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Don't Look Now, These Old School '90s Hair Trends Are Back

Crimping irons at the ready! - by Arielle Tsoukatos
  • 06 Aug 2019
Don't Look Now, These Old School '90s Hair Trends Are Back

If there was one decade that knew how to have fun with beauty, it's definitely the '90s. Pixie crops, half-up updos pinned with a plethora of butterfly clips and pigtails were all donned on high rotation by it-girls Alicia Silverstone, Gwen Stefani and Winona Ryder. Suffice to say, these throwback hairdos are all about experimentation. 

While the '70s had the feathered shag; and the '80s had the frizzy perm; the '90s were all about the flippy lob. A haircut immortalised by the one and only Rachel Green aka Jennifer Aniston's Friends character. However, The Rachel isn't the only '90s-inspired hairstyle having a moment right now. 

Other '90s hair trends have made a full-fledged comeback - hair accessories, a prime example. So, grab your crimping iron and favourite scrunchie, because we're revisiting the best hairstyles of the '90s. In no particular order, we're looking back at our favourite hair looks from the decade.

The Boy Cut 

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

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Grunge cool-girl Winona Ryder brought androgynous cuts to the forefront - worn with a rotation of unstructured suits, slip dresses and boyfriend jeans. Keeping with the masculine trope, in 1997 Gwenyth Paltrow and Brad Pitt were not only engaged but they had matching haircuts. 

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Gwenyth Paltrow and Brad Pitt

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Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan at the premiere of 'French Kiss' in 1999

The Scrunchie 

Scrunchie

Courteney Cox's onscreen alter ego Monica Gellar, pictured, expertly nailing two '90s trends at once: the scrunchie and the half-up half-down style. Today, the cool-girl hair accessory has become a street style staple. 

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Scrunchie

Grunge 

No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani made the '90s double bun or mini buns hairstyle a red carpet hit. These days the quirky style has been sported by Cara Delevigne, Rita Ora and Kaia Gerber. 

Short hair? Drew Barrymore's daisy-adorned 'do is the perfect '90s style for you

Stefani

Gwen Stefani

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Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore

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Supermodel Tresses

The Big Six, as they were dubbed, were the queens of the '90s: Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington.

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Kate Moss

Kate Moss

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The Chicago-born model's bouncy waves and deep side-part are a natural wonder of their own. The trick to faking '90s supermodel-worthy hair? In one word: volume. The bigger the better. 

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford

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Face-Framing Tendrils 

This Clueless look is quintessentially '90s - it's basically a messy updo worn slightly loose with face-framing tendrils.

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone in "Clueless"

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Messy buns and topknot hairstyles are hot property right now, and if we're honest, we hope this very wearable trend sticks around. After all, a topknot is our go-to hairstyle when we're running all of those errands we've been avoiding, working out, or running late to the office. You can blame hair guru Jen Atkin, who recently gave her clients, Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin '90s tendrils on the red carpet, for bringing back the chin-grazing hair strands. 

Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles in "10 Things I Hate About You"

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The Rachel 

There are haircuts, there are classic haircuts, and then there's "The Rachel." The debut of 's iconic look on the set of Friends back in 1995 launched a thousand lookalikes in its wake, and the movement quickly caught on in Hollywood.

The Rachel
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Arielle is our Senior Digital Beauty & Lifestyle Editor. A few career highlights include; lunch with Kim Cattrall, interviewing Naomi Watts and swapping make-up tips with Margot Robbie on the red carpet. You can find her words on InStyle, marie claire and Women's Health.

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