Hair! The part of the scene fashion that receives the most attention, scene hair is an essential part of the scene kid look and should definitely be paid attention to.Even those who are not scenesters themselves generally love the scene hair look, especially on females.

Here are a few scene hair styles.Remember that styling hair is often somewhat of an art and will need to be practised numerous times before you get it right, especially since each person's hair is different and reacts a different way to various methods.While it is possible to cut emo and scene hair yourself it's recommended that you go to a hairstylist with your idea or take a picture of the desired cut to the hairdresser.If you do plan on doing it yourself of having a friend do your hair for you then here are the steps you can take to achieve various different styles

This hair style is very common among scene girls and consists of extentions which one can buy in various colours, making the process of dying the hair unnecessary.To attach the extentions I would recommend going to a salon or any other hair business where they provide such services.

This unique scene hairstyle is achieved by cutting the back of the hair quite a bit shorter than the front,and layering the sides a bit so that you are able to put some of the hair up while still giving a longish appearance.To stick the back of the hair up you can use hair wax or hair spray.

This short scene hair style is achieved by the following steps :

Step 1 : Layer the backs and side of the hair so that it is possible to spike it at the top.Remember not to layer the fringe(bangs).

Step 2 : Brush the hair and move the fringe(bangs) to the side of your face, a clip can be used to keep it in place.

Step 3 : Use either a wax,gel or small amount of hair spray to make the back/top of the hair stand up a bit.This can also be achieved with a blow drier on the area you want raised.

Here you have another common scene hair for females.This hair style consists of a straight short fringe(bangs), longs sides and a long back.Here is how to achieve it :

Step 1 : Cut your hair so that the fringe(bangs) is fairly short while leaving both the sides and the back of the hair long.

Step 2 : Backcomb areas of the back and the area between the sides and the back, depending where you want the 'poofyness' to appear.

Step 3 : After backcombing use hair spray on the area you back combed, this is even more effective if you blow dry the area while applying the hair spray.

Step 4 : Just style the fringe(bangs) with your hands, or straighten it with a hair straightener if needed.

This very interesting hair style is actually for both males and females. It is less common than many of the other scene hairstyles, though has become somewhat more popular of late, here is how to achieve it :

Step 1 : Make sure your hair is long enough to style.

Step 2 : Perform a straight cut across your fringe, but no further than the end of your eyebrows.

Step 3 : Cut in a curved but straight manner down the sides of your face, as can be seen in the picture above.

Step 4 : Perform a straight cut on the hair all around the back on either sides, so that the style blends in from the front to the back.

Step 5 : Layer the top-back of the hair as to create the effect of two layers. Once you have performed this technique, you can dye the two layered sections different colours as seen above to create more of a contrast between the sections.

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STRAIGHTENING

Straightening ones hair is an essential part of the scene look to most, especially those with hair that tends to be less naturally straight than others.Straightening ones hair is a rather straight forward activity.

There are various kinds of straighteners on the market, mainly consisting of 2 types namely dry straighteners and wet and dry straighteners.While it is possible to use a dry straightener on damp hair it's not recommended.

Step 1 : Make sure your hair is preferably clean and free of any oils, grease or gels.Also make sure that your hair is dry whether it be from blow drying or towel drying.

Step 2 : Select your hair straighteners temperature settings which one can change and each settings has a different effectiveness for each persons hair so maybe take some time to find the best settings for your hair, it's recommended that you try a medium temperature and do not use the straightener on it's maximum temperature.The curlier the hair does not mean the hotter the straightener must be.

Step 3 : Check if your straightener has warmed up to the appropriate temperature.Most hair straighteners have a light which tells you when it has reached the desired temperature.

Step 4 : Begin straightening the hair from the root, pulling down hard right to the tip of the hair.When straightening, clamp individual areas of hair and continue until you are happy with the result, then repeat this through all the hair you want straightened.

Step 5 : If needed or desired, apply appropriate hair product such as wax or gel.

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COLOURING

Dying the hair is a common activity for both scene girls and scene guys.The most common colour in the scene and emo fashion is jet black, while it remains more common for the emo style rather than the scene style where you would typically find brighter colours such as red, blue and purple dye.

While some scenesters decide to do their entire hair in colour the more common practice is to dye majority of the hair black and then to bleach certain selected areas, most commonly the fringe(Bangs) and possibly then apply a colour to the bleached area.

When bleaching the hair the directions differ from brand to brand and one should read the instructions that come with for the best results.As for colouring, it is acceptable to leave the colour on for 20-30% longer than instructed.For your colour to last longer there are various products which result in a longer lasting, more vibrant shine.

When dying the hair, if possible ask a friend to help you out.That way you will end up with what will likely be a better result.If you are worried about the dye sticking to your skin around your hair line, before you start you can use Vaseline on the skin around the area, this tends to stop the dye staining your skin.

Note : There are no rules when it comes to gender and hair dying and all styles can be done on both males and females.

To achieve this result scene hair style you need to take the following steps :

Step 1 : Bleach the area at the back that you want to colour, follow the instructions of the bleach carefully.When completed wash and dry the hair.

Step 2 : Apply the coloured dye to the bleached area.

Step 3 : Leave the dye on for the amount of time indicated on the product.

Step 4 : Rinse and dry

Step 5 : Tie the already coloured hair back out of the way

Step 6 : Apply black dye to the areas which are not dyed

Step 7 : Repeat step 3 and 4

To achieve this scene hair style is rather easy with these steps :

Step 1 : Bleach your fringe(bangs), right to the roots.Follow the instructions of the bleach carefully.When completed wash and dry the hair.

Step 2 : Apply the coloured dye to the beached area

Step 3 : Leave the dye on for the amount of time indicated on the product.

Step 4 : Wash, Rinse and dry

This is a relatively new scene hair style and is less common than the other styles though is gaining popularity amoung scene girls lately, this style is called 'scene coon', 'cool tail' or 'coon' since the hair resembles a racoons tail.Here is how to achieve this interesting effect.

Step 1 : Bleach the areas you want the raccoon tail look.Follow the instructions of the bleach carefully.When completed wash and dry the hair.Note that if you plan on dying the remainder of your hair as well, bleach the entire head and then apply the desired colour dye to the remainder of the hair after completing the raccoon tail.

Step 2 : Take a small area of bleached hair and put a band around the roots of this area to hold it in place.

Step 3 : Place tape around the areas of your hair where you want the bleached areas to remains, generally this is around 2 inches apart.The thickness of your stripes are up to you.

Step 4 : Take some of the coloured dye and apply it to the areas between the pieces of tape.Rub this dye in carefully without getting it under the tape.Leave this dye on for the amount instructed per the dye's instructions.

Step 5 : Rinse out the dye and while doing so the tape will automatically come off due to the water.

Step 6 : Repeat step 2 and 3 and 4 until you have completed your desired look.

The colour which is most common in both emo hair styles and scene hair styles, the jet black dye job.This is a great dye job if you are unable to have more brightly coloured and eccentric hair.It is also very easy to achieve :

Step 1 : You can decide whether you want to bleach your hair first or if you want to dye over your current hair colour, in most cases both as successful.

Step 2 : Follow the instructions of the dye.

Step 3 : Wash and rinse... It's that easy!

Another popular scene hair style is that of a large amount of the hair or even all the hair being dyed a bright colour.Here is how to do this :

Step 1 : Bleach the areas you want coloured.Following the instructions supplied with the bleach.

Step 2 : Rinse and dry the hair.

Step 3 : Apply desired colour to the bleached areas of hair.Following the instructions supplied with the dye.

Step 4 : Repeat step 2

5 Celebrity Scene Hair Styles

Davey Havok is the singer from the punk band AFI, he has had what many would call 'scene' hair for a number of years now. Though over the past few years his hair became even more 'scene'-like. This image is from a few years ago when his hair was at it's peak of 'sceneness'.

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Conor Oberst from the band Bright Eyes has had what many call emo hair for a long time, probably into the 1990s and was one of the band members who had a lot to do with the growth of the emo and scene hairstyle within the past decade. He grew his hair out around the period of Bright Eyes' last album release, though he has apparently cut it since then.

Many of the members of the screamo/hip-hop band Hollywood Undead sport the short male scene haircut. They tend to couple their hair either with caps or bandanas.




Oli Sykes, from the metalcore/screamo band Bring Me The Horizon is one of the most famous celebrities with scene hair in the scene crowd. Girls generally want to be with him, and guys want his hair.




Sonny Moore, the former vocalist from 'From First To Last' during the period of the their album 'Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Bodycount' had very scene hair. Though he later grew it out.

5 Bands That Killed Emo By Making It Big

Let's go back 5 or 6 years (Perhaps even less), emo was starting out in it's latest 'wave' of musical evolution. And around this time, maybe one or two years later, social networking sites where beginning to bring in vast amounts of traffic and it became cool to be somewhat geeky (As opposed to the times that if you knew how to navigate the internet it was an instant beatdown from your school jocks, who obviously were yet to master their hand eye co-ordination enough to control a mouse), now everyone seems to know how to do your basic html coding. Anyway, around this time 'emo' bands began popping up on myspace and purevolume and suddenly the rest of the internet took hold of this new craze. The problem with these bands is that a large number of mainstream emo bands have gone about making majority of their money by dressing emo and riding the wave of money that emo brought them, but then at the same time those bands try to seperate themselves from the emo genre as to be sure that those who are against emo still like them as a band. And will continue to listen to their music without the fear of being called emo.



Even though at this time many forums, social networking sites and imageboards were talking about 'emo', it hadn't made it's appearance onto the mainstream circuit. It remained a relatively underground movement for over 20 years before finally breaking through into the mainstream in the mid 2000s. And as can be expected with a genre which already had enough negative misconceptions online by 2005, once it became more popular those internet rumors as to what emo consisted of and the general hate it has recieved by other genres began to spready in the real world. We will be going over which bands broke through the underground scene and into the mainstream, creating emo into one large hate magnet.


#1
My Chemical Romance

This band is loved by plenty of scene and emo kids around the world. But before they became what they are today (An MTV overplayed Pop-punk/Alternative band), they used to be emo. Let's look back to 2002 when they released the album 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love', this album was heavily influenced by the alternative rock and emo genres. I doubt you will find many people who disagree that this album was infact 'emo'. This album recieved very little media attention as MCR was still signed to a smaller record label at the time.

In 2004 they released the album 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge', which had a rather post-hardcore/emo feel to it and one could probably go as far as to say that album also fell within the third wave emo genre. At this time (Between 2004-2006) emo was already slowly creeping beyond the door of the underground and up onto the mainstream, and with this MTV snapped up the video for 'Helana' as well as 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' which ended up being played on the hour. At this time large radio stations were doing the same, playing the bands singles.

In late 2006 - early 2007 the band released their album 'The Black Parade', and while their style had actually taken a slight turn from the actual emo genre people were stuck with the idea that the band was an emo band and they remained known as one through out 2007 and 2008 by the majority of people. And through all the negative publicity emo had been getting since 2004 the band publicly stated that emo was 'shit', a statement I'm sure a lot of emo kids don't know was said. They denounced the genre and tried to seperate themselves from the now already mainstream genre.

#2
Fall Out Boy

This Emo/Pop-Punk band made it's breakthrough onto the mainstream fairly late, in the latter months of 2006 with the music video for the song 'This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race' taken off their album 'Infinity on High' being debuted on MTV with regular airing.

Where My Chemical Romance had brought more of an alternative sound, reeling in those interested in the rock side of things into emo, Fall Out Boy on the other hand reached into Pop-Punk for it's sounds, and thus had tapped into another market with it's sounds. Which made the emo genre even larger with more exposure.

As if it wasn't bad enough the band had broken through onto the mainstream circut and created more trendy high school kids into 'emo kids' for the popularity they then went and collaborated with some huge hip-hop stars such as Timberland and Kanye West.


#3
Panic! At The Disco


Now before you get ready to correct me. This band isn't really an emo band as such and rather a Rock/Pop-Punk band. But with all the confusion and huge buzz with 'emo' breaking through onto the mainstream people seemed to pile P!ATD right up there with Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and was ultimately labeled emo by numerous fans of the band. Not to mention they were marketted as an emo band.

Their breakthrough came around the same time as Fall Out Boy, perhaps a bit earlier. With the release of their album 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out', this album was fairly underground when it was released with majority of fans remaining those on myspace. But a good few months after the bands album release and after the media found that their music was so very popular online they decided to promote them up onto that dreaded mainstream arena. The music video for their song 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' became a huge hit on mtv and radio stations alike, and they too were adding fuel to the fire which was emo, and more importantly mainstream emo.


#4
Green Day


That's right, the punk band which released such classic albums as 'Dookie' and 'Insomniac'. The band has played a large role in Punk within the mainstream, since the bands formation in the mid 1980s. They generally held a typical punk sound developing a slight pop-punk feel in the 90s.

In 2004 the band released the album 'American Idiot', and while Green Day was in no way new to the mainstream media and being played on MTV this time it was different. The band downed their very laid back look and went for a very 'emo' look, with constrasting red and black suits (Popular among third wave emo culture), and eye liner which had also become common practice within the emo genre.

Once again as with P!ATD, Green Day released their album in a time where there was plenty of confusion among fans and critics alike as to exactly what was emo and what wasn't. And since Green Day now carried the emo look, plenty of the critics were convinced Green Day had turned into an emo band. And thus young Green Day fans spread further into the emo culture and they had done their part to spread misconception.




#5
Hawthorne Heights



This Post-Hardcore/Screamo band released their album 'The Silence In Black and White' in mid-2004 and while it was recieved well online it, it had minimal mainstream media play-time. Though the song 'Ohio Is For Lovers' was quite popular and the media did on occasions play the video for the song.

Their bigger break came in 2006 with the media popularity of the song 'Pens and Needles' from their album 'If Only You Were Lonely', the media seemed to play this song more often than 'Ohio Is For Lovers' and since emo was peaking around the time of the release of 'Pens and Needles' it is also just what the media wanted

As a sad side note : Hawthorne Heights guitarist, Casey Calvert died of a prescription drug overdose while on tour in 2007.