The Return Of Short Healthy Strands

I caught up this morning by phone with Celebrity Hairdresser Robert Hallowell who is holding court with the hair and beauty media in New York before heading off to Europe for an extended trip.

Now that his favorite long term hair client - Geena Davis - is on what may be a permanent hiatus from Commander In Chief, Robert is playing catch up with meetings that have been put off until the end of Commander's filming season.

I asked Robert what new hair trends he was seeing at the present time. He reported "short hair is definitely on the way back in fashion". Robert remarked that "bobs, pixies or anything that falls into the gamine category" is becoming extremely popular in the current hair fashion landscape.

This craze for short styles has been building since Sienna Miller, Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley appeared for various film roles with super short locks. Lauren Holly went very short - for her role as the NCIS Chief in early 2006.

Robert reported that during his current weeklong stay in New York he "cut long time client Lucy Liu's hair above her shoulders into a classic bob that is very short at the nape of the neck with longer strands extending from there in a traditional Bob". Robert noted "Lucy's new bob has lots of texture and is worn around her face - which is how Lucy prefers to wear her hair".

Lucy uses Robert's fabulous hair care line - Prawduct - which was recently enhanced with lots of new goodies to make the already great hair care line even more spectacular.

Although long hair is still very much in fashion, with no signs of it losing popularity anytime soon, Robert noted that long hair fashions are more and more "tied to embracing natural textures".

Robert pointed out that "hair consumers are no longer willing to risk damaged strands due to chemical treatments just to create bigger curls or waves". Instead, as Robert noted, "the trend is to take natural hair textures - both with long and short styles and crank them up with hair friendly styling techniques such as finger scrunching, wet roller sets and other healthy texture creating techniques".