The Mohawk is a hairstyle. In the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaved leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the centre. Mohawks became common in punk subculture in the early 1980s and were then adopted by Rivetheads with various other groups, becoming more diverse in style. Today, Mohawks are still associated with the punk subculture, but have also become part of mainstream fashion.

The Mohawk hairstyle is named for, and often associated with, the people of the Mohawk nation, an indigenous people of North America who originally inhabited the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York.^[1]

This hairstyle was also known among other peoples. For instance, the Clonycavan Man, a 2000-year-old male bog body discovered near Dublin, Ireland in 2003, was found to be wearing a Mohawk styled with plant oil and pine resin.^[2]

Contents 1 Style and maintenance 2 Varieties 2.1 Colored Mohawk or Colorhawk 2.2 Blackhawk or Brohawk 2.3 Deathhawk 2.4 Dreadhawk 2.5 Rathawk 2.6 Fauxhawk or faux-hawk 2.7 Halfhawk or tophawk 2.8 Reverse Mohawk 2.9 Sunhawk 2.10 Rayhawk 2.11 Liberty-spike Mohawk 3 History 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Style and maintenance

Depending on how it is worn, the Mohawk can be a high-maintenance style. Regular, careful shaving or trimming is required to maintain a clean line between the shaven and unshaven (or short and long) portions of the hair; this can be especially complicated in bi- and tri- hawks.

If the hair is to be worn up, brushing, backcombing, blow-drying, and twisting are required, as well as the application of sprays and in some cases other holding agents like white or clear glue, egg whites, cornstarch, or gelatin. The amount of time required for styling may increase considerably with longer hair or complicated styles such as liberty spikes (sometimes known as a libertyhawk).

Some wearers enhance the look of their Mohawks with hair dyes. This, too can require a great deal of initial effort and maintenance, especially in styles where the color(s) form an integral part of the style. In some cases, for example, Mohawk-wearers who normally wear their hair up in a fan style dye the hair in even lines or stripes of color, either horizontal or vertical.

[edit] Varieties

[edit] Colored Mohawk or Colorhawk

Nontraditional colored mohawks.

[edit] Blackhawk or Brohawk

Basically an african american version of the Mohawk. style ripper

[edit] Deathhawk

A Mohawk featuring voluminous teased hair common to the deathrock/gothic subcultures.

[edit] Dreadhawk

A dreadlocked Mohawk.

[edit] Rathawk

Mohawk that starts on the back top of the head down to the rattail.

[edit] Fauxhawk or faux-hawk

A "fake" Mohawk which approximates the style but without shaving the sides of the head.^[3] The fauxhawk is typically worn with a small but noticeable spike in the middle, though usually considerably shorter than many traditional mohawks. The style re-emerged in the late 2000s, one of the popular wearers being David Beckham. The fauxhawk is known in the Hoxton and Shoreditch districts of London as the "Hoxton fin."^[4].

The ponyhawk or pony hawk is a type of fauxhawk created by a row of ponytails going down the middle of the head. This look was worn by contestant Sanjaya Malakar on an episode of the television show American Idol.^[5]

[edit] Halfhawk or tophawk

A Mohawk that extends only from the forehead to the crown, on the top part of the wearer's head, rather than to the nape of the neck.

[edit] Reverse Mohawk

Rather than the strip of longer hair in the centre of the scalp, a reverse Mohawks features a shaved strip from the forehead to the nape of the neck leaving hair on either side of the line.

[edit] Sunhawk

A Mohawk in which, rather than front to back, the unshaved hair extends over the head from side to side.

[edit] Rayhawk

A short mohawk dyed bright blue named due to the popularity of the style among Tampa Bay Rays players, also popular with fans

[edit] Liberty-spike Mohawk

A mohawk usually worn by punks and has spikes instead of a row. Mostly dyed to bright colors as blue, red, yellow, and purple.

[edit] History

[edit] References

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mohawk

• Punk fashion
• Devilock
• Mr. T
• Chuck Liddell
• Darby Crash

[edit] External links

• History of the Mohawk
• Historical Mohawks of Distinction
• Punk Hair FAQ
• Video Tutorials Demonstrating How to Make a Mohawkar:موهوك (قصة شعر)

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