“My grandmother has been telling my brother that his hair is too long for forever now,” our submitter in Texas writes, “and whenever she criticized his long hair, he’d tell her it was ‘in style.’” Hello, loophole! Today Grandma left this clipping on the fridge for her grandson to find.
(By the way, if you’ve managed to avoid contact with the tween set lately and had no idea that this Justin Bieber character is supposedly “the world’s biggest pop star” — you’re not alone.)
And Grandma, if Seth doesn’t take the hint, maybe you’ll have to try Star Magazine‘s trick?
related: The overly-friendly coworker: ruining your day since you held the door for her that one time
extra credit: Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber
The Justin Bieber Guide for Old People [gawker.com]
Justin Bieber’s “hair trick” [youtube]
126 responses so far ↓
#1
Sean Jungian
SNL was the first I’d heard of this girl.
Apr 15, 2010 at 4:51 pm rating: 32
#2
Woman on the Verge
Yeah, whenever I wanted style tips as a teen, I went straight to Grandma.
Apr 15, 2010 at 4:59 pm rating: 78
#3
MAMARILLA2
Poor Justin Bieber, everyone picks on her..
Apr 15, 2010 at 4:59 pm rating: 35
#4
jfruh
My own deceased grandmother would be horrified that this mop-top is some kind of baseline for a “short” haircut these days. You can’t see his ears or his forehead! Give that kid a haircut like they do in the army if you want him to look respectable.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:02 pm rating: 23
#5
QuarterRoy00
Can’t we just cut the Bieber instead?
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:05 pm rating: 3
#6
Rachel
I’m rather surprised Justin Bieber is getting credit for this look, as I’ve seen it on the heads of my emo/nouveau-punk students for several years now. Boys, girls…the cut knows no gender limitations. How 21st century of it.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:06 pm rating: 7
#7
Woman on the Verge
Holy shit! Now I get it! That’s a picture of Hilary Swank from Boys Don’t Cry!
This explains so much.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:10 pm rating: 9
#8
Dave
That hair was freakin’ delicious!
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm rating: 2
#9
Pockets
That kid really freaks me out.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:24 pm rating: 5
#10
Escape Goat
Oh great, the bowl cut is back. I blame the economy.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:29 pm rating: 17
#11
Odious
Sheesh, unless Grandma is over 100 years old, she was a young person when we went through this in 1964 with the Beatles (and a hundred times since). Does she ever leave the house? Or did she just wake up from a 50-yr coma?
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:32 pm rating: 14
#12
Donna Martin Graduates!
Ah, I was just about to make a moptop joke.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:35 pm rating: 1
#13
Sarah
Thanks for the Old Person Guide. Glad I needed it.
Apr 15, 2010 at 5:49 pm rating: 7
#14
oi
so does that mean that submitter’s grandma approves Bieber’s hair cut?
I am disappointed in this grandma. Look at that hair cut! Mentally challenged is the first word that pops in the mind.
Apr 15, 2010 at 6:00 pm rating: 8
#15
claw71
J-Beebs might not know it yet but he has single-handedly relegated the unassuming mop-top to the same level of hairdo hell the mullet was sent to after Billy Ray Cyrus overwhelmed us with his ill-advised coif.
Apr 15, 2010 at 6:46 pm rating: 7
#16
hapagirrl
I used to not dye my hair, on principle, and also because I thought despite my youth, I looked cool sporting salt and pepper hair and was cool for being honest about myself. My mother hated it, for years, and then one day sent me an article featuring the hottest women with gray hair. I was so disgusted that my mother needed a popular magazine to approve of women not dyeing their hair–that I went out and dyed my hair. So I’ll toast to my mom, this guy’s grandma, and proverbial lemmings everywhere tonight . . .
Apr 15, 2010 at 7:20 pm rating: 13
#17
Melissa B
my mom knew about justin bieber before i did… she’d sing his songs and make me confused and creeped out… turns out she mega accurate in her renditions…
Apr 15, 2010 at 7:24 pm rating: 4
#18
Rene
Seth’s hair is probably better off the way it is. That is horrendous
Apr 15, 2010 at 7:50 pm rating: 2
#19
Canthz_B
I’m going to get my hair just like Bieber’s…I’ll look like a Romulan, but if it’s the in-look, I’m all for it.
Apr 15, 2010 at 7:53 pm rating: 18
#20
Pxmidnight
so… am I the only one having flashbacks of Peter Tork?
Apr 15, 2010 at 8:11 pm rating: 5
#21
MAMARILLA2
So..I guess when his beard finally grows in…in ten years or so…He will become a hairy Bieber.
Apr 15, 2010 at 8:22 pm rating: 12
#22
boo ya
spock said it all! “live long and prosperoius”..”>
Apr 15, 2010 at 10:30 pm rating: 1
#23
AuntyBron
So am I the only one with thinks Jennifer Aniston in a Bieber ‘do looks like Dorothy Hamill?
Apr 16, 2010 at 12:03 am rating: 1
#24
Blogmella
I think the grandson should get a mohawk, or shave his head and have a huge tattoo on his scalp. That’ll give the nosey old bag something to complain about.
Apr 16, 2010 at 1:45 am rating: 6
#25
Canthz_B
I’ve tried to like that hairstyle, but it’s just not working for me.
It looks like he slept all night wearing The Great Gazoo’s helmet.
Apr 16, 2010 at 6:34 am rating: 6
#26
Fanboy Wife
I’ve never heard of that pop-star kid, but I’ve seen a lot teenage boys with that hair style. They all look pretty ridiculous!
Apr 16, 2010 at 6:36 am rating: 1
#27
Critical Grass
“You know you love me
I know you care
You shout whenever
And I’ll be there”
That’s actually more than a threat. It’s a brain wash process waiting to happen in 5, 4, 3, 2… Baby baby baby oooh… Yeah…
Apr 16, 2010 at 7:24 am rating: 4
#28
Bored at Work
Hey Moe! Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk…..
Apr 16, 2010 at 8:16 am rating: 5
#29
Bunnee
Experience tells me that if this kid’s hair is long, he is repulsed by Justin Bieber. Way to confuse musical genres, Grandma!
Apr 16, 2010 at 8:43 am rating: 5
#30
ClearlyDemented
Fellow PANers, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Did we all forget why we’re really here? I’m all for making fun of that horrible “do”, but did no one else read the actual note?
First, it teases us with the tense switching in the first sentence, and then brings us home with, “Why don’t you try it & then surprise me while I’m gone & then back”! I’m not sure I even know what it means, but I am sure I want to marry that sentence.
Now get to work, people.
Apr 16, 2010 at 8:56 am rating: 22
#31
Lisa
Awk! All week, the question:” Who the FUCK is Justin Bieber?” has been ringing through my head when I’m confronted with this inescapable People cover.
(Even though I’ve pondered this some half-dozen times already, I don’t even WANT to know… )
Maybe this will become a cult catch-phrase, like “Who is John Galt?”
Apr 16, 2010 at 9:08 am rating: 3
#32
Bored at Work
“Who is Justin Bieber?”
Grandma shrugged.
Apr 16, 2010 at 9:18 am rating: 11
#33
Yo
He is a pedophile’s dream. I wonder when he’ll do his first shoot of heroin and put us all out of our misery.
Apr 16, 2010 at 9:51 am rating: 2
#34
Lisa
Not only do I not know who Justin Bieber is, I’m not exactly sure of Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron either. (I think I’ve seen their pimply mugs in the magazine-corral at my local drug store, though. )
Hello, middle age!
Apr 16, 2010 at 10:05 am rating: 3
#35
Stinky
“Surprise me while I’m gone then back”?
Does that mean Grandma is going to kick it soon, but rise from the dead to see if grandsonny boy followed her wishes?
BTW…he looks like Cousin It is sucking out his brain…
Apr 16, 2010 at 10:16 am rating: 9
#36
Real Celeb Fake Speak
Grandma: What big hair you have grandkid!
Kid: All the better to block u out, granny!
Apr 16, 2010 at 12:13 pm rating: 0
#37
claw71
I’m never really that put off by teen heart throbs. It’s nothing new. Tiger Beat has been around a long time and I remember girls my age fostering insane crushes over Michael J. Fox, NKOTB and Kirk Cameron. The thing that perplexes me is the fact that the studs teenage girls swoon over seem less masculine every year. I mean, prior to the 80s teenage girls fawned over real men like the Beatles and Robert Plant. As a guy, you can respect that.
I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was an androgynous little waif, but I had to give him props for sporting some serious acting chops. Now we have anorexic hipsters (Pattinson) and bubbly Canadian gnomes with awful haircuts driving girls to flick the life out of the little man in the pink boat. It’s not fair to today’s teenage boys. How do you over-compensate when the latest trend defies your natural biological predisposition?
Apr 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm rating: 6
#38
Boss
Considering that this haircut would have been considered long in grandma’s era it’s pretty cool of her to suggest it to her grandson. It’s a compromise, really.
Apr 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm rating: 1
#39
Jesse
I had gone with the Mr. Clean look for several years – pissed my mom off pretty good. (Which is a good thing). But eventually I got tired of shaving my head every day so I let the hair grow back, but now I keep it pretty short – get it cut about every three weeks or so. It’s much more comfortable than having a mop on my head.
That all being said, I wouldn’t give anyone else a hard time for their hair styles. That’s their decision, not mine.
Apr 17, 2010 at 12:45 pm rating: 0
#40
TippingCows
Ok, I just learned that this kid is 16. Is he on some kind of drug or something?! He looks no older than 10! Maybe his very Christian mother made him smoke cigarettes and mainline caffeine for years as part of her evil plan …
Apr 17, 2010 at 6:49 pm rating: 0
#41
Amy
So, you don’t want to share your super-special non-dairy creamer/handsoap with the rest of the office?
You could go for the semi-direct approach…
But as Ocie in Petaluma, California witnessed, that might not be enough of a deterrent.
In that case, you could try to dial up the crazy a little more, like Nicole in Florida…
Or you just [...]
Apr 18, 2010 at 4:49 pm rating: 0
#42
keith
“Helmet-head” is a word that comes to mind.
He/she looks just like Ryan Connor in Coronation Street (UK Soap)
Apr 19, 2010 at 7:33 am rating: 0
#43
Winston Smith
Did anyone else notice that, when they “[give] other famously coiffed celebs Justin’s cut”, they just did a copy-and-paste job? And a pretty bad one, at that; the dark patch above each person’s right eye is Bieber’s EYEBROW showing through his hair!
Apr 22, 2010 at 9:53 pm rating: 0
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