Friday, April 2, 2010

French Makeover: A Spring Haircut

Before:



You said you wanted to see the new haircut, but first I need to say a word about haircuts in France. Women don't rely on long hair in this country to be attractive. If anything, a good haircut, makes a much better impression than the 'Tressy Doll' effect. Do you remember the 'Tressy Dolls'? You'd tug at their ponytails and unending volumes of hair would spit out of the top of Tressy's head. Pretty ghastly, right?

Every now and then, there's nothing quite as exhilarating as saying "Chop it all off!" Probably much the way the 'Queen of Hearts' in Alice in Wonderland commanded 'Off With their Heads!"

So in the spring holiday spirit, I shed the old 'do' and for the first time (in a long time) refrained from saying 'Leave enough to pull my hair back into a ponytail.'
Ponytails are great for cheerleaders.

1 comment:

  1. Tres chic! Very lovely and French movie star looking....and you've found a great cutter, too.
    Bangs look so great...wish I could have them, but haircutters always steer me away from them, and it's true that I don't have much forehead to spare, so the best I've been able to do is sort of sideswept bangs. And if the color is true in the photo, it's also terrific. Have you seen that very young models and fashionistas have been putting gray INTO their hair? Topsy turvy world!

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