Feature - Hair Trends at 2011 Grammy / Brit Awards

Text / Images by Jamie Harrison // Published Friday 18 February 2011

It’s been a great week for music lovers with the Grammy Awards and the Brit Awards both celebrating the best acts of 2011. Of course, the team at MyHairDressers.com was in front of the TV checking out the hair. We’ve picked out some of our favourites from the red carpets and you can follow our tutorials to give you the inspiration to achieve them.

The 2011 Grammys showed a definite trend for longer, looser hair. There were fewer up-dos than previous years, with the likes of Ciara, Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Lopez donning hair extensions to achieve the length. Get the look from Michelle Thompson’s and Callam Warrington’s tutorials: 

//Vertical Weave Part 1  
//Vertical Weave Part 2 
//Clip on Weft Application 
//Classic Weft

Next week’s release from Aveda’s Bastian Casaretto is right on trend as his beautifully textured shape is spookily close to Kim Kardashian's glamourous textured tresses: 

//Long Layer Variation

Florence Welch and Rihanna were doing their bit for red hair, but we preferred the shocking orange of Paramore’s Hayley Williams’ rock’n’roll statement. It reminded us of Tracy Hayes’ colour choice for Stacey Broughton’s Graduated Step Bob:   

//Triangle Colour Section

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Brits celebrated the best of the UK music scene and we were particularly struck by Jesse J’s sharp bob. The techniques needed to achieve the look have all been laid out for of course by Stacey Broughton:    

//One Length Bob 
//The Metta 

Finally Ellie Goulding’s sweepy fringe is continuing to inspire millions of teenagers around the world, and Lee Stafford’s tutorial shows you how to do it: 

//The Grand