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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Amy Francombe

Are... side partings cool again? How the sweeping millennial hairstyle is making a comeback

You had to refresh your Instagram feed, to make sure it hadn’t got stuck in 2019. No, there it is, clear as day on Kim K’s grid: a side parting, not a centre one, framing the supermodel’s face.

Teens on TikTok might have spent three years lampooning side partings as “cheugy”, basic and “out of touch”, but - whisper it - the kids might finally be out of touch on this one. Thanks to the likes of Gen-Z superstars Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya and Ameila Gray, the side parting hairstyle is having a renaissance.

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