If you want to look like you’ve been romping through the countryside or perhaps even stylishly running down the West Side Highway here in New York, then the hair look created backstage at the Rodarte Fall 2011 show is for you! Created by lead Aveda stylist Odile Gilbert, this look is meant to emulate a “natural windswept look” according to fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte (that’s them pictured below).
“Kate and Laura’s collection evokes the pastoral beauty of the Great Plains during the golden hours of dawn and dusk,” Gilbert said about the inspiration behind the look. “We wanted to create a windswept look with natural texture – like a girl in the plains was caught up in a windstorm and left with beautiful hair.”
Here’s how you can create the look:
1. Apply Aveda Phomollient Styling Foam to damp hair for weightless volume. Blow-dry while using hands to scrunch and twist the hair for texture.
2. Use your fingers to create a strong, slightly imperfect left side part for a natural look.
3. When hair is partially dry, take a two-inch piece from the front right side of the hair – at the hairline – and twist it so that it swoops loosely over the right eye. Secure with a bobby pin just above the right ear. Finish drying the hair, continuing to use fingers to add texture.
4. Release the pin from above the right ear and release the side swept hair. Add a generous amount of Aveda Phomollient Styling Foam for an ultra-textured, wavy look. Spray that piece liberally with Aveda Air Control Hair Spray for flexible hold and blow it dry.
5. Gather all hair on the right shoulder. Take a two-inch section from the hairline on the back, right side of the head and gently twist it while pulling it over to the right side of the head, at the ear.
6. Pull a two-inch section of the hair from the hairline in front of the right ear and twist with the section pulled from the back to create a small, two-to-three-inch herringbone braid. Secure with a clear elastic.
7. Tie the section of hair coming from the clear elastic into small knots, concealing the elastic and adding texture to the look.
8. Pull the ultra-textured section of hair from the front and drape it over the right eye. Tuck the ends of that front piece between the braid and the hair that is down and secure on the right side – at the ear- with a bobby pin.
9. Coat hair with Aveda Control Hair Spray for hold.
10. Add texture to the look by rubbing small sections of hair between the thumb and forefinger. Arrange all remaining hair to the right so that it falls over the right shoulder. Scrunch ends of hair with fingers for extra texture and finish with the look with a generous mist of Aveda Control Force Firm Hold Hair Spray.
Oh, and you might want to know that Kanye West was in the building at the show.
Of course, Anna Wintour was present. Side note: I’m extremely surprised that she posed for this photo considering the fact that she usually throw shade when asked to take a photo. Like, literally. She lives in those shades she wears. And is it me, or is the Wintour looking kind of old lady in this photo?!
What do you think of this hair look from the Rodarte show, Glamazons? Anyone want to try and emulate this look for themselves?
xo
Ferocia
