Primp Club: Blame the Recession: Experts Weigh In On the Bare Beauty Trend – Fashionista: Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice

True, the runways sure don't look like they used to pre-millenium. Productions look obviously broke, or maybe it's just plain ol' cheap. The 'no-hair hair' trend has gone way too far and has lasted way too long. It's been a good time for the spread-yourself-too-thin hair & make-up artists. A 'hair/make-up' artist was hardly heard of a little over a decade ago. The industry's decision to cut corners by cutting hair (no pun intended) has the industry looking rather 'poor'. Hair looks are very uninspiring to say the least. Everyone looks like carbon copies of nothingness, even the sisters, who have been known to keep it stylish, have even followed suit and are sporting boring 'no-hair hair' weaves. Somebody wake me up when this is over.

Hair is the crown. It is the woman's crowning glory. It is the cherry that sets off any image, look, genre, period, or idea. It communicates an idea and a feeling. Even a slicked ponytail, in the right context, can speak volumes. Remember Helmut Newton? Robert Palmer video? With the hair in images today being so lifeless, the images have become lifeless as well. Bore-ring! Personally, I think, if you have all that money to dress in the best, why does your hair look like you're in between jobs? I mean, really, some hairdressers are doing well, or at least paying their bills, doing the least as they can to match how depreciated the value of hair has become. I mean, really, who is going to do a $1000 service for $150 and still deliver thousand dollar quality? On the other hand, a lot of mediocre hairdressers are really feeling themselves right now. We should be a little worried because hair is a direct reflection of the value of the U.S. dollar. Hairdressers have always been known to flourish under any economic client.

It has been proven that a woman with coiffed hair and clean, detailed, and beautiful make-up, is believed to be more intelligent and precise all the way down to her appearance. She is appreciated to her attention to detail. It is a reflection of how she conducts herself in other areas of her life. My mom used to say "well put together". A well dressed raggedy woman can be compared to pouring syrup on sh*t and thinking it's pancakes, a term my tactless father used to say. Hair and makeup is to a woman as salt is to food, it doesn't need it, but it is surely better with it.

Real money looks like new money.

Hey, that's just the way it is.

Your image is your worth.

Personally, and in business.

Anything else is just a front and is not fooling the truly wise.

And money aside, in true self-expression, hair is paramount. (Unless you have nothing to say/express.)

What is your hair, or your production's hair, saying about you?

-written by Tanya