An Ode To The Undercut, The It-Girl Hairstyle Of The Early 2010s

I was wasting time on YouTube the other day, aimlessly hopping from video recommendation to video recommendation. Eventually, I landed on a Beyoncé interview from early 2013. The singer, wearing a body-hugging red dress, is chatting at a press conference ahead of her iconic Super Bowl Halftime show. The video is only a decade old but, somehow, perfectly encapsulates how much has changed since then. 

Here is Beyoncé conducting a filmed sit-down interview, which rarely happens nowadays. And she’s addressing the allegations she lip-synced at the second inauguration of former President Barack Obama. But perhaps the most nostalgic element of the clip is the singer’s distinctly early 2010s hairstyle. A ‘do that’s emblematic of heavily-filtered Instagrams of latte art and the phrase “YOLO.” Yes, that rocker-flavoured hairstyle, the undercut, which Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Willow Smith, Rihanna, Beyoncé and countless other style icons wore at one point or another. The clip made me wonder to myself, “Is it time for the undercut to make a comeback?”