Just barely over five feet tall, Vanessa Hudgens isn’t exactly in the typical height range for supermodels. But that doesn’t mean she can’t borrow from (and stun with) one of their most famous go-to hairstyles of the early ’90s—and it adds a couple of inches to her height to boot.
At the HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles on Thursday night, Hudgens stepped onto the red carpet looking as though she’d jumped out of a 1992 Revlon ad. (Look it up, kids.) It’s impossible not to enviously home in on her voluminous hair and reflexively envision the bouncy, built-to-last, gravity-defying styles that were so ubiquitous some 35 years ago. Her long, glossy hair was swept dramatically over to one side, with lots of lift at the roots and big, soft waves cascading down to her ribs.
It has all the hallmarks of the bombshell blowouts that were so closely associated with the likes of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer. It may not be quite as gigantic as some of their (literally) biggest supermodel moments of the era, but the reference is unmistakable and so well-executed.
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But it’s not just Hudgens’s hair that gives the look a nostalgic quality. Her eyes are fully lined, just like I was taught to do when I first started wearing eyeliner in the ‘90s. (It was a time.) And is there anything more ’90s than a slip dress? Her satin, contrast-trim L’Agence pick keeps it simple yet glamorous.
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