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August 4, 2008 9:48 am
To have curly hair is to be stranded in the gulf between theory and practice. In theory, I would like to be OK with my curly hair. In practice, I spend untold hours relaxing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, and fearing rain. In theory, I would like fashion to embrace curls, to spare a moment again for big, bonkers hair. In practice… Well, in practice I may be onto something. “It’s nice to see wider, wilder, sexier hair,” says Eugene Soulieman, the stylist who ringleted up Maryna Linchuk in the August issue of Vogue (above). “Think Helmut Newton, early seventies Saint Laurent, Guy Bourdin photos.” Emboldened by Soulieman’s endorsement, Ive been letting my curls run free this summer. Alas, this has prompted yet another discovery: “Without the right care, curly hair is all knots and frizz,” warns stylist Ricardo Rojas, who is something of a missionary when it comes to conditioning. At his brand new salon on the Lower East Side, the Oribe alum and former keeper of Donatella’s locks offers two different kinds of intensive conditioning treatments, and he sells (and swears by) the Kérastase line Oleo Curl. “Conditioning the hair the right way will allow the curl to define itself,” he says. “The goal is to let the hair do what it naturally wants to do.” Theory, meet practice.
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