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more about #vidalsassoon whynotshesaid: My ex-husband loved long hair, and he insisted that I keep my hair long for him. When I left him, one of the first things I did was chop it off into ... more » kerry: A few years ago, when I still wore a graduated bob, I had a student stylist at the Aveda Institute who was a genius with the technical cuts. On our la... more » Thus Spake KATE!: ive only had hair that reached my shoulders once since i was 13 and at that time it manic-panic bright red. i cycle from a pixie to a bob every couple... more » missmaia: I have a buzz cut, and a women once said to me, "Wow, I've always wanted to do my hair like that, but my husband won't let me. His first wife ran off ... more » Flackette Goes Retro: I dwell in the limbo of straight, shoulder length-ish hair. No snappy geometric short cut or pixie - my face is too round. No long, lush waves - impos... more » Jenloveshercurves: I feel like my long hair does liberate me, no need to go to the hairdresser if I don't want! #vidalsassoon more » jenilane: We need some more of this. I'm so sick of everyone, in Hollywood in particular, having the same damn hair! Try new things! See what works for you! It'... more » Ratinski: I wore my hair in a pixie from, oh, 13 to 26 or so, when I moved to New York and my new stylist explained to me that my kind of curl made a pixie the ... more » Vanilla_Ninja: I think Pixie cuts are really cute.I could never pull it off though, I look best with longer hair I think. Oh and when I think of vidal sassoon a... more » Fatwetdog: I wish I had an identical twin just so I could see once and for all what I would look like with a pixie cut. #vidalsassoon more » tiredfairy: I've got very short hair, pixieish, and it's a cut I always get when I'm really stressed and don't want to think about my hair anymore. I don't even c... more » myevilempire: I've had a pixie cut for years, and people seem to be unnerved by it for some reason. Several times a month I have women come up to me and tell me the... more » shorty63136: Dear Mr. Sassoon, Please liberate my hair. I will not cry - promise. Sincerely, shorty63136 #vidalsassoon more » zombies.like.lattés.too: I have long curly hair, and i've never felt MORE liberated. It probably has to do with the "no poo" routine I started last year - I'm spending so muc... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: Last month when I went to get my shoulder length hair chopped into a pixie, the stylist looked at me in the mirror and went, "you're not going to cry ... more » slowpoke.r: I find it interesting that Rosemary's Vidal haircut is in the book- it wasn't just done for the movie. When I first read the book as a teen I had no i... more » otherginger: The fact that Mia looked like a fragile elf child with enormous blue eyes probably helped her pull of that look. I'd look like Gertrude Stein on a pa... more » EarlyGrey: Short hair is fantastic if you have the bone structure to pull it off. I can go bob-length but my face is too full and young looking for anything shor... more » morninggloria: I thought that post-haircut tears were reserved for toddlers and contestants on America's Next Top Model. Am I the only broad who's never cried after... more » EkaterinaBallerina: When I lived in London several years back going to the Vidal Sassoon school to get free haircuts was really popular. Unfortunately it came with the ad... more » -
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Vidal Sassoon's "Liberated" Hair Often Came With Tears
Vidal Sassoon tells the Times Of London how he revolutionized hair in the '60s. "I had three or four weepers a year," he says. One husband asked him why he insisted on making his wife look like a lesbian. More »
