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Sky Kim is a hairstylist with over a decade of experience. She currently works at Serge Normant at John Frieda in New York City.
There's nothing that pains me more than joining the long list of stories on the internet about cutting your own bangs, but here we are. You know the drill: I wanted bangs, I lusted after said bangs, I ordered a pair of shears, did all the right things (dried hair, cut upwards, etc.), but somehow I still ended up with some bizarre, asymmetrical fringe. Despite combing through countless articles on achieving le parfait French girl curtain bang, I still ended up wishing I had just gone to a professional.
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It is worth noting that I wasn't starting from the ground up. I had seen my hairdresser a few weeks prior and had asked for some face-framing layers, but when I got home later that day, I wished I had asked for
Where did I go wrong?! was the first question I asked Ryan Trygstad when I met with him a couple of weeks post-bangs massacre. He's a co-founder of Mark Ryan Salon (his husband, Mark DeBolt, is the other half) and a celebrity stylist. He graciously explained that I hadn't actually done all that bad but that there were two key factors I was missing: weight and styling. The former meaning, my bangs weren't laying properly because they needed more layering to add weight (something I assure you I could not have achieved on my own). Secondly, I wasn't styling my bangs for optimal results, and as such, they looked lackluster.
So, he gave weight to my curtain bangs and styled them back to life. DeBolt also added subtle highlights to my hair (good highlights can fix a bad haircut, he quipped), which brought out the bends and tips of my strands for a stunning finishing effect. The result was impressive.
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Have some solid advice for styling your bangs, which is often half the battle. Ahead, see his tips for four key fringe styles—get a pen (and a blow dryer)!
When considering bangs with wavy hair, You have to decide if you want to leave the bangs wavy or blow the bangs out and leave the rest of the hair in a soft wave, Trygstad says. I have wavy hair and have found that when I'm going for beachier hair, I leave my bangs wavy, but if I want to feel a bit more polished, I blow them out. Blow drying the bangs first (or straight away) will make them easier to control, he adds.
With curly bangs, it’s all about using your styling products while your hair is quite damp, Trygstad says. This will ensure your natural curl doesn’t become frizzy while styling.
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If you do encounter any unwanted frizz, he advises not to over-apply product. General piece of advice with bangs, the less product, the better, he says. Excess product in the bang may cause breakouts or make them look too oily.
Curtain bangs are trending right now—and for good reason. This style is great if you don't want to go full fringe but want the benefits of a little face-framing. The key to this bang is to create that soft, loose bend that creates a soft framing around the temples, Trygstad says. Try using a large boar's hair bristle brush as it will give you that bend, plus add a lot of shine.
You can't mess around with styling a blunt bang; your approach has to be swift. With this style, you really need to blow dry right away, Trygstad says. This will make it easier to combat any cowlicks or irregular hairline patterns. He also suggests holding a hairdryer overhead and brushing your bangs from side to side until dry.WHEN it comes to getting our hair done, we all go in with an expectation of how we want it to look - and we'd be lying if we said it always goes to plan.
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Showing your hairdresser exactly what you want doesn't always mean they'll come through - and for one woman her trip to the salon ended up being a complete disaster.
TikTok user Laura Clarke had headed into her appointment with the perfect bangs inspo, but what she was left with was nothing short of a fringe fail.
In a video she shared online, she revealed the photo she had shown her hairdresser when she asked for her hair to be given a middle parting and curtain bangs.
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Went to the hairdressers today to get a middle part and curtain bangs. This was the photo I showed them, Laura said.
Revealing what she got, her face - looking pretty unimpressed - popped up on the screen with her new bangs that looked like they'd just been stuck on her forehead.
There was no shape or integration into the rest of her hair and desperate for some advice, Laura called her hair a disaster and asked: How do I make this better?
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Her video has been watched over 2.8million times and people were left convinced that Laura had cut her own hair, her finished look was so bad.
She insisted she hadn't and shared a screenshot of a snap of her at the hairdressers mid-appointment from her Instagram story in a follow-up video, while revealing she paid £70 for her cut and colour.
Others claimed that Laura's hair just needed style, but plenty more jumped to her defence and insisted it was a botched cut.
Help! Asked For
I have this haircut and I don't style it. Stop saying it's all about styling. The hairdresser screwed this up big time, wrote one person.
Another said: It definitely will look better styled but they have still messed up the cut. Your bangs are too short and when you curl them it will be ever shorter!
A third felt Laura's pain, as they revealed: Omg I have the exact same thing, now I'm just waiting for it to grow out so I can get it fixed.
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I mean they are curtains, joked one person, while another said: I'm crying, why she do that though? As a hairdresser we do not claim her.
And one beauty fan was left in tears after getting her brush stuck in her hair while trying out a hair hack and it had to be removed using PLIERS.
Woman in tears after a brush gets stuck in her hair after hack goes wrong - and it has to be removed with PLIERS
