Style with a twist: stars turn to playful pigtails to tame lockdown hair
The look is easy to achieve, hides temporary problems and pays a retro homage to in-vogue 90s fashion
Actress Tracee Ellis Ross regularly wears pigtails. Photograph: @traceeellisross/Instagram
Actress Tracee Ellis Ross regularly wears pigtails. Photograph: @traceeellisross/Instagram
Sun 7 Mar 2021 02.30 EST
With an appointment at a professional hairdressers now a distant memory, stylish women have taken to creative ways to tame their lockdown locks. The latest solution is a hairstyle more commonly associated with schooldays: pigtails.
Grown-up, glamorous women have taken to wearing plaits. Kim Kardashian West, famous for her long mane and penchant for hair extensions, posted an image of herself with son Saint on Instagram last week with her hair in pigtails. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, who owns the haircare brand Pattern, regularly wears pigtails, and posted on YouTube last week a how-to video of “four br
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When you have long hair, you welcome any way to conveniently and stylishly keep it neat and protected, especially during winter when it can get tangled up in extra layers. A solution I ve been leaning into for much of quarantine, virtually glued to my couch while working from home, has been a set of grown-up pigtails. When you re lounging on a sofa or bed more, the excessive friction against these materials could cause more damage to your strands, cautioned my hairstylist, Treehouse Social Club founder Mischa G during the early days of lockdown. So rather than pulling my mop top of curls back into a top knot or ponytail, which can place tension on strands, I ve been keeping it tied back in pigtails worn loose or in plaits.
When you have long hair, you welcome any way to conveniently and stylishly keep it neat and protected, especially during winter when it can get tangled up in extra layers. A solution I’ve been leaning into for much of quarantine, virtually glued to my couch while working from home, has been a set of grown-up pigtails. “When you’re lounging on a sofa or bed more, the excessive friction against these materials could cause more damage to your strands,” cautioned my hairstylist, Treehouse Social Club founder Mischa G during the early days of lockdown. So rather than pulling my mop top of curls back into a top knot or ponytail, which can place tension on strands, I’ve been keeping it tied back in pigtails worn loose or in plaits.
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