Hairstyle World Article for Women

Don’t take steps

June 12th, 2006

One of the cardinal rules Goerge Michael lays down for long hair is that it must all be one length. No fringes, layers, graduations or steps are allowed to be cut into it.

He believes in what he terms the ‘equalisation’ process - that if you cut a layer into one side of the hair, the hair on the other side of the head will shorten in sympathy.

So he makes all his clients grow out their fringes and will not allow centre partings under any circumstances.

‘But supposing it doesn’t suit me like that’, we said rather feebly and received a scornful glance in reply. ‘Long hair will suit everybody, even older ladies’, he said.

‘There are so many ways of draping it, dressing it and wearing it.’ George also believes that to cut hair into layers is a little like shattering a mirror because long, perfectly cut hair shines all down its line if its looked after properly.

So with this rather strict rule in mind, it isn’t surpising to find out that not only does the George Michael method not invulve layering, there is also a very special cutting process unlike anything you will find normally in a salon.

Before it’s cut, the hair is shampooed and dried. Every stylist works on clean, dry hair. Wet hair is hair that’s already been stretched to one eighth of it’s length and it’s extremely fragile and breaks easily because its elasticity is at a minimum.

So the Michael cutting method is done only on dry hair because the results can be seen instantly and it’s kinder to the hair.

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