If you happen to weren’t not less than an adolescent within the ‘90s or 2000s, it’s laborious to completely clarify the unrelenting grip Meg Ryan‘s hair had us on again then. We beloved her curls in When Harry Met Sally, her bixie in You have Obtained Mail (to not point out the curly model of it in Metropolis of Angels), and my private favourite: the shaggy, layered lob — ceaselessly worn wavy — that accompanied her cute head for what I casually but confidently estimate have been the overwhelming majority of her public appearances between 1999 and 2005. And similar to the actor is making a rom-com comeback, so is that iconic coiffure.

Ryan has made appearances on discuss exhibits during the last couple of days to advertise What Occurs Later, the brand new romantic comedy that she each stars in and directed. (The movie, additionally starring David Duchovny, has an interim settlement with SAG-AFTRA permitting them to take part in selling throughout the ongoing strike.) Previous to this week, and for fairly a while, she’d been seen carrying her hair very similar to it’s within the film: wavy and shoulder-length at its shortest.

However simply in time to rejoice this long-awaited return to rom-coms, Ryan has reduce her hair in a manner that is concurrently nostalgic and timelessly stylish. 

On October 31, Meg Ryan was a visitor on Late Night time With Seth Meyers, re-debuting one in every of her most well-known hairstyles: the beloved Meg Ryan shag. (Belief me, if you happen to say “the Meg Ryan shag” to any film fan or magnificence lover over 33 years outdated, they know precisely what you are speaking about.) It is that excellent not-too-long, not-too-short lob filled with piece-y, wavy layers with simply the correct quantity of quantity.