The ‘Marquise Layers’ Haircut Will Frame Your Face Like No Other

It’s also a great choice if you want style and movement while keeping the length. “By having this layering, it’s really good for people who still like to feel the length of the hair from the front,” says Irwin. “When you take the hair into tje ‘90s Rachel layering, what tends to happen is the weight and the length is more towards the back of the hair. How the marquise is fantastic, is if you want to still feel the length around the front, it gives that look of really long hair,” she says.

How to create marquise layers?

An amazing haircut can do a lot of the hard work—but to coax out full-bodied, exaggerated marquise layers, styling is just as key.

Chop-wise, ask your hairstylist for long and medium-length layers softly scattered through hair (as Irwin mentioned, you don’t want anything too short and choppy).

As for styling, this is what really helps this hairstyle take off. “If you look at this image, it really is quite lifted throughout, so if your hair is quite heavy or lank, it definitely needs to have some body in it, so you’d need to blow-dry,” says Irwin.

Prep

Start with a good foundation. “I would definitely use a light leave-in spray conditioner and a volumizing spray spritzed directly onto the roots every three or four inches around the scalp,” says Irwin. She also recommends liberally spraying a volumizing lotion on the mid-lengths and ends.

Blow dry

“After rough-drying the hair to 80%, clip up the top section and start working on the underneath. You can get loads of fantastic round blow-dry brushes now from Babyliss and GHD. Or, if you’re using a brush and hair dryer, secure the nozzle attachment to the dryer and use a medium-to-large bristle brush. Glide it underneath the hair section. Lift the brush up as you’re working through and direct the dryer to the top of the brush so you’re smoothing the hair as you wrap it round,” says Irwin. “If you have curls or waves, you would be blow-drying it out sleeker. The natural movement in your hair would give you this bounce, so the blow dry is totally dependent on hair type,” she adds.