Telo Peluqueria Vuikz Haircuts Gone Wrong — Back of head with large shaved bald spot and zipper accessory, barber's hand resting on head, with text overlay

Telo Peluqueria Vuikz Haircuts Gone Wrong

2020viral videodeclining

Published August 11, 2026

Telo Peluqueria Vuikz Haircuts Gone Wrong is a viral TikTok series featuring a Colombian barber with neon green fang grillz giving customers absurd, deliberately botched haircuts. The clips originated on @telopeluqueria29 in 2020 and exploded in English-speaking TikTok in September 2021 after the @vuikz page began reposting edited versions with cursed skull emojis.

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Overview

Telo Peluqueria Vuikz Haircuts Gone Wrong, sometimes called Menace Barber Haircuts, is a running series of TikTok clips shot inside the PELUQUERIA TELO BLACK barbershop in Cali, Colombia1. The main figure is a Black barber wearing neon green fang grillz who gives customers wildly bad haircuts, growls, and pulls stunts like eating things off their heads mid-cut3.

Two accounts drive the trend. The shop's own @telopeluqueria29 posts the raw footage, while the unaffiliated @vuikz page re-edits those clips with new sounds, English captions, and non-Unicode cursed skull emojis dropped into every video2. The @vuikz format, one weird haircut plus one glitchy emoji, is what most English-speaking viewers know the meme as3.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (original) / TikTok @vuikz (viral spread)
Creator
PELUQUERIA TELO BLACK barbershop
Date
2020

The @telopeluqueria29 TikTok account posted its first clip on August 20th, 2020, showing the green-grilled barber growling over a dog sound effect while a coworker brushed him up3. The video pulled more than 116,000 views in its first year and set the tone for everything after: unhinged behavior first, actual haircut second3.

On November 30th, 2020, YouTube channel Rarigang ent reposted one of the shop's clips under the title "Haircut gone terribly wrong 😨😭," which pushed past 2.8 million views within ten months and gave the barber his first big audience outside Colombia4. The shop also mirrors much of its output to Instagram under the handle @telopeluqueria5.

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How It Spread

The real breakout came on September 15th, 2021, when the TikTok account @vuikz started reuploading the shop's videos with fresh audio and captions2. Six haircut clips went up that day and racked up a combined 7 million views inside six days3. The standout was a "zipper" haircut the barber calls his best yet, which alone cleared 3 million views in that window2.

@vuikz added 100,000 followers in those same six days, mostly English-speaking viewers who had never seen the source account3. The page's signature move is pairing each haircut with a different broken-looking cursed skull emoji, a small visual gimmick that became the meme's identifier on For You pages3.

The reposting pipeline kept feeding the trend. On August 22nd, 2021, @telopeluqueria29 uploaded a turtle-shaped haircut that got around 93,000 views on the original account3. @vuikz grabbed the same clip, sped it up, layered a new sound, and reposted it on September 20th, where it pulled over 913,000 views3.

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How to Use This Meme

The format is typically a short vertical clip of one absurd haircut, sped up, with a punchy caption and one of the cursed skull emojis floating in the corner. People sharing or stitching the videos often lean on the barber's own catchphrases and the green grillz close-up as the payoff shot2.

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