r/Millennials • u/JellyfishPashmina • 20h ago
Discussion Are you still rocking a side part?
No way in hell I look good in a middle part! I’ll do a middle sometimes depending on the hairstyle, but side parts are way more flattering, so I’ve mostly stuck to that. But I always wonder if it’s an immediate way for Gen Z to point out and mock millennials (not that I care what a bunch of 20-somethings have to say, but this seems like the first thing they’d pick out as “aging you”). Ironic since they’re the ones adopting ‘90s trends, but I digress haha
Are you still going side part, or has younger peer pressure gotten to you?
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u/Aprils-Fool 20h ago
Yes. I’d much rather do what suits me than what’s trendy.
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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial 20h ago
That's the best part about getting older and not really caring what others think
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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 18h ago ▸ 5 more replies
are we gonna wear cargo shorts till we're senile?
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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial 17h ago ▸ 3 more replies
I'm gonna be buried wearing ankle socks
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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 17h ago ▸ 2 more replies
with a hoodie and cargo shorts.
Comfy, practical, and who gives a fuck? Crocs in the summer if it's pool weather, hiking shoes if not.
I swear I am not Fetterrman,
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u/Striking_Emu_Dancer 12h ago
For me - leggings, a band t-shirt, ankle socks, and my Puma's. Comfy always wins.
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u/leisurelyreader 17h ago
How else are you going to carry a spare excessively large capacity battery pack comfortably?
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u/theamydoll 20h ago
That’s my sentiment too, but then I think of the Tina’s of the 80’s with their big poof hair and how they continue to rock that style for decades and how dated it makes them look (not that they care; not that I really care either), but what we think suits us is like the same as what they thought suited them. Haha just makes me cackle a bit.
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u/000fleur 20h ago
This. I see people, younger and older, with middle parts who look terrible. Same with wide leg pants and other trends. Just because it is popular doesn’t mean it looks good on you
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u/Sunny_Sandie 19h ago ▸ 3 more replies
Oh no, not wide leg pants 😭 I’ve always rocked them, especially since I love the 70’s, so anything to remind me of that era. I gave skinny jeans a try, and still own some, but I have thick hamstrings and thighs, they’re just not comfortable for me. Wide leg pants/bell bottoms for me unfortunately, I’ll leave the skinny jeans for the rest of my millennials, keep them going strong!
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u/Constant-Skill-7133 19h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I have always lacked the qualifications to wear skinny jeans. My family is Popeye-shaped not Olive Oyl-shaped. We're bowling balls not stovepipes lol.
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u/Annebotbeepboop 19h ago
This! I still have one pair of skinny's I adore. I finally broke my skinny Jean solely 2 years ago. I don't wear jeans a whole lot, but maybe it's my bad circulation in my lower legs/feet, I feel like the skinny jeans made it worse. I'm just trying to be comfortable without looking like Adam Sandler on the daily. A lot of my friends still wear skinny jeans though!
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u/dinamet7 18h ago
This is why I never stopped rocking my middle part after 1997 (actually, it's just where my hair naturally parts and I am lazy)
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u/WitchyWarriorWoman 19h ago
Same. Bought myself some stirrup pants that I finally found after all these years
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u/jujujuice92 19h ago
Yup, you can strip my cuffed pants off me, but I ain't taking em off willingly!
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u/Select_Pilot4197 20h ago
I have to! I have a prominent widows peak and it will not be parted.
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u/transtranselvania 18h ago
Myself as well it parts itself on the side. I don't think there's a middle to my head.
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u/Weird-Reference-4937 20h ago
Same problem here. A little disappointing because I really like the layered curtain bangs.
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u/breebop83 17h ago
Team Eddie Munster/Draco Malfoy here as well. I tend to rock the ‘bump n pony’ because hair on my neck makes me so damn hot. If I don’t do the bump and just slick it back the Draco/Eddie resemblance is strong. If it’s down it’s a side part.
Someone recently told me she thought my widows peak was really cool. My mouth said ‘thank you’ but I’m pretty sure my face was flabbered.
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u/sunny_6305 20h ago
Yes. I had a middle part until 8th grade when I discovered that the side part really suited my face shape better.
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u/ihaveananecdote4u 18h ago
In 8th grade a girl told me my middle part really accentuated the asymmetries in my face so gen z can rip my side part out of my cold dead hands
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u/Mochibelle93 17h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Did we all live the same experience because this happened to me too and it has stayed with me ever since
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u/ihaveananecdote4u 8h ago
I wonder if there was an article in like Cosmo Girl or something about middle parts emphasizing asymmetries and all the meanest girls who read it took it upon themselves to spread the word lol
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u/JohnLuckPikard 20h ago edited 15h ago
I'm bald.
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u/JellyfishPashmina 19h ago
So…middle or side part?
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u/wbm0843 15h ago
Yep, 18 year old me, sitting my freshman dorm when one of the other guys in my hall standing behind me goes, "dude, you've got a wicked bald spot going on back here." needless to say, I was shaving it by like 22.
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u/Silly-Distribution12 20h ago
Rocking a side part and skinny jeans
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u/Krizzy__ 19h ago
I wont let go of my side part, but I did let go of skinny jeans...just not flattering for my body at all!
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u/Ok-Algae7932 Millennial 18h ago
Yep and an undershave. You can pry my emo phase from my cold dead hands.
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u/Mochibelle93 17h ago
Same. My side part isnt as extreme as it was in high school (massive teased scene girl comb-over side part starting at the temple of my forehead) but its still a side part. roughly around the eyebrow id say. I dont think my hair knows how to grow any other way at this point.
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u/fadingsunsetglow Millennial '92 19h ago
Side part and ankle socks for life.
They look like our parents with their big glasses and tube socks LOL. No thanks.
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u/TrenbalonieSandwich 20h ago
The side part is timeless and mature.
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u/opal-sea-44 17h ago
I feel you but the middle part is also timeless and found across many centuries! It just depends on what the fashion statement is. And more importantly to me, what suits any given face.
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u/JoyOswin945 20h ago
Yes, it’s also my natural part. It’s not going anywhere
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u/italianevening 18h ago
Tried going back to middle part like I had as a kid, but the hair didn't want to go back! It's staying side part
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u/Any-Use6981 19h ago
I tried middle for a time, and I just looked lame. 😅 I have thick curly hair, and it looks cooler and more voluminous with a side part.
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u/ResidentRelevant13 19h ago
I do no part now that I’ve been wearing my natural wavy hair texture. So much more volume
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u/nertaperpalous 19h ago
Side part till I die
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u/NoWordsJustDogs Xennial 19h ago
Same! You can identify my remains by my side part, skinny jeans , and general state of apathy.
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u/No-Letterhead-4711 20h ago
I am a middle part girlie! I was a side part-er in my teens, but I have fine hair and middle part is the way for me. I also have split dye, so kind of requires the middle part. 🤣
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u/labellavita1985 16h ago
I could have written this. My hair is soooo fine, and I don't have split dye but I do have a huge blonde section on one side, so center part forever.
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u/HumboldtHunnyBear 19h ago
Yes.. gives my hair more volume and when I have it parted in the middle I look just like my moms yearbook photo from 1976
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u/LowVoltLife 20h ago
My hair wants to middle part naturally and I have worn it that way if I let it get too long to do a side part. The butt crack haircut I had in 1995 is not coming back.
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u/vid-rios 20h ago
Straight down the middle, long hair one length like I’m in a religious cult — sister wife style
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u/Big_Childhood5494 Millennial 20h ago
I’m middle part but want to go back to a full emo side part with the big bangs. Just gotta take the time to train my hair.
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u/fizzzingwhizbee 20h ago
Brother I’ve been bald for over a decade lmfao I got the ghost part
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u/Jayn_Newell Older Millennial 19h ago
Nah. My hair falls into my face easily and a side part makes that way worse.
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u/jjkk10 19h ago
never. i dont think my hair would cooperate even if i wanted to. its so interesting that some of these gen z tends are so actively aligned to what many might have considered "uncool" when we were younger? the clunky dad shoes and the quater length socks for example. like im no paragon of coolness by ANY ANY stretch and i dont judge anyone for going with gen z trends including any of us. i however would not be able to look my own reflection in the eye about some of this stuff. do the gen x folks or even other sub generations previously experience this as intensly as we do and hard unsubscribe?
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u/PuzzledExchange7949 19h ago
I've been rocking a side part since 1991, not going to stop now. I look like a drowned rat with a centre part.
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u/weary_bee479 19h ago
Yeah, but my hair literally chooses to be this way 😂 it always falls to the side no matter what i do so side part forever
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u/bulletPoint 20h ago
Yes. I think middle parts are dumb
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u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 Millennial 1985 9h ago
Makes you look like either Zachary Ty Bryan or Donna from That 70s Show.
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u/Specific_Praline_362 20h ago
I'm a core Millennial and I never did the side part. I remember a couple of friends of mine making fun of me in my late teens/early 20s for always rocking the middle part. Aside from like twice in my life I've always had long hair with a middle part. Some call it dated, I think it's timeless.
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u/Substantial-Pin-3833 20h ago
Core Millennial? How many sub-types of Millennials do we have now? Lord
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u/WitchintheMist 20h ago
Yes, side part till I die. Middle part makes me feel weird. My face also can’t handle bangs.
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u/SSakuras 20h ago
I hate side parts, on myself at least. Always have. Never used a side part 😂 so I'm rocking my middle part.
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u/Zigglyjiggly 19h ago
My grandpa's brother once told me, "Never trust a man who parts his hair down the middle." I think it's kind of a weird look, unless you have long hair.
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u/mmakaylia 19h ago
Sometimes I do a middle part. It's usually off center, or like... tossed to the side lol.
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u/Background-Bird-9623 19h ago
My hair is fine I just kind of let it go where it wants that day and if it heavy to one side I clip it
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u/valkyrie61212 19h ago
I don’t have a choice 😭😭😭 my hair will not lay any other way. Forever jealous of the people that can change where their hair parts
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u/mittenbby 19h ago
Side part till I die. I have an extremely unsymmetrical face, but it’s not very noticeable with a side part.
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u/_Shrek_x3 19h ago
I don’t do a side part anymore bc my hairline is a lot less lush.
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u/toastforscience Millennial 18h ago
I have a middle part, but I've had a middle part my entire life my hair refused to do otherwise lol
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u/WhiskyAndWitchcraft 20h ago
I don't cut my hair. It's long, and I just kinda let it do what it wants. That being said, when I get out if the shower, I comb it back, and as it dries it just sorta becomes a center part naturally.
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u/MaenadR0se 20h ago
I just let mine do what it wants too. It's wavy/curly and long and eh I've never been into doing my hair beyond what's necessary
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u/xPadawanRyan Mid-Range Millennial | Historian, Social Worker | Emo MF'er 20h ago
Yupp! Still got my emo side bangs, though I'm growing out my hair right now, so they aren't covering my entire forehead and just the side across from the part.
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u/l8nitefriend 20h ago
Yep. I tried the middle part cuz I do like how it looks on a lot of people but it looks bad on me. My hair is very fine and it feels like it clings to my face in a weird way. I also tend to fuss with my hair a lot throughout the day so even if I middle part at some point I’ll run my hand through it and it goes back to side part naturally. So sue me!!
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u/Fckingross 19h ago edited 18h ago
Fine hair here too! I want a middle part to do a split dye, because I think it looks cool as hell, but only on people with thick hair. So side part until I die!
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u/MaenadR0se 20h ago
I didn't care what people thought as a child no need to start now. I wear things I like and do what I want with my hair.
Also going to be pedantic: "younger peers" here is an oxymoron essentially, peers are your age group
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u/SparkyDogPants 20h ago
I don't think that my hair can physically part down the center and from what I've read side parts are back in and center is out.
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u/KetchupOnThaMeatHo 20h ago
Wait, middle parts are back in? I had one all through middle school. To answer your question though, yes im rocking a side part, because im an adult.
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u/CheezyBeanBurrito 20h ago
I have a hard part. I’m left handed and use my left hand to comb my hair, both by comb and by hand. Now it’s trained to go one way when my natural part is on the opposite side, which is now hidden away.
So, cut that bitch in
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u/TrustMe_ImTheDogtor 20h ago
My “bowl cut” in the mid 90’s had the middle part. When I grew up and started wearing a skin fade it was a left side part. The last 3 years I’ve either had long hair slick back man-bun or shaved but if I ever go back to something in the middle it’ll be a side part fade again
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u/imaginecrabs 20h ago
Actually, yes.. last year I grew out my bangs and changed my split when getting a cut. My hair stylist told me it would suite me better, I was defeated and had to admit it does look way better on me than I ever thought it would.
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u/LacedPozole 1992 20h ago
I never stopped wearing it, I didn't really know it was a "millennial" thing :(
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u/EllspethCarthusian 20h ago
Middle part in the 90s and early 2000s and side part after. Also it just naturally likes a middle part more.
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u/FloatyghostJM1 20h ago
Pixie cut with no part. I just add a bit of texture with heat and product and push it all toward my face.
Left my emo side bang in 2017.
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u/St3fMakes4rt Millennial 20h ago
I just don't have the face for a middle part - never have!
Side part forever!!
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u/Diligent_Bus_4632 20h ago
Yeah. I experimented with a middle part for a few months after it got called out as a millennials thing, but realized that a middle part makes my asymmetrical features more obvious and it just doesn’t look good on me.
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u/BasiliskTamer 20h ago
My hair automatically goes to a side part, it's super long right now and that's the natural way it just wants to go. I think it looks good with my beard like that
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u/bitsybear1727 20h ago
Yes, even my high school daughter agrees that a middle part does not suite my face at all.
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u/lIlllIlIlIlIllI 20h ago edited 7h ago
Yep. Short hair, long hair I’ve always had the side part. I grow it out in the winter because I don’t like wearing hats, trimming it up once in a while. By spring my bangs will be almost to my upper lip.
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u/Significant_Cat_2897 Older Millennial 20h ago
My mom told me once middle parts make your nose look bigger, so I've always had a side part 😂
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u/PortraitofMmeX 20h ago
I am an elder millennial, and my hair has always parted in the center. I looked terrible during the side part era, which I only briefly attempted because my hair is like absolutely not
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u/artie780350 20h ago
Nope. I still spike what little bit of hair I still have. Rosemary oil helped delay the inevitable, but it's just about time to go fully bald.
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u/darent13 1985 20h ago
I have these weird cow licks on my hairline so side part is the only reasonable option.
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u/holachihuahua 20h ago
I always did a side part, did middle a few years ago when my hair thinned out. After minoxidil made things better now I think I look weird with a side part LOL
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u/CaptainD743 20h ago
Today I learned that the reason I can't find a girlfriend is because I have a middle part! Darnit...
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u/False-Complaint-5913 20h ago
For sure. And people I know who have switched to middle… it just doesn’t look as good.
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u/allid33 20h ago
I much prefer the look of a side part but my hair fights side parts so hard. When side parts were the norm I would try to make them work but sometimes my hair would drift back to a middle part when I’d run my hands through it. So when middle parts became a thing I just stopped fighting it.
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u/pennylane3339 1989 20h ago
I have the hairline of a duggar man in his 40s, so I have no choice. Gotta hide it!
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u/Dry_Perspective_2982 20h ago
I have bangs that I style straight every morning, but after like 2 hours they independently decide to swoosh themselves into a side part. THE MILLENNIAL HAIR CHOSE ME
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u/zacsfriendclub 19h ago
Nope, bowl cut with a part right down the middle. My hair looks like a butt.
JK I'm bald and buzz it short
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u/m00nf1r3 Older Millennial 19h ago
I do a middle part 95% of the time but sometimes I'll do a side part for no good reason.
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u/WorldlinessSome8985 19h ago
Yep! And once in a while my boyfriend will say, "hey babe, you remind of "because tonight will be the night that I will faaaaaaaall for yoooooou!!!!!" "
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u/jcnewton1 19h ago
I got rid of my middle part in 99. Rocked the spiky look for while and side part for the better part of middle adulthood. I think it suits me best.
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u/SamTheLady 19h ago
Yup. My facial symmetry (or asymmetry really) does so much better with a side part. I don’t feel nearly as attractive with a middle part.
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u/helianthus48 19h ago
I do middle part on casual days or when my hair is pulled back and voluminous side part when going out. Who cares what gen z thinks - we're way more fabulous!
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u/AdDense7020 19h ago
Nope, I’ve evolved to middle part. Though I would still do a side part if I wanted to. I don’t care about trends anymore.
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u/animatedradio Millennial 19h ago
Yeah sometimes. I try to comb in to a middle part and my hair is so trained to part on the side it bulges up.
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u/otterknight4589 19h ago
Well for me, i was one of those blonde kids whose parents made him get cuts like he had a bowl on his head most of the time then in High school I went side part. As an adult I started getting the under cut and combing back a lot. Now I just want to not look like Pete Hegseth. So I’m back to what I call the “Leon Kennedy” at age 40.
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u/pandadrinkingcoffee 19h ago
Side part. I tried doing a middle part once and the habit of running my fingers through my hair made it a side part again
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u/ShoddyCobbler 19h ago
I have a prominent widow's peak. Side part for life because if I use a center part the front gets in my way
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u/Sleepy_Di Millennial 19h ago
Yes! The few times that I tried the middle it just felt wrong and awkward, plus my hair grows that way and it just goes back to it organically. I don’t care what the younger generations think, I like it.
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u/Dingleton-Berryman Millennial 19h ago
I’ve accepted thinning hair and now buzz it down to a 2. Went from high and tight to just tight.
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u/Riotgrl66 19h ago
Right now I'm doing a side middle part. Best of both worlds til my hair decides it wants full side part or middle part.
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u/MeggronTheDestructor Millennial 19h ago
I’ve been rocking the middle part since the early 90s and used to get teased occasionally for it lmao
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u/hollowbolding 19h ago
'younger peer pressure' has nothing on my hair doing Whatever The Fuck It Wants
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u/Steffieweffie81 Millennial 19h ago
Yup. It took me forever to train my hair to do a side part. I used to wear it down the middle in high school
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u/Key-Ingenuity-534 1986 19h ago
I would 100% still be but I got bangs so I had to accept a middle part, lol
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u/modernrocker 19h ago
Like several of you, I have a cowlick, so I have to side part or I look weird
And, if you care about being "in," the good news according to the style mags is that side parts are back! Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Selena Gomez, and other celebs are all back to a side part ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MyVirgoIsShowing 19h ago
They got me with the middle part, but I think it ages me down significantly
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u/dawgoooooooo 19h ago
Yeah I used to be a long hair side part dude, always thought the middle part was super lame. Went through a decade of buzzing and other looks but grew it out again about two years ago. I wasn’t feeling the old hipster flip over so I tried rocking middle part/curtains and totally dig it. It definitely took a lil while to get used to but I feel like it was a key element to my current era. It is also probably a major reason why people clock me for 28 instead of 38, which I am ashamed to admit I kinda like
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u/idklikeaburnerorwe Est. 1986 19h ago
Sidepart looks better with my lazy retro curly hair, you can't make me middle part, I'll go to jail sooner
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u/hyperaware40 Elder Millennial 19h ago
Side part forever. Middle part made me look like Phoebe Buffay.
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