10.09.08
Hair Color & Style Trends – Fall/Winter 2008-2009
Mark Leeson of Mark Leeson Hair, Body & Mind points out that ‘this autumn/winter season hair will see a return to grown-up glamour, taking inspiration from old-style Hollywood Starlets.
Classic techniques will be a key factor in preparing the hair for the season’s hottest must-have looks. Finger waves, barrel curls and setting are all key techniques needed to give you the basis of this season’s catwalk looks. Sophisticated chic updos will also be catwalk favorites, featuring low side partings coupled with sleek chignons. Seventies glamour will be combined with soft bouncy waves to create an iconic vintage look.”
They key for this fall’s hair is “The bigger-the better!” Especially for those with longer locks. Make sure to invest in a good hairspray, because believe me, you are going to need it!
Short hair is also very popoular this season.
The Bob is still the hottest hairstyle this fall. However, it is definitely worn differently from last year. It’s very versatile, so you have plenty of options on how to wear it: choppy, slick and flat, or maybe even wavy? Use some creativity to make a unique look!
Long hair is truly timeless. However, every season it varies in the way it should be worn. Forget about flat irons this season, because you won’t be needing them. Instead, opt for a ceramic curling iron, to create glamorous waves without the unnecessary damage.
10.08.08
Hairstyles and finance: the long and short of it
It is almost a century since the US economist George Taylor came up with the revolutionary “hemline index” – the idea that when the economy is good, women’s skirts get shorter, and when times are hard hemlines fall. Now the fashion world has finally offered up an alternative indicator of the country’s economic state.
Cropped, bobbed or floor-sweeping, the length of women’s hair may no longer be seen as a result of the vagaries of fashion, but as an accurate barometer of the nation’s wealth.
Japanese researchers have found that when economies are doing well, women wear their hair long; when there is a slump, they cut it short. While many may be sceptical of forging a link between the disparate worlds of finance and fashion, that the current vogue for short hair comes at a time when the British economy is experiencing its biggest downturn for decades is proving too much of a coincidence for some to ignore.
There could definitely be a pattern in the UK too,” said Susanna Sallstrom-Matthews, cultural economist at the University of Cambridge and author of The Consumption of Beauty. “People enjoy fewer material pleasures in periods of recession, so want more visual pleasures, and there’s more variation among short haircuts than long.”
05.12.08
Is Long Hairstyle Suitable For You?
Women have the desire to have their hair looking gorgeous each and every day and that is why female consumers spend billions of dollars each year buying hairstyling products.
Women spend all this money on products to straighten, curl, highlight, color, smooth the frizzes, add body, moisturize and of course may them look their best on a daily basis.
However, then comes those special occasions such as the holidays, proms, weddings and even a special Valentine’s Day dinner when they desire to look even more glamorous and stunning.
