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Part 3: Disconnection

In this episode of What’s the Buzz, Sam looks at Disconnection and its importance in today’s world where the trend of short hairstyles continue to dominate. Sam also looks at how celebrity trends have impacted today’s hairstyles, with particular focus on celebrities with short hair.

Let’s talk about What’s the Buzz. Disconnection continues to be the strongest element of design today. Why? Because it allows us to create the versatility. It gives us a sense of looseness. It gives us the movement, the texture and the volume. And most importantly, I can control disconnection. I can’t control the texturizing techniques. If there is any strong message I want you to get out of disconnection it it’s going to be that message. Shorter hair continues to be the new long. Imagine that. All these clients that came in with long hair, cut it off into that bob. Now you are going to find this summer, they are either going to do two things. Either going to grow it out and you’re going to see more mid-length shapes or they are going to go shorter. When we are talking about short hair, we are talking about choppy, texturized, crop. It’s a kind of updated 80’s pixie look if you will. And you’re seeing that. Take a look at now, mature women, Katie Couric, her hair is short, so you are seeing a lot of these people who are cutting their hair short which is great. The icon for short hair right now, I would say has been Reanna. The icon for short hair back in, let’s see, in ’08 was Agyness Deyn, the model Agyness Deyn. She was the icon for short hair. She was one of the first models, top models, who really cut her hair short and a lot of them started to do that after that. Volume becomes the key, yet what makes it fresh is where and how we place it. Volume. Amy Winehouse, poor Amy Winehouse. Take a look at Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse had her volume set this way, so it was more diagonal rather than vertical sitting straight up. Take a look at the red carpet. When these icons take a walk down the red carpet their volume was placed in the nape area. You’re seeing lots of chignons, buns, simply, organically pulled back into loose pieces, very undone yet requires maintenance and it requires a technique in order to create it. So volume becomes the key and what makes it fresh is where, and most importantly how we place it. Fringes. What do I mean by a fringe when I say a fringe. Thank you very much. That exactly what I mean. Bangs. Fringes. Lets start to change our communication and change and update our language and you’re going to hear a couple of things that I am going to share with you. Fringes continue to awaken a shape. One-length guest walks in, not sure what they want to do, simple cut a fringe on them and we’ve awaken the shape, without layering it or doing anything else. Fringes are wide. They are wider than ever. They are cut back as far back as they can be cut. They’re cut back further. Welcome back a by-level type of feeling but a very modern by-level type of feeling. They’re blunt, they’ve become very blunt, they’re heavy. Now the next fringe we are going to start to see is that we are going to see that bluntness start to become more choppy. So it’s going to become a little more choppy, a little more chewed, maybe even graphic, and of course you always have the side sweeping. Now when we talk about fringes, it’s the personality that we look at to determine what type of fringe. If I have someone that’s a very cute type of personality, I immediately think about something that might be more graphic, something a little bit more chewed. If I have a more sexy personality sitting…my husband likes my hair more sexy, I like my hair sexy, I think about side sweeping. If I have a rock ‘n’ roll guy sitting in my chair, a rock ‘n’ roll person sitting in my chair that personality, I’m thinking eye-brow skimming where they can barely see. Heavy. That type of personality. So what I wanted to share with you there is that when it comes to fringes, identify the personality then we know where we need to go from for the fringe. Just because heavy, blunt and wide fringes are in they’re not meant for everybody.

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