Hair: for the holidays, dust off the vintage backcombing

Protagonist of the cover of Interview zendaya shows one hyper voluminous hair , skilfully backcombed by the New York hair designer Antoinette.

Lily Collins, at the Los Angeles preview of the second season of Emily in Paris she enchanted with a bouffant crop in the sixties.

His Forbes, sempre in cover, Miley Cyrus, pulls out a look that’s halfway between Dolly Parton’s head and an ’80s shag.

While Marina Di Guardo, engaged in a shooting, she posted via Instagram a photo with a wavy hairstyle with a vertical tuft with a 90s mood.

And again we look at Michelle Pfeiffer who will be Betty Ford on the small screen in the new series The first lady on the most influential wives of US presidents arriving at the beginning of 2022. The actress fit perfectly into the part and the hairstyle / sculpture of the First Lady of the United States of America between 1974 and 1977. Just that hair bouffant, made by Kenneth Battelle for the first time in the 1960s on Jackie Kennedy, has been a symbol of stability, power and reliability for the country ever since.

Not to mention the va va voom 80s hairstyles Lady Gaga in the shoes and, in this case, hair, of Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci, from December 16 at the cinema, which we can’t wait to see in all their vaporization on the big screen.

Vintage cotonatura, each its own era

In short, that vintage backcombing is a trend launched in this last part of 2021 it seems clear to us. Pinterest also underlines this in its beauty trend report for 2022 that hair will reach new heights of volume next year: why try to tame your hair? This year, people will follow Generation Z’s lead and thank nature for the gift of fluffy hair. They will enhance the structure with special techniques or choose a spatial look with chignon and bun. The search for voluminous hairstyles increased by + 165%. Clearer than that! So why not crank up the volume for the holidays and 2022? Just choose the decade we feel most in tune with and try to recreate these dizzying hair. We asked for this Luigi Ladisa, Technical Manager Italy of Alfaparf Milano how to do.

60’s

«We are talking about the 60s. In this decade the volume was definitely a hallmark of hairstyles. Backcombing has become a fundamental art for obtaining such important volumes and structure of the hair. The main focus was to give volume to the top, leaving the rest of the hair loose and even disheveled to get fabulous collected seeds. A cult icon? Brigitte Bardot ».

70’s

«In the 70s hairstyles followed and highlighted a unique style of the time; the volume was there but it was beginning to be less structured and more natural. There was a boom in looks with long hair with soft waves that ranged from the hippie style (with an effect that today we call beach waves) easier to manage independently, to more structured hairstyles, with tufts and fringes to frame the face ( like the fantastic ones Charlie’s Angel). In this case, however, the hairdresser’s hand is necessary in creating fantastic styling with structured waves with a natural effect. In all cases there was a tendency to enhance the look by highlighting the eye make-up ».

1980s

«The hairstyles of the 80s were characterized by extreme and exaggerated volumes, where the perm has become the main service of hairdressing salons to obtain volume and for a long time. Curly, voluminous and frisee hair required gel, mousse and lacquer as indispensable allies to define and control the shapes, lift the roots highlighting the extreme and fluffy brushing (we remember Madonna as an icon of the time) ».

In short, in view of 2022 it is necessary to focus on suitable styling which, like a time machine, transports you to the chosen era with strokes of backcombing (without fear of lacquers, today eco-friendly and respectful of hair and Planet).

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