personally speaking – since when did a bad haircut become CHIC?

I DON’T UNDERSTAND why some women pay good money to look like she gave herself a BAD HAIRCUT!

I don’t know about everyone else but I’m thinking that when you go to the hairdresser you should leave feeling better than when you first walked in.  For me that means taking off an inch or two to help tidy up split ends, some layers that fall nicely around the face and a blow dry that lasts for a minimum of three days.  A good haircut should make you feel sexier don’t you agree?  Well as it so happens not everyone’s idea of sexy is the same….

THE BAD BANG THEORY:

Herzigova is beautiful but maybe she wants to distract people with bangs that look like they were cut with safety scissors in the dark.

Weirdly enough, there seems to be a lot of deliberately bad hair around these days.  Uneven bangs, lopsided looks, scissor marks & seemingly haphazard haircuts.  Case in point: a stylist who created a cut for a story in W magazine of a model wearing a Dior Haute Couture dress.  She may have been wearing haute couture but the effect the hair stylist (Malcolm Edwards) was going for with his zigzag coif was that of a kid who cut her hair with the kitchen scissors.  But of course for that shoot, the model wore a wig.  However the idea is for the reader to deliberately witness a crazy cut.  As if Dior needs something to distract you from a beautiful dress?

Also, in the dramatic season finale of Girls, Lena Dunham hacks away recklessly at her tresses but in the end miraculously ends up with a sassy, cute little pixie cut – which suits her quirky style.

No longer is cutting your own hair considered a desperate cry for help (Britney??)

Erin Anderson has handled the hair of Mila Jovovich and Chloë  Sevigny.  She works out of Woodley & Bunny in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn (a part of town where the girls who look like they cut their hair themselves probably live).  “The DIY haircut has been around for some time,” insists Anderson.  She recalls a time when a client of hers went so far as to ask her to cut his hair with her eyes closed.  Anderson’s strict rule:  Never cut your own hair while under the influence of alcohol or marijuana.  “Everything tends to look good if you’re drunk or stoned,” she says.

A hairdresser who goes by the name of Duffy (he’s also a classically trained stylist from the Vidal Sassoon school) has a request for a bad haircut…..he understands exactly what the customer is asking for.  “We have a painting at home by an artist called Alistair Frost – a canvas with a squiggle in it,” he says.  “The kid was 26 and had the confidence to make this gesture and turn around and say, ‘This is my work.’  That’s what this haircut is about.  The uninfluenced gesture.”  Still, it’s a hell of a lot easier said than done.  “For me to forget all I’ve learned and cut your hair like a kid did it is 10 times harder than if I were just to simply give you a graduated bob,” Duffy says.  He tells this customer that if she had fine blonde hair, he could make her hair look like it was chewed by a rat in six minutes but with her curly hair even if he hacked the crap out of it, it would be hard to see the damage.  So the good & bad news for this customer is that it would be difficult to give her a bad haircut.

As seen in W Magazine

Lesson – a GOOD STYLIST trying to give you a bad haircut is different from a BAD STYLIST trying to give you a good haircut.

What do you think?  Is the Hatchet Haircut for you?