Can we talk about Sarah Jessica Parker’s hair? Or more specifically, Carrie Bradshaw’s hair?
How do I feel about Sex in the City? It’s about four self-involved career women living in New York who spend all their time looking for guys and wearing fabulous clothes. Isn’t that shallow and materialistic? My sister and I agree that the women are all poor role models for our teenage daughters.
Who am I kidding? I love Sex in the City. I missed it in its heyday because I’ve never had cable but I catch reruns when I go to the gym on the weekends. I can spend a long time on the elliptical when Sex in the City is on. I recently saw an episode from Season 5 (I think) when Carrie had short hair and I fell in love. With Carrie’s hair that is. It just so happens that I have short curly hair myself, not dissimilar from Season 5 Carrie but not as fabulous. I went online to save some pictures to my Pinterest and to see if I could pick up any fabulous hair pointers and what I found was devastating.
First of all, Sarah Jessica Parker hated her hair that way. She only cut it that short because her hair was damaged. So sad! I felt like Sarah Jessica Parker was saying she didn’t like MY hair. I was crushed. Furthermore, my sister told my that my niece won’t even watch episodes from Season 5 because she hated Carrie’s hair short. I suppose that long curly hair is Sarah Jessica’s thing – part sophisicated fashion icon, part boho imp. The short hair made her look too grown up.
Second, here’s how Sarah Jessica’s hair stylist gets her hair to look so fabulous: she straightens it, then uses five different curling irons of different sizes to curl it. Can you imagine? Naturally curly hair straightened and recurled? It just reaffirms to me that curly hair is unmanageable.
I should have known. Actually I did know. Years back, I told my hairdresser that I wanted my hair cut like Andie MacDowell’s in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Another instance of a curly-haired actress going short for one gig, getting crap for it, and going back to long forevermore. My hairdresser, who also did hair for movies and television (I do live in Los Angeles, after all), said, “you know that Andie MacDowell has her hair stylist standing two feet away from her on the set, ready to do touch ups thoughout the day, right?’
Uh yeah, I guess that makes sense. And therefore, it is unrealistic to think that our hair will ever look like actresses’. But somehow, the curly haired girls make you think that you can get your hair to look like that if your hair is naturally curly. Just takes the proper cut and product right? Apparently not.
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