1. Put Your Hair Up, Way Up
Derived from a hairstyle worn by Native American Indian tribes, the Mohawk became prominent in 1970s English punk rock culture, and it maintains its popularity today with clubgoers, rock 'n' rollers and anyone who wants to have fun with their hair. A Mohawk consists of a single strip of hair running down the middle of the head. Both sides of the Mohawk are clean-shaven. Some people style the Mohawk (or sections of it) into liberty spikes, which are tufts of hair that stand up with the help of gel or glue. A popular hairstyle for punk rockers and their fans, Mohawks are often dyed outrageous colors.
2. Nice and Cool
If you want to make a fashion statement, join a punk rock band or just look fashionable for a night out, a fanned Mohawk will grab people's attention. After you've shaved the sides of your head, wash the strip of hair that runs down the middle of your skull. The Mohawk strip can run down all the way to the nape of your neck. Blow dry the strip of hair and then spray it with a few layers of extra-hold hairspray or gel. Take a hairbrush or comb and fix any limp strands by holding them in place and applying more hairspray or gel.
3. Maintain Those Spikes
Keep your liberty spikes straight and stiff by using a number of household products. You can use plain gelatin, the kind Mom uses to make her fingernails stronger, to stick each section of hair heavenwards. Or apply egg whites or white school glue (the kind you used in kindergarten) or go to the beauty supply store and buy an intense styling gel or wax with a name like like Freeze, Ice or Stuck Up.
4. Let Your Hair Breath
Let your Mohawk down every few days. Wash and condition your hair with products made specifically for styled and damaged hair. The gelatin, gel and eggs used to hold a Mohawk may impact your hair in different ways, depending on the natural state of your locks before you applied the gooey stuff. If you dye your hair or use spray-on or paint-on colors, use a conditioner for colored hair. Use a leave-in mask if you dye and spike your hair often.
5. Go Ahead, Get Crazy
There are dozens of variations on the fanned Mohawk and the liberty spikes. You can fashion spikes in a "bat" hawk or Goth hawk, or grow hair on the sides of your head and still keep a Mohawk strip in the middle for a faux-hawk. Besides the traditional single Mohawk down the middle, you also can do a Bi-hawk (two strips of long hair fashioned into a Mohawk, with a shaved strip in the middle instead of the sides) or a Tri-hawk (three strips with shaved areas between each one). Buck the trend and do a Reverse Mohawk, which is exactly what the name implies, a bald strip down the middle with longer hair spiked on the sides.
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