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An idea for the head: parting in the center or on the side? For Gen Z it’s a question of age

“Line in the center or on the side?”. A seemingly simple question, were it not for the risk of being classified old style, or what to say “agé”, if the answer were to fall on the second option.

Well yes. Tracing a real generational border between those who choose the lateral and the central parting were the “new generation”, in short Generation Z, who thinks that a thirty / forty year old, or a Millennial, it is simply recognizable by the way it is combed (with a side line, in fact).

A question, as he reports TheCut, which sparked a debate on TikTok after a little girl, @missladygleep, said: “Prove me the opposite, but I don’t think there is a person who looks better with the side line than the middle one.” The comment did not go unnoticed. Rather. Gleep has increased the dose by inviting all lovers of the side line, that is the Millenials, considered the agents of the situation, to participate in the #MiddlePartChallenge, asking them to try to move their line to the center and change their mind.

The challenge, in reality, did nothing but widen the gap between the two sides even more, where each remained convinced of their positions. in conclusion Middle part vs Side part, 1 to 1 ball in the center. A race of coolness, which, as pointed out by Allure, is at times sterile. Especially if they are at stake fashions and trends that cyclically – paraphrasing one of the little Gen Z singers, but also little Millennials – “They make huge rounds and then come back”. Any other quick examples? The mullet, stolen from the rock icons of the eighties and recently returned to the spotlight, or the shag cut, very popular between the seventies and eighties and today revisited with fringes and new textures.

The predilection hair moved to one side, often embellished with fringes and fluffy tufts, as explained by the magazine, is nothing more than a typically beauty heritage nineties, almost a sort of symbol of rebellion and liberation with a symmetrical style, with a central parting, very popular among Baby boomers, or the progenitors of Millennials. The same, therefore, most likely, will happen the other way around, in a few handfuls of years, when the new future generation will look with a bewildered eye at the central, symmetrical partitions, almost on the verge of perfection so loved by the current Gen Z.

To exit theimpasse? Convert to a nice bowl cut as suggested by The Cut. And goodbye generational differences.

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