Then, regular visits to the salon to do what I call ‘reversing the proportions’ comes next, after you have enough hair in the back to work with. There is no short cut to this and it can be quite unflattering, for lack of a better term. So what do you do? I tell my clients that the first thing is they have to let the back grow out. But because of the proportions, this is exactly what this haircut turns into. Without getting into that, let’s just say most people are not happy about having to sport that do again. It turns into the old, 1990’s Jennifer Aniston ‘friends’ cut. Then there is what happens when this hair does start growing out. People have come to me in the beginning stages and sadly I would have to tell them there was nothing I could do until the back was grown out more, the hardest but most important part. And herein lies the painful task of growing it out. Any way you wore it, you had hair that was super short in back and long in the front. An A-Line bob would be when the short back connects to the long front, creating an ‘A-line’ shape. Then when you get to the top of the head, the hair is left long and most of the time blended into an ‘all one length’ style. Meaning each section of hair is dependent upon the section before it, creating a wedge like shape. The back of the hair, starting at the nape of the neck is cut at a 45 degree angle and builds weight as it goes up the head, mostly all the way to the crown. A graduated bob is all about the proportion and angles, like most cuts, except this one would be considered on the extreme side. The bad new is, out of all the haircuts, in my opinion, it is indeed the most difficult to grow out. I have seen it and worked with clients over the last few years to make it happen. I never made the diagram, but still today find myself, on almost a daily basis, trying to explain and help people move on from this haircut. They are shapes, all dependent on proportion. After all, that’s really what haircuts are. Meaning, if I could explain it with geometry, an architectural approach to it, then they would see what I was talking about. I’ll never forget the one night I came home from the salon and told my boyfriend how I wanted to create some sort of diagram or 3-d chart to let the clients see this haircut the way I did. I became obsessed with trying to explain how to grow out this cut. Most of them were in disbelief, and still are today, when I would tell them what was in store for them and their hair. One of the most challenging things is having to explain to my clients the painstaking task of growing it out. I was asked how to make the transition from short to long hair in the best way. There were so many clients coming to me when the craze was over, wanting to know what their grow-out options were. So what’s the big deal you ask? Well, being a cutting specialist, I have not only had a chance to cut this bob, many times, I have also had the difficult job of trying to help women grow it out. So, here you have a cute, fun, and trendy short haircut. It then morphed into the Posh spice bob and women of every generation began requesting it. The look first showed up on Victoria Beckham, and was immediately a fashion standard in New York and Los Angeles. It quickly became one of 2008′s most popular hairstyles. ![]() Oddly enough, although Hamill’s signature hairstyle is the wedge, the hairstyle evolved and has continued to remain popular.įast forward to the last couple of years and you have the reverse bob haircut (also known as the inverted bob). Her signature look became popular with young women across the globe and soon the “Dorothy Hamill do’” could be found nearly everywhere. ![]() The wedge cut is a classic short hairstyle that became very popular in 1976 when champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill sported it as she won the Olympic Gold Medal at the age of 19. Depending on your age, you may remember the origins of this short cut from the 1970’s when it was referred to as the wedge or more commonly the Dorothy Hamill. This haircut exploded on the salon scene and seemed to me, the most requested style since 2007.
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