When Marie Claire’s Executive Beauty Editor, Shannon, noted that prom hair was proving a prominent hair trend on the red carpet, I will admit my knee-jerk reaction skewed slightly negative. It’s a special feeling when the looks of your youth come back around again; while I love a throwback trend and am not too fussed about getting older, there are some things that I personally will not be re-living. (Catch me running for the hills if jeggings ever make a comeback.) But stay with me here, because there is a chic end to this story.
To me, prom hair means one of two key kinds of hairstyle. The first is very defined ghd-ed ringlets that have been sprayed with perhaps too much hairspray and are never, ever brushed out. These bouncy curls were frequently worn in a half-up hairstyle and/or with a '00s pouf thrown in for good measure. Very on trend at the time, of course, but I am in no rush to see the return of extra crispy ringlets.
