Bizarre futuristic hair trend sweeping the Internet can't be real

Is this hairstyle quirky, stylish and smooth or the world's worst haircut?

It turns out that it was a prank, sort of.

A hairstylist in St. Petersburg, Russia, showed her take on the use of layers in a video shared by Barbershapp that has been viewed millions of times on Facebook.

However, the viral cut and style by Aleona Starzhinskaia was more of a ruse.

The original video is from 2015 and, as seen in the full YouTube video, after the layered cut, the model gets the rest of her hair buzzed off.

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"It was her birthday and she asked me (to) share her head, so we decided (to) make something interesting and shoot (a) video about it," Starzhinskaia told Refinery29. "In a few hours, I turned her into (a) blonde and started (to) make this cut; most of this was... improvisation."

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