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Date Posted: 07/14/05 5:24am
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Richey
's message, "Short hair for the summer (news paper article)" on 06/27/03 8:22am
>Wheres the pictures?
>Short cuts
>
>06/11/03
>
>Robin Suttell
>Special to The Plain Dealer
>
>
>Maybe you're one of mil lions of women who admires
>short hair - on other women.
>
>But you've always heard the conventional wisdom that
>says short hair looks good only on a select few,
>generally women with oval faces and delicate features.
>
>
> From Our Advertiser
>
>
>
>
>Local hairstylists Holly Brown and Stacy DiJulius, and
>plenty of other hair professionals, will tell you
>conventional wisdom may not be so wise. Now that
>summer's coming, or if you feel you've been in a style
>rut, this might be a good time to consider a new short
>style.
>
>With the cutting and styling techniques used today,
>stylists can make short hair a good look for a
>majority of women.
>
>"A lot of people assume they can't wear a short
>haircut because their face is too round or their
>forehead is too large," says DiJulius, artistic
>director and owner of John Roberts Spa in Mayfield
>Heights. "Anyone can wear short hair. It depends on
>where the stylist is placing the weight of the
>haircut."
>
>Both DiJulius and Brown, who each charge $100 for a
>haircut, have spent years perfecting ways to give
>their clients the perfect haircut. And short hair,
>they say, works well for most women. It all depends on
>the specifics of the haircut.
>
>Brown, master stylist at the Ladies and Gentlemen
>Salon and Day Spa in Mentor, and two of her co-workers
>- Ken Novak and Kim Goellner - have a patent pending
>on a process that helps professional hairdressers
>design the most appropriate haircut for a client,
>whether she wants short or long hair.
>
>The system, called Integrations, focuses on the shape
>and size of a client's face and head. The stylists
>measure the bone structure of a client's head to
>determine the placement, weight and shape of a haircut
>most appropriate for her.
>
>"You see yourself two-dimensionally in a mirror, but
>other people see you from a three-dimensional
>standpoint. They don't just look at your face," says
>Brown.
>
>Ruth Roche, owner of RARE NYC, a hair salon and
>advanced training center in New York, says, "For women
>who have had a bad short cut, they think that all
>short hair is bad for them."
>
>Roche, who previously worked as global artistic
>director of design for Redken in New York, says women
>and their stylists need to define what short hair
>means. To one woman, short hair is chin length; to
>another, short hair is 2-inch layers all over.
>
>Generally, stylists agree that short hair means a
>style that ends between midear and jawline.
>
>Thanks to advanced haircutting techniques and
>training, stylists are helping women overcome their
>short-hair phobias in spite of the constant saturation
>of long-haired lovelies on television and the big
>screen.
>
>"The thing about celebrities and long hair is that
>most people don't realize that celebrities have
>hairdressers at their fingertips. And a lot of them
>wear extensions, hairpieces and wigs, many more than
>you imagine," says Mary Atherton, editor-in-chief of
>Modern Salon magazine.
>
>Because of this ongoing Hollywood influence, many
>women equate long hair with glamour. But long hair
>isn't always so chic, Atherton says.
>
>"It really doesn't look that good on most people," she
>says. "Most people can't afford the gravity-inducing
>look that long hair provides. There are some people
>who look good in long hair, but they are in the
>minority."
>
>
>A style for every face
>
>To prove the point, stylists Brown and DiJulius were
>asked to come up with short, easy-to-care-for summer
>hair styles for two face shapes: round and
>rectangular.
>
>Janelle Dietrick, 20, of Perry, has a round face.
>Leslie Flowers, 30, of Euclid, has more of a
>rectangular face.
>
>For Dietrick, a hair stylist at Ladies and Gentleman,
>the decision to go short was a big one. She always had
>worn her curly hair long. But over the past several
>months, she began to crop her locks shorter and
>shorter.
>
>"I closed my eyes," she says of the first cut where
>she lost about 8 inches in length. Since then, she has
>cut off even more - the final cut by Brown being the
>one photographed for this story.
>
>Brown worked with her to create her current look,
>which features a geometric shape underneath (in the
>nape and on the sides) and a loose, free-flowing look
>on top.
>
>Those in the trade call this disconnection, and it's
>the height of trendiness for summer, DiJulius says.
>
>This particular technique maintains length and weight
>in specific areas, while the interior is carved or
>sculpted to provide balance that works with the shape
>of the client's face and head.
>
>"It enables even clients with very fine hair texture
>to wear almost any style because it provides a larger
>range of adaptation," says DiJulius, who gave Flowers
>her new cut. Flowers, a critical care nurse at
>Metrohealth, had recently had her shoulder-length hair
>trimmed by several inches, but now decided to go even
>shorter.
>
>Since then, Flowers says she's received many
>compliments.
>
>"I love it - and it's very versatile," she says. "I
>can get out of the shower, tuck it behind my ears and
>wear it smooth, and be ready to go. Or I can play with
>it, spike it up or make it flip out."
>
>
>Hair styles of the past
>
>Short cuts might be a strong look this summer, but
>they've also been in and out of fashion throughout
>history. Sometimes, women who've gone short have even
>found themselves on the daring side of style.
>
>The Roaring '20s brought the first fashion wave of
>short hair, when thoroughly modern Millies chopped
>their long locks and shed their intricate updos in
>favor of a boyishly cropped bob, a la Hollywood screen
>sensation Louise Brooks.
>
>It was more than a fashion statement. It was a symbol
>of liberation.
>
>With the advent of the permanent wave in the 1930s,
>the sleek bob became fuller and women once again grew
>their hair, moving from midlength marcel waves to
>ratted pompadours in the 1940s.
>
>Shorter hair made a return in the 1950s, but it was
>anything but simple.
>
>The looks were bouffant, back-combed and required
>intricate roller sets, and much teasing and hairspray
>to keep them afloat.
>
>Lucille Ball sported the quintessential poodle cut,
>while Audrey Hepburn's sassy crop with bangs from her
>Oscar-winning turn in 1953's "Roman Holiday" enhanced
>her gamin looks and endeared her to the world.
>
>By the 1960s, thanks to three looks - model Twiggy's
>pixie cut, Vidal Sassoon's signature styles and the
>shag - short hair became firmly entrenched in the
>mainstream.
>
>Gold-medal skater Dorothy Hamill had legions of women
>clamoring for her wedge in the 1970s, Princess Diana's
>cuts ruled the 1980s, and by the 1990s, women clamored
>for the close-cropped looks worn by supermodel Linda
>Evangelista and actress Demi Moore.
>
>Most recently, there's been buzz about chanteuse
>Celine Dion's new boyish crop designed by celebrity
>stylist Ken Paves.
>
>Modern Salon's Atherton says she talked with Paves
>about the singer's new look, which has received mixed
>reviews, but Atherton says it makes sense.
>
>"It's her working girl haircut," she says. "For her
>shows in Las Vegas, she has many wig changes, and it
>helps her make those changes quickly. It's more
>versatile."
>
>That same kind of versatility easily won over Dietrick
>- not to mention some of her clients - on short hair,
>too.
>
>"I've had more fun with it than I've had with long
>hair," she says. "At work, I have at least three
>people a day ask for my cut, and people stop me when
>I'm out, too.
>
>"Anybody can have this hair cut or a different
>variation of it. And summer is the perfect time to do
>it."
>
>Suttell is a free-lance writer living in Lakewood.
>
>
>To reach this writer:
>
>features@plaind.com.
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