Fame by a Hair, or a Head of It!

We are all mourning the loss of beautiful Farrah Fawcett. Much has been made of her beautiful smile and famous head of hair. When I was a young girl, everyone wanted Farrah's hairdo. And I must admit, everyone who got one actually looked good in it! So I ask myself, how could this be? Certainly, there have been celebrities who have inspired hairdos, like Dorothy Hamill and Princess Diana. Unfortunately, I don't think that everyone looked good in their hairdos.

But Farrah was another story.

Her haircut fit every woman because it framed their face and softened their features. But, let's examine this whole hair culture going back in time. In the 1940s, exquisite Hedy Lamarr wore her beautiful black hair, either parted in the middle or the side, but framing her exquisite face. Every actress in that generation either copied or was told to copy the Hedy Lamarr hairdo, and Joan Bennett was one of the most famous for doing this. The reason everyone wanted that Hedy Lamarr hairdo, was that again, like Farrah, that style with soft waves framing the face was just so becoming to most women.

So perhaps we ought to think before we copy movie actors and their hairdos and their makeup and their plastic surgery, we should examine whether that look is right for us.

So thank you, Farrah and Hedy. Somehow, I think if most women today wore their hair as either of you did in your day, like WOW!