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'mixie' — a precise hybrid of a pixie and a mullet, the official 2026 German salon trend cut. Modern androgynous, 70s-glam-rock-meets-now. LENGTH: short and textured on top (5-8 cm / 2-3 inches) like a classic pixie. The NAPE is intentionally LONGER (8-12 cm / 3-5 inches) and falls in a soft 'mullet tail' shape just past the hairline at the back of the neck. SIDES: cropped close (about 2.5 cm / 1 inch) but NEVER shaved, NEVER faded. Sides blend smoothly from the pixie top into the longer back tail. TEXTURE: tousled, piecey, with light wax holding individual strands. Visible texture on top, lived-in and slightly messy. PART: side-swept fringe brushed across the forehead, or slightly disheveled with no clean part. NOT a pure pixie (must have a visible longer tail at the nape, 8-12 cm). NOT a pure mullet (top and sides must be cropped short — no long hair on the sides). NOT a fade (sides blend gradually, never a sharp clipper line). NOT a faux-hawk (top is tousled and piecey, not standing vertically).
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The mixie is the pixie-mullet hybrid — pixie-short at the nape with mullet-y length kept at the back-top crown, disconnected, intentionally messy. The shape exists in the space between pixie and modern mullet. It went viral in 2022 as a non-binary-coded cut that read youthful and edgy without committing to either short-or-long.
It flatters oval, heart, and oblong faces — the volume at the crown lengthens round faces, and the framing pieces around the cheekbone balance heart shapes. Straight, wavy, and curly textures all wear it; the messy-disconnected aesthetic adapts to whatever the natural pattern is. The mixie suits people who want short hair without the commitment of a pixie.
Low daily maintenance — rough-dry with mousse, scrunch in texturizing spray, push pieces around. Three minutes. Trim every six weeks to keep the disconnection between the pixie nape and mullet back-top. The mixie went viral on TikTok in 2022 (the cut has many viral progenitors, most attributed to specific TikTok hairstylists) and has stayed firmly in rotation. Ask for 'pixie-short nape with mullet-y length at the back-top, disconnected, intentionally messy' — generic 'short cut' won't produce the asymmetry.
Front-facing, natural light. The model handles bangs, hats, glasses, beards — even bad bathroom lighting.
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