The shag hairstyle is a boyish cut where you have short, layered hair. Most of the hair is layered at the crown of the head instead of below. As an option, you could add bangs to the cut that should be able to be pushed out of the face. The style should allow you to tuck your hair behind your ears and hold it in place with bobby pins. Today’s shag could be a variation with more layers towards the bottom of the cut or a longer length.
In recent years, the most prominent and noticed long hair hairstyle was that of Meg Ryan on IQ. Flirty shaggy short bobs were a variation that really motivated many of us youngsters waiting for our stylists with a picture of her, lining up for a similar look. Although it may look really sleek and modern, you need a stylist with ‘cut magic and an eye for style’ to get the look just right. He must know exactly where to layer your hair depending on your face and features; where to dilute thick hair and give volume to fine hair. A long hair hairstyle is the most versatile haircut that gives you the option to style it in two or three different ways! You can add bangs on one side, on both sides, keep it long or short, keep it messy, styled or carefree and the best thing is that you can manage it at home without the need to buy all the styling products on the market.
Paul McGregor had invented the Shag hairstyle and gave it to Jane Fonda in the movie Klute. Farrah Fawcett wore it on the famous TV show Charlie’s Angels and it became something of a phenomenon. Shag is the classic hairstyle of the 70s and is considered one of the ‘coolest’ as it was worn by the heartbeats of that era. David Bowie, Rod Stewart, everyone who was anybody had the shag hairstyle. During the ’80s, heavy metal rock bands used adaptations of the long hair hairstyle. The long hair hairstyle was the latest unisex style and was enthusiastically worn by both men and women.
Another theory suggests that by the 1960s men had begun wearing their hair long after the styling process introduced in the 1920s by African-Americans. In the 1970s, when hairstyles were changing and the process style was fading, men were used to wearing their hair long. So, back in the ’80s, they would grow their hair on the back of their heads and keep it shorter on top. This was the first form of the long hair hairstyle worn by men which was soon adapted to various styles.
The 1970s was an era of youth, the end of the Vietnam war added to which is the turning point for them. Platform shoes, disco dancing and the Beegees; this new youth was perhaps the reason for the appearance of this carefree, youthful and messy hairstyle – the Shag hairstyle.