Cool Guys Have Boy Bangs Now

For the past decade, men’s hair was the domain of skin fades, hard parts, and gravity-defying coifs. Call it the millennial boy-band ‘do, or the retired soccer player’s day-old fade—you know the look. Respectable. Kempt. Slightly high-maintenance. (Perhaps with subtle lowlights.) “For so many of those years, everyone wanted to look like David Beckham,” says Mark Alan Esparza, a New York–based hairstylist. “Shaved on the sides, long on top.”

But men aren’t looking so…