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8 Popular (And Easy!) Hair Trends On TikTok To Try Right Now

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8 Popular (And Easy!) Hair Trends On TikTok To Try Right Now

I mean, my mom still has her hair rollers in the bathroom

by Lin Tan  /   November 1, 2022
8 Popular Hair Trends on TikTok – '90s Butterfly Clips and Japanese Hair Chopsticks are Back

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In fashion, there’s a popular saying that “fashions come round every 30 years”. Well, it couldn’t be more true.

Some time in the 2010s, leggings were all the rage. Turn the clock 30 years back, and you’ve got Jane Fonda’s aerobics phase in the 1980s. Today, we see the return of ’90s satin slip dresses, flared pants, and cowl neck looks. And of course, with the return of ’90s fashion… comes ’90s hairstyles.

The younglings on TikTok have caught wind of the best ’90s hairstyle trends – and they’re bringing them back.

From the Wolf Cut, claw clips, Japanese Hair Chopsticks, No Shampoo week, to hair rollers, here are eight ’90s hair trends that are making a comeback:

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8 Popular (And Easy!) Hair Trends On TikTok To Try Right Now
Wolf Cut
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One of the most popular haircuts amongst the tweens and teens these days is the “Wolf Cut”. This shaggy mid-length hairstyle was thought to have originated from South Korea.

Nonetheless, it’s giving us a long feathered bangs vibe, or a grown-out pixie cut look.

Kids on TikTok love cashing in on this trend – only because this feathered long bangs look is reportedly achievable with a pair of kitchen scissors. Flip your hair forward, tie it up in front of your nose, and do a blunt cut across the ends of the little ponytail. Apparently that will give you a shaggy set of bangs.

Worth trying? Maybe. It seems to offer up a stylish layered look – but I worry the cut isn’t THAT idiot proof…

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Claw Clips
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Beautiful butterfly clips are back with a vengeance this season. For some reason, the tweens and teens of TikTok are loving the massive “aunty” butterfly clips.

There are several variants ongoing – a basic and generic clip-all-your-hair-in ‘do, a messy and shaggy tired housewife version, and a pristine and atas SQ-girl curry puff iteration.

The claw clips (as this generation calls) it that these younger girls have are way nicer than the acrylic versions that the ’90s aunties used to have. These days, claw clips come in rose gold tone, pearls, and minimalist wire and silver tones at a nifty $1 to $3.

Worth trying? Yes. At the end of the day who doesn’t need a kiap kiap?

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Japanese Hair Chopsticks
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The greatest ’90s hair trend of all time – the Japanese chopstick hair bun is back.

As the TikTok generation discover that they can secure their hair creatively without rubber bands, they’ve also intuitively realised that the Japanese chopstick hairstyle looks best with “feelers” fringe.

However, it seems like they’ve yet to discover the pencil hair. We’ll wait for you guys to come around, Gen Zs, but we’ll be passing on this trend because no matter how you do it, no one can take you seriously with a chopstick in your hair.

Worth trying? No. Also maybe a little racist? Not for us.

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Scalp Oil Routines
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This is a really nostalgic one that most ’80s and ’90s kids with overzealous Asian mothers might hate – hair and scalp oiling.

The kids are now obsessed with oiling their scalps and hair in hopes of having thicker and more voluminous tresses – sounds just like my tiger mum!

In the past, we used the plain old olive oil or the Wella cream. These days, the Gen Zs with deeper pockets are using pricey jojoba, and argan oils.

There’s also much talk about finding the right type of oil for your hair’s “porosity.” Hair with higher porosity can reportedly retain more moisture, and vice versa. On websites, it’s recommended that:

Low Porosity: Jojoba oil, Shea butter, Coconut oil
High Porosity: Extra virgin olive oil, Palm oil, Avocado oil

Worth trying? Maybe… it’ll be pretty messy. And I don’t want to fall in the shower lest my old back hurts again.

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No Shampoo Week
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Some time in the ’90s, the general public was awakening to the harmful effects of sodium laurel sulfate (SLS) in shampoos and soaps alike – particularly how it was excessively stripping the natural oils from the skin. In 1995, the first free-from-SLS shampoo was invented as well.

The No Shampoo trend came about slightly later, as participants of the trend wanted to go au naturale and allow their bodies to recalibrate and reset its natural, healthy oil production for the scalp and hair.

Worth trying? No, not if you have three kids to bus around, go to the office, walk in the scorching sun for lunch, and perspire all over.

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Hair Rollers
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This one might make your mamas laugh!

In the hyper-technology world that we live in, the Gen Zs are discovering manual ways to get things done. These teenagers and young adults who grew up with the Dyson are now finding hairstyling more novel with the trusty old plastic hair rollers.

On TikTok, it seems like these younglings have discovered all variants of the hair rollers – the impossibly painful and tangling velcro ones, the metal clip ones, and the plain old plastic versions.

Worth trying? Yes – who didn’t want to try their mum’s rollers as kids? Now you can.

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Mermaid Hair
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Towards the end of 1999 into the 2000s was the crimped hair era.

The TikTok generation has discovered the cheap three barrel hair crimp, and the beautiful, voluminous waves it creates. It’s a beautiful Elizabeth and Ashely Olsen look, we don’t deny. Go ahead, we stan this!

Worth trying? Yes! Beautiful, fast, effective, instant volume!

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Hair Tinsel
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Hello? It’s Hannah Montana calling.

Hair tinsels are back, and the younglings amongst us are learning the fine skill of tying each sparkly strand of tinsel foil to individual strands of hair. Well, at least they still can do it while their hands are small and nimble!

Worth trying? No, unless your HR is particularly open-minded.

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