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Chic, sexy, elegant: the classic bob is back as the haircut of the summer


Jessica Biel and Zendaya herald a new era for the shorter look that often symbolises a new beginning

“People do associate femininity with longer hair but I think the bob looks so chic, sexy and elegant,” says Mollie Burdell, the contributing beauty editor for website Who What Wear. Halima Jibril, junior writer at Dazed, has written about the “fuck ass bob” and explains what the term means online: “She’s a powerful lady, a little bit kooky. Jabril compares the term to “brat”, the title of Charli XCX’s album that became shorthand online for no-holds-barred abandon before it was taken up by Kamala Harris last week.

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