A New York Times article published Tuesday (Nov. 10) describes “”Blake Lively Hair” as the hairstyle clients are begging for while in their stylist’s chairs.
In the article, John Barrett, whose salon sits atop Bergdorf Goodman in Midtown Manhattan, says, “It’s aspirational hair. Clients don’t just want the hair, they want the life.” Barrett states that in the last six months, Blake’s disheveled, long layered cut, has been his most requested cut.
Nuri Yurt, of Toka Salon on Madison Avenue, tells New York Times that almost every one of his customers with long hair now asks for a style similar to Blake’s low-layered cut. “Her hair right now is a big trend,” Mr. Yurt says, but “if anybody can handle it — that’s a question mark.” The look, he stated, only works for tall, slim women.
“I didn’t really realize the extent of it,” Blake tells the paper of her hair’s popularity. Blake says she was born with a head full of hair and naturally maintains her look. Aside from frequently applying a conditioning masque, her stylist on the set of Gossip Girl, Jennifer Johnson, creates the unraveling curls by letting her hair dry in a simple chignon. Blake says she doesn’t have extensions and says she only has her blond hair touched up by her colorist, Rona O’Connor, every six months.
Find out how to get Blake Lively Hair (if you have an extra $1,200 a month) and see a pic where Blake seems to have extensions, after the break.
“Trouble is, some girls are born with amazing hair,” says Michael Wilson of Bumble and bumble, adding that hair like Ms. Lively’s “sets an unrealistic expectation.”
To create “Blake Lively Hair” for those who are not genetically blessed, Barrett adds removable extensions of human hair similar to a fall ($1,200 to $1,500 per piece) and recommends a litany of treatments not including the extensions, just the cut, which costs around $500 at his salon, conditioning treatments and heat styling tally up to around $1,200 a month. (Yikes.)
OK, here’s my question to my extension experts and readers alike: Do we really believe that Blake Lively only gets her hair colored twice and year and doesn’t have any extensions? It’s somewhat believable (the extensions part, at least) in the top picture, but I found other pictures where it looks like she has extensions in. Check this one:
Kinda looks like extensions to me… Thoughts?
Agree, she must have extensions. But afterall, who doesn’t? Even fifteen years old girls now have their own extensions nowdays, at least here.
*delete “nowdays” please haha*
Look at the color of her roots. 6 months between appts? Hmmm, not buying it.
Hair Thursday, I know, right? It bugs me that she wouldn’t admit to spending time/money to get her hair to look so fab. Why lie?
Vir, hahaha. That made me laugh. In the olden days we had to make our own extensions out of twigs and hay!
hee.
Did you know that her half brother is Rusty from European Vacation? It’s true.
Wow, Ebbie, I did not know that. Crazytown! Also, so weird that you can simultaneously surf the world wide web and sleep on ur dog bed. You are my everything.
I actually do believe that Blake has genetically beautiful and lush hair- and she really doesn’t wear extensions (most of the time, anyways). I doubt the color part, though. Seriously, 6 weeks, maybe.
Actually, I think her hair could just be a bit stringy in that last photo making it look like extensions when it is actually real. Sometimes my hair gets like that if I try out a new product or something.
I’m a mostly natural blond (my hair is dirty/dark blond). I can go 4+ months without getting it touched up as long as I tell my stylist to go for a natural look on my highlights…so I kinda buy the waiting months to touch up her hair but I think she probably gets it done more like 3-4 times a year rather than twice a year.
Her hair is beautiful though, whatever she actually does to it.
Tracy, her hair is definitely beautiful! I just don’t think I buy that she’s that low maintenance…
Audrey, I have a hard time buying the highlights part too. No one’s hair is strategically highlighted (up to the roots as Hair Thursday pointed out!) naturally.
I remember an issue of Sophisticate’s Hairstyle Guide where they talked to all of the girls from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and the hairstylist from the film. Lively had fifteen inches of extensions and they used a bevy of products on her hair.
Lee: whoa! Interesting!
if you watch the special features on the movie sisterhood of the traveling pants, they say that she wears hair extension. not for the length but for the volume.
kim: interesting!