Stylist Jonathan Antin joined Bravo's Shear Genius as a judge for its third season. Jonathan is tough, but fair and we like him as a judge on the show. In this video, Jonathan talks about his new role on the show. He then discusses some the hairstyles we saw at The Golden Globes and SAG Awards and talks about what styles might be seeing on the red carpet for the Oscars. Take a look:
Jennifer Aniston is hosting
a new benefit for Haiti. E! reports that Jennifer will host a screening of The Last Station. Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer just nabbed Oscar nominations for their roles in the film about Tolstoy and his long-suffering wife. Proceeds from the benefit will go to AmeriCares.
"AmeriCares delivered nearly $10 million in lifesaving medical aid for earthquake survivors in Haiti," reads a quote from Aniston on the invite. "They have a longstanding commitment to the people of Haiti and will continue to send relief in the days, weeks, months and years ahead."
Minimum price for the movie night, which includes a postscreening cocktail party with the film's director, Michael Hoffman, is $100 per ticket and goes as high as $50,000.
Brad Pitt appeared at the Hope for Haiti telethon last night, fully bearded. Yes, that horrible thing on his chin is still there. It's awful. He knows the world hates it. Even People magazine wrote him an open letter begging him to shave it -- to no avail. We feel sure that he's doing it to spite his fans. But why? We are his fans, after all. Why would he be so cruel? Perhaps he's decided the paparazzi will stop following him if he looks absolutely frightening.
How Angie stands it is beyond us. Although, with all the breakup rumors swirling around the couple, perhaps she isn't.
Celebrity stylist Ted Gibson talked to Maggie Rodriguez about Kate Gosselin's hair makeover for the cover of People magazine. Ted Gibson says it took about twenty hours for Kate's makeover because they had to add a lot of hair to Kate's hair all the way through. The hair extensions are bonded to Kate's hair through a special technique called Great Lengths. Ted Gibson says Kate's new hair will last three to four months. Ted Gibson says the process costs $1,500 to $5,000. Take a look:
Kate Gosselin is starting off the year with another new hairdo. She's featured on the cover of the new issue of People magazine. This time Kate's using hair extensions. You can read about Kate's 20-hour makeover here. You can see Kate's last two hair styles here.
"It's good to have hair again," the 34-year-old reality TV mom tells People. "I never thought I'd have short hair for as long as I did. I feel like this is a fresh start, a fresh me, a fresh life... I've got it. I am now Kate Clean Slate."
It's amazing she's still getting covers despite all the new celebrity stories that have broken early in the new year. Kate Gosselin is also trying to land a new tv show deal this year. One of the rumors is that it may be a dating show - see here.
The Times Online examines this year's hottest trend for young style setters: grey hair. It all started with Pixie Geldof, who sported grey locks back at the Elle Style Awards in February. Since then the granny look has been picked by London socialites and club kids.
Alex Brownsell and twins Sam and Lou Teasdale are, at the tender ages of 22 and 25, way ahead of their time. So far ahead of their time, in fact, that they have leapt the generations to join their grannies and gone grey -- by choice.
Yes, the colour wheel has finally twirled full circle. Growing numbers of women are no longer eschewing the very thought of grey, but embracing a gunmetal mane with pride -- and attitude. As Brownsell and the Teasdales prove, this is not only about silver foxettes going au naturel. This is a youth movement: from east London's cool set to models on the Paris catwalks, women are throwing the tonsorial rulebook out of the window and going with the grey. Even Victoria Beckham and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs are getting in on the act by letting their own silver strands peep through.
"We had all been blonde for a long time," says Brownsell, who tends the tresses of east London’s fast crowd, as well as the X Factor contestants and a few select A-list clients. (She could name-drop Keira Knightley, Alice Dellal and Little Boots.) "We became obsessed with it being as white as possible, a mania we called 'blonde-orexia'." Eventually, the fixation led to grey dye. "I really liked it, so, rather than bleaching it out, I kept it," she says. "I quite like looking like a granny. I dress a bit like one, too." Brownsell and her fellow hip hairdresser, Lou Teasdale, who run the beauty blog www.beautyisareligion.com, say that after summer's frenzy for full-on pink, yellow, orange or blue hair, an understated grey is directional, classy and perfect right now.
Pixie Geldof, another fan of the supernan look, agrees. "I'd been blonde for three years and fancied a change," she says. "I wasn't thinking about the colour, I just put on a bunch of toner one day, and there it was. It was rad. I didn't want to do another colour like pink, grey just seemed obvious."
Hilary Alexander of The Telegraph chatted with the celebs on the red carpet at the Elle Fashion Awards in North London back in February. She interviews Pixie Geldof, just after her Italian Vogue covershoot. You can get a good look at Pixie's grey locks. Take a look:
Frederic Fekkai has announced that it will sell its upscale haircare products at Walgreens and Target. A horrified Sephora immediately dropped the line. It is the original, classic Fekkai line that is going downmarket, although the price will be the same. The Advanced line will still be sold at Saks and Neiman's.
WWD reports:
The decision reflects the quandary facing brands as they head to the mass arena: what's potentially lost is high-end distribution, but what's to be gained is significant sales volume on a global basis. And, if Fekkai succeeds, it could have a profound impact on the future marketing of professional hair care brands.
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The classic items include the Glossing, Full Volume and Technician Color lines. Fekkai executives said they comprise 40 percent of the brand’s overall sales. The items will sell for between $20 and $30, just as they did in prestige.
Sources said Fekkai sales generated in Sephora were an estimated $20 million.
Sephora said in a statement at press time, "In light of Frederic Fekkai's recent decision to expand into the mass market, Sephora has decided to discontinue in-store sales of Fekkai products."
Procter & Gamble owns the Fekkai line and is making the decision based on numbers which say it can make more money by selling at the mass retailers. But not all analysts are sure that the move makes sense. The Fekkai products will sell at full price, which does not make sense given the retail venue. Either the products need to be discounted for mass market or they need to remain in the prestige category.
A British ad for L'Oreal Elvive Full Restore 5, a shampoo and conditioner range.starring singer Cheryl Cole has consumers up in arms. So what are they so mad about? Cheryl looks lovely, as does her hair. The problem is, it's not her natural hair; she's wearing very expensive hair extensions. The ad does flash in tiny print that natural extensions were used in the styling of the advert. But that's not true either. Cheryl is wearing artificial extension that are shinier than any human hair could ever be, even with the use of a L'Oreal conditioner.
However, Cole's hairdresser says she now regularly uses artificial hair made from acrylic rather than extensions made of "natural" hair, which is typically sold by Russian women for a few pounds.
As a member of the group Girls Aloud, Cole had a contract with Sunsilk, the shampoo range owned by Unilever. Up to two years ago she had human-hair extensions glued into her hair at the roots but reportedly worried about damage to her hair and scalp.
One of her predecessors as the face of L'Oreal, the actress Jennifer Aniston, has said her hair was almost ruined by extensions while she modelled the famous Rachel cut in the 1990s.
This year her hairdresser says Cole has tried using artificial-fibre hair instead. The 10in strands -- a third of the weight of human hair -- are extruded from plastic. Each strand is braided around four stems of natural hair close to the scalp and then sealed using the heated ends of a clamping gun.
Here's the commercial that's causing all the uproar:
The artificial extensions look great, we must say. We like and use L'Oreal hair products (love the L'Oreal Vive Pro line). But the commercial is misleading because it gives the impression that the product will make your hair as shiny and fabulous as Cheryl's. It will, but only if you have $1500 to spend on the new, extra shiny hair extensions.
Perhaps we're just jaded, but we always just assume that producers of U.S. ads are using fake hair, fake eyelashes and everything else to make the product look great. But the standards are much stricter in England and beauty product companies are having to comply with the new rules.
Zac Efron takes readers' questions for Time magazine. He talks about his new movie, Me and Orson Welles, whose career he'd like to emulate, you know, the standard stuff. But then it gets really interesting and Zac gives his never before revealed tips on how to get that perfectly mussed up hairdo he -- and Robert Pattinson, now that we think of it -- wears. Zac's secret is to wash his hair before going to bed at night, then sleep on it. In the morning, it's already messy. He just adds hair product (he didn't say which one, but it's probably a gel), comb and muss it up more. Voila! Perfectly mussed up hair. Take a look:
When Friends was the top sitcom on television, everyone wanted the "Rachel" cut, worn by actress Jennifer Aniston. Hairstylists were hounded to recreate the cut and the look by women of all ages. Now they are being hounded to recreate Blake Lively's hairdo, made famous by Blake's Gossip Girl character Serena van der Woodsen. But it's not an easy do to achieve, unless you were born with fabulous hair. Her hair is long, layered and has a tousled quality to it.
In the last six months, Ms. Lively's cut -- an exercise in studied dishevelment -- has been his most requested. "I didn't really realize the extent of it," Ms. Lively said of her hair’s popularity, though she had an inkling: fashion forerunners like Vogue staffers routinely approach her at events and fixate on her hair, she said.
"That's always kind of odd, but unbelievably flattering," she said.
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"I was born with a head full of hair," said Ms. Lively, who maintains her look is mostly natural.
Aside from frequently applying a conditioning masque, her stylist on the set of Gossip Girl, Jennifer Johnson, creates the unraveling curls by letting her hair dry in a simple chignon. Ms. Lively, who said she doesn't have extensions, says she has her blond hair touched up by her colorist, Rona O'Connor, every six months.
"Trouble is, some girls are born with amazing hair," said Mr. Wilson of Bumble and bumble, adding that hair like Ms. Lively's "sets an unrealistic expectation."
"It looks accidental, but actually it takes work," Mr. Barrett said.
For those who haven't won the genetic lottery, Mr. Barrett adds removable extensions of human hair similar to a fall ($1,200 to $1,500 per piece) and recommends a litany of treatments to maintain Ms. Lively's look. Not including the extensions, just the cut, which costs around $500 at his salon, conditioning treatments and heat styling tally up to around $1,200 a month.
The Rachel was just as hard to achieve, as was the Farrah, which was a national obsession during the run of Charlie's Angels. Those with thin, fine, straight hair are never going to achieve this look without extensions and a stylist. Those with naturally thick, slightly coarser hair with natural wave will have no problems at all if they're willing to put in the work (and deal with the bleach if they aren't already blond).
On The Today Show, the hosts got a look back in time at what they saw what they looked like when they were first starting in their careers. The action news team shot features a youthful Meredith Vieira and a mustachioed Matt Lauer. Al Roker has a horrifying suit on and Ann Curry is working the sideswept bangs look. It's all part of celebrating 35 years of People magazine. The Action News Team recreation is hilarious. Take a look:
Chris Rock was on The Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about his new documentary, Good Hair, which is all about black hair and the money that African American spend to make their hair straight.
In the after the show segment, he and Oprah talk about Oprah's hair. He said her hair was "rich" -- meaning she paid a fortune for it. Oprah denied that she had a weave and he didn't believe her. So she let Chris pull her hair -- repeatedly -- to prove it was all hers. Chris is dumbfounded that that it's all her hair -- and that he was actually allowed to touch it. It's absolutely hilarious. See the video
here.
A film festival favorite, Good Hair looks quite interesting -- and quite funny in parts. We saw the trailer before The September Issue and can't wait to see the film.
WWD reports that Bumble and Bumble is going to open a cool new concept mini-salon called Bb. StylingBar at the Manhattan Bloomingdale's on 59th Street. The mini-salon is all part of the big Bloomingdale's multi-million dollar makeover.
The salon will open on October 15 and will offer walk in blowout and styling services, but no color or hairwashing. It will be high tech, and customers can select a current, trendy hairstyle from a touchscreen menu. In this futuristic mini-salon, all that's missing is a robot to do the styling. For now, that will still be done by actual human stylists.
As part of that discovery process, customers will be able to choose from one of roughly five suggested styles based on different textures. Interactive images and explanations of the different 'dos -- boasting names like the Downtown Updo and Something Nice -- will be featured on a large touch-screen menu at the front of the styling bar. All looks will cost $35 and are expected to take 20 minutes to create.
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The installation will feature three styling stations and three touch-screen menus: one screen for the service menu, another to provide brand and product information and a third to serve as a salon locator. A screen video will play time-lapse films that show the hairdressing process at all stages.
We think it's a great idea and can't wait to see it. It will be great for an emergency fix on those bad hair days.
Tyra Banks has relaunched her TyraBanks.com website as an online magazine called Beauty Inside and Out. The online magazine contains a big feature story on Tyra's real hair. There is also a prediction by Tyra that models under 5'7" are about to make a comeback. This prediction ties in with her upcoming reality show that stars models under 5'7". The site also includes a list of dont's for wannabe models. The tips include "do not be a limp nooodle," "do not stare aimlessly while posing," and "do not pose like a hoochie."
Katharine McPhee talked to TV Guide about her sophmore album, Unbroken. The album will be in stores on October 6, 2009. The now blonde popstar says when she was first thinking about changing her hair style she didn't think she would go this blonde. Take a look:
