While the amazing Ms. Klum rarely flubs, here she missed the mark. This sixties-inspired updo is so over-worked and glazed into place, it looks like a petrified bale of hay. It's downright intimidating. If your hairstyle can be used to break open walnuts, you've gone too far.See more Heidi Klum hairstyles.
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The Best: Scarlett Johansson
Here Scarlett Johansson demonstrates exactly how to hint at an era with a style. There's just enough teasing at the crown to suggest the early seventies. Any more would have been too much. The look is intensely stylish without trying too hard. See more Scarlett Johansson hairstyles.
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The Worst: Scarlett Johansson
Know what makes a given retro style beautiful. Forties-inspired head-hugging waves, a la Veronica Lake, are a showcase for shiny healthy locks. If your hair is limp with damage, and needing a color touch up, as seen here, those flaws undo the glamour of your 'do without mercy. See more Scarlett Johansson hairstyles.
Recently, celebrities are drawing inspiration from many eras including the turn of the century, the twenties, forties, sixties and seventies. While a retro hairstyle can be a refreshing change now and then, it presents pitfalls that even stars need to avoid.
