Spring Break
Android of 2046 wanted: in search of coif of the future
Fleeting memories of hair trends abroad
Anna Nguyen
Issue date: 2/22/08 Section: Life & Style
The image of the android elegantly teetering in her sky-high black platform heels on the train to 2046 is one of my favorite scenes in the ambitious Wong Kar-wai film, '2046.' In truth, I have been madly enamored with the android's big wild mess of a coif since I first watched the movie about three years ago. A perfect hybrid mess of voluminous curls and clever locks of straight hair angled deliberately.??
Settling comfortably in my hairdresser's chair at my last hair appointment, Sunshine asked me what I wanted her to do with my hair that called out for a crop.
"Faye Wong's crazy hair in '2046'," I didn't say. Instead, I asked her to clean up the length of my hair, which was in a shaggy stage since my last hair cut at a salon in Pau, with the addition of shorter bangs. Sunshine and I have had a rather consistent collaboration on the style of my hair. A modern bob cut, lengths of the ends at the sides and long bangs swept to the side are cut in a manner that I've grown accustomed to since adopting the style some few years ago. The actual hair length has been cut at various lengths as a result of the technical uses of razors and shavers, but the overall look has been executed in a coherent mode, inspiration perhaps forming from the stiff panache of Anna Wintour and the Posh edginess. And I've always used generous amounts of Aqua Net hairspray, a product I've had a clingy love affair with it for a few years, to add a bit of life to my hair.
But for that day's appointment, I had no specific instructions for her regarding the bangs, trusting her intuition for a slightly different look.
As Sunshine began trimming away, my thoughts on the future of the hair altered to thoughts of the past as I reflected about hairstyles in France. Not surprisingly, Faye's androidic hair was featured on many models in the French magazines I perused at bookstores downtown. Girls walking down the runway in dresses from the haute couture collection of Jean Galliano and Jean-Paul Gaultier showcased even crazier, bigger hairstyles. On the downtown streets of Pau, I did not see French girls strut in their ballet flats with crazy hair, but I was able to assume the trend of choice among the females. Based upon observations, nearly all of the girls' style of coif was similar or exact replicas of a particular style. A simple, straightforward style many girls have internationally. Hair color of choice was a deep brown or the darkest of blacks in cuts of long layers, and I'd only see an occasional blonde in the midst of dark-haired crowds.??
Settling comfortably in my hairdresser's chair at my last hair appointment, Sunshine asked me what I wanted her to do with my hair that called out for a crop.
"Faye Wong's crazy hair in '2046'," I didn't say. Instead, I asked her to clean up the length of my hair, which was in a shaggy stage since my last hair cut at a salon in Pau, with the addition of shorter bangs. Sunshine and I have had a rather consistent collaboration on the style of my hair. A modern bob cut, lengths of the ends at the sides and long bangs swept to the side are cut in a manner that I've grown accustomed to since adopting the style some few years ago. The actual hair length has been cut at various lengths as a result of the technical uses of razors and shavers, but the overall look has been executed in a coherent mode, inspiration perhaps forming from the stiff panache of Anna Wintour and the Posh edginess. And I've always used generous amounts of Aqua Net hairspray, a product I've had a clingy love affair with it for a few years, to add a bit of life to my hair.
But for that day's appointment, I had no specific instructions for her regarding the bangs, trusting her intuition for a slightly different look.
As Sunshine began trimming away, my thoughts on the future of the hair altered to thoughts of the past as I reflected about hairstyles in France. Not surprisingly, Faye's androidic hair was featured on many models in the French magazines I perused at bookstores downtown. Girls walking down the runway in dresses from the haute couture collection of Jean Galliano and Jean-Paul Gaultier showcased even crazier, bigger hairstyles. On the downtown streets of Pau, I did not see French girls strut in their ballet flats with crazy hair, but I was able to assume the trend of choice among the females. Based upon observations, nearly all of the girls' style of coif was similar or exact replicas of a particular style. A simple, straightforward style many girls have internationally. Hair color of choice was a deep brown or the darkest of blacks in cuts of long layers, and I'd only see an occasional blonde in the midst of dark-haired crowds.??
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