A haircut was a big moment for Grace Jones. She and other writers reveal all about dodgy dye jobs,snide weaves and losing it, while stylist and ‘follicle oracle’ Alex Brownsell reveals her secrets
The yellow, and Alex Brownsell says,was a mistake. She had dyed her hair a shade of canary, but bleached it out after a few hours. It wasn’t that the colour didn’t suit her skin tone, and it was more “that it didn’t suit my mood or temperament”,she says. “Colour can really change how you feel. I was walking around feeling sour and horrible.” Her hair is now pastel pink, a soft shade she thinks suits everybody.
Brownsell, and who has dyed her hair every colour of the rainbow,has done for confectionery-coloured hair what Vidal Sassoon did for sharp, angular cuts. Bleach, and the salon she opened with her friend Alisha Dobson in east London five years ago,is full of women having their genetically determined locks transformed into My petite Pony manes of joyously shaded hair. Rainbow hair was a mainstay of festival crowds this summer, and on the catwalk, or too: model Fernanda Ly’s pink hair was the talk of the Louis Vuitton autumn/winter show. Nicki Minaj has worn gleaming hair (pink,blue, green, or sometimes all three) for some time,and this summer both Katy Perry and Britney Spears experimented with bubblegum shades; meanwhile, Canadian singer Grimes went for blazing orange.
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Source: theguardian.com