I’m a style whizz – the hair style making you look frumpy AND ruining your hair
AS clothes and make-up can, hair trends can age you.
And I’m not talking about whether you embrace your grey hairs or not – I’m talking styles.
Hair trends come and go out of fashion, and inevitably come back around again, but there are some that scream you are in serious need of an update.
The easiest way to think about it is if you were going to a fancy dress party, what would you do to your hair?
For the eighties, perms and back combing, the seventies think Farrah Fawcett voluminous feathered blow-out, the sixties a Barbra Winsor style beehive – you get the jist.
If your hair is on the cover of a fancy dress costume packet, it’s out of fashion.
Plus there are some trends that are really bad for your hair, too.
But there are other looks that aren’t modern either, here Clemmie Fieldsend reveals what hairstyles are making you look frumpy and that are ruining your hair.
POKER STRAIGHT
Before hair straighteners you’d hear tales of women burning off their hair with an iron, or worse, their ear.
Think Bridget Jones.
Thankfully for anyone who wanted sleeker hair straighteners were a tool you could buy and take home, but the sleek, poker straight tresses of the nineties and early noughties have had their day.
BOUNCY BLOW DRY
Whether you call it the Chelsea or Kate Middleton Blow Dry, voluminous, round, bouncy blown hair is making you look old fashioned.
Even The Princess of Wales has ditched her once signature hair do in favour of more subtle and sleek hair.
These days, keep your blow dry more loose and undone, it’s easier to maintain and doesn’t require loads of heat from the hairdryer, rollers and curlers as well as nuclear amounts of hair spray.
TOP KNOT
Scraping your hair back into a top knot might be the routine for when you get home, ping off your bra and get into your loungewear.
But for everyday it’s a clear sign you’re out of style.
The pile of hair mounted on top of the crown of your head was a big look during the noughties for A-listers like Miranda Kerr and Cheryl, but we’ve moved on since then.
There are two hair avenues to go down.
One being the face-lift look made popular by Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner or the looser, more relaxed style that sits at the back and middle of your head like Meghan Markle.
This is a lot more gentle on your hair as it’s not wound as tightly around an elastic and requires less harsh brushing to hoik your hair on top of your head.
CRIMPING
Hair crimping tried to make a return thanks to 15.4 million TikTok users using the 80s tool to create volume at the root for thicker looking hair.
While that is all well and good – after all who doesn’t want thicker looking locks – but with nineties trends continuing to make a comeback we hope Gen Z don’t demand for BaByliss to remake their wavy wands.
CHOPPY LAYERS
Choppy layers conjure up images of salons from your hometown that have sun-faded pictures of models in the window with spiky hair and probably chunky highlights.
If you happen to pass one and see similarities in the now-yellow-ish picture holding on for dear life in the window to your own hair, then your hairstyle is dated.
Not only that but if done badly the action of cutting into the hair can split and damage it leaving you with hair in worse condition.