The style...
After giving Lily Aldridge a long fringe with face-framing layers, Cervando Maldonado of
Goddard-Bragg in West Hollywood has had many requests for something similar. “It’s easy to manage and easy to wear many ways—beachy or high-glamour waves, natural, or bone straight. With the long fringe and long layers, it lends itself to many styles.” Serge Normant, who works out of Serge Normant at
John Frieda in New York, agrees: “I do really like this kind of length—definitely below the shoulder blade,” but not too long. An example? “Julia has that haircut right now,” he says casually. That would be Roberts.
What to ask for...
This cut shouldn’t be all one length, but it should work with the layers you already have. Ask for something below the collarbone, with long layers. “It’s just a little more lively to have a few layers in there,” says Normant. Maldonado’s advice is simple: Bring a photo. He recommends checking with your stylist to ensure that your hair texture works for this kind of cut. “If hair is really coarse, frizzy, and thick, I would consider not cutting the fringe so short—leave it 1 to 1 1/2 inches longer than you would think. Usually hair of this texture will shrink up to look shorter.”
Styling tips...
Both Maldonado and Normant caution that when it comes to product, less is more. “If you need more than two or three products, you’re usually using the wrong ones,” says Normant. He recommends starting with a mousse or volumizer (such as his own
Meta Lush Volumizer) on wet hair before blowing it dry, and perhaps finishing with a curling iron to give a little more weight. Maldonado suggests curl cream or mousse [Violet recommends Shu Uemura’s
Kengo Feather Lightweight Cream], and either getting a little moisture out with the hair dryer or letting your locks air-dry. “It’s that look where you can walk out of the hairdresser and it doesn’t look like you were there—but it looks great anyway,” says Normant.