are you scene? i am not.

So, What are scene hairstyles anyway?
Girls:

- block fringe covering the eyes/just above the eyes OR can be tied to the side
- if tied to the side, it has to be tied using cute clips and hair grips.
- added volume & spiked/lifted up in the back using lots of hairspray.
- leopard/camo/polka dot headband worn mostly when the fringe is down.
- bows&ribbons worn in hair.
- usually jet black/white blonde, sometimes with one bright colour streak.
- (black/blonde/colour) extensions are NEEDED!

Guys:

- block fringe / long or short side fringe, sometimes covering the eyes (the same as girls').
- hairspray is used to give volume to the hair/spike it up at the back.
- ALWAYS layered at the sides of the face and at the back, sometimes on the fringe (unless
it's a proper block fringe).
- usually jet black / white blonde, with streak(s) of the opposite colour at the side/fringe.
- sometimes a shoulder length tip on the side of the fringe (right by the face) and the rest of
the hair cut shorter.
- bows are sometimes worn.
- bandana (red/black/white) is worn as a headband


The difference between Emo hairstyles & Scene hairstyles

What's the difference between scene hair and emo hair you may ask? While it's true
that over the past 3 or 4 years with emo becoming as mainstream as it has with
majority of it's exposure beginning on the internet that, now most people who aren't
involved in this subculture don't see a difference between scene and emo hair and
they tend to call scene hair 'emo hair'.

Another point is that emo hair simply evolved into scene hair that you see today. As
for any genre the clothing style changes with time as do the hairstyles. I suppose one
could think of scene hairstyle as emo hair on steroids. Scene hairstyles infact took
a lot of inspiration from both emo and glam to come to what it is today. So while you
are likely to be called emo if you have a scene hairstyle there are actually differences
between the two, or have been.

Here's a comparison between Scene hairstyles and Emo hairstyles :

The truth is there always were some differences between the two, and as emo grew
the hairstyle evolved and became more extravagant. Originally female emo hair
would look somewhat like 'normal' hair to most people who are used to the amazing
colours and extensions used in scene hair today.

For females, emo hair was bland with perhaps some monotone dye. The cut was
never one designed for heavy use of hair products or maintanence.

Now female scene hair is one of the most flamboyant hairstyles there is with
extensions, extreme dye jobs, loads of hairspray and intense hair straightening
sessions.

As for emo and scene hair for guys it, it has also evolved a lot into what you see
today. Originally even in the beginning of the third wave of emo the male hairstyle was
nothing like you see on scene kids today. There was never hairspray or bangs
(fringes) that reach ones shoulder.

For guys, emo hair was pretty simple, even in the early 2000s. A slightly longer than
normal fringe with a black dye job was popular. The back of the hair remained rather
normal, while often being cut short it was rarely put up with gel, wax or hairpsray.