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IOL News
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
The 2000s side fringe: your new (old) favourite hairstyle has returned
Alongside skinny jeans, the side fringe tide has slowly made it's return. Image: Instagram/voguebeauty It's official. The side fringe is no longer just a memory from your 2007 Facebook album. In 2025, she's making a quiet but confident comeback, and fashion insiders are taking notes. Forget what TikTok said about centre parts being the only way to look modern. The side fringe is back in rotation, and it's being embraced for its soft edges, versatility and grown-up appeal. For the past few years, middle parts dominated runways, red carpets and every second post on your feed. Gen Z called the side part outdated, even tragic. But now, that narrative's shifting. "Vogue" recently highlighted the return of sweeping side fringes in its trend roundup, pointing to a rise in more romantic, feminine cuts that frame the face and soften features. The side fringe works because it flatters. It adds movement, gives structure to rounder faces, and instantly creates that effortless 'I woke up looking like this' energy. Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" era gave us not only bangers like 'Umbrella' but also the ultimate side fringe moment. Paired with her asymmetrical bob, her fringe was razor-sharp and moody and was the haircut of 2007. During his "High School Musical" days, Zac Efron's floppy, side-parted fringe made tween hearts flutter and hair straighteners work overtime. Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" era gave us not only bangers like 'Umbrella' but also the ultimate side fringe moment. Image: X/@ririoncharts This version is all about effortlessness. No more plastering your fringe down with a round brush and half a bottle of hairspray. This time, it's loose, layered and low-maintenance. Perfect for grown-up glam that doesn't scream for attention but still turns heads. According to hairstylist Dale Herne, it's all about avoiding that stiff, static look. Speaking to "Vogue", Herne says, 'The reason why that works best is because it creates a lot of volume on the side parting, which makes it look more modern and less flat." "There's nothing worse than cutting a side fringe from a side parting, it sits too static and dead." As for how to style it without looking stuck in the past, keep things light and breezy. It helps to blow-dry your fringe in both directions to get that volume going. Avoid drying it in your actual parting if you want movement instead of flatness. Run your fingers through the fringe to settle it naturally to one side. To finish it off, a bit of styling cream helps keep the fluff away, while a light spray will hold the shape without making it stiff. The side fringe isn't just back. She's evolved. And unlike in 2007, she knows how to behave. Video Player is loading. 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It helps to blow-dry your fringe in both directions to get that volume going. Avoid drying it in your actual parting if you want movement instead of flatness. Run your fingers through the fringe to settle it naturally to one side. To finish it off, a bit of styling cream helps keep the fluff away, while a light spray will hold the shape without making it stiff. The side fringe isn't just back. She's evolved. And unlike in 2007, she knows how to behave.
Forbes
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Rihanna Pushes Two Albums Back To The Same Chart — And Right Next To One Another
Nearly a decade after her last album, Rihanna sees Anti and Good Girl Gone Bad return to the same ... More chart together, and next to one another. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 18: Rihanna attends the FENTY x PUMA Sneaker Launch Party at NeueHouse Los Angeles on December 18, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by) Rihanna hasn't released a new full-length album in more than eight years – this is one of the most-talked-about topics in pop music – and yet she continues to be found regularly on the Billboard charts. Fans have been eagerly awaiting a follow-up to Anti for nearly a decade, and while the singer has dropped hints and made promises, a new project still hasn't materialized, and likely won't for some time. The superstar keeps a pair of projects on the charts this time around. Anti and Good Girl Gone Bad are both still present, and the similarities between their placements are uncanny, which points to fans consuming them in similar ways and numbers. Two Rihanna Albums Return to the Same Chart Both of Rihanna's studio efforts this week find a home once more on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Anti, her most recent full-length, is back on the tally at No. 48. Not far behind that set comes Good Girl Gone Bad, which returns at No. 50. Rihanna's Albums Climb Side-by-Side As was the case last week, Anti and Good Girl Gone Bad are sitting next to one another on the Top R&B Albums chart. Both projects make modest gains on the genre-specific tally, inching up by just one space each. Anti advances to No. 14, while just beneath it is Good Girl Gone Bad, now at No. 15. Rihanna Slips Slightly on the Billboard 200 The similarities continue over on the Billboard 200, where both Anti and Good Girl Gone Bad also settle this frame. While they don't move together in perfect lockstep, the trajectory is the same. Anti drops two spaces to No. 142, while Good Girl Gone Bad falls five rungs to No. 146. Anti Has Hit No. 1 on All Three Charts — Good Girl Gone Bad Hasn't Of the two Rihanna albums currently charting, Anti is the bigger commercial and critical success. It has reached No. 1 on all three of the charts it currently appears on — the Billboard 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top R&B Albums rankings. Good Girl Gone Bad, despite standing out as a defining moment in her discography, hasn't managed to conquer any of those same lists. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, rose as high as No. 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally, and stalled at No. 4 on the Top R&B Albums roster.
