Curly Hair Rules the Runway and the Red Carpet
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- by Style.com, on Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:34am PDT
Kinky-haired girls, rejoice:
Texture is back. As celebrities and designers alike embrace tresses
with character, the pressure to go straight is slipping away.
Beyoncé and Leighton Meester went wild at the
VMAs this past weekend, while hairstylists Bob Recine and
Orlando Pita created similarly raw hair backstage at
Hervé Léger and
Diane von Furstenberg, respectively. While, sadly, we did not
make it out for MTV’s big night (catching that bizarre
Kanye
West-Taylor Swift infraction in person would have been
day-making), we did get detailed backstage info at the shows, so
even if you have super-straight strands, you can still get the look
at home. For Recine, it was all about mimicking the “patchwork of
fabrics” in Max Azria’s collection, so he prepped the hair with
Phytolacque hairspray and created a series of braids, crimps,
and curls, which he let set and then finger-combed, leaving
definition in the hair. Over at Diane von Furstenberg, Orlando Pita
was staunchly opposed to using any product at all. “Diane’s quote
was, ‘looking back to antiquity to create flawless beauty’…and
there were no products in the old days.” Instead, Pita was after
the softness and airiness of virgin hair. To get it, he created
five quadrants of thick braids, flat-ironed them, sent the girls
over to makeup, and then took them out. Another trick we’ve had
success with in the past is washing our hair at night, doing a
loose French braid and sleeping on it. Go forth and experiment.
Photo: Clockwise from top left, Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage;
Greg Kessler at DVF; Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
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