More feminine hair styles

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32659, 15 July 1971, Page 6

More feminine hair styles

Fashion and hair styles, says Mr Colin Lewis, the world champion hairdresser, have never been so closely linked as they are at the moment.

“With clothes ■becoming more feminine, hair styles are becoming softer, with more wave and softer outline!. The whole look is a natural- one. It should be so well cut that after it has been' wet, al[ you need to do is puff it up with your fingers, and it returns to its shape." Mr Lewis is in Christchurch on a New Zealand tour taking part in seminars and giv-

ing demonstrations. The tour is sponsored by Sonata Laboratories, Ltd. He won his title in Stuttgart last September competing against stylists from more than 20 countries. It was the first time a British hairdresser has won the title, and it is the first time a current title-holder has visited New Zealand. For Mr Lewis, the cut is the basis of any hair style. He doesn’t favour any particular style, but believes a woman’s features and personality must dictate the way she wears her hair. “SHAGGY LOOK” “At the moment, the shaggy look is being worn by

; one in every five English : girls. It’s been the fashion i style for about two years. Butl i present trend* are a variation, on it. There 1* more height : and wave on the crown, and i the look is more Sculpted. It i can be worn long or short." The added curl, Mr Lewi* believes, is part of the relationship betweeri clothes and hair. “Girls are wearing hotpants in England now and the whole look is one of, a little boy. The curls give that cherubic bounce needed. It’s a . cheeky look." A firm believer in wearing what suits, not what fashion dictates: Mr Lewis, said the style could be adapted to suit the older woman, who definitely would not. be wearing hot-pants, and had, absolutely no desire to look like a cherub. New effects are being used in colouring hair. “It’s called pebbling. What it entails is using several colours in the same tone of the person’s hair, some lighter and some darker, so that when the hair is under lights, it looks as if it is the lights picking up highlights in the hair." “BLONDES STAND OUT” As far as hair colour is concerned, it seems gentlemen still prefer blondes. “Any girl with lightcoloured hair stands out in j a crowd more than a girl with brunette or black hair. People are more inclined to remember the girl, if only for the colour of her hair,” Mr Lewis said. Hair condition was still not as good as it could be, he said. With the number of conditioners on the market, every woman could keep her hair in good order. “A natural bristle brush is a good investment. » It brushes the hair rather than the scalp, and distributes the oil evently.” NX HAIR New Zealand hair, he said, was quite fine on the whole. “Of course, with the humidity in the air here,' anybody with coarse hair would end up quite frizzy.” Mr Lewis recently has designed a collection of wigs made of synthetic fibre. They have been manufactured in i Hong Kong. They are in < current styles and are “qual-1 ity controlled,” so that every i wig has its quota of fibre, arid so has no bald* spots. i “Wigs were such a big< boom in Britain jt short time 1 ago that they , were being i really, ruined the market" i Already, Mr Lewis, agedt 27,,fias'visited several boun- i tries doing • promotional work, and when he leaves New Zealand he will travel , to Spain, back to England, > and then dri to Denmark. < He ir married with three i children. . f