Most Beautiful Curly Hairstyles 2021

Short hair with curls

A short hairstyle works particularly well with curly hair, because you don’t have to worry about styling here. The good thing about this look: Whether boyish or feminine – this curly hairstyle is changeable!

Street style picture of woman with short hair and curly hair in New York

Curl with a perm

This curly hairstyle brings back memories of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman or Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City. Now the perm is celebrating its revival – albeit in a more natural version – gently curled instead of small curls!

Singer Pixie Lott at Paris Fashion Week 2018

A popular curly hairstyle is the volume wave

Volume waves are an alternative to permanent waves that are just as popular. It gives especially thin hair more fullness. Large curlers are used for this technique, which create a voluminous wave. Depending on how much the curls are combed out, they start at the roots or only in the lengths. By the way, you can find more hairstyles for fine hair here.

Masha Sedwig with hair curled to volume

Afro curls

Anyone who is blessed with a natural friz can put their hair in the limelight with a medium-length cut. Like Julia Dalia, who enchants with her fantastically well-groomed Afro locks!

Julia Dahlia with Afro curls

Natural beach waves

Curls as if they were only cared for with sun and salt water – this is exactly what beach waves should look like. The look has been extremely popular for a number of years and is not losing its popularity. Actress Blake Lively is a huge advocate of this curly hairstyle.

Blake Lively hit the streets of Manhattan with Beach Waves in January 2020

Wild curls

Wild, voluminous and untamed: curly hair worn openly gives its wearer that carefree casualness that so many women long for. With bangs and light layers, the look becomes even wilder.

Wild curls

Curls with an ombré effect

Soft curls meet the trendy ombré look: With Veronika Heilbrunner, the look looks wonderfully effortless and yet well-groomed. We love this look.

Veronika Heilbrunner with curls with an ombré effect

Curls worn open

Natural curls simply look best when worn openly – the French model Pauline Hoarau proves this with her cheeky curly hairstyle. By the way, curls are one of the big topics in trend hairstyles.

Model Pauline Hoarau with curly hairstyle

Creped hair

Creped hair was a huge trend in the 80s, now it’s coming back. Lo and behold: it can look really stunning, as this model proves at Paris Fashion Week!

Creped hair | © Getty Images

Hairstyles with curls

If you really want a hairstyle with curls, but have not been blessed with a curly mane by Mother Nature, you can help with a perm.

Imaan Hammam and Cindy Bruna

Ponytail with curls

If you have curls, you don’t have to do without elegant hairstyles: Model Shanina Shaik wore a sleek ponytail at an Oscar party.

Ponytail with curls

Braided curly hairstyle

Curly hair can be braided wonderfully because the hair is more grippy. The singer Tori Kelly opted for a mix of braided hairstyle and wild mane.

Braided curly hairstyle

Wedding hairstyle with curls

Gorgeous wedding hairstyle with a spectacular headdress. If you have such great natural curls, you shouldn’t hide them!

Wedding hairstyle with curls

Curly braid

Whether for a wedding or a date – this curly braid is an absolute eye-catcher! If you are not gifted with curls, you can easily make them yourself.

Curly braid

Beautiful curly hairstyle

The Italian model Chiara Scelsi has been blessed with beautiful curls and loves to wear her hair open. She is right!

Model Chiara Scelsi

Curly hairstyle with bun

Actress Yara Shahidi has tied her curly hair in a bun and braided the side section into two cornrows. We like!

Curly hairstyle with bun

Curly hairstyle with bangs

Bangs and curls don’t go together? That’s not true! Model Tiko Jijelava wears short bangs to her curly hair. Mega cool!

Curly hairstyle with bangs