I Got The Curve Cut — & It’s The ’90s Hair Trend I Didn’t Know I Missed

There are countless things I miss about the ’90s: magazine quizzes (“Which celebrity would be your best friend?”), talking for hours on a landline phone (it just hit different), and that owning inflatable furniture was considered acceptable, not questionable. One thing I didn’t expect to feel nostalgic about, though, is the hair. That’s because most of the ’90s styles that spring to mind are chunky highlights, which only a select few can pull off perfectly, or crimped hair — not to be confused with its modern, far more wearable counterpart, mermaid waves. Let’s not even talk about how fried our hair was. But over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a recurring trend in the coolest salons everywhere from Los Angeles to London, and it’s all about the layers. Lots of them. And there’s a snappy new name: the curve cut. What is a curve cut? I first came across the curve cut in 2023 through Tyler Moore, expert stylist at Live True sa