Thursday, April 5, 1934
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By STEPHANIE CARTER
Goodbye, long, curly locks, kinky
perms and bi-level cuts. The "now" look
is short, sleek, and shiny. Everyone is
hot on the "bob."
Jeanne Johnson, cosmetology in
structor at the College of Hair Design,
described the new hairstyles for women
as extremely short. She said women's
styles are beginning to resemble men's
tapers, with short or shaved areas
around the ears and neck
Johnson said the bob, as a classic,
has been around since the '50s, but
variations are bringing it up to date.
Mary Kay Kinghorn, of Hair Express,
245 N. 13th, said the variation most
college students like is the crescent a
blunt-line cut, flat on the crown, with
full bangs. She said another variation
is the inverted bob, which is shorter in
back and angles toward the front like a
half-moon.
Sharon Mork, area director of Stuart's
in Sioux Falls, S.D., said national trends
show bobs with different lengths any
where in the hair. An example, she
said, is the asymetrical bob, with the
side longer, and angled toward the
face.
The bob can be in the top, with the
length at the bottom, or it can be
longer on top and short at the bottom,"
she said. "Regardless of the style, peo
ple are going for the more styled or
finished look"
Mork said round hair brushes, finger
drying, gels, glazes and mousses are
popular nationally.
The mousses, which come in several
colors, add volume, she said.
Johnson said mousse is a hit espe
cially with new wave hair styles.
"Mousse can make the spikmess in
back, the long-bang waves, and it can
put more body in the hair."
Mousse a new craze
Judy Essay, assistant manager of
the Centrum Command Performance,
said mousse is "the new craze."
"It's wild, and you can do a lot with
it," she said. "You can stand it up, hold
it longer, or just let it go." Mousses cost
$4.95 to $7 at area salons.
Gels, which slick hair back, cost
approximately $6. The wet look,
Kinghorn says, is not as popular as it
has been.
Johnson said blacks have used the
wet look for a long time, and it is still
popular. She said the new style for
black hair is a heavy wave rather than
curls. "The 'fro is definitely out," she
said.
Johnson said cuts no longer are
blended.
Severe layers cause problems
Essay said the severe layering that
was in style two years ago is causing
problems for people who want bob
cuts.
"Everyone wants the bob," she said.
"But the layered cuts have been so
severe, that people have to grow into a
bob. And by the time they do that, the
style will be something else."
The kinky, dried-naturally perm is
out of style, Kinghorn said. Perms are
important for hair management, she
said.
She also said she wishes people would
stop feathering their bangs.
"When they come in here and say 'I
want my bangs feathered,' I feel like
saying, 'Would you like chicken feath
ers, or what?' "
The European and New York trends,
which usually reach Nebraska six
months after they reach the coast, are
showing lightly waved and curled,
shorter, more natural-looking hair.
Summer styles carefree
Summer styles will be easy to care
for, and include those that are "all
around short, free, and easy," Kingh
orn said.
Men's hairstyles are becoming more
diversified, Kinghorn said. She said the
look for men is short in back, and long
on top. One popular style, she said, is
the "extremely long bang with a wave
in it like John Cougar Melancamp.
Kinghorn said she thinks the rea
sons styles have changed for men is
because the attitudes toward men have
changed. She said men no longer have
to look macho. The look now, she said,
is individualized the preppy, more
professional or GQ.
"I think GQ has done a lot for the
guys," she said. "I think the guys in Lin
coln, Nebraska, have really got it
together."
One of the more extreme cuts for
women, which is "the thing on the East
Coast," is the shaved head. Kinghorn,
whose hair not only is shaved, but
colored three dimensionally, said this
style won't hit Lincoln for another six
months.
Besides the different styles coming
in, hair stylists are emphasizing color.
Bleached blondes are in
Marilyn Monroe-type, bleached
blondes are really in, Johnson said.
"If you look in the magazines, you see
a lot more blonds," she said. "We usu
ally only get one person wanting
bleaching in five months, but it has
already picked up to two or three a
month."
The bleaching process is a two-step
process involving two chemicals. The
first chemical strips the hair of all
pigment, and the second adds the
desired blond color.
There are several variations on
blonds, Johnson said. One that is very
popular is three dimensional, with the
top being very blond, and the end being
reddish-blond, she said.
Designers also are showing blond
on the outer layers of the hairs, and
dark undersides, she said.
Mork said there will be a high demand
for weaving of colors. This involves
' adding or stripping every other section
of the hair. She, too, said that blonding
of any shade or dimension is a big hit.
Mork said highlighting the natural
color of the hair is a popular way of
adding soft colors.
"I expect color to really move,"
Kinghorn said. "People are looking for
new and different things that are fun.
Coloring is really a jazzy way to do
that."
Area hairstylists urge people to con
sider their lifestyles before choosing a
hairstyle.
Johnson said it is important for cus
tomers to tell their stylists what kind
of lifestyle they lead, so the stylist can
recommend a style that will be not
only becoming and in style, but conven
ient. She said people can get cuts that can
look conventional at work, but less
conventional for evening or casual wear.
Mork said the styles for men and
women are more diversified regardless
of age, sex or race. Just as with clo
thing, she said, almost anything is
acceptable for hair styles.
"People are demanding to be treated
as individuals," she said. "The styles
now are fitting and complementing
the current fashions. But above all, fin
ishing is the statement of today."
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