French Hairstyles: This Is How All the Women in Paris Are Wearing Their Hair Now
04.01.2023 - 23:45
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is a line-up of beauty pros, from hairdressers to aestheticians. Hairstylist , whose Parisian salon sits on Rue Notre Dame des Victoires, is one such expert. He creates just the sort of dreamy, undone styles we associate with aspirational Parisian women for his chic clientele. Below, he shares the secrets behind French hairstyles. And how are our French counterparts wearing their hair now? “There is a real blueprint of softness,” he says.
“Even when we’re that was, in the past, all about geometric lines, now it’s very soft. The French want texture on the ends.” The aesthetic is “bohemian, poetic and soft,” and most important, he says, the cut should not be severe.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.One haircut that is very much de rigueur in France is a soft, shag meets mullet style. Jim Morrison, with his tumble of mussed-up waves, provides an excellent—if unlikely—template.
“It’s a poetic soft cascade of hair, and it works beautifully on straight, wavy, and curly hair,” Mallett says. “When a client has long bangs, we make sure the edges are really textured so that the bangs move. French hair is a little less neurotic.”Jim Morrison in 1969.Less neurotic than who? You might ask.
Well, anyone whose go-to style is ultra straight. The French, he says, have a “total aversion to poker straight hair,” and consider it a surefire way to make hair look “dead.” Instead, it’s all about natural movement: ensuring hair looks perfectly imperfect; nonchalant, but still falling in just the right way. “They all pretend they don’t care, but actually they have spent hours and hours looking like they don’t,” adds Mallett, amused. “For the French, horror hair is straight, ironed, with a straight center part, and highlights
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