Based on Jennifer Lopez’s latest swept-up hairstyle, a little unravelling can look incredibly chic, which honestly, is welcome news for cack-handed hair girls like me. Updos are my beauty Achilles heel. I can create a casual topknot with a hair elastic, but if you ask me to do anything with pins or some semblance of smoothness, I implode and it falls apart almost immediately.
For clarity, when I say JLo’s hair was unravelling, I don’t mean her updo was intentionally messy like the bun she wore to the Met Gala. Everything about the look she wore to the premiere of Atlas, her new Netflix sci-fi movie, was sleek from head to toe — especially her head.
Jennifer arrived at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre ready to pose in a two-piece, strapless, black-and-white ensemble by designer Greta Constantine. Her neck and ears were decked out in gems that, thankfully, her updo allowed to be seen in all their sparkling glory.
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But the updo wasn’t just staying out of the way — it was one of the highlights of her look. From the front, and even from one side, it looked like a classic wrap-around bun with a super-smooth base. But from the other side and back, it becomes apparent that it’s a creative, sculptural masterpiece.
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