Any student in high school that hasn’t been living under a rock has seen the male bleached hair. But does anybody really know why these guys are damaging their hair? Is it for fashion? Or another deeper reason?

Bleached hair in men originally hit the streets in the 90’s, with people rocking the bleach and buzz with their baggy JNCO jeans. However, the bleached hair trends fell into a bleak low around the 2000’s. 

The bleached hair trend recently had a resurrection. It was first brought back in the most recent Hunger Games movie. This sparked a surge of bleach and buzzed hairs throughout the country, with wannabe Coriolanus Snows wandering the halls of their high schools, but it soon evolved from buzzed hair to normal/modern looks with the platinum coloring.

There’s also some symbolism in the trend. It’s become much more common for sports teams who have made it to the playoffs to bleach their hair as a symbol of unity and brotherhood.

Although it has evolved throughout the decades, the look shows symbolism in reinventing yourself, unity and following some older trends given to us by the best era, Y2K.