Boing! Why we all want
a curly-girl fringe
The new ironic millennial haircut
du jour? A 1980s-style perm fringe.
Ella Emhoff — Kamala Harris’s
stepdaughter and current Proenza
Schouler campaign star — kicked off
the trend with her turbo-preppy street
style. See also Alia Shawkat, star of the
criminally underrated hipster
whodunnit Search Party (the fifth and
final season, currently on HBO Max,
should be your next binge-watch).
How to DIY? If your hair is naturally
straight, Jonny Long, cofounder of
Lockonego hair salon, says to grab
the old-school Velcro rollers: “Put
them in damp hair and heat with a
hairdryer for a lovely wave.” For those
looking to tame existing curls, “try
scrunching the hair using a diffuser and
leave the hair ever so slightly damp so it
won’t go fluffy. Whatever you do, don’t
overdry the hair.” Or take screen grabs of
the models who do it best, Mica Argañaraz
and Alix Bouthors, to the hairdresser’s.Edited by Louisa McGillicuddyFashion! Beauty! People! Things! Welcome to your weekly guide
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TV’s best dating show returns
It has been two years since the debut of one of the most unhinged reality
TV concepts in recent times and now, praise Cupid, Love Is Blind returns to
Netflix for a second series on Friday. A reminder of the premise: 30 men
and women speed-date in “pods” where they can talk to their prospective
match, but not see them. After ten days they have the option to break up
or ... get married. As our own Camilla Long put it, it is “wrong, and
gripping”. More than 30 million households watched the series in the first
two months after its arrival on Netflix, and there are already international
spin-offs in the works for Brazil and Japan. So what happened to the fates of
the six betrothed couples we met in 2020? The one-off reunion special that
aired in July was as deliciously excruciating as hoped. Only two couples are
still married: fan favourites Lauren and Cameron and the divisive Amber
and Barnett. The former now have their own YouTube show, Hanging with
the Hamiltons, and have just released their own book, Leap of Faith (not to
be confused with Frankie Dettori’s autobiography of the same name). Best
of all, Jessica — who was embroiled in a dramatic romantic subplot and got
trolled for her passion for pinot grigio — is now engaged to a very
handsome surgeon. Details about this year’s contestants are still under
wraps, but expect hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey to be as entirely
superfluous as before. Unless you count repeating the catchphrase in
different intonations a job. “Is love blind?” “Is love blind?” “Is. Love. Blind?”The Barometer
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STAFF WRITER AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ROISIN KELLY CONTRIBUTING BEAUTY EDITOR LAURA KENNEDY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR ALICE KEMP-HABIB CHIEF SUB-EDITOR SOPHIE FAVELL SENIOR SUB-EDITOR JANE MCDONALD© Times Newspapers Ltd, 2022. Published and licensed by Times Newspapers Ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF (020 7782 5000). Printed by Prinovis UK Ltd, Liverpool. Not to be sold separatelyLeft, from top Mica Argañaraz and Alix Bouthors.
Above Ella Emhoff and Alia ShawkatThis picture Amber
and Barnett.
Right Lauren and
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