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| Model-turned-actress Jaime King |
Sometimes a woman falls in love with a cut or color – or a
combination of both – that she absolutely HAS
TO HAVE. Celebrities are no different. Hopefully, there’s someone to talk
you or your best friend (or you will talk your best friend) out of something
doesn’t complement your best features, or worse, brings out features that a
good style will help to camouflage.
You’d think that celebrities would have
handlers to do that for them, or that the very high-priced stylists and
colorists who ply their trade on celebrities would perform that service, but
sometimes the opposite is true: they are paid to do exactly as their celebrity
clientele demands, regardless their professional opinion. I think you’ll be
able to pick out the examples of the latter scenario below…
Candy Stripers and Dip Dyers
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| Chloe Moretz |
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| January Jones |
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| Ashley Tisdale |
Bright pops of color aren’t just a runway fad or a nightclub
fetish; more and more celebrities are showing up with streaks of color in candy
pink (Chloe Moretz), rose gold (January Jones), or merlot (Ashley Tisdale), dip-dyed or ombred
ends in blue (Jaime King) or deep
crimson (Lake Bell), or going for
flat-out all-over My Pretty Pony shades of green (Willow Smith) and Smurf blue (the Grand Dame of the Haircolor Lightning Round for $200, Katy Perry).
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| Lake Bell |
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| Willow Smith |
Notice how each of them did (or didn’t) adjust her makeup to
deal with the addition of the new color. Neither Lake Bell nor Willow Smith
wear makeup (but only Willow Smith has the excuse of being 11, and today’s US Weekly reports she’s now dyed it
bright Big Bird yellow, although we haven’t seen pictures yet.)
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| Jaime King's before-and-after |
Some, like Chloe Moretz, January Jones, and Jaime
King, let the color do most of the talking and simply picked complementary
shades that didn’t fight with the new additions. In particular, Jaime King’s
new blue dip dye needed nothing else to bring out her intensely blue eyes.
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| Katy Perry |
At
the other end of the spectrum you have Katy
Perry, who never met a matching eye makeup she didn’t slather on. As if
blue hair and blue eyes aren’t enough, she continues to wear matching blue
shadow, heavy black eyeliner and false lashes. We still think her makeup circa
the pale pink/blonde bob was the best and most flattering. She should be categorized with the "Cuts 'n Bangs" group -- her new blunt fringe is technically the news here -- but one almost overlooks her new "look." That's the power of blue...
Closer-to-Normal Colors
Here we have celebrities who dyed their hair colors that
fall within reasonably accepted “natural” ranges from blonde to red to brown,
with nothing blue, green, purple, or pink involved. One the whole, we’re
preferring their “before" pictures with the only two “after" pictures both
changing their hair to red.
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| Emma Roberts |
What can I say – I am a total sucker for red hair. And
Marianne didn’t even have to tell me to say that.
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| Jennifer Lawrence |
Emma Roberts’
transition from sunny blonde to brunette washes her out; Jennifer Lawrence’s continued transformation back to blonde from
the rich brunette shade she wore in Hunger Games, plus the addition of layers
and a curled bang are disappointing; we thought she was much more interesting
as a brunette.
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| Demi Lovato |
Demi Lovato seems
to prefer trying out her new haircolors via Twitter pictures, and perhaps this
transition back to blonde is prettier in person, but we really liked her with
the red hair. It worked much better with her dark eyes and slightly olive
complexion.
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| Kaylee Defer |
Actresses Kaylee Defer
and the infamous Lindsey Lohan also
went red, and it was a welcome choice, particularly for Ms. Lohan.
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| Lindsey Lohan |
Kaylee’s coloring is well-suited to
this shade of red, and of course, red is actually Ms. Lohan’s God-given color, though that’s easy to forget with all
of the mistakes she’s made veering from blonde to black and every shade
between. Plus, her addiction to spray tanner and facial…”modifications” we
shall call them, have had her looking like she was a hard 40, not a healthy 25.
At least the move back to the much more vital auburn of her youth is a huge
step in the right direction. Let’s just hope she didn't celebrate the
termination of her parole yesterday with cocktails.
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| Ciara's questionable color choice |
I kept singer Ciara’s
color transformation for last, partly because my initial reaction to her
picture was to blurt out “What the h*** happened to her?!?” Her “after” picture
is usually someone’s “before” picture. It’s what a woman usually comes in to
have FIXED, not what she walks OUT with. And Ciara takes all the credit for the
idea, telling InStyle magazine that
she wanted this lighter shade in her ombre ‘do. “I just wanted to have fun,”
she said of the change. “I’m a tomboy at heart and I just felt like attitude,
like not caring a little bit, to be honest.” And you really WOULD have to "not
care," because it simply is unattractive. At least in her “before” picture, the
root areas are dark but the ombre blends; in the “after” look she and her
colorist just went entirely too far with the ombre. This is not a fashion
statement anyone should want to utter.
Cuts ‘n Bangs
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| Katie Holmes |
The trend toward cutting bangs has not slowed down in the
least. Katie Holmes’ blunt fringe,
which she debuted at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, doesn’t do her justice. Look
at how gorgeous her hair is in the “before” shot. She should have left
well-enough alone, but perhaps it wasn’t entirely her choice, if media reports
are to be believed.
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| Natalie Portman |
Natalie Portman
is sporting a light side-swept fringe, which she debuted during New York
Fashion Week. Her color seems a bit deeper and richer, too, and there’s a bit
of layering around her face. She looks beautiful both ways, but it is nice to
see her in the “after” picture, when she’s not at an awards show, with softer
makeup and more casual hair, looking just as ethereal.
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| Shay Mitchell |
Shay Mitchell, of
the TV series Pretty Little Liars, seems to have had a whole makeover. Starting with the hair, she has a nice
peek-a-boo bang that works well to disguise her high forehead. She has the
perfect face shape for soft bangs like these, and both her haircolor and makeup
are a lot softer as well, as if someone buffed off all the hard edges, adding a
subtle ombre to bring a little golden warmth to the hair instead of the hard
red highlights to go with the crimson pout. Gone is the fake-bake and the pouty
look. Whoever helped with this transformation really asked all the right
questions, and brought out her best features while minimizing those which could
take a back seat.
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| Chanel Iman |
Victoria’s Secret “Angel,” Chanel Iman, debuted brow-skimming bangs and a much lighter color
(and perhaps a few extensions) for a very sexy little shag. We like it, the color is nice, and she looks
very pretty. This one’s a keeper!
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| Milla Jovovich |
Model –turned-singer-turned-action star Milla Jovovich debuted an asymmetrical crop with a shaved side this
week. Highly lauded for her soft and sexy finger-waved Oscar’s bob, she added a
dose of edge to her look with the “super-easy, super-low maintenance” undercut,
as she described it.
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| Victoria Beckham |
Cut-and-color chameleon Victoria
Beckham chopped off a reported 10 inches for this wavy, caramel-highlighted
bob. We always think she looks best at about this length and with some curl and
texture to soften her very angular and sometimes harsh face. Now, if she’d just
smile more. She certainly has PLENTY of reasons to, as my female clients love
to point out!
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| Viola Davis |
Ah, the incomparable Viola
Davis, who heeded her husband’s very good advice and stopped wearing wigs.
She’s darkened the coppery shade she wore when she won “Best Supporting
Actress” at the Academy Awards, and the whole package just works. I think her
smile glows 1000 watts brighter when she doesn’t wear those wigs.
The moral of this post is that anytime you make a change,
spend some time gazing into that "mirror, mirror on the wall." Look at the whole
picture – your new hair and/or haircolor AND your makeup. Does your new look
bring out your best features? Does it go with the makeup you used to wear, or
do you need to change color families from cool to warm, or vice versa? Do you need
to play up your eyes? Play them down? Does your new look complement your best features,
or bring out those features you always were able to camouflage? Then take it
from there…
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