A young man from Landes competes in the European Mule Cup competition

Sebastien Delaunay has been proudly displaying the mullet for a year. The 24-year-old explains: “We were having an evening with friends, we saw a video of him talking about the mules and we were out.” Since then, his friend, Pépé, has encouraged him in his work: “He is obviously bald,” laughs Sebastian, as he is in Original from Sanguinet. He let his hair grow for a year before going to the hairdresser.

Festivals in Belgium

On the 8th of next October, he will participate in the Mule Festival in Belgium. The young man had planned to join the competition in a truck with the faithful Pépé. “We go there mainly to have fun, and there’s nothing to win. I’m going there to compete in the ‘Young Mule’ category. Because we didn’t tell you? That’s dangerous, mule. There are three categories to distinguish between the participants’ mule: the young mule so, the budding mule and finally The bigger mule, for the experts.

“It’s very rugby. A lot of New Zealanders have them, they have inspired me”

Sebastian will have to appear on stage with the goal of “getting as much applause as possible”. Do you plan to pass it on? “Not at all, I think I’d do it at the last minute. The 10 hours he spent in the van to go to the festival would allow him to think about it. And though he went up on stage ‘for fun’, he would go to the hairdresser one last time before the competition. , just to give the mullet its final look.

Even if the cut was so divisive, even mocked — Jeff Tucci is one of her newest ambassadors — Sebastian admits he “cut the coast with the girls.” He continues: “There are quite a few who approach me to tell me that they like my haircut. Then my mother would still tell me that I was the most beautiful! If my mother said that …

fashion from the south

In life, Sebastien Delaunay is not only passionate about his hair. He is also a third grade rugby player of Sangwent FC. Moreover, the oval balloon is an important vector for this hairstyle. If you watched it on TV or if you have your habits on the edge of the field on a Sunday, you must have seen these long naps bloom lately.

“We know it has a ‘beauf’ connotation, but that’s exactly what’s funny.”

To check it out, just go to Rion. While training students for the Cœur des Landes rugby club, a quarter of the young players wear a mullet with dignity. Between two attempts, Gaitan, 15, explains why: “It’s the trend, he’s been doing a lot on social networks especially among rugby players. His teammate Younes agrees, saying, ‘It’s very rugby. Many New Zealanders own it, they inspired me. »

But don’t rely on them to blindly follow the trend. They took possession of it. Tom, with a blond head and long neck, details a detail about himself: “I, for example, have little gondolas behind me. But no one has the same, every mule is different, and that’s what makes them beautiful. Two goats bounce back: “Sometimes some people have Their backs are completely color changing…it’s this challenge that makes their hairstyles exceptional. We know it has a “backward” connotation, but that’s exactly what’s funny. »

“They assume”