Mulletheads, Reunite!
by admin on Feb.26, 2009, under Comedy, Hair Styling
To read the original article, please go to: latimes.com.
December 16, 2001
It’s an ordinary Thursday night at a Japanese restaurant in Hollywood, and a comedian is giving mullet haircuts onstage. Diana Alouise produces the weekly comedy lineup at Amagi’s on Sunset Boulevard, usually “L.A.’s Premier Karaoke Spot.” Alouise is on a one-coiffeuse quest to reintroduce the mullet into the culture. Swathing her volunteer in a black haircutting cape, the comedian chews gum while cutting and weaving with scissors and commentary. She must be kidding, right?
Why a mullet, why onstage–and why today?
I’m from Nebraska, where everyone still has mullets, and my goal is to get America back to where it was and where Nebraska is now. It’s an ’80s thing. Plus, Jimmy Brogan (comedian and former head writer for “The Tonight Show”) said he’s been doing stand-up 30 years and never seen this before.
Help me remember the ’80s.
A mullet is a 1980s white-trash haircut. A beaver paddle, swong, wheat sack, Camaro hair, hockey hair, the Achey-Brakey-Big-Mistakey. But I call it the duo do: all-business in front, all-party in the back!
No front porch and a whole lotta awning in back.
Exactly. After 4 1/2 years on the road as a stand-up, I placed ads in the L.A. Weekly and the Recycler: “Need extra cash? Hair models wanted for stage production.” I got 20 calls in a week. I also want to do full-on make-overs–dress ‘em up, put ‘em in Brownie outfits. You also cut hair professionally, correct?
A 75-buck mullet in L.A. is 25 in Nebraska. In Nebraska, it’s in your roots; there are lots of home-owned salons. You do it down in the basement. Here I started working in a salon thinking I could meet a lot of men. Which I did. Gay men. They never want to date me, they just want to borrow my shoes.
This is at Nick Chavez’s in Beverly Hills?
Yes. Only in Beverly Hills do people have potbellied pigs as pets and bring them into salons. One of them had makeup and painted pink French tip hooves, a diamond purse. You think that’s ridiculous, you should have seen its head shots. But no matter where I work, women always bring in pictures of women they want to look like. I end up saying, “These are scissors, not a magic wand. I need a ‘Jurassic Park’ animatronic team to work you over.”
What about men’s hair?
There’s a procedure now instead of hair plugs, where a doctor will make an incision down the middle of a man’s bald spot, then pull the two sides up together so they meet. Scalp reduction. Maybe it’s me, I’m kind of quirky, but I prefer the guys that I date to have their ears on the side of their head.
How can I personally avoid all this?
Never let your ex cut your hair.
June 16th, 2009 on 2:02 am
Hello, can you please post some more information on this topic? I would like to read more.
June 16th, 2009 on 8:01 am
Hi Gary,
This is a one Women show I did in Los Angeles, I would put an add in the LA Weekly looking for a guy with hair to his shoulders or longer and pay him $50.00 to come on stage while I did my act and cut his hair in a mullet. I would talk about the difference of getting a haircut in the Midwest and getting a haircut in Beverly Hills. I had some great things happen in my career from this show and a few things not so great.
One of the shows that I do put on here nowadays in Truckee California, I decided to change it up a bit. I now ask for a volunteer from the audience and give a military haircut. Now why did I change the type of cut. Because I’ve realized being single and looking for a great guy, being in the military they have wonderful benefits. Some of the men with mullets, let just say far and few. And one of my requirements in a guy, and he doesn’t have to be in the military, is Health Insurance! So I do let women know about the difference in certain types of men and what they should look for.
There is another story behind this military show I performed which I will talk about in a book I’m writing. But basically the meat of my story will be kind of like the the Shampoo movie with Warren Beatty but with a woman….me. I’ve worked in Beverly Hills as a hair stylist for 26 years and have some very interesting story’s to tell! And I hope my book will inspire others, men and women to go for their dreams, because anyone can make (almost) anything come true…..even if you don’t have that high school diploma, or college degree!
So Gary, If you would like any other info let me know and thanks for the email…..have a wonderful week!.
Diana Alouise
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Hi KonstantinMiller, Thanks for reading and yes this is a new blog that I’ve started. In fact I will be coming out with a book I’m currently writing. I will also be putting together other various things that I’ve done, and post them as well….and like I said in another comment on here…some are a bit wild. But thanks and if you would like any other information, I will be glad to reply…diana
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