Time and time again, I'm amazed at how much fun it is to recreate all these iconic looks of the past!
This month one of my near and dear clients was my Blade Runner model. I recreated Rachel, with victory rolls and all.
Cheers to Hair Movie Night!
Crown Of Braids: Inspiration from Game Of Thrones
The new season of Game of Thrones started last Sunday and it’s got Morphic all a buzz!
We couldn’t help but be mesmerized by the show's wigs and intricate braids, pointing and gawking in amazement, like little girls watching their mother get dressed up. We're not alone, right?
The little girl in all of us imagines living in that fantasy timeline where dragons hatch from fire born eggs and princesses, queens and sorceresses all have hair that flows like amber honey down to their knees.
Okay, it's Spring 2013. There are no dragons and winter is NOT coming. Even so, isn't modern day life a “Game of Thrones”? One where the battle in life, is for success, and the throne is the place we claim in it?
Here are our three modern Morphic takes on Khaleesi, Cersei, and Sansa. Whether it be summoning the witchy winds of a yellow cab or demanding attention while strolling Maiden Lane. These contemporary takes on Game of Thrones braids will have you feeling modern, empowered and regal. Because we are all our own royalty, we might as well rock a crown.
The Sansa: Innocent and pure, a hopeless romantic. You might make the mistake of calling her naïve. She is anything but. Smart as a whip this one and apt at using her wit to keep her ahead. She is cool under pressure, with an easy spirit. Her style is much the same.
The Cersei: Beautiful and in control she is often misunderstood as a brash and arrogant type. But don’t mistake her confidence as anything but! She knows what she wants and she’s not afraid to demand it! She is a go-getter and she looks amazing while she does it.
The Khaleesi: Intent with purpose,always on the go. She is mysterious and powerful. An air of magic fallows her wherever she goes. Some might call her sorceress, only because she is so bewitching. Down to Earth and totally out of this world. Her appearance is effortlessly tough yet feminine.
Are you going to be watching Game of Thrones? Or, perhaps more importantly, will you be sporting a Game of Thrones braid this spring?
Veronica Lake and Victory Rolls
Check out this hilarious video of Veronica Lake giving up her infamous "one-eye swoop" luscious hair style, for grandma looking victory rolls.
Veronica Lake 2013
Did any of you Morphic Beauties catch the awards shows this Spring? With our next Hair Movie Night coming up, featuring Veronica Lake, we couldn't help but notice the HUGE comeback her classic hairstyle is making among hollywood starlets this year! Her classic, wavy style was all over the red carpets at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards this year. On blondes, brunettes, redheads and every color in between, it is a gorgeous style that always looks glamorous!
Reese Witherspoon, Academy Awards 2013
Jennifer Lopez, Golden Globe Awards 2013
Amanda Seyfried, Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013
Jessica Chastain, Oscars 2013
The original peek-a-boo of the 1940s
Destined on a hair journey for a discovery, Mishi found just that at hair-storian Jeff Hafler's museum in Twentynine Palms, California. Lo and behold, Mishi came across a 1940s Duart Perm Machine once owned by one of Veronica Lake's hairdressers, Earle Adams, who donated the perm machine to Hafler's museum in recent years. Giving a brief narration into the life of Lake, Hafler stated that she "was famous for her hair and it was believed that after she was asked to cut it during the war, it was the demise of her career". During the Great War, women went to work in the factories with Lake's popularized style. Reports claim of women unable to see through their bangs and consequently lost their fingers or got their hair caught in the machines! Lake was pressured to make a statement and shift the hair trend by cutting her hair, which ultimately back fired never to return into the lime light.
The caption reads: Veronica Lake was known for wearing her hair with a sultry swoop covering one eye. It was coined "The Veronica Lake dip" and was copied in hair salons across the country. But in 1943 the peekaboo blonde hair do was a war menace. Defense plant workers wearing the Veronica Lake dip were getting their hair caught in the machines, and the War Productions Board, promoting its own image of Rosie the Riveter, asked the star to give up her famous trademark "for the duration." On the advice of Paramount she posed again for Life with her golden tresses braided and pinned to her scalp and announced, "Any woman who wears her hair over one eye is silly." She had done her part for the war effort but without her sultry, languid dip her movie career sputtered into oblivion. -Femininity