Kim Kardashian Wore Her Hair in a Wavy Ponytail at the 2018 CFDA Awards
Kim Kardashian typically keeps her hair sleek and straight, either down or in an Ariana-adjacent ponytail, but on Monday night, she showed up to the 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards wearing — gasp — waves. And not just any waves: these were seriously dense waves that are apparently just her natural hair texture, but enhanced.
According to a press release, the uncharacteristic hairdo was the brainchild of Color Wow Global Creative Director Chris Appleton. To achieve the look, he first prepped Kardashian's hair with Color Wow Brass Banned Correct & Perfect Mousse for Dark Hair for texture and definition, which he further added by blowing the hair with a diffuser. After that, he applied the Color Wow Pop & Lock Gloss Treatment to make things shiny.
The final steps involve a $200 curling iron and a hair band or ponytail holder. The curling iron in question is the ghd Curve Classic Curl Iron, which Appleton used to curl random sections of hair for even more defined waves. To complete the look, according to the press release, he pulled Kardashian's hair into a high pony, softening the look by pulling out the edges and wrapping hair around the ponytail's base.
Kardashian apparently chose the perfect night to switch things up, because she later won the CFDA's first-ever Influencer Award. "I'm kind of shocked that I'm winning a fashion award when I'm naked most of the time," she joked during her acceptance speech. In the speech, she also reminisced about an ex-publicist who told her she'd never land the cover of a fashion magazine and how she got revenge by sending her an autographed copy of her Vogue cover.
According to Glamour, she was presented with the award by Busy Philipps, who recognized how Kardashian has turned being social media famous into the "ultimate symbol of female empowerment." "You are the influencer's influencer," Philipps said in the speech, according to Glamour. "Your impact on how women dress and what they want to look like has had real cultural significance." Guess we'll be seeing a lot of wavy ponytails very soon.
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