While initially Mischa helped me ease into bangs by keeping my long, chest-length layers, today I have a shoulder-length shag with choppier fringe and layers that give me more of that ’70s oomph. Over the past eight months, my fringed cut has evolved. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. “Depending on where you cut them, you can use bangs to accentuate or draw attention to your desired features or make your look stronger or softer,” explains Mischa. I found that my shag softened my face-slightly diffusing the severity of my thick, dark brows-while adding definition and placing greater emphasis on my cheekbones. It’s only natural that a fringe haircut would have transformative effects. Bangs Are Transformativeīy nature, bangs have a dramatic impact on your facial features and proportions. Below, a quick-and-dirty breakdown of what I’ve learned so far about life with curly bangs. While I never say never when it comes to my hair, I truly can’t imagine ever, ever not having curly bangs again. My new curly fringe did everything a great, transformative haircut is supposed to do, like make me feel like a whole new-and-improved person and incite oohs and aahs from strangers and loved ones alike. There, inside my new salon nirvana, she sheared off the old overgrowth of the pandemic and gave me a ringlet-y curtain of bangs that fell right above the brow along with a cascade of shaggy layers. And she was right.ĭuring the fall of 2020, feeling ready for change, I made my first trip to Treehouse Social Club, Mischa’s salon that she had magically managed to gut renovate and open in the middle of the pandemic. “They’re going to change your life,” Mischa told me. It was something that my friend and hairstylist Mischa G had been begging, nay pleading with me to do for years, but I just hadn’t gotten around to yet (which, by the way, is never not a tragic excuse).

For me, that decisive move was, at long last, getting curly bangs. There was something about the long haul of lockdown that made you want to take the things you were waffling on and-pardon my language- just fucking do it already.

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