Bangs or
"fringe," as it's known pretty much everywhere except the United
States, has been an iconic hairstyle for centuries. We examine the origins of
bangs—starting from the 8th century— and talk to real women who reveal how
high-maintenance the look really is. Women who sport bangs often credit
inspiration for the hairstyle to celebrities from every decade, like Jane
Birkin and Taylor Swift. So we took a trip to Préma Hair in Manhattan's lower
east side to get a tutorial on the process behind the look.
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it's one of the most iconic
hairstyles
of all time
bangs also known as fringe
but we'll get
to that later
bangs have been
immortalized by
countless movie stars and
cultural icons
so where did bangs come
from how does
one cut them and what does
having bangs
say about the women bold
enough to wear
them this is how bangs took
over the
world
bangs date all the way back
to the
eighth century people often
credit the
Egyptian queen Cleopatra
for bringing
them into style but that's
just a myth
historians say the credit
should go to
this guy his name was Surya
an Iraqi Renaissance man
known to have
started the trend which as
this painting
shows was also adopted by
his female
fans over the next thousand
years
bangs became an institution
evident in
countless paintings of
European women in
the 18th and 19th centuries
with the
dawn of motion pictures
silent film
stars like Louise Brooks
made bangs and
iconic style of the roaring
20s
then came the era of the
pin-up girl
pioneered by the notorious
Bettie Page
Europe moved back into the
spotlight in
the swinging 60s with
iconic looks by
model Peggy Moffitt and
singer Jane
Birkin only in Europe they
don't call
them bangs they call it
fringe which is
what the style is known as
pretty much
everywhere except the u.s.
so French
continued to evolve and
sometimes the
results were mixed
but the look has endured
and some of the
most iconic women in the
world have made
sure that bangs or fringe
whatever you
want to call it is one of
the most
sought after styles on the
planet and
those brave enough to get
them usually
come with inspiration I
love Taylor so
stings Taylor Swift Taylor
Swift I'm a
stone reese witherspoon
Alexa Chung
natalia dyer Zooey
Deschanel Zooey
Deschanel have some great
bangs so how
does one actually get bangs
well that
depends on the type of
bangs are going
for theirs blunt wispy
shaggy choppy
curly side-swept the
options are endless
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we went to Prima hair in
the Lower East
Side of Manhattan to see
how it's done
for both straight and curly
hair when
summer with straight hair
comes in for a
fringe generally we'll want
to blow dry
the whole all of the hair
forward to
make sure that we don't
have any
partings in there draw the
hair to the
center go ahead and cut and
then soften
that line in through there
when someone has curly hair
because the
hair doesn't quite sit the
same way I
like to go through and cut
each curl
individually to make sure
that it's a
following the line in
through there but
also shows movement as the
curls go but
you don't have to go to a
salon to get
fabulous bangs lots of
women prefer to
do it themselves
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carefully so why do women
get bangs well
let's ask them
my beings are a hundred
percent a part
of my identity I just kind
of wanted
this whole new look for a
new chapter
sometimes I just like to
switch it up
kind of cliche but I
actually went to
Paris and a lot of girls
had them and
they just looked so good I
like the way
that they frame my face I
feel like I
like myself with them more
I grow them
at once and I absolutely
hated it and
never did it again it was
the first time
my haircut really felt like
me because
it wasn't like my mom
picking my
hairstyle for the first
couple of days
it might want to live like
this after a
week or so that fringe will
start to
settle into its new
position and make
your life a whole lot
easier
bangs may look effortless
but
maintaining them is
anything but things
are super high maintenance
it's easy to
put them in your hair but
once they're
there it's a commitment for
sure I
straighten them everyday
with a
straightener the day's just
split up
between pulling out the
comb and
brushing them back down
when it's really
windy out and like the
winds hitting you
in both directions and then
it goes up
and then you're like no
that's not how I
look I promise in fact they
can be so
high-maintenance it makes
some women
swear off fringe forever
I actually am trying to
grow out my
veins right now the one
reason why I
hated them was because it
was just like
an extra step in the
morning I had bangs
of the baby because in the
90s that's
just normal
can you see this look how
cute I was I
don't know people usually
ask me oh why
I love
you had bangs and I'm like
you loved me
with bangs but you wouldn't
love having
them yourself that's pretty
much what it
is it's just too much work
but there are
shortcuts like these
clip-in bangs which
don't require the months it
takes to
grow them back out
bangs have been around for
centuries
representing some of the
most iconic
style moments of all time
they may be a
lot of work but one thing
is pretty
certain they're never going
out of style
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I don't know just my face
was way too
round for them and then
after a while
I'd wear them on the side
like that like
you can't really see that
but like they
wouldn't fully cover my
head like and
another thing is when
you're growing
them out like some of these
pictures I
have this is a picture of
me doing it
whoops
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