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8 signs that man buns have gone too far

Blame Conor McGregor.

LIKE THE QUIFF and the short-back-and-sides before it, the man bun is the newest, hottest hair trend for men.

We all started off on good terms, but recently we reached man bun saturation point. The tide is turning. Here’s why.

Firstly, these are man buns

A good man bun should be full, thick, and sort of scraggly and bohemian-looking.

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Hozier and Harry Styles are probably the only two male celebrities at the moment with man buns worth a damn.

Hozier has actually tried to distance himself from the trend

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He told the Irish Independent earlier this year that he was man-bunning long before it was in fashion:

I couldn’t do anything day-to-day without my hair getting in my mouth or my eyes or my food, so I just started tying it back, long before I knew what a man bun was.

Men with short hair are trying to get in on the action…

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Conor McGregor’s lil pea, though.

…And it’s really not working for anyone

A new term has been coined for these tiny ‘buns’

Man grape. *snorts*

The craze has even spread to man’s best friend

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LEAVE THE ANIMALS OUT OF THIS.

Man bun fatigue has well and truly set in

People are being blocked for having man buns, you guys.

And the Google results for ‘man buns’ are pretty telling

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The man bun is dead. Long live the man bun.

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