Nineties hair, the inspirations still relevant

SExactly 30 years have passed since Geri Halliwell had striped highlights on her fiery red boband also since Reese Witherspoon sported at least four mini space buns on her hair. It was the middle of the nineties and they left us hair looks that went down in history.

Nineties hair, the best of those years

Not just the Rachel cut. The Nineties also had other “must hairs”. Raise your hand if you haven’t had, and perhaps still have somewhere, a scruntchie, at the time simply called a fabric hair tie, in a neon color that was noticeable.

Or who, taken by enthusiasm for Sliding Doors she didn’t go to the hairdresser wanting to copy Gwyneth Paltrow’s pixie cut.

Or who, again, did not try to copy the soap and water make-up, but with lots of gloss, of Alicia Silverstone, alias Cher, in Girls in Beverly Hills. The decade left so many beauty looks that still set the tone today.

1. Gwyneth Paltrow and the pixie cut Sliding Doors

We are in 1998, and Gwyneth Paltrow mixes up the hairstyling cards again. The film is Sliding Doors and the actress, in a moment of profound change in the protagonist’s life, cuts her hair, choosing a Pixie cut in a nineties version that has become legendary.

Who hasn’t gone to their hairdresser at least once asking for exactly that cut? Shorter in front, and with a maxi tuft at the back, the cut went down in history as the most expensive ever. In fact, Paltrow demanded that her hairdresser cross the Atlantic to go to London to cut her hair. The cost? Almost 9 thousand euros at today’s exchange rate.

A symbol of the second half of the nineties. Also thanks to the fact that the exact same hairlook was then copied by her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, for a hairlook matchy matchy of couple.

2. The space bun by Reese Witherspoon and Emma Bunton Spice Girl

Newly fifty years old, in the nineties Reese Witherspoon was among the young celebs who loved the so-called space buns. What else were they two, or more, more or less low symmetrical mini chignons.

Fun, versatile, practical, ironic, iThe credit for their celebrity went entirely to Emma from the Spice Girls but also to Sailor Moonthe famous Japanese cartoon that was popular at the time. And Reese Witherspoon also loved this look so much that she made four of them, creating a sort of crown on top.

3. Geri Halliwell’s fiery red hair with highlights

She wasn’t nicknamed Ginger Spicerandomly. His fiery red hair and his winning sign. Especially for the play of color: very daring platinum blonde highlights, in jargon called chunky streaks. If you then add very thin eyebrows and red lacquered lipstick, Geri Halliwell’s beauty look is complete.

This bold beauty lookand it framed the face perfectly, highlighting especially the blue eyes. A trend that is still popular today and which, in part, is taken up by Dua Lipa.

4. Alicia Silverstone’s blonde in Girls in Beverly Hills

The make up is soap and water, the eyelashes are slightly gull-winged but not too much, the gloss is transparent and the hair is long with a deep side parting which creates a “light wave” at the top. This is the look of Alicia Silverstone, who became famous in the role of Cher in the famous film that “shaped” an entire generation.

And then the perfect blonde Nieties. A sand natural enlivened by highlights. Yes at the time (but still today) to the color contrast between root and stems, but also in the blends between strands.

5. The Hedgehog by Andie Macdowell

If today Andie Macdowell has become a champion and proud supporter of salt and pepper hair, in the nineties she was an icon of the curly bob. His hailook in the famous comedy, or as we would say today “rom-com”, Four Weddings and a Funeral, was among the most successful on the big screen.

Dark and intense brown, very curly because it is natural, short just below the ears and voluminous. Left free, wild and sensual. A cut that made her Carrie unforgettable. Well before the other Carrie (Bradshaw).