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The look delivered both old-school glamour and a little bit of 1980s Janet Jackson.
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Quinta Brunson paid tribute to Black film star Josephine Baker with her sleek ensemble and spit curls.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 May 2025
The brand discipline is punishing; in David Rockwell’s scenic design, even the proscenium has spit curls.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The ‘90s never left—thin brows, grey-ige makeup, spit curls—finding cool-toned neutral glamor at Dolce & Gabanna, Casablanca, and KNWLS.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Oct. 2024
And at her sideburns was another, smaller spit curl.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 1 Sep. 2023
His piercing eyes surveyed his audience from beneath a ginger spit curl.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
Brandon Routh just missed the superhero movie boom by a spit curl.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
The hair was short, combed forward, and arranged in sort of spit curls around the temples.
—Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
The classic look would often get sexed up with spit curls that lay slicked to the forehead, at the nape of the neck, or in front of the ear, thanks to the influence of Josephine Baker.
—Rebecca Norris, Allure, 22 May 2018
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 May 2025
The brand discipline is punishing; in David Rockwell’s scenic design, even the proscenium has spit curls.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The ‘90s never left—thin brows, grey-ige makeup, spit curls—finding cool-toned neutral glamor at Dolce & Gabanna, Casablanca, and KNWLS.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Oct. 2024
And at her sideburns was another, smaller spit curl.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 1 Sep. 2023
His piercing eyes surveyed his audience from beneath a ginger spit curl.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
Brandon Routh just missed the superhero movie boom by a spit curl.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
The hair was short, combed forward, and arranged in sort of spit curls around the temples.
—Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
The classic look would often get sexed up with spit curls that lay slicked to the forehead, at the nape of the neck, or in front of the ear, thanks to the influence of Josephine Baker.
—Rebecca Norris, Allure, 22 May 2018
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“Spit curl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spit%20curl. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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