Man buns are a tricky business: The much-maligned hipster hairstyle is said to cause baldness—but in a revolutionary twist, it turns out the effort up top will also hide it. So the thing that causes the thing might also fix the thing. Genius.

Tracy Moore
Tracy Moore is a staff writer at MEL. She covers all the soft sciences like psychology, sex, relationships and parenting, but since this is a men’s magazine, occasionally the hard ones. Formerly at Jezebel.
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