Fall preview: Athleisure, texture, fringe and hair colour trends
With the huge prevalence of athletic wear, often dubbed “athleisure,” everywhere, more women (and, yes, men too) want hair that encapsulates the fitness lifestyle by being more natural and undone.
 
“Absolutely!” echoes Joey Marchese, Essential Looks Artist for Schwarzkopf Professional and senior stylist at bob + paige salon in Toronto. “The idea is that you’re coming back from the gym or your yoga class, so your hair is not too perfect or too shiny. For fall 2016, it’s all about matte and gritty-looking textures.”
 
According to Marchese, more aggressive, longer pieces of hair and a contrast between long and short will be components of these street-style looks. “There’s a little bit of the mullet coming back. ”The idea here is that hair is super-easy and super-fast to style, and that clients are willing to play more with their natural texture.
 
According to Marchese, “Brightly coloured fringes are also going to be huge this fall, particularly with green and yellow tones for some brightness that contrasts with darker hair. The goal of this fringe is to have a section of your hair that is more “done,” blow-dried and very well cut, while the rest of the hair stays more natural.”
 
And in terms of anti-establishment colour trends, we’re moving away from greyish pastels towards greenish tones. “I’m seeing a lot more of these browns infused with greens on the street where our salon is located,” says Marchese.
 
Ready?  Now it’s your turn to play the street angle!
 
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From wigs to weaves and hair extensions, the market for human hair is enormous. But few know where these lustrous locks come from and the journey they take across the globe.

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The Effects of Hair Parting on Social Appraisal
and Personal Development
By Catherine Walter and John Walter
 
Surprisingly, a hair part has a crucial impact on interpersonal relationships by affecting immediate character appraisal, perceived personality traits, self-perception and self-development!

The Hair Part Theory was developed by a brother-sister team trained, respectively, in nuclear physics and cultural anthropology. Their revolutionary theory is now being made available to the general public, so that all individuals can have more control over automatic and mostly unconscious assessments made of their personalities by others. John and Catherine Walter also produce the True Mirror®, a mirror that does not reverse the viewer’s image and which therefore allows an accurate self-assessment.

A left hair part draws unconscious attention to the activities that are controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, i.e. activities traditionally attributed to masculinity. A right hair part draws unconscious attention to the activities that are controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, i.e. activities traditionally attributed to femininity.

A man who parts his hair on the right, and who is striving for positive assessment in a traditionally male role is at risk for having difficulties in interpersonal relationships, since he is sending a mixed, subconscious message by emphasizing the activities of the brain traditionally attributed to femininity.

A woman who parts her hair on the left, and who is striving for positive assessment in a traditionally male role (for example, in business or politics) will be taken more seriously than a woman with a right part, who is emphasizing mental processes that are traditionally attributed to femininity.

Use the links below to access the full theory paper, as well as an analysis of United States Presidents, Vice Presidents, state Governors (in office 9/98), and the Senators and Representatives of the 105th Congress according to their hair part choice, with an emphasis on those who part their hair on the right.

Additionally, a list of famous men who wear a right part is included, since these men illustrate some of the surprising ways that a right hair part affects personality and perception of personality.

The Hair Part Theory (c)1998  
PDF version – Complete data included

The Hair Part Theory
Web Version

Lincoln - Left or Right?

Hair Part Theory – Discover the Difference!  

RadioLab:  Mirror, Mirror

The Atlantic: The Mirror of Dorian Gray

I was hanging out with a few friends recently and we were talking about hair (of course we were) and someone mentioned that there wouldn't be any more blondes in a few hundred years.   I'd never heard this before so I thought I'd research their comment.   

The Claim:  A study undertaken by the World Health Organization concluded that natural blondes are likely to be extinct within 200 years.

Well, this is completely FALSE.  

The problem is that blonde hair is caused by a recessive gene.

In order for a child to have blonde hair, it must have the gene on both sides of the family in the grandparents' generation.  

The researchers also believe that so-called bottle blondes may be to blame for the demise of their natural rivals.
 
They suggest that dyed-blondes are more attractive to men who choose them as partners over true blondes.
 
But Jonathan Rees, professor of dermatology at the University of Edinburgh said it was unlikely blondes would die out completely.  "Genes don't die out unless there is a disadvantage of having that gene or by chance. They don't disappear," he told BBC News Online.  "The only reason blondes would disappear is if having the gene was a disadvantage and I do not think that is the case.
 
"The frequency of blondes may drop but they won't disappear."  
[source: BBC News]

(Source: Science: HowStuffWorks)

SNOPES.com also debunked this claim.  

And what about redheads?  Are they going extinct?