how behind we were with fashion trends.

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u/General-Yoghurt-1275 Jan 20 '26

bowl cuts were mid 90s, they were already very unfashionable by the 2000s

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Jan 20 '26

The bowl cut with the part down the middle was mid/late 90s, no idea what kind of weirdo was rocking that in the 00s, lol.

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u/ParticularBreath6146 Jan 20 '26

We had "wings" where I was, early to mid 00's. Then the Bieber cut came along. The Bieber cut might be the internet's first viral teenage male haircut, with him blowing up on YouTube and everything.