Curls, curls, curls
“Texture is going to play a dominant role,” says Rodney Cutler, owner of three Cutler Salons and Redken expert stylist. “The new interpretations will incorporate curls, texture and braids within updos that take us away from that classic shape.”
On the runways in this month, Garrison believes there will be deep waves. He also expects to see crimping in combination with a curling iron—crimping it and winding it with a curling iron. “You take small sections and back comb it. Then you hold the end of the section and run the fingers back up toward the scalp for a frothy look. That’s also going to play into the more textured look.”
“There will be waves with a serious ridge to them, almost like the hair has been set with finger waves and then brushed out with rollers,” Garrison says. “It’s a relaxed deep wave. It doesn’t have the ridges of the retro look. It’s more modern—super soft, flowy and sexy. It’s more extreme than the shallow wave we’ve seen.”
Curl expert Christo of Christo Fifth Avenue believes 2011 will be a year when women rock their natural look, “with a touch of the future.”
“My favorite thing about textured hair is it is never dull and boring,” says Christo. “It is natural, exotic and sexy when it is styled the right way.”
“Texture to me creates dimension and gives you the freedom to create a newness to a hair style by incorporating different kinds of texture, whether it’s a certain type of movement or a different finish to the hair through product usage,” says Cutler. “Fashion is about this organic evolution. I am thrilled where it is at the moment where we have these old Hollywood shapes incorporated with these varying textured techniques.”
