Alexa Chung is one of our favourite beauty and fashion icons, with every choice she makes ending up as a global trend.

After all, it’s no coincidence that when she had bangs years ago, many women would go to the salon and ask for Alexa’s haircut.

In recent years, she has given up the bangs and shows a special preference for the plaid hair.

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Aside from her haircut though, Alexa always manages to get that perfect, slightly messy wavy look to her hair, which is hard enough to do that it doesn’t look overly stylised.

If you’ve tried it yourself, you’ll know, but the solution comes straight from Alexa’s hairstylist, George Northwood, who shows step-by-step in the video below how to achieve it with a straightening press.