MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly 45 minutes of tugging and twisting with blasts of high heat left Stephanie Rigley’s thick, coarse, strawberry-blond hair wrapped around boar-bristle brushes — 13 of them — all jutting in different directions around her head. The 39-year-old Orono mother of three perked up in the salon chair as her stylist removed each brush...
For red carpet appearances, celebrity hair styles usually play a secondary role; it’s the gowns that get all the attention. But sometimes a coiffeur has enough oomph to command headlines.
At last week’s Golden Globes award show, a number of stars posed for the cameras with memorable looks that ranged from “Great Gatsby” to ’60s-inspired...
Hair is such a defining element for most women that any change is often greeted with unmitigated fear. Many a hairstylist has been confronted with rage after “just a trim,” and many a mood has been wrecked by a bad hair day. Hairstyles are infinite, but a standard of long and straight persists.
It’s a curious standard that tends to cause...
LOS ANGELES — The stylists at Fred Segal Salon in Santa Monica, Calif., were doing about two Brazilian Blowouts a day after the hair-smoothing product first came on the market six years ago. The $350 that Fred Segal Salon charged per treatment was a small price to pay for women with unruly curls, who raved about the Blowout’s miraculous power...
Too chicken to change your hair?
Feathers — as in rooster feathers — make it quick and easy to get a new summer look.
Add a few delicate feathers in muted shades of beige and brown, or go wild with hot pink, purple or lime green.
“I just wanted something new and fun, and that’s what they were,” says Kylee South, a Roy...
