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Former Child Stars Take Note: Emma Watson’s Crop is the Chicest Rebellion

The world is abuzz with news of Emma Watson’s recent hair makeover. The twenty year old star cut off her long blond locks for a pixie cut that calls to mind Mia Farrow, Twiggy, and Natalie Portman. Opinions are mixed on Watson’s crop, but personally I love it.

Why is it such a big deal?

Well, Watson is also Hermione Granger (not to mention Burberry’s campaign star). She’s the highest paid actress of 2009, and there’s no denying that there are millions of teens (and even some adults, we’d bet) that idolize Watson and are likely to try out the pixie cut following Watson’s lead.

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Beauty Trendspotting: Dye Jobs

Talk about statement hair. From Dame Viv to Yohji Yamamoto, dyed and powdered hairstyles have definitely captured the attention of the front row and beyond this season. The boys behind Proenza Schouler said that they were inspired by “surfing and skating” for their most recent collection. But this apparent Nineties grunge revival in fashion has [...]

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Beauty

Stuck in the Middle

This summer we at Fashionista have been drooling over long hair and fingering our own locks, cursing them for not growing faster. The grass does always seem greener, doesn’t it? You have hair far past your shoulders and then you think, “Hmm, that Alexa Chung sure has a cute little crop going on…” Snip snip! [...]

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Beauty

A Perfect 10

Farrah Fawcett’s recent death is still inspiring odes to her famous locks. We’ve already rhapsodized on how much we love Farrah, but this got us all thinking about other 1970s hair icons. Since it’s summer, the first lady that came to mind was Bo Derek, running on the beach in 10. Farrah had the blown-out [...]

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Beauty

Trend Test: Sulfate-Free Shampoos

When it comes to our hair, many of us are what can be politely described as crazytown. We like our hair to look and feel a certain way and get really bitchy when our strands don’t comply. And since the natural boom, we’ve gotten even more exacting as to what’s actually in those products, or [...]

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Beauty

Tuesdays with Ted

Even though I’m officially brown-bagging my lunch since the e-word fell into a r-word, the one thing I can’t bear to give up is my pricey haircuts. Try as I might, I just can’t cut back on them. I’ve considered trying to DIY, but I had a bad experience in my youth that left me [...]

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Beauty

Would You Wear Fake Hair?

One of the best things about being in London is seeing what everyone in New York will be wearing in six months. Sure enough, peplums were already in the window of every high street store, everyone’s rocking Alice Dellal-like grungy booties, and there were an inordinate amount of super stylish fashion show-going girls with a [...]

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Beauty

Gisele Cuts Her Own Hair (Do You?)

Ok, not really. But Plum Sykes’ article on shoulder-length hair in the new March Vogue does explain how Gisele ended up chopping off her Gisele Hair, copied by thousands of magazine-gripping women everywhere: Apparently, she spaced, cut her super long hair to her shoulders, then freaked out and called her hairdresser at John Frieda in [...]

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Beauty

Rock Out With Your Models Out

Beauty inspiration backstage can run the gamut from “English Rose” to “Post-Apocalyptic Bladerunner Chic.” But this season, it looks like the name of the game is mostly just rock ‘n roll. Rock as an inspiration is nothing new – it pops up every season. But this time around things feel a bit different. Those that [...]

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Beauty

The Bowl Cuts at Phillip Lim: Explained

At the 3.1 Phillip Lim show last night, stylist Odile Gilbert was fitting all the models with custom snipped, mushroom-shaped wigs. Well, not all the models — show opener Tao Okamoto was left wig-free. That’s because the Japanese stunner was Lim’s beauty inspiration for last night’s show. Gilbert and Nars’s lead makeup artist, Ayako, both [...]

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Beauty

Aveeno for Hair, Too

Amazing beauty news via WWD: Aveeno, perhaps the best skincare brand in your local Duane Reade (or anywhere, if you ask me), is branching out into hair care. The Johnson & Johnson-owned brand will release their new shampoos and conditioners this April at a price point of $6.49, which is a very friendly price these [...]

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Beauty

Couture Hair to LFW

Just a teeny tiny bit of Fashion Week news today: The big non-Golden Globes announcement this morning seems to be all about Sebastian Professional sponsoring the Henry Holland show for London Fashion Week next month. So we take that to mean that the hairstyles will be particularly over the top, meaning a glimpse of Agyness [...]

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