Everything Dua Lipa does looks cool. It's just a scientific fact at this point. Don't ask us why or how, we're not scientists – and her latest look is no exception. The singer wore her enviable raven lengths in an undone water wave style for her latest fashion campaign for Puma. Created by hair stylist Rio Sreedharan, it's somehow elegant, effortless, and cool all in one.
Combining the style with the length of her dark tresses (are they reaching her wrist or are we seeing things) she looks like an ethereal fairytale creature; like Liv Tyler's noble-but-sexy elf character in Lord of the Rings.
The trick with a water wave is to look like your hair has air-dried after your dip in the sea, the pool, or in Dua's case, the magical pixie pond in the woodland clearing. But as non-magical ponds are unlikely to have this result on mere mortals' hair, unless very blessed, we have to turn to trusty tools to create the fairytale.
If you want to take a crack at the style for party season and beyond we've tested out some of the best of the best curling tongs – covering 14 different shaped barrels, the look they create, and how to use them.
For Dua's undone water wave, we recommend a tool like the ghd Curve Soft Curl Tong, the clue is in the name. Plus it's currently reduced by over $50.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism.
Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
