However, while both ways of styling one's hair certainly have their pros and cons, we all seem to be missing one crucial part of the conversation: it's actually bad for your hair to only part it in one way. (Alfalfa comes to mind.) Not that the alternative doesn't have its merits: the middle part can also look fresh and, depending on how you like to style your hair, add a touch of youth to the face. Secondly, on some, the severe middle part can be a little. First, a side part can help lift the face and account for slight facial asymmetries, which we all have. The first two decades of the aughts were indeed side-part heavy-but we had our reasons.
The latter pronouncement in particular raised eyebrows (to say the very least) among their Millennial counterparts, who have made side-parted tresses their generational calling card. The drama: Gen-Z has officially called out the skinny jean and the side part as passé. Tensions are mounting on the interwebs these days, with the latest controversy springing from the Gen-Z social commentary hotbed otherwise known as TikTok.
