What I didn’t recognize, a truth of which an eagle-eyed fan on Reddit so dutifully sharp out, was exactly how that last appearance was the critical work of the movie’s hair division.
If you look carefully at the zoomed-in image of a 1980s Poise publication in an earlier scene, you’ll see the woman on the cover (next to that timeless coverline, «30, Flirty, Thriving») using the near-exact hairdo. Observe:
While there are a couple of essential differences (the drape bangs, most primarily), the similarities in style are jarring. Even more than that, it’s hugely relatable. Not just because it was a titular hairdo I as well attempted to re-create in the very early aughts, however it additionally takes me back to those simpler, pre-YouTube times when the only method to discover a new hairstyle was to adhere to a step-by-step picture tutorial in the web pages of a publication— when I really felt simply a smidge more youthful and a bit much more seen. And for that little pointer, I am for life happy.
As someone who also took pleasure in the informal slumber party task that is dancing in pink knit jammies to Pat Benatar’s «Love Is a Battlefield» and dreamed of landing a publication task growing up, I really felt an instant kinship to the 2004 rom-com 13 Going on 30.
Throughout the last 16 years, I should have watched it somewhere in the ball park of 982,392 times— just about awaiting the day I too would be 30, flirty, as well as prospering— and also still, I never discovered one strange detail about Jenna Rink (played by Jennifer Garner)’s hairdo in the flick.
For the unaware, allow me very first state that you need to obtain initiated by enjoying this movie. It delivers a blast from the past, in even more ways than one. Anyhow, for the uninitiated, Rink makes a desire on her 13th birthday in 1987 as well as gets up to her life 17 years later.
As her grown-up self, she’s seen putting on a plethora of hairdos that are greater than suitable for her more youthful self— you’ve got chopsticks, the flipped-under ends, as well as, of course, the high braid with loosened strands of hair poking out and carefully put butterfly clips.