Valentina Petrenko's strange hairstyle or wig
Looking through the photos of Petrenko, women, and men, too, undoubtedly asked themselves: "Maybe this is a wig?" Or maybe this is such an interesting natural hairstyle, albeit so unusual.
The hairstyle of the deputy Valentina Petrenko, which caused such a tangible resonance among the public, continues to interest those around him. The woman herself admitted that she has naughty curls by nature, which is why she has to comb her hair back and fix them tightly with hairpins so that they do not get out.
Valentina Petrenko, whose hairstyle is of such interest, was at the peak of popularity in the sixties of the twentieth century.
It was in that era that the beautiful half of humanity gave preference to high hairstyles, tried to create the hair as lush and voluminous as possible. And even and smooth curls were perceived even as a lack of good taste. It got to the point that this type of hairstyle was done by those for whom such a styling did not suit at all.
"Why wear a hairstyle like this?" - a question may arise for perplexed women of the twenty-first century.
However, there is a natural and logical explanation for this. In the subconsciousness of people of the past era, the stereotypical opinion was fixed that a lush hairstyle is a symbol and evidence of a high social status and a strong position in the social hierarchy. And those women for whom the structure of the hair did not allow to erect lush hair, specially purchased hairpieces and rollers, in order to achieve the necessary and desired result by all means.
Perhaps, in the case of Valentina Petrenko, the choice in favor of such a high hairstyle was made for a reason.
A woman deputy could emphasize her high social status with a lush styling. In addition, the hairstyle gives it a certain charm, zest and uniqueness of style and image, if we proceed purely from the everyday position of any woman striving to be different from others.
How does she do it
This question was asked by many, because Valentina Petrenko's hairstyle looks so that one can be convinced of the complexity of styling, not yet being familiar with the specifics of its implementation.
It should be noted right away that to create a hairstyle like Petrenko's, you need to have thick and curly hair. It is then that a woman will be able to carry out its implementation without problems. However, if nature has endowed her with straight and non-frizzy hair, you will have to resort to using a perm.
To find hard and small curls, like Petrenko's, you need to use a special composition aimed at destroying the keratin inside the curls. This procedure will further allow you to style the curls in the direction that the woman needs. In order to start the process of shaping the hairstyle of interest to us, it is most preferable to carry out a spiral perm.
This means that a chemical composition must be applied to each strand, after which the hair will curl up and be located as close to each other as possible.
- After the curling process is completed, you need to move on to the next stage - to make a bouffant from the roots. This manipulation will make the hair even more lush and voluminous, will make it possible to create a hairstyle, like Valentina Petrenko's, in the right direction without any problems.
- Next comes, perhaps, the most laborious process - it will be necessary to sprinkle each strand with varnish without exception (it is important that the varnish is for a strong and reliable fixation), since the formed styling can disintegrate without using it.
- When all the curls are combed, work begins with the side strands: they need to be laid back and secured with invisible ones. The remaining curls are also pulled back. This creates a square shape. At the back, the hairstyle is firmly fixed with hairpins.
Paying attention to such an original styling, deciding to experiment with the image, a woman never risks remaining unnoticed. The considered hairstyle of Petrenko will favorably distinguish her from the crowd, add brightness, zest and special appeal.
Origin
- Valentina Petrenko became a member of the Federation Council from the government of the Republic of Khakassia on April 26, 2001.
- Prior to that, she worked in the structures of the Federation Council, the Main Directorate and the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Rostov Region.
- Until 2013, she was a member of the Fair Russia party, then moved to United Russia.
Petrenko is one of the founders of the "Mothers of Russia" movement, she was a commissioner in the Federation Council for the Affairs of the Child. In 1993, during the seizure of a school in Rostov-on-Don by terrorists, she negotiated with criminals.
They began to draw on Petrenko's hairstyle in 2010. On October 2, 2015, a screenshot of Valentina Petrenko was published by the Dozhd TV channel, which led to a new wave of popularity.
Many media outlets have asked how Petrenko does such a hairstyle. The senator herself stated that her hair is curly by nature and she just pins it up with hairpins. A woman from the crowd, who saw Petrenko live, said that the hairstyle resembles a wig and looks too unnatural.
Specialists-hairdressers believe that Valentina Petrenko does a perm, then a fleece is created at each strand and it is pinned with a hairpin. The entire structure is abundantly varnished. Here you can read about creating such hairstyles in more detail.
High hairstyles and perm were popular in the 60s, but Petrenko seems to have carried his love for them throughout his life. This is how the senator looked before.
On December 5, 2018 Valentina Petrenko left the Federation Council after 16 years of work. She is now 63 years old. At parting, Petrenko presented the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko with a Christmas tree.
How to do it yourself
Want to try to reproduce something like this yourself? Note that if you have thin, straight strands, then this hairstyle is not for you. It is suitable only for owners of lush, coarse, naturally curly or permed hair.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Part your hair into at least 10-15 curls. Comb each one over the entire length and sprinkle with varnish.
- Smooth your hair lightly with your hands.
- On the top of your head, place and secure with hairpins a foam insert or something similar, which will give the shape of the future hairstyle.
- Separate the two large side strands, comb them up and secure with hairpins.
- Style all the rest of your hair, making sure to create a square shape. Fix it with invisible ones.
Hair or wig?
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This question interests every citizen of Russia, but no one can ever give an exact answer. So, we tried to figure out how and why State Duma deputy Valentina Petrenko does this strange awful hairstyle.
This hairstyle is part of the stereotype about the appearance of a woman politician that emerged in the 80s. Most likely, such an unusual choice of hairstyles for Petrenko goes back to those years. Here is what one of the fans of the deputy's hairstyle writes:
- In Valentina Petrenko's youth, the girls of that time had a “permanent” or perm - a way to create artificially curly hair. I think that Senator Petrenko in her youth fell victim to an error in the dosage of the appropriate reagents for perm.
In her interviews, Mrs. Petrenko does not like to share either the name or the secrets of creating an extravagant image. Here's what she said in one and, perhaps, the only interview on this topic:
- I'm so tired of answering these questions. Whoever comes closer will look. I just have curly hair, I lift it up with a few hairpins, that's it!
Despite the lack of information, stylists still believe that Petrenko is diligently doing styling. Such a hairstyle can be achieved using perm, combing the strands at the roots with a strong fixation with varnish and pinning with hairpins to shape the shape. Some believe that Petrenko puts a chignon under his hair, and then combs his hair.
Some residents of Russia are sure that Petrenko wears a wig. It is simply impossible to do such a hairstyle every day so smoothly and beautifully.
- Once I sat as a spectator in “Let them talk” directly behind this lady and this very hairstyle. For two hours of filming, there was a firm conviction that this was downright a wig. Because not everything is so simple “with two hairpins”, there are hairdresser's working hours. She assumed that she gets up in the morning, puts on this “hat” and goes to the State Duma to work.
By the way, Petrenko with her hair became the hero of many memes.
Who is Valentina Petrenko?
Valentina Petrenko is from Kazakhstan. In 1977 she graduated from the Rostov State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in biology and chemistry teacher. Until 1991, she was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was the party secretary.
In 1990 she became a deputy of one of the district councils of Rostov-on-Don. She worked as deputy head of the administration of the Rostov region on general issues. In 1996 she was hired by the security service of the President of the Russian Federation.
On April 26, 2001, she became a member of the Federation Council from the government of the Republic of Khakassia. Since January 2002, she headed the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare. In August 2002 she became a member of the board of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation. In 2012 she was elected chairman of the All-Russian public movement "Mothers of Russia".
Until 2013, she was a member of the Fair Russia party, but was expelled "for failure to fulfill her main party responsibilities."
Why did she become a meme?
Valentina Petrenko has the most famous hairdo in Russian politics. The mystery of her unique style has plagued people for years. Petrenko herself always spoke sparingly about the legendary hairstyle: the hair curls by nature, I just pin them up with hairpins. But they don't believe her.
Stylist Ashot Aslanyan is convinced that she wears a custom-made wig.
“This hair cannot be natural. Can you imagine how to comb and fill such things every day, so that it has such a shape? In that case, she would simply be left without hair. "
Other commentators point out that this is still her own hair, because the hairstyle at different times differed in shape, height and volume: "One person cannot have so many unsuccessful wigs."
Of course, Petrenko's hairstyle is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for folk art.
What is she famous for (besides her hair)?
- On December 23, 1993, a group of criminals led by Musa Almamedov captured 18 people. A three-time convicted native of the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, demanded a ransom from the state for the captured children.
- Valentina Petrenko, as a representative of the governor of the Rostov region, negotiated with the terrorists at the airport, persuading them to let the children go and offered herself hostage instead of them.
- For her participation in the operation, Valentina Petrenko was awarded the Order For Personal Courage.
- In 2012, Petrenko became the chairman of the All-Russian movement "Mothers of Russia".
- Petrenko often defended her civil position on the air on federal talk shows.
- In 2015, at a press conference, Valentina Petrenko showed her caricature of Charlie Hebdo magazine - this is how the senator demonstrated her reaction to a series of pictures in a French magazine dedicated to the A321 crash in Egypt
Why is she leaving?
For Khakassia, Petrenko has always been a "foreign" politician who sometimes came to the republic. The change of the governor in Khakassia entailed the change of the representative of the republic in the Federation Council.
In the upper house of parliament, Petrenko will be replaced by the communist Valery Usatyuk, who previously headed the Communist Party faction in the Supreme Council of Khakassia.
What does Petrenko herself say?
At parting, the senator presented the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko with a New Year tree.
“Fate has brought our Federation Council to this house. This is a whole destiny, a whole life, a given and received opportunity for self-realization. Therefore, for me this is really my life, my destiny, ”said Valentina Aleksandrovna, saying goodbye to her colleagues.
The writer and TV presenter Tatiana Tolstaya devoted a whole program to Petrenko's haircut in her program "School of Scandal". And a literary sketch called "PAPUA", which says the following:
... “I was not at all interested in how Senator Petrenko was leading the country and the peoples inhabiting it from his high office, and whether he was in charge at all ... No, I was driven by the most obscene and dark desires. I wanted to put both hands on Senator Petrenko's head and ruffle her hair. And what is her hairstyle - you all know yourself.
After examining the pictures on the Internet, I was convinced that Valentina Aleksandrovna was always distinguished by increased curliness, but in her young, regional committee years, she held back the violent growth of her hair and wore a completely understandable hairstyle, such as a swarm of bees. Pretty face, she looked good.
But as his career progressed, the senator’s curliness grew (which can only be envied, of course) until his head turned into an astrakhan fur hat. At the same time, the height of the papakha varied, but the outlandish shape remained unchanged.
Whether this is such a Rostov broccoli, - they set up the Michurin experiments, and they screwed up a little, they crossed the senator with cabbage. (After all, everyone watched the film "Fly-2"? My beloved!) Does Valentina Aleksandrovna keep some special hairdresser on a chain in the basement, maybe from Papua New Guinea?
By the way, Papua is translated from Malay as “curly”. Miklouho-Maclay writes in his diaries that passion wants to catch a Papuan boy and cut a flap of skin and hair from his head. To see how they grow there, curly like that. Are they planted with bushes or even rows? That's how I - my hands were itching right - wanted to deal with the senator's head.
That is, they were scratching themselves - I cannot convey. Something I asked her there, something she answered there, I did not hear anything; we are already accustomed, when necessary, to run the program on the machine, to make interested persons and to pretend to be extraordinary interest and close attention when a guest comes across senseless and uninteresting, and that's all, it's too late to rush about. I didn’t hear anything, but only thought: under what pretext would I investigate it? ..
"Oh, Valentina Alexandrovna, a fly has landed on you!" or “Ai, ai, it seems that a secret trunk is crawling out of you there!” Or so casually put on her head something weighing three hundred grams, see if it springs back or fails? She tells us about some kind of humanity and culture, and I think: what would I pick up for three hundred grams? A cup and saucer? Or take off your shoe?
As if through a heavy dream I hear that the senator is chirping about femininity and beauty, but I myself figure it out: here she will go after signing up to the dressing room, but on the way it’s dark and the cables are thick across the floor. We usually say: be careful, don't trip! there are cables! But do not tell her about the cables, she will stumble, and I will pick her up:
oh, Valentina Alexandrovna! ..- and grab her hair herself! As if she missed in the dark. Well, femininity will spoil a little, but the Truth will shine!
Or even banging his head. You can then apply ice to her head, or grease a bump with a traumel, I will be in the forefront. Or even have to operate. Chur, I will be present during the operation. Will they give you anesthesia? - here you can find out how it grows there. If it's not a wig, that's unlikely.
I don't know how I got through the hour of recording. How she did not rush and grab. And after the recording, too. How she let the senator go. Do not know. Only willpower. Only she. But the tension is unbearable. She just told me, and felt a little better.
And what about the Federation Council? How do you think they run the state there? Are they enacting crazy laws invented by crazy parliamentarians? How can you manage something and not think every minute about the head of Valentina Alexandrovna?
That is why we have everything like this "...
Valentina Petrenko not only surprises everyone with her hairstyle for many years, but also constantly inspires "wits" to create all kinds of cartoons, photojacks and other nonsense popular on the Internet.
Someone compares her hairstyle with Chapaev's hat, someone with the crown of Nefertiti, someone associates her with a trimmed decorative bush, a tree crown, clown hair, a Chechen's beard.
Anyone who once saw a photo of Valentina Petrenko has a lot of questions:
- Why would she have such a hairstyle?
- Isn't it a shame to appear in public like this?
- Who is the hairdresser?
- How can this be done?
- How long does it take to create something like this?
- Isn't it a wig?
- Isn't Valentina sleeping with a box on her head?
In fact, hairstyles in this style were in vogue in the sixties of the last century. At this time, women wore high hairstyles, did lush and voluminous hairstyles, because this was considered a squeak of fashion. And even and smooth hair was considered bad form at all.
Hairstyles with high puffs were worn by everyone, even those for whom such a hairstyle categorically did not suit.
In the minds of people, high styling and hairstyles meant that a woman occupies a high position in society. And those whose hair structure did not allow the formation of such hairstyles used hairpieces, rollers, i.e. in every way they tried to give pomp and volume to their hair.
So, why does Valentina Petrenko need her famous hairstyle? To begin with, I would very much like to ask a counter question: "How many ordinary politicians, public figures, and even more women, do you know?"
As a rule, people who are not related to politics are very little aware of the issues of, so to speak, secondary political players.
And only after noticing something extraordinary behind them, they still remember them in person and even involuntarily begin to follow their activities. Here! This is how many of us, so to speak, noticed Petrenko among the crowd of those like her.
What if? .. Well, she would have been an ordinary, unremarkable, Russian woman. So what?! No people would even know about its existence.
There is an opinion that this woman's hairstyle is actually fake, that it is just a wig, and, looking at this structure, it is not very good. There are versions that Valentina Aleksandrovna had a serious illness in the past, as a result of which she had to undergo a course of chemotherapy, so the woman does not have her own hair.
However, why she chose such an absurd, in the opinion of many, option remains unknown. After all, by doing this she only “warms up” the interest of malicious gossips in herself, who, out of envy or for their own pleasure, discuss a woman's hairstyle, and they do not always do it in a civilized manner.
Fortunately, there are not very many such people. Most Russians are not very interested in why this particular woman has such a hairstyle, they admire her inner qualities.
Despite neither malicious discussions, nor gossip and idle talk, women politicians establish their own fashion, understandable only to them.This fashion is not always understandable to others, but the fact that they look especially is an indisputable fact.