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Trend alert: Weaves for men

A model present a hair creation by Ivory Coast's hairstyles Dieudonne Senato, during the 10th "Afrik" fashion show in Abidjan late on June 13, 2015. AFP PHOTO

Just when you thought you have had it with straight men wearing make-up, gay men in satin blouses strutting in heels, hold your horses because here comes a new shocker — men wearing weaves.

After all the wrangling and twitching of noses towards women with weaves, calling them everything nasty from horsehair to dead people’s hair, now tables have turned and men’s espousal of the weave is shocking — and they are even going through the trouble of getting the front trimmed for their foreheads to look real.

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