Bangs, Lush Layers, Enchanted Crimps: These Are the Best Hair Trends of Fall 2026

If you’ve been flirting with bangs all summer, fall is the time to finally do it. Cooler, less humid weather makes fringe considerably easier to manage, particularly if you live somewhere where summer humidity can turn a carefully styled bang into an entirely different haircut by lunchtime. “Fall is the best time for giving bangs a try,” says Eric Marshall Wright, Stylist and Owner at Eric Marshall Salon, who notes that humidity can make them particularly fussy during the summer. “A fringe or bang can make you look styled and undone at the same time,” he says. “You can just style your bangs and pull your hair up to look chic.” This season, he recommends going fuller rather than wispy. Cloud bangs are a soft, featherlight, fringe that offers an airy update on traditional curtain bangs. Before making the cut, however, your stylist should take your hairline, cowlicks and any areas of recession into consideration, since bangs tend to have a mind of their own. For a softer finish, ask your stylist to point-cut the ends rather than creating one blunt line.

The ultra-polished blowout isn’t disappearing, but fall’s coolest layers look better when they’re slightly messed up. Think movement around the face with choppy lengths. To get the look, ask your stylist for disconnected or heavily textured layers, particularly around the face, and talk about how you actually wear your hair before they start cutting. The best version should work with your natural texture rather than requiring a completely new styling routine.

“From soft strawberry copper to rich, fiery auburn, copper is shaping up to be one of fall’s biggest color trends,” says celebrity hairstylist Alex Pardoe. “The warm, dimensional shade offers a fresh way to make a statement without committing to a full red.” You don’t have to emerge from the salon with Little Mermaid-red hair to participate. Strawberry tones can warm up blondes, while brunettes can lean into deeper auburn and cinnamon shades. The most modern versions have dimension rather than reading as one flat block of orange-red color. If you’re nervous about commitment, ask your colorist about adding copper through a gloss or strategically placed highlights first. It gives you warmth without immediately overhauling everything.

After seasons of bobs, shags and aggressively choppy cuts, longer, softer layers are making their way back in. Long layers offer movement and shape without sacrificing your length. To achieve the look, ask your stylist for long, blended layers with subtle face-framing pieces to give your hair body while keeping the perimeter looking full. And unlike a shag, which practically begs for texture, long layers work across straight, wavy and curly hair types.

Crimped texture is making another return, but it’s not quite the tiny, accordion-like crimps of your middle-school years. For the Christian Siriano NYFW SS ’27 show, TRESemmé Partner & Celebrity Stylist Lacy Redway created a crimped look inspired by folklore and modern fairy tales. Redway calls them “enchanted crimps,” and while the texture itself is uniform, the overall effect is more ethereal than the sharply defined crimps of decades past. If the look is too rigid for you, brush through the crimps to soften their definition and give the hair a fuller, slightly fuzzy texture while still preserving that distinctive rippled pattern.