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Stars aren’t short on brave new looks
    2011-07-29  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    Actresses Vanessa Hudgens, Ginnifer Goodwin, Evan Rachel Wood, Emma Watson, Dakota Fanning and Anna Faris are all sporting new shorn ’dos.

    Scissor sisters Hudgens, Goodwin, Wood and Watson did indeed go short, with dramatic results. Fanning and Faris, meanwhile, got a little help from wigs while shooting their respective films “Now Is Good” and “The Dictator.”

    “Cutting off your hair is a big image change, but I think people like women who are taking risks,” says Adir Abergel, a Frederic Fekkai celebrity hair guru who works with Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Garner. “For a lot of girls, it’s a liberating moment, an act of individualism.”

    But because an actress’s appearance is an integral part of her career, she can’t just stroll into a salon and get a dramatic cut. And it’s especially risky if she’s shooting a film or TV series that requires a consistent look, as with Watson while she played Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” movies.

    Once she finished, she headed to the salon. “I just needed to do something that signaled: ‘OK, you’re entering a new phase,’” Watson said in November. “I needed to do something to move on in some straight way.”

    Actresses with a super-famous face have an easier time pulling off the dramatic makeover.

    “When there’s a big change, it’s hard for you to be immediately recognizable — unless you’re already huge,” says Abergel, who styled Watson’s December 2010 Marie Claire cover, which unveiled her new ’do, and cut Sienna Miller’s blond locks into a crop to play Edie Sedgwick in “Factory Girls.” “You know Emma Watson no matter what she does to her hair.”

    Sometimes, as with Mia Farrow’s pixie, a haircut not only works — it becomes utterly indelible. Other times, the cut’s consequences aren’t good. When Keri Russell cut off her curls in 1999, the response was so negative that when her series “Felicity” declined in ratings, her coif was blamed.

    So when going shear, be prepared for an onslaught of attention — and commentary, says Oscar Blandi, who works with Ashley Olsen and Kyra Sedgwick.

    “A lot of women want to do something new. But imagine if someone like Jennifer Aniston got a pixie cut: The world would stop,” Blandi says. “Everyone would talk about it. You get judged, and there are consequences.”

    That’s why some celebs opt for wigs. “It takes a very strong person to decide to chop their hair that short,” says celebrity colorist Rita Hazan, who works with Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez. “The odd few girls that do it, they’re more edgy and young. You can tell by their careers that they’re bigger risk-takers.”

    Those assessments apply to Wood, the Emmy-nominated “Mildred Pierce” star who regularly revamps her look, and Goodwin, an up-and-coming actress who’s playing Snow White in the ABC series “Once Upon a Time,” which premieres in October.

    (SD-Agencies)

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