Broadmeadow's Michelle Gearin, winner of the "Greatest Mullet of them All Award" at Kurri Kurri's Mulletfest, believes a good haircut can change your life. And her mullet is proof.
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Her "business at the front, party at the back" 'do has given her the confidence to look how she wants. A message she hopes more women and girls will take on board.
"I wanted to cut my hair into a mullet for years and years but I was too scared because I had this lovely, long girly hair, which I felt like I was hiding behind.
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"Because I’m quite shy it forced me to be brave and that’s a really good thing to do for yourself," the artist and mother said.
"I feel super proud as a woman to have won it. It’s hilarious, I mean it's a mullet award. I hope it encourages women to just do whatever they want with their hair. It's on your head."
Women were well represented at the festival's awards ceremony, taking out three out of seven prizes.
Ms Gearin said the hairstyle has a lot to offer to people from "all walks of life".
"I want to see doctors, lawyers and teachers with mullets … and for people just not to take themselves so seriously," she said.
With drinks flowing freely, pub music and plenty of compliments being passed around, that was definitely the sentiment at the Chelmsford Hotel on Saturday.
After the mania that was created from the inaugural Mulletfest event last year, hundreds of people packed into the Kurri hotel to enjoy a bit of Australiana flair.
Lexi Ross, from Alyce's Hair Design, was on site to cut and style mullets for the day. She estimated that she cuts one mullet per week at the local salon.
"To be honest I don't think the mullet has ever really left," she said. "Half of our town have mullets and we all like to support the community and support each other."
It was not just the locals getting in on the action, with plenty of people travelling for the festivities.
Luke Wittrien from the Blue Mountains was sporting an impressive mullet matched with a leopard-print suit.
"Words can't explain the mullet, it's something else, but it's definitely worth a try if you are thinking about it," he said.
The festival was not all about aesthetics. The $5000 raised for the Mark Hughes Foundation over the day proves that mullet-wearers also have heart.
