As the fashion flock takes over Paris this week for the last leg of the Fall 2016 collections, chances are that many of them will be attempting that most elusive of beauty looks: French girl hair. “It’s that loose bend that looks like you just woke up,” explains hairstylist Jen Atkin. “It’s perfection.”
But nailing deliberately undone “I woke up like this” hair can be a lot harder than it looks. “Let’s get real,” says Atkin, whose clients include such undone-hair icons as Kim Kardashian West, Kendall Jenner, Jessica Alba, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Jessica Stam. “Sometimes you have to leave the house with wet hair. We are all busy rushing out the door and have other things to think about.”
Atkin recently launched Ouai, an entire line of products built around the concept of the insouciant Parisian with perfectly imperfect hair (think: Charlotte Gainsbourg or Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey). And she has plenty of practice imparting that certain je ne sais quoi without a curling iron or blow-dryer. “I was lucky enough to work with Guido Palau backstage at a ton of shows, including Dior, and that’s where I learned to do hair quickly,” she says. “So these are tricks that I’ve picked up and that my clients have passed on to me.”
Among her insider tips: “I love having duck bill clips in my bag,” she says. “You can get them at any drugstore and use them with the [Ouai] Wave Spray.” Atkin says to spray dry hair until you get that just-came-out-of-the-ocean look, and then create waves using the clips on either side of the head, leaving the ends loose and letting the product air-dry. “For girls with a lob,” she adds, “I recommend running mousse through wet hair, then making a low center-part or side-part ponytail—but don’t pull the hair all the way through. Let it air-dry again and you’ll have that cool-girl bend in it.” The result? Laissez-faire hair perfected.
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