“Should I get bangs?”—that is the eternal question. It also explains why we were transfixed by a one-minute clip that’s fast becoming a Facebook phenomenon this week: A young girl clipping her fringe shorter . . . and shorter . . . and shorter, until only a few choppy bits remained. More than 5 million people have now watched the botched bang trim, thanks in part to the universal experience it represents—one that left several Vogue editors flashing back to their own horrible hair days.
Vogue.com Fashion News Writer Liana Satenstein vividly recalls giving her blunt bangs a fresh jagged edge at age 5, then being immediately rushed to the salon. “It was already heinous, then they looked even more heinous,” she says. “I still have PTSD from it.” Associate Photo Editor Samantha Adler is also familiar with an overly choppy edge. “I know many people are capable of trimming their own bangs, but I am 100 percent not,” she says. “When I tried to cut them as a kid, it basically looked like that—which is why I go to Fringe for trims now.”
In a way, Adler and Satenstein concede, the girl’s look is surprisingly of-the-moment: an unconventional style that celebrates individuality. Think a baby Kiki Willems on the Saint Laurent runway, if Willems were to smear lipstick (or chocolate?) artfully around her mouth. Which got us thinking: Could the key to a model-off-duty transformation actually require taking the scissors into your own hands? The verdict may still be out, but if you are going to attempt it, here’s a little advice: Start slow and snip vertically—you want to lose heft, not height—and above all, own it. That little girl certainly does.
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