Hair trends that define San Francisco
In a city where almost 36 percent of the population was born outside the United States and where the Ethnic diversity , cultural or religious can be seen with the naked eye, it is clear that there is no single beauty stereotype . These trends are becoming more and more fashionable among San Franciscans:
WHITE HAIR
No matter the age or profession . Yes, there is still a part of the women in this city who choose to dye their hair to hide gray hair, but there is a growing trend of early adopters who has preferred to challenge the canons of beauty and opt for natural hair . Not everything goes in the kingdom of white hair and it is essential to note that those shy or not so shy gray hairs, which even thirty-year-olds wear, are intentional and not an oversight.
Gray hair is best worn with a haircut hair care, no split ends, and clothing according to the trend brand. Nothing like combining white hair with a straight but blunt medium length of hair and some vintage eighties clothing, go.
You won't be judged for not wanting to dye your hair and you'll never be asked if you want to at hair salons like **Marquee Salon** in **Oakland** hipster enclave, Temescal. In fact, at Marquee, even some of the hairdressers have gray hair.
PLUCK?
Going by subway and being surprised by a bush of hair in a female armpit or shorts that reveal unshaven legs has stopped happening in this city. And it is that these capillary manifestations they are no longer any surprise or novelty . Waxing if you are a woman is no longer mandatory for become optional.
The thing about hairy legs a couple of years ago has crept into our Facebook news feeds thanks to articles like this one or spaces like this one. When those women who have decided to opt for natural legs sit next to you on the subway, everything becomes much more real and possible.
NATURAL CURLS
For years the yoke of perfectly straight hair has weighed on our manes, with accessories such as the dryer or straightener and even treatments such as Japanese or keratin straightening. But we are not surprised that a city that practices the cult of healthy food and does activism to find inner peace and the personal assessment has ended up advocating for: accept yourself, and your hair, just the way you are. Also if yours are curls.
San Francisco has also joined that movement embraced by many women of African descent around the world who are transitioning their hair from chemical straightening to natural curls.
ModuSalon in Lower Haight It is one of the reference hairdressers in the city if curly or wavy hair is your thing. And where are they going to respect your type of natural curl
The natural curl
CONTRASTS ARE TAKEN
Yes, we have told you that dyeing your hair is not the most popular thing in this city. But only if you choose to dye your hair brown, dark, red or blonde. If you go for a slightly more extreme and perfectly artificial hair color, such as fuchsia, blue, purple or even gray, things are already different. Let them dye you Purple Ombre or Cotton Candy Pink in Bubble Pop Electric Salon .
Dare with color
If the cotton candy pink thing seems extreme to you, perhaps if we tell you that you can choose to wear long hair, while shaving a part of your head, you will find it even more excessive. It is a perfectly acceptable option for them and them. A look, practically taken from the series Peaky Blinders , what in People's Barber & Shop they practice regularly.
BEARDS AND LOTS OF FACIAL HAIR, CLEAR
With November and his always well-intentioned Movember in full swing, you will see more men than usual growing mustaches in the city. Although mustaches and, above all, beards continue to give barbers a lot of work all year round, Fellow Barber in Mission, JP Kempt in the Lower Haight or those of Temescal Alley Barber Shop in Oakland.
If the hipster of Brooklyn and San Francisco have managed to implant beards as a standard of beauty and masculine modernity in every city that wants to claim to be gafapastismo ...maybe soon we will see some other of the San Franciscan hair trends in the metro of Valencia or Parlament street in Barcelona.
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Beards and lots of facial hair, ALWAYS