What's the difference between scene hair and emo hair you may ask? While it's true that over the past 3 or 4 years with emo becoming as mainstream as it has with majority of it's exposure beginning on the internet that, now most people who aren't involved in this subculture don't see a difference between scene and emo hair and they tend to call scene hair 'emo hair'.

Another point is that emo hair simply evolved into scene hair that you see today. As for any genre the clothing style changes with time as do the hairstyles. I suppose one could think of scene hair as emo hair on steroids. Scene hair infact took a lot of inspiration from both emo and glam to come to what it is today. So while you are likely to be called emo if you have scene hair there are actually differences between the two, or have been.

Here's a comparison between Scene hair and Emo hair :

The truth is there always were some differences between the two, and as emo grew the hairstyle evolved and became more extravagant. Originally female emo hair would look somewhat like 'normal' hair to most people who are used to the amazing colours and extensions used in scene hair today.

For females, emo hair was bland with perhaps some monotone dye. The cut was never one designed for heavy use of hair products or maintanence.

Now female scene hair is one of the most flamboyant hairstyles there is with extensions, extreme dye jobs, loads of hairspray and intense hair straightening sessions.


Female Emo Hair Female Scene Hair

As for emo and scene hair for guys it, it has also evolved a lot into what you see today. Originally even in the beginning of the third wave of emo the male hairstyle was nothing like you see on scene kids today. There was never hairspray or bangs (fringes) that reach ones shoulder.

For guys, emo hair was pretty simple, even in the early 2000s. A slightly longer than normal fringe with a black dye job was popular. The back of the hair remained rather normal, while often being cut short it was rarely put up with gel, wax or hairpsray.

Guys scene hair, like female scene hair now days is extremely extravagant with bright colour dye jobs, huge fanned areas with plenty of hair spray and in some cases, bangs that extend down passed one's shoulder.

Male Emo Hair Male Scene Hair