With the UK’s hair salons closed again, what on earth do we do with our hair as the festive season – as well as the daily work Zoom – looms? Session stylist and Vogue contributing beauty editor Guido Palau recommends looking to the recent spring/summer 2021 catwalks, which were awash with handy lockdown hair tricks – many of them thanks to him.
“Because of Zoom people are looking at themselves even more, and want their hair to look fairly respectable and nice looking but without it looking like they’ve come from the salon and had a big blow dry,” the hairstylist says over – you guessed it – Zoom. “I think Maria Grazia [Chiuri, creative director at Dior] summed it up for me when she said she wanted the hair to feel like it had been touched by the hand, and not a brush. It was about creating hair that felt like it had been made at home.” This mood, he says, was evident at every show.
Look no further for Palau’s three hair rules to make lockdown looks a breeze.
De-frizz but keep the texture
If there’s one universal hair bugbear, it’s frizz. Smoothing and softening it can make a big difference to how you feel, and it’s not as difficult as you might think. “At the shows, models usually arrive with the top layers of their hair frizzy – most of the time, for the shows, I’m emphasising natural texture but want to get rid of the frizz,” he explains. “I’ll squeeze a product, like Oribe’s Supershine Moisturising Cream, in my hands and take the very top layer of hair and just touch it. It’s not about putting the cream into the hair or layering it in, but more about just touching it.
In the top section of hair, I take either side of the parting and smooth it down with my fingers – just the top layer so as not to take all the great texture away.” The aim, as Palau says, is to take down halo frizz and add shine. “Then, all you have to do is use a hairdryer, like the GHD Helios – to dry it in. The constant air flow makes hair smoother, glossier and dries it quicker.”
Keep hair “easy”
This winter is not the season – nor is it the year – to look too “done”. After all, if we’re not seeing anyone IRL, what better excuse for a minimal approach? Palau says it’s all about creating hair that looks as though you’ve styled it, lazed on the sofa, then got up again. “It’s defined by a kind of ease to the hair, it’s lived-in,” he says, name-checking the hair look he created at Prada’s recent show as an example. “Texture felt really easy, modern and cool. For that look, I de-frizzed, then I would bend the hair around a tong [Guido used the GHD Curve Classic Curl Tong], just slightly, so it didn’t feel like there had been any heat in it. What you get is the most popular texture in fashion right now – it has nonchalance, a bit of ease, and it doesn’t matter what the cut is: it feels modern.”
Take your look into your own hands
This isn’t something a hairdresser would typically advise, but Palau says life is for trying new looks – and if that means getting the kitchen scissors out, so be it. “We’re all fearful of change, but the people we always admire are those girls, like Billie Eilish, who dye their hair green and wear it with such confidence. It’s that mood we have to try and summon within ourselves to make hair changes, otherwise we just stay in our own little world. Unfortunately when you do that, you may well not reach your full beauty potential.”
He cites Kaia Gerber as someone who has gone on a successful hair “journey”, first allowing Palau to chop her hair off into a bob, bleaching it, and then most recently, going pink. “I know that’s Kaia Gerber, but she is also a regular girl with her own insecurities and if you never change or try something you’ll never know your true potential,” says Palau. So, go forth, cut that fringe in, give yourself a DIY lob, or just microdust those split ends. To quote Palau: “In a time when you’re at home and the world’s falling apart, what’s a haircut?!”
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