Korean hairstyles: how the trend has changed
Texture and movement
Lightness, movement, layers. This is exactly how you can describe Korean hairstyles, which are now at the peak of popularity among young people, and not only Korean ones. A lot has changed over a period of ten years. But the trends remain common for both craftsmen and clients around the world.
Thus, the prevailing trend in 2021 was the layer technique. The desire of clients is lightness, gradation, friability of hair in haircuts. It is with the help of this technique that masters can turn desires into reality.
If you go back a few years and look at trends from ten years ago, it will be hard to believe how quickly fashion changes.
Some seven years ago, the trend in Korean hairstyles included straight cuts, long curls, and straight thick bangs, which looked more like wigs made from natural hair than natural haircuts.
Torn ends in medium and short haircuts, as well as curled and smoothed ends in long hair, and always a lot of volume.
Long bobs and bobs were also in demand, especially among schoolboys and schoolgirls in Korea, but they were all sleek, sleek and often with the same straight or oblique asymmetrical bangs.
But since 2018-2019, texture and movement in hair have become stronger in the list of trends. This applies to haircuts, styling, and bangs.
Masters began to increasingly resort to layering techniques. Thanks to this technique, the client’s haircut will be convenient, unpretentious in everyday styling and will allow the shape to look neat even without styling. Here, the convenience for the client is the same as with textured bangs - when it is not possible to regularly visit the salon for haircut correction. In addition, the layers are suitable for clients whose individual proportions do not like heavy, massive lines.
So, instead of perfectly even, smooth, elongated bobs and bobs acquired lightness and a careless texture. The cascade and wolf cut have become trendy again in 2021. They wear well both with bangs (especially the sensational curtain) and without them. Very often, bangs can be the top layer of the haircut and the strands falling onto the face.
Cascading haircuts have always been popular in Korean fashion. Now they have become more crumbly, lighter, the ends are less thick and straight.
Bangs in Korean hairstyles have also changed greatly. Firstly, some types have gone out of fashion completely; much more often you can find haircuts and hairstyles without bangs. But if clients do choose bangs, they are textured, often asymmetrical, but in no case short. The first ones are much easier to style and care for, and they do not need such frequent correction.