03/08/2001
By Tim Wyatt / The Dallas Morning News
A colleague too busy to spend hours thumbing through hair salon magazines gave us the inspiration to scare up some online salon styles. This quest, conducted by a man who can cut his hair with a battery-powered beard trimmer in less than a minute, brought out the frustration that you thickly tressed souls must experience.
This site boldly claims to have the world's largest photographic directory of hairstyles, though we found it to be a cleverly designed directory of professionals who specialize in African-American hairstyles. Click Find It on the cover page to go to categories such as braids, "Up Dos" and twists, with extras thrown in for holiday and prom hairdos. Then click the desired category and your ethnicity, gender and state to see the hairdos and stylists who specialize in what you seek.
Scroll far down to Hairstyles for nine categories of what appears to be a showcase of Hollywood stylist George Carroll's work, plus a general collection of basic styles and descriptions – the elevated bob, the A-line bob, bias cuts. The site also posts movie star hairstyles for men and women so visitors can learn how to get that James Dean, Ricky Martin or Bob Hope look. That's right, the Bob Hope look.
The style gallery here offered links to more than a dozen stylists' galleries and their specialties, including ultra long hair, men's cuts and celebrity styles. It is one of the few sites that actually delivers children's styles, although the cuts were exclusively for girls. The interactive style selector lets viewers get a little more picky about what they're looking for and, unlike other similar tools, seemed to always bring back something to view regardless of how silly or specific our request was. Just one question: Is it just us or should everyone be alarmed when a model puts a floppy hat on her new hairdo?
We went into the Sue-lect Style Selector to see if these folks posted a good variety of styles. It was nice to see that they included photos of everyday men and women. And each style was labeled by color, length and texture. Models' ages were even included, and should you find a style to take to the corner cosmetician, the page will blow up a photo to print. Still, the selection was lacking in a lot of areas – we found no children's styles after five or six tries.
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We simply had to include this site based solely on its mission to chronicle hairdos of bygone days, such as the Unisex look of the 1970s that single-handedly lowered America's aggregate testosterone level by 25 percent for a decade. Head into The Archives for styling directions for bobs, pixies and waves, including two styles that still live on in certain roadside diners of Texas: the bouffant and the beehive. Navigating here can be rough, though, as photo links appear to bounce through a century of good and bad hair in confused fashion.
Tim Wyatt is a Dallas Morning News staff writer.
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