Archive for January 29th, 2007
Author: Karen Marie Shelton
Jennifer Lopez is a hair trendsetter who also happens
to have top celebrity hairdresser Ken Paves on her speed dial. Ken has been creating fabulous styles for Jennifer for many years.
Their history of working together includes work on The Wedding Planner and Gigli as well as a dizzying array of Red Carpet events.
Recently Ken and Jennifer created a media frenzy when they arrived together at Tom and Katy’s wedding in Italy.
Although the papparrazi assumed Ken was at the wedding to do the bride’s hair, in reality he was there to do Jennifer’s tresses.
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It was no surprise when Jennifer appeared recently on the arm of her husband at The Friends of Los Angeles Free Clinic Annual Dinner Gala coiffed in a stunning Old Hollywood hairstyle. She looked like a goddess as she strolled the Red Carpet.
Her tresses were softly coiffed into soft curls and worn cascading off each side of her gorgeous face in a classy formal style. She looked spectacular.
Ken graciously shared his secrets of Jennifer’s lush style.
Old Hollywood Hairstyle
Jennifer Lopez
With Marc Anthony
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic
Annual Dinner Gala
11-20-2006
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At the Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic Annual Gala Dinner Jennifer showcased her sassy gown with another sophisticated hairstyle.
Jennifer topped off her award winning gown with a mane of soft and sexy ringlets which framed her beautiful oval face.
Her tresses were colored a rich dark chocolate hue that was glossy and shimmering.
It had hints of contrasting toffee highlights woven throughout which gave Jennifer’s strands the appearance of rich fullness and luster.
The alternating toffee highlights placed against the dark chocolate base also helped to bring out a magnificent shine.
Steal Jennifer’s Hair Style
If you look closely at her photo, you will notice that her hair style was brushed off her face without any noticeable sign of a part.
Depending on her ultimate hairstyle, Jennifer at times has utilized side and center parts as well as playing with wispy fringes along her forehead.
Jennifer often wears her hair with lots of movement and volume and down around her shoulders. She often alternates the texture between long and sleek with lots of soft undulating waves.
Izabella Miko
Dreamgirls Premiere
12-11-2006
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Jennifer has face shape that appears to be fluid.
If you look closely you will see that her face has a point at the chin and wide cheeks that taper towards the forehead. Most experts would categorize this as a heart shaped face. Sometimes her facial shape appears heart shaped and at other times it appears to be more oval shaped.
Her gorgeous Old Hollywood hairstyle can be customized to work with just about any face shape, hair type or texture.
Jennifer has a natural wave to her hair. Although her hair appears to be fine, she has a lot of hair. This style is ideal for hair that is has a slight bend or wave.
For naturally curly hair the strands must be either pre-straightened or blow dried straight with waves then created on the pre-straightened style with hot rollers or curling irons.
For naturally wavy tresses you may opt to use a long finger diffuser to blow dry with the goal of creating looser waves and curls without utilizing a curling iron or hot rollers.
This style is idea for hair that is medium in thickness that is shoulder length or a bit longer. If you have short or medium length tresses or hair that is thin and fine, you can also instantly recreate this style with one of the great new HairDo clip-in hair extensions from Jessica Simpson and Ken Paves.
Step By Step Instructions
Follow the steps below to re-create Jennifer’s gorgeous style:
Start with a precision layered long strands. Work with your hairdresser to achieve the correct basic layered cut. Be willing to modify the style depending on your face shape, hair type, length and texture.
Jennifer Lopez
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic
Annual Dinner Gala
11-20-2006
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1. Start by washing your hair in lukewarm water with a product designed to add back moisture and to treat colored or highlighted hair with tender loving care.
If your hair is colored like Jennifer’s be sure to use a color maintenance system to extend the life of your gorgeous hair color.
2. Rinse hair well and then apply a moisturizing rinse-out conditioner focusing the products on the areas of the hair that are most dry or damaged.
If your hair is fine or thin you may wish to skip this option.
For extra conditioning substitute the rinse-out conditioner with a deep conditioner that is allowed to soak down into the hair’s shaft.
4. Finish with a cool/cold rinse to lock in moisture and add additional shine.
5. Towel blot to remove excess moisture. Apply a conditioning detangling spray or leave-in conditioner and detangle strands with a wide tooth comb working from the ends to the roots.
Create either a center or side part, depending on how you wish to style your hair.
Izabella Miko
Dreamgirls Premiere
12-11-2006
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Note: If your hair is prone to frizz apply a defrisant product or mix with your other styling products. It has been reported in the past that many celebrities like Jennifer are big fans of Phytodefrisant for their naturally curly hair that tended to frizz.
6. For lots of fullness, lift and volume, apply a volume enhancing product to the roots.
7. Separate strands into 1″ to 2 1/2″ sections and blow dry with a boar’s bristle round brush.
Blow dry the top sections of hair using fingers to lift individual top strands and direct the air flow from ends to roots. Use the brush to turn the ends under around the edges and slightly in towards the neck.
Note: If hair is naturally curly, do not use fingers to blow dry since this can add to frizz. Use a boar’s bristle brush instead.
8. When hair is completely dry separate into individual 2″ strands. Use a 1 1/2″ barrel curling iron, large hot rollers or 2″ self adhesive style rollers.
Spritz each section with a firm holding hairspray or styling product. Roll each individual strand around either the curling iron or curler of your choice. Work your way around the entire head of hair either curling with an iron or rolling into curlers.
9. Let hair completely cool. If you are using a curling iron, after curling each section, use fingers to roll into a large barrel curl and pin into place to allow new curls to properly cool.
10. When the entire head is curled and the new curls are completely cool, carefully remove each curl one at a time.
11. Spritz strong holding hairspray over the top of the newly released curls.
12. Use your fingers to carefully arrange the curls into the desired style. You may wish to use a curling iron to touch up any sections that need a tighter curl pattern.
13. Apply a shine serum, shine spray or hair cream to seal in moisture and add that shimmering shine similar to Jennifer’s.
Hairspray is optional.
Additional Styling Options
Jennifer Lopez
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic
Annual Dinner Gala
11-20-2006
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If you have natural waves or very loose curls you may prefer to re-create Jennifer’s style with a long-finger diffuser.
1. Apply a curl-enhancing cream through the entire length of the hair.
2. Blow dry damp tresses with a long finger diffuser to magnify natural curl and wave patterns.
3. For tightly defined curls, divide the hair into smaller sections after it is completely dry and curl with a curling iron.
4. Once all of the hair has been curled, pin the hair into desired curl formations and let cool.
5. Spray with a firm hold hair spray.
6. When hair has cooled and dried, remove and arrange curls with fingers.
7. Use a curling iron to touch up any sections that are too loose.
8. Use your fingers or a boar bristle brush and direct the newly created curls on either side of your head.
9. Finish with a swipe of shine serum and a spritz of firm hold hair spray.
Other options for this style include adding a soft side-swept fringe, playing with a variety of parts or pulling the hair into a half up-half down style allowing the luscious curls and waves to cascade around your shoulders and down your back.
Summary
Jennifer Lopez always looks stunning in a wide range of eye popping, mouth dropping hairstyles. Steal Jennifer’s style and you will turn heads everywhere you go.
January 29th, 2007
Color & Style
Author: Victoria Wurdinger
U Dos
Toned-Down Trends Showcase Simplicity Melded with Sophistication. But in the Ultimate Trend Bend, it’s all About What’s Right for You.
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Skirts are going longer while hair is shortening up. That’s about balance. But in a season when the ‘60s are the prime influence, every trend is counterbalanced with six degrees of separation.
Maybe that’s why crops and bobs are the biggest looks in the mane-stream.
Short is coming on strong, and subtly undone is fast replacing last year’s shaggy chic, which was in itself lots more controlled than those original bed-head ‘dos of the ‘60s hippie.
Today’s hippies are hipsters, which calls for outstanding cuts in all lengths and a easy care approach that still accounts for looking like you’ve got your own sense of style.
Hair that’s less contrived and fussy springs from the fact that the fashion world is simpler, darker and more somber in general, reflecting the national politick. Bling is not the thing for times like these. That said, you don’t have to resort to sackcloth—there are still plenty of sassy styles around, and sometimes, simplicity is a beautiful thing in its own right.
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Enter, the bob, a cut that’s simplicity personified. It’s easy to style and because it most often comes with bangs, it can be molded to suit any facial shape. Textured bobs, boxy bobs, French-cut bobs and razored-up styles are just the opening act in the movement toward shorter hair.
Bohemian Rhapsodies
America Ferrare
Ugly Betty
2006
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The early ‘60s saw controlled bobs and crops with geometric flair; later years ushered-in the mussed freestyle. Today, the ‘60s influence combines the best of both worlds with crops that are subtly textured, razored or layered for a fresh new feeling. Choppy snips, pieced-out pixies and great gamine looks are all right for the woman who wants a style that’s anything from short to nearly mid-length.
Again, edge, attitude or polish is added with products like texturizers, molding muds, spray waxes and pomades—helpers that never existed in the original era. Just make certain you go easy with the application
Clean, well-cut, healthy looking hair is the real harbinger of modern hairstyles, which are always tweaked so they’re age-appropriate. In other words, even ‘60s styles and mussed looks fall on the side of reasonably well-groomed.
In an antithesis trend, there’s a geek chorus proclaiming that nerd looks, from films like Freaks and Geeks to Napoleon Dynamite, are uber-cool.
The ultimate in mainstream geek chic showed up at ABC, where Ugly Betty, has the protagonist working—where else—in the fashion world. The geek-cool style isn’t that different than what’s mainstream: clean and simple hair, full fringes, “intellectual nerd” glasses and a wardrobe all your own.
Going Long on Style
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Longer hair will always be part of the fashion mode and today’s longer, more feminine looks are not super-long and ultra-straight—most feature layers that allow hair to fall perfectly in place.
Edges get soft and shapes sleeken-up or plump-up with the right products. In general, celebrating natural texture is the easiest way to make an individual statement. When it’s time for a weekend change, hot tools and texture-specific stylants let you style-shift to something more playful.
Healthy looking hair is now an annual “mane-stay,” which is another reason wearing natural texture is in the forefront—no perming, relaxing, or frying when drying. If you have natural curl, celebrate it and do something to enhance its shine, be it conditioning, adding brighter highlights or blowing out a smooth style.
One great thing about longer hair is that it lends itself to easy updos. When hair is up-styled, it‘s twisted and braided with most the action at the sides, which are directed back.
Viewed from the front, the top is flat because super-height at the crown is just too dated. The back-swept styles are mostly crafted by hand braiding, which creates less heat damage and allows for healthy, shiny, romantic looks that shift day-to-night with ease.
Making a Color Splash
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In fashion, less splashy clothes allow for hair to be used more as an accessory—the single thing that stands out. Because cuts, too, are on the simpler side, this means color is your main way to make a statement. Striking blonde, rich red or a deep, caramelized brunette is a great place to start.
While less mashed up than before, color is still dimensional and it’s always customized. Ash blondes are right for those who can wear them, and they’re always paired with lowlights. Tone-on-tone coloring (red-on-red, blonde-on-blonde) add smart sophistication to any shading. In a shift from simplicity, brunettes get highlights via different tones, as opposed to bleach.
Harsh black, purple and stripy colors are gone from the scene—today’s shades are all beautiful and true-to-life only better. Additionally, there are very few, full-head highlights—those are simply too time-consuming to get and costly to keep. Instead, highlights are placed to accent a cut, a facial shape or a fringe. Or, color is added in sheer panels that veil one another from top to bottom.
For those who get color at home, there’s a slew of new products that let you have it natural, like L’Oreal’s Natural Match. Interestingly, the brand is aligned in the sophisticated professional haircolor manner, with choices among levels (10 is blonde, 1 is black) and tones that go warm or cool to work with skin tones. Again, it’s the combination of simplicity and sophistication—a pairing that’s reiterated everywhere.
U 2 Can B Individual
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Can it be any accident that when the main style influence is the ‘60s, that old “Me generation” is being translated into the ramped-up “You generation?” From YouTube online to U-decide comics, everything today is U-based.
Consumers are active participants with brands, beauty and trends—never bystanders: MySpace, iVillage and MyNetworkTV are all reflections of this thinking.
Which means, you’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to setting the trends, making the style statements and interpreting what’s right for you. In times like these, the only fashion crime may be going cookie-cutter, and failing to get a customized cut and color that’s right for you and U-alone.
The ultimate cool is to be yourself, which is an idea has its origin in the non-conformist ’60, when amusingly, everyone really looked alike. Whether history will repeat itself is up to you.
January 29th, 2007
By Michelyn Camen
Cameron did it. So did J.Lo, Hilary, Ashley, Nicole… et tu Britney?
These once blonde celebrities stunned us by transforming themselves unexpectedly into alluring brunettes.
I grew up a darkling at a time when “gentlemen preferred blondes” and “blondes had more fun.” As a young girl, my dream was to have the “hair fairy” turn my dull, dark brown self into a sexy blonde beauty.
Back in the day, I had a $60 consultation with the legendary Constance Hartnett, the master colorist at Frederic Fekkai Salon. I told her I wanted to be blonde. She looked at me coldly and uttered five words, “Darling, NEVER EVER go blonde.”
But years later, I ignored Ms. Hartnett’s advice and highlighted my hair to the much copied “J.Lo.” blonde. Well, Ms. Hartnett was right; I looked awful.
According to a recent study, up to 80% of blondes in America are actually brunettes. So should they all go back to their roots? How do you know what color suits your tresses best?
I met with Allison Gandolfo, Senior Colorist at Salon AKS, who spent hours correcting my badly botched highlights (whitish yellow streaks on dark brown hair… hideous). Allison is the secret weapon of some of the most beautiful brunettes in Manhattan (clients include Bobbi Brown and Juliana Margulies). Now, Allison shares her secrets, tips and expertise, as we explore the “dark side.”
MC: Are you seeing a trend in brunette hair color?
AG: More so now than ever, darker hair is more sexy and mysterious. Blonde hair and over highlighting can ruin natural hair as can extensions, so many celebrities and women are taking a breather and going brunette.
MC: Is it harder to achieve great brunette color than blonde?
AG: I believe that trying to achieve great brunette color is more difficult than blonde. There are more underlying colors in brown, there are reds, yellows, and orange tones that all need to be taken into consideration.
MC: What are some things to watch for when coloring brunette hair?
AG: Watch the brass factor, brunettes pull red naturally so do not over process hair or you will have to deal with brassy tones.
MC: What special techniques do you achieve to create beautiful brunette hair color?
AG: Foil and balayage is a great way to achieve multi-tonal and dimensional hair.
MC How do you judge what is perfect brunette color for a client?
AG: Always look at skin tone and eye color; also look at the natural hair color The most important thing about finding your perfect hair color is that it works well with your natural skin tone and eye color. If you feel you have to put on a lot of makeup (blush and darker lipsticks) then that color is probably not best for you. Your color should look fabulous whether you have on a little makeup or if you just rolled out of bed.
MC: According to a well known NYC colorist, anyone can go blonde. Do you believe that?
AG: No, not everyone should be blonde. Blondes do not have more fun; they just have more roots and broken hair compared to brunettes.
MC Is it true you should go lighter when you get older?
AG: No, this is a common misconception; you need to stay with shades that work with your coloring. Sometimes going lighter is draining and aging. I use multi-tonal color in my single process colors for gray coverage.
MC: Do you recommend shampoo color enhancers or temporary color?
AG: No, there are too many out on the market right now and it can really mess up your color. Ask your colorist for any hair color enhancing shampoos they can mix just for you, personalized shampoos. You spend a lot of money on your hair color, do not go out and try to do it yourself at home. This usually turns into a trip back to the hair salon for corrective work that can cost up to five times the amount of your regular visit.
MC: Is there a celebrity you can think of who should go back to her roots?
AG: Eva Longoria… please come home. You look more beautiful as a dark brunette!
When I asked Allison Gandolfo if anyone can be a brunette, she emphatically said NO! Those women with ultra pale, cool complexions should stay blonde (think Nicole Kidman).
Just as I once wished to be a blonde, some blondes have “brunette envy.” According to Allison Bartline, the sales manager of ultra hip Exhibionist Jewelry by Mark Spirito (www.exhibitionistnyc.com), “The grass is always greener, as they say. I’ve never been a brunette, so I guess I have never seen it from the other side.” She admits that she hates “having blond, colorless eyebrows and eyelashes. I really do think that brunettes seem smarter, more mysterious, and are taken more seriously.”
She adds, “it is a strange stigma, but I think people have heard (and told) so many blond jokes that they’ve started to believe them. Jessica Simpson and her ‘Chicken of the Sea’ comment didn’t really help.“
To schedule an appointment with Allison Gandolfo:
Salon A•K•S
689 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212.888.0707
www.salonaks.com
January 29th, 2007