New York governor Andrew Cuomo paid his ladyfriend's stylist to make him look good for TV. Well, of course — we don't want our politicians looking all shiny on camera.

Oh my, how cool does Emma Watson look on the December cover of Marie Claire: The Magazine With Absolutely No Fatties In It? We're serious: It's a great shot. And it's not the pose or the Photoshop. It's the hair.

One of the most intense and intimate relationships in our lives doesn't involve the words love or sex, but does involve the word hair. As I recently discovered, parting with a hairstylist is really not that different from a divorce...

We all have disastrous hair stories. Here's how to avoid them.

Now that she's done playing the bushy-haired Hermione Granger and has been replaced as the face of Burberry, Emma Watson's finally free to do what she wants with her locks. She showed off her new 'do on her Facebook page.

Convicted killer Amanda Knox says she receives some 300 fan letters a week. In the same interview, she explained her new short haircut: "It's a gesture of rebellion to show how my situation is devastating me."

Is it a myth? A cliche? A fact? We investigate, and find the first historical instance of the post-breakup hair-change:

• A source close to Sarah Palin has come out to defend the former governor against boob job allegations. "It's absolutely ridiculous," she tells US Magazine. Unfortunately, Palin or her reps could not be reached for comment.

Alex Kuczynski's had a controversial career, veering between legit (if oft-infuriating) journalist and the time-honored path of professional self-absorbed person. We've talked plastic surgery, we've talked surrogacy. But now she's tackling a new Issue: should she cut her hair?!

A 22-year-old Portland, Oregon man plead not guilty yesterday to cutting a fellow bus passenger's hair while sitting behind her on New Year's Eve. He's suspected of cutting or gluing the hair of several female riders in recent weeks. [AP]

In the future, stylists will cut hair with robotic metal attachments on their fingers. And hair dye won't smell. Oh wait: The future is now! [Telegraph, Scientific American]

Despite the fact that 90% of the time it is among the world's worst ideas and an inarguably false economy so far as self-respect goes, frugal at-home haircutting is apparently on the rise. I can vouch for it:

How is it possible to read two thousand words describing a haircut and come away with no idea what the hell Vogue's Plum Sykes is talking about? Is this some kind of weird, fashionista code?

Lindsay Ephgrave may have been thrilled with her televised makeover from hairstylist Charles Worthington, but the switch from blond waves to brown bob shocked her 10-month-old son, Charlie, who burst into tears. [Daily Mail]

It's always amazing the questions people are willing to ask in public advice forums. In today's Guardian, a man writes in to the advice columnist to ask whether his wife's new short haircut indicates a subconscious distaste for sex — and, yes, their sex life is bad. Therapist Pamela Stephenson Connolly's advice is…

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If you live in Japan and you're wondering where the economy is headed, just check out women's haircuts. A Japanese cosmetics company has noticed that when times are good, hair stays long. Short haircuts mean stocks and bonds are about to plunge. Kao, the second-largest cosmetics firm in Japan, has been getting its…