Why does it seem like television is encouraging people to cut their long hair?
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Topic: Why does it seem like television is encouraging people to cut their long hair?
Posted By: Kent
Subject: Why does it seem like television is encouraging people to cut their long hair?
Date Posted: January 11 2000 at 8:57pm
A couple weeks ago, on the Jay Leno show, there was an incident where a long haired male employee was "coerced" into having his long hair cut. (I did not see this show.) A few nights later they showed him with his new look. For this show they also brought on his mother to share her feelings about his new look. He apparently was "pleased" with his new hairdo, and his mother waxed eloquent on how much better she felt he looked.Now tonight I see a promo for Oprah Winfrey announcing that tomorrow (Thursday, May 20) at 4:00 p.m. PDT they will show a woman with very long hair having it cut. (This woman hasn't had a haircut for 22 years!) The brief promo showed a back view of her hair (very beautiful :-) and a front view of her face and new shoulder length hair. I won't comment on my opinion of the results :-(Do you get the feeling there is a subtle "campaign" going on to encourage these kind of "makeovers" or is it just another television show striving for more sensationalism?
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Kent
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Posted By: JerkyFlea
Date Posted: January 11 2000 at 8:57pm
Though this has been discussed to death now, I'll cover my thoughts on it in two semi-quick points:1) Makeovers on TV are done for dramatic effect. Unless Oprah was specifically doing a show on maintaining long hair, they wouldn't have the woman calf length hair on to get her split ends trimmed. That's just the way it is. It gives the stylist(s) an opportunity to show their stuff, gives the audience interest due to the big change, and usually gives the made over person a pretty decent new look. In other words, if they didn't want their hair cut, don't go on the show.Interestingly, if you watch one of the mass makeover shows where they have nine or ten people getting new looks, at least two or three will only get very minor changes. Usually just enough to jazz up their previous look. I think that's because it takes the pressure off of the styling team to put all of their talent on display on one or two people.2) There isn't a conspiracy against long haired people. As I said in a previous post, I cut hair on the side and have for over 12 years. In that time, whenever a client decided to cut her long hair, it was usually AGAINST the wishes of family and friends. In fact, in some cases, she had to talk her significant other into it because he liked her long hair. The only time this wasn't the case was when it was done on the spur of the moment. Look around these days. Long hair is now considered "in" if you look at the fashion shows, so all of you Rapunzels out there are hip. :)That's my take on it, though it will surely be disputed and we'll go through the whole discussion again.:)As usual,JerkyFleaP.S. By the way, if you haven't noticed before, Jay Leno has a thing for hair. He's toned it down a bit, but watch when an actress appears on the show that has made any sort of change to her hairstyle. He'll comment on it and may even pursue some questions on it. Before he became the permanent host, in fact, that would have always been his FIRST question to the actress. It's subtle, but if you watch you'll pick up on it. The long haired stagehand is just another example.Related Link:JerkyFlea's Celebrity Hair Spray
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