Jonathan Van Ness on the Y2K Hair Trend They Wish Hadn’t Come Back

Jonathan Van Ness is all about making individuals glimpse and sense their ideal on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” but that doesn’t imply they don’t have some thoughts about the most up-to-date hair tendencies that are getting about — specially one of the throwback types from the ’90s and 2000s.

“I don’t forget my mom remaining like, ‘I are unable to consider you young children wear the very same matters that we did in the ’70s,'” Van Ness tells POPSUGAR. “At that time, I was like, ‘No, Mother, this is way cooler than what you did.'” Even so, now at 36, he notice that all trends — no matter whether vogue, hair, or makeup — are cyclical.

Common Y2K hairstyles that are obtaining a resurgence proper now include anything from dollars-piece and chunky highlights to “The Rachel” haircut and claw clips. “Generally, when it circles back again, it just has one particular tiny variation or a tweak or just a a bit different POV,” says Van Ness.

The craze which is stunned them the most has been chunky, boldly placed color. “Kind of like Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Breakaway’ 2003, purple, white, and black, piano vital chunky highlights,” Van Ness claims. “I was not genuinely residing for that to arrive back, but also, regardless of what.” They blame it on their decades of working in a salon in the style’s heyday. “When you happen to be powering the chair and you’re just repairing people’s piano-chunk highlights 24/7, you might be just like, ‘I wish y’all would just not.'”

That claimed, if it is really your want, they’re going to offer their unwavering assistance however. “At the time it appears to be like excellent, cannot we just, like, remain in that community of stunning?” they recall emotion about carrying out shade corrections. “But sometimes men and women wanna truly do massive adjustments and that’s entertaining, as well.”

If everyone receives the charm of seeking some thing major and daring that would not conclusion up panning out just the way you want it, it really is Van Ness. “I have so a lot of yikes times,” they say. The initial memory that comes to thoughts all started out with a crazy hair day at faculty when they have been 15. Just after styling their hair into a bunch of very small ponytails and coating each individual one in a diverse color glitter gel, they ended up impressed to make the seem a bit much more long-lasting.

“I just started off saving absent quarters from my stepdad’s quarter jar, and it took me a few decades but I saved up ample revenue to get my hair highlighted at a MasterCuts.” Working with that insane-hair-working day look as the reference, he questioned the hair colorist to dye his ponytails distinct shades of orange and red. “And so my inspo was ketchup and mustard,” Van Ness claims. “I just was like, ‘It’s gonna be astounding.'”

To say their stepdad was stunned when they arrived dwelling is an understatement. As if the bold coloration wasn’t plenty of to truly place the glimpse about the prime, Van Ness also wore it in what they connect with a “fashion mullet” by slicking the front of their hair down in a side aspect paired with curls at the back of the head. “Sleek gel in the front, occasion curls in the back,” they say. When they grew fatigued of that ketchup-mustard combo, they dyed their hair black and white in a comparable trend. “That manufactured my hair crack off for the reason that attempting to bleach the golden-mustard color up to white . . . My minor fragile curls, they mentioned no.”

Immediately after that, the only solution was to slash their hair tremendous brief, and the sections to survive were being the areas dyed black. “I was supplying you contrast.”