Her long brown hair and her signature bangs attract all desires: Dakota Johnson owes the beauty of her hair to the American hairdresser Mark Townsend (who counts among his clients Gwyneth Paltrow, Gal Gadot or even the twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to name a few than they.)
The one who's styled the actress for nearly a decade (they met when Dakota was filming the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey") is constantly striving to strike a balance between red carpet glamor and natural allure. “My challenge is always to make [her hair] not look too clean. I want it to feel like it's the second day after washing,” says Mark Townsend in an interview for the US edition of Vogue magazine.
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The result must always be “pleasant to the touch and never overdone, simply vigorous and fresh”. The lengths should move naturally rather than being impeccably stiff and immutable. “You never want your hair to look like TV presenters, where everything is in place. If there's a breeze, I want the hair to move with it!" says the specialist.
The secret of a "perfect" curtain fringe
The face of the Gucci Bloom perfume has been sporting one of the most coveted hair trends for some time: “Dakota wears a classic curtain fringe that extends on the sides. It starts from the base of his nose to the top of the cheekbone on the sides,” describes Mark Townsend. Her trick for gradually retouching it and giving it a blended effect that gently frames the face? “I always use thinning scissors to cut the bottom of the bangs a quarter-inch (approximately 0.60 centimeters, Ed.).”
As for the length, the hairdresser always sticks to the same benchmark: "The real secret of perfect bangs is to cut [the] right in the middle, at the base of the nose (...): the magic point is between eyebrows and eyelashes," he says.
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Volume-effect drying
Then, on to the hairstyle. The expert likes to give movement and volume to the cut with a particular drying technique: “Your bangs must be very damp at the start. Dakota has a very prominent forehead strand, so I place the hair dryer directly on her bangs and point it down, using only my fingers at first and stroking the roots a bit. If you use a brush right away, you will make the bangs too flat,” warns Mark Townsend, who therefore advises drying them to about 90%, before using a brush with boar bristle bristles to smooth them.
“After that, I take a round brush vertically and blow dry the sides away from the face to make them stand out. This unfolds them and creates the “curtain” effect.”
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Finally, in the case of oily hair, the specialist recommends the use of dry shampoo in order to avoid the filamentous effect, citing more precisely the Doo.Over dry finishing spray from the Kevin Murphy brand: "It's my favorite product , it's a powder-based setting spray. It's really all you put on your bangs,” he says.
