While digging up photos for our piece on great men and their legendary manes (“The 19 Mightiest Hair Gods Who’ve Ever Lived”), we stumbled upon gratifying evidence that even our most revered hair idols—Dylan, Styles, Pitt, and more—have, in rare moments, shaved, pomaded, and cornrowed poorly. And so we present their past hair failures here, not (just) to mock but to remind you that even when you’ve caved to a cocksure barber, or made a bad ’do-cision yourself, you’ve likely never done anything this wack.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Colin FarrellThe Mini Bun

• Loogit the wittle-bittle-baby man bun! We just wanna SLICE IT OFF AND BURN IT.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Cristiano RonaldoThe Lost Bet

• Every frat bro knows you never pass out near friends who own electric razors.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Bob DylanThe Ewww-fro

• Singing in a Victoria’s Secret ad was not the first sign that Bob had stopped caring.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.David BeckhamThe Corniest Rows

• Stirs up very confusing memories of that time you hooked up with a girl in Cabo.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Tom BradyThe Gumby

• Gisele, how can you let your man go outside with this under-inflated comb-back?

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Kanye WestThe Frullet

• Where an Afro and a mullet collide is, we learned, right at the nape of Yeezy’s neck.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Johnny DeppThe Losing Streak

• Meet Tropical Breeze, stoner brother of the X-Men’s Storm. His superpower: smoldering.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Harry StylesThe Douche Swoop

• Bieber invented it, but Styles murdered it with this helmet of cantilevered tresses.

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Brad PittThe Point Break

• “Brah, ever catch a wave so gnarly that you, like, see God? Happened to me once—’97.”

© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.Justin TimberlakeThe Short-and-Blondies

• Fact: JT has curly hair. Fact: He used to bleach it. Fact: It looked like bleached pubes.

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