Some mornings you just don’t have time to fuss with your hair. That’s exactly where cornrow hairstyles save the day. Braided close to the scalp and rooted in centuries of African heritage, cornrows are the ultimate everyday protective style — low-maintenance, endlessly versatile, and gorgeous the moment you wake up. They tuck your hair away,…
People have been calling it a trend for five years now. The wolf cut with curtain bangs arrived through Tik Tok around 2021, was supposed to disappear by 2022, and has instead become one of the most consistently requested cuts in salons worldwide. That longevity tells you something: it works on real people with real…
A round face is defined by fairly simple geometry: the width across the cheekbones roughly matches the length from hairline to chin, the cheeks are full, and the jawline curves rather than angles. What that means practically is that pixie bob haircuts for round faces succeed or fail on one variable, and it isn’t length….
A hairstyle that takes ninety seconds shouldn’t look this good. Low ponytail hairstyles occupy a rare position in beauty: genuinely fast, almost universally flattering, and appropriate everywhere from a Tuesday morning meeting to the Oscars red carpet. Bottega Veneta and Victoria Beckham both sent low ponytails down the runway this season, and Dior’s Fall/Winter 2026…
There’s a particular kind of morning where you have eight minutes, your hair looks like a decision you regret, and you need to leave. Quick braided hairstyles exist for exactly that morning. The good news is that almost every braid you have ever admired comes down to about six basic moves wearing different outfits, and…
Something has genuinely shifted in how curls are being worn. The crunchy, sculpted, not-a-hair-out-of-place look that dominated the 2010s has been replaced by something softer, and the curly hairstyles filling salon chairs right now are built around letting hair do what it naturally wants to do. Tiffanie Richards, master colourist at Louise O’Conner Salon, has…
Long hair on a wedding day is a gift and a logistical problem at the same time. The options feel endless, which is exactly what makes choosing so difficult, and the weight of it means a style that photographs beautifully at 2pm can be sliding down your neck by 9pm. The best wedding hairstyles for…
Choosing between twist styles is harder than choosing whether to get them. Twist braids cover at least five distinct techniques, each using different extension hair, each behaving differently on your head, and the names get used interchangeably by people who should know better. Senegalese, Marley, Havana, passion, spring. Understanding the difference before you sit in…
Blonde changes what a wolf cut does. On dark hair, the layers register as shape and shadow. On blonde, every single one of them becomes visible, because light travels differently through lifted hair and catches each step in the cut. That’s why a blonde wolf cut with bangs either looks extraordinary or exposes every mistake,…
There’s a reason this pairing keeps reappearing on red carpets and in salon feeds. A bun pulls every strand backward and upward, which is exactly what makes it look polished, and also exactly what can make it look severe. Bun with bangs hairstyles solve that problem in a single move. The fringe stays forward, framing…