I saw it first,' said the girl with the back-combed bouffon.

My hair was turned under in a short pageboy, back-combed and lacquered.

But her hair had remained the same-teased and back-combed, then sprayed solid.

Her hair was darker now, back-combed and smoothly domed.

Slicked scrunched or back-combed, you can ring the changes with these inspiring styles.

Her trademark style includes messy, back-combed "bird's nest" hair and vintage inspired clothing.

Her carefully back-combed ash-blonde hair made her disfigurement seem all the more grotesque.

Her whippet-thin frame is topped by lots of maquillage and a rather extraordinary back-combed coiffure.

Swaths of excitable thirtysomethings are dressed in period costume; you can barely see the stage through the back-combed hair.

The extraordinary sweep of back-combed hair is still there - as is the famous handbag - but she is clearly very frail.

But that's splitting hairs, really — back-combed, hair-sprayed, poofy hairs.

The British designer stuck to his classic rock style with models who strolled the mirrored runway in leather, denim and back-combed hair.

"Never underestimate what might be lying dormant beneath the surface of a back-combed blonde wearing false eyelashes," she writes.

With his skinny jeans, back-combed hair and dandyish manner, Russell Brand has always looked an outsider on the comedy stage.

Don King A man who has spent his life winning the confidence of the world’s most powerful boxers in spite of his back-combed back-blown hair.

"Tim Minchin, he of the back-combed hair, heavy eyeliner and anarchic streak who seems to embody a Dahl-esque spirit himself."

A biographer described him as being "a well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend".

But, above all, critics have praised one man for bringing Dahl's tale to life: an Australian with back-combed hair and a penchant for eye-makeup.

The elegant models, with back-combed hair, thundered down the runway after emerging from a giant set of plastic lips carrying a new selection of Mulberry handbags.

Candy was a quiet little West Indian girl whose hair had been kept back-combed and ribboned by her mother all through the dreary routines of a long illness.

Although she favours the same back-combed, jet black-dyed pompadour hairstyle as the men of the Communist party, she takes a great deal more care over her dress.

And the girls assert their self-assured sexuality with extravagantly coloured and back-combed hair, heavily kohled eyes, and corpse-pale mouths.

Models were adorned with cut-out felt crowns, sporting braids and back-combed hair, wearing light printed and embroidered gowns inspired by art deco and botanical gardens.

A flowing, back-combed blond mane forever framed the visage in Ray's memory, which possibly explained the delay as he made sense of it beneath a militarily close bullet-crop.

To do this you will need to cut all the tendrils that cling to each other so tenaciously, making the top half of the plant as impenetrable as a back-combed hair-do.