As the pioneer of the curly hair industry, Ouidad has created more than just terminology to describe interesting silhouettes. In addition to a product and tool line, she has designed several cutting and styling methods to maximize and beautify curls and waves. The “Carve and Slice” method has been trademarked and the “Rake and Shake” is also one of her signature styling methods.
Maggie Mulhern・Beauty and Fashion Director, MODERN SALON
Ouidad, salon owner and curly hair expert, and her assistant
Ayanna Augustine-John, carefully examined model Monica's hair
and declared it a "visor." Intrigued, we had to know more.
"Oh, we have all kinds of names for curly shapes," said Ouidad. "The ‘visor'
is a full look with bangs. There's also ‘ear muffs' where the hair is cut blunt
around the face causing the hair to lift around the ears; ‘mop head' where the
hair is texturized all over and it just expands; ‘lamp shade' where the hair is
cut to frame the face and the curls lift; and of course, there is ‘poodle head'
where the curls are cut short, causing a perfect round shape."
As the pioneer of the curly hair industry, Ouidad has created more than
just terminology to describe interesting silhouettes. In addition to a product
and tool line, she has designed several cutting and styling methods to
maximize and beautify curls and waves. The "Carve and Slice" method has
been trademarked and the "Rake and Shake" is also one of her signature
styling methods.
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Curly hair expert Ouidad (right) poses with our cover model and assistant Ayanna Augustine-John (left).
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Ouidad's shoot resulted in two gorgeous looks. We couldn't decide which one we liked best, so we used them both!
Because of her expertise, we asked Ouidad to shoot the cover of our special
Texture supplement (click here to read it) this month. The looks she created
were so beautiful, we decided to put one on the cover of MODERN, too!
As the texture category continues to grow, MODERN, with our partner
NaturallyCurly.com and CurlStylist.com, will keep bringing you special
supplements and online content on the category. Keratin treatments, new
perm services, special tools and products and hot trends are dominating
the texture market right now.
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