Posted by Admin, on March 9th, 2010, under CELEBRITY HAIR
Style winner … Sandra Bullock wows at the Oscars
IT’S Oscars time again.
And every year we eagerly await the stars’ grand entrance via the red carpet.
Sashaying elegantly and posing for the paps – oh to live the A-list life.
With stylists on speed dial, immaculate hair and pristine make-up we long to look just like our idols.
Well some of them anyway…
From Sandra Bullock’s cascading locks to Kate Winslet’s 50’s do, you don’t need an A-list budget to look a million dollars.
Goldwell and KMS have teamed up with the Vitality Show to recreate the key looks from the Oscar red carpet for you to copy at home.
Stylist to the stars, Michael Barnes, whose previous clients include Keira Knightley and Lily Cole, shows us his step by step guide on how to achieve glossy gorgeousness.
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Posted by Gary, on March 8th, 2010, under CELEBRITY HAIR
Kathy Ireland and Charlize Theron at the 2010 Oscars.
When it comes to Oscars hair, each year we see similar hair styles on different celebrities. Some of them nail it while others, um, don’t.
This year’s case study: The face-framing updo.
Both Kathy Ireland and Charlize Theron wore this style to the 2010 Oscars. As you can see in the photo above, Theron looks gorgeous, while Ireland looks disheveled and overdone.
How can two styles based on the same underlying idea have such shockingly different results?
We turned to celebrity hairstylist Enzo Angileri for answers.
He created Theron’s Oscars look, and the key, he says, is to not leave anything to chance. “You have to remember gravity, and chance. Things fall, and you have to anticipate that,” he says. “You can’t know what her hair is going to look like when she gets there,” he says.
He relies on tried-and-trusted techniques to make sure hair stays in place. His mane tip: When drying the hair, he bends it at the roots, to direct the entire hair where he wants it to stay. Thanks to this process, “Charlize’s hair will only move ¾ inch from her eyebrow in either direction, he says.
The right technique, combines with trustworthy products (Anglieri uses ), will ensure your ‘do ends up a “do,” rather than a “don’t.”
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Posted by Gary, on March 8th, 2010, under CELEBRITY HAIR
Scotland’s notoriously bad weather appears to be behind why more of the country’s population appeared to be blessed with ginger hair, new research has claimed.
Figures show that almost one in 10 (eight per cent) Scottish and Irish people have ginger hair including actor Ewan McGregor.
The non scientific research found that in areas where the temperatures in summer were cooler and winter days were shorter – such as in Scotland – people with ginger hair were more likely to survive and evolve.
This was compared to people with the trait living in places with hot temperatures, such as Africa where humans are thought to have evolved, where people with a ginger hair genetic strain were more likely die.
Emily Pritchard, a 26 year-old University of Edinburgh genetics student, made the link to Scottish people, after writing a story for the university’s magazine about her sister’s red hair.
It could offer up a reason why more people in Scotland appeared to have ginger hair than elsewhere throughout Europe.
It was based on previous research that found humans who had evolved in Africa, who had the less than beneficial genetic trait, were more likely to develop skin cancer from sunburn because of their fair skin.
While human beings probably developed on the African continent between one and two million years ago, red hair only starting appearing in the race once humans starting settling in cooler European climates, as recently as 20,000 years ago.
As small tribes began to move throughout Europe to places with cooler summer days and longer winters, this small gene pool meant people with red hair were able to better survive local environments.
The PhD student from the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the Western General Hospital, admitted her research “was speculation rather than scientific study, but it is plausible”.
“The smaller your sample the more likely something rare is going to happen,” she told The Times.
“The Celts, by chance, had a high frequency of the ginger mutation, which was able to persist over time.”
Some of the more famous Scottish exports with red hair include Ewan McGregor, the actor, Billy Bremner, the footballer, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat leader, Shirley Manson, the singer and even Willie, the angry groundskeeper from The Simpsons television programme.
Figures show that almost one in 10 (eight per cent) Scottish and Irish people have ginger hair, compared to between one and two per cent for the rest of the European population.
Her next piece of research will be to investigate shampoo.
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