How to style a curtain bangs. How many times have you asked your hairdresser (or Google) this question? It is likely that many, especially if we take into account that when you cut your bangs one of the great challenges is learning to style it naturally. But you don't have to go looking for a gimmicky tutorial because there is a stylist trick that models and celebrities do constantly before a photoshoot or red carpet. Ask the famous stylist Christian Wood and the model Rosie Huntington, who in a video starring both for Rose Inc, the model's beauty project, have explained a trick that is quite unexpected for mortals but more than common among stylists. This is confirmed by María Baras, director of Cheska, who recommends something similar to her clients so that they can learn to comb their bangs. The trick has been dubbed by Wood and Rosie - she always does it before a photo shoot - as The Pinch. And yes, indeed, it consists of lightly pinching the bangs from above to close it at the root and open it as it falls towards the face. In fact, massaging / pinching the root of the hair and the bangs lightly to give it a 'roll' is quite a common gesture among women with long hair and bangs that we love. It is enough to see another of the tutorials of the French Sabina Socol to see that she also does something similar.
According to Wood, to get the best result - he calls it the Brigitte Bardot effect - you need to spray hairspray before and after pinching. María Baras confirms that it is indeed a very effective gesture to ensure that the curtain bangs are not too open. "It is a way to close it, especially when the bangs are already combed," says the stylist. Therefore, it is fair and necessary that we complete this trick - with wood to go viral - with the first part of it. Because doing the pinch is more of a way to give the cool point at the end, when it is already dry. But in the wet, other recommendations must be taken into account to get it to be beautiful and natural, and in that case the modus operandi will depend on having straight or curly hair.
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If you have it curly ...
Baras falls into the gesture of combing these bangs with a round brush, putting it inside to give them 90s volume. Error. And she also makes another frequent mistake: that of passing the iron as if there were no tomorrow. If you have curly hair, the trick is not to put the round brush inside the bangs. Ideally, the bangs are glued to the roots and open at the tip. For that, you have to pass the round brush over your hair, pushing at the root and giving the tip a little shape. That is to say, first you straighten it forward by sticking the bangs towards the forehead and then go down towards the tip to give it shape, on one side and on the other, "says the stylist.
If you have straight hair ...
Then you can try the wet pinch trick so that the bangs are glued at the roots and the ends open. María advises doing it with your fingers and the hair dryer, making that kind of pinch at the root while you dry it. "The hair becomes tame. If you draw it with your fingers while you dry it, the bangs take that shape. You have to make the gesture of sticking it to the root while you dry it, placing it in the center and opening it with your fingers," he points out. Bars. Models and celebrities do it unconsciously and we can't like the result any more. It was something as easy as that.