style star: Emily Haines

emily haines is amazing! emily haines! emily haines! she is so cool! emily haines! one of the best performers i've ever seen (frontwoman of METRIC), and she rocks a mini-skirt like no other!

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THE D.I.Y. FAUX-UNDERCUT

YOU WILL NEED:
-one small hair elastic
-some hair clips/bobby pins
-hairspray or smoothing cream
-if you want to do wavy hair, you need hair elastics to hold braids

DO IT YOURSELF:
1. wash your hair.

2. make a deep side-part in your hairline. I did one above the arch of my left eyebrow.

3. if you want to do alice dellal style waves, dry your hair until it is almost completely dry, just a tiny bit damp. you may want to put in some volumizer or hair styling cream. otherwise, dry your hair completely straight or however you want to do it.

4. go to the faux 'undercut' side of your head. grab a small amount of hair from the front, not too much. pull it back and twist around, put into a small hair elastic. pin to the side of your head near the back. don't worry about making that side super smooth/shaved looking yet...


5. for the waves, put your hair into braids. my hair is layered so i put it into 3 different braids. leave to dry for about 30 minutes, shorter or longer depending on how wavy you want your hair to be. i don't braid the 'undercut' part, so it stays smooth.

6. take out your braids. if your hair isn't totally dry yet you can grab a hair dryer and blast your head, or let air dry until completely dry.


7. go back to the faux 'undercut' side of your head. now that your hair is dry and wavy you may want to adjust that side a bit- pull the hair back as tight as possible- don't worry about any whispy bits that stick out. keep the hair elastic in, and get your bobby pins or hair clips and clip over the elastic to hide it and hold that part of the hair back.


8. because of my layered hair, i always have little bits of hair that stick out. i used hairspray to smooth out the 'undercut' side to give it a shaved look.

i'm really happy with how it turned out! this was my first time trying it out, so i think next time i'll pull my hair even farther back, maybe pin it underneath the hair on the back of my head and slick it down a bit more so the 'undercut' is even more intense. this d.i.y. will change and evolve. let me know if you try it yourself!

a 'real' undercut would look way cooler, but this is a good way to try it out and see if it suits. i'm thinking about even doing cornrows or something like that. not sure if i want the shaved head commitment!

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undercutting it

recently i've become obsessed with undercuts (kind of like my obsession with side braids...). i blame alice dellal and cassie. but mostly alice dellal.

i definetly think that i have the guts to do it, it's mostly about making the commitment to having a half-shaved head and then the painful process of growing it back out at some point.

i think i'm going to try a faux-undercut, a la Issa's fall 09 runway show, which was actually inspired by alice dellal, who walked in the show. they did a really deep side-part on the models and then slicked back the other half of their hair to imitate alice's locks. even if you have no interest in shaving your head, i think what they did is such a cool idea!

another faux undercut from another show:

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style star: Pixie Geldof

goth rock queen. she makes me want to inject a little bit more gothic romance into my wardrobe...

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