I then tried a zigzag side part so my messiness could look intentional, but I honestly couldn't see.

In my first few tries, I had a lot of trouble keeping a straight line. I watched a YouTube video - OK two- and thought I was ready to go. My hair naturally parts to the center, or close to it, so I knew it would be a challenge to move to the side. So you can imagine my nerves when I tried out a side part for a day. And if a side part helps me get there, then IвЂ™m sorry-not-sorry to disappoint legions of TikTokers.' 'I don't even care if I kinda look like Elvis.'Д®xperience with the switch: 'I've had a middle part since my side bangs grew out circa 2009 and I've never gone back. But ultimately, I need to feel in control of my sh*t. Perhaps to others, a middle part does suit my heart-shaped face better than my medium-side part does. ItвЂ™s that last point that underscores why Gen Z is mistaken about the superiority of the middle part. This, I thought, is the hair of a woman with no unread emails. I looked in the mirror and felt like I was looking at myself, only the more mature, confident adult version of myself. It felt like slipping on a pair of old jeans you forgot you owned, even though theyвЂ™d never done you wrong. I flopped my hair back over to the right on an otherwise innocuous February Wednesday. And with my birthday in January throwing me rudely into my late 20s, I asked myself: Do I really need to look like Gen Z? Still, I felt like the middle part exposed so much of my forehead. I looked more youthful, which was nice - my hair flounced perfectly when I put it in a bun, rather than molding flat to my scalp. Finally I asked my boyfriend to chop off 10 inches of hair and I threw it into a middle part. But when we reached Zoom Times, I grew tired of looking at my lifeless, side-parted hair for multiple hours a day.

Preferred part: Side (*newly committed after this experiment, BTW)Д®xperience with the switch: 'IвЂ™d had a side part pretty much as long as I can remember (yes, even as a youth). Melanie Mignucci, health and wellness editor 'This is the hair of a woman with no unread emails.' And these preferences can change, BTW - when posed the question, the majority of Bustle's edit team made a quarter-life hair part switch.Д«ack to the question at hand: Do side parts really look as bad as Gen Z claims? To prove they don't automatically make you look like an angsty teen from the early aughts, two millennial Bustle editors moved their middle part to the side for a day - here's what they had to say about it. But, just as some people are either team Blair or Serena, or prefer sweet versus savory, some simply enjoy the way they look with their hair parted one way over the other. Sure, a middle part promotes facial symmetry and pairs perfectly with the curtain bangs you've been dying to try, while deep side parts bring to mind the ' scene kids' many millennials used to be. The latest showdown is all about hair parts: Based on now viral TikToks, Gen Z believes that only 'old millennials' wear side parts, and that everyone looks better with a middle part. Take skinny jeans, the laugh-cry emoji, and word capitalization as just a few examples. If you've scrolled through TikTok, you know that the youth of Gen Z like to attack things the older population deems as popular.

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