| Short Hair: Jennifer Landon - Emmy Winning Short Tresses |
| Karen Marie Shelton |
| Date: 7/2/06 |
Introduction
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Jennifer
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January 18, 2006 |
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There wasn't a dry
eye around CBS soap star Jennifer Landon when she
recently did what her famous father was never able to
accomplish which is winning an Emmy. The beautiful
blonde won a Daytime Emmy for Best Young Soap actress
for her work as Gwen on As The World Turns (ATWT).
She lifted the
statue and in tribute said "to my poppa, thank you".
Even though Michael Landon was wildly popular in Bonanza
(Little Joe) and Little House of the Prairie as well as
Highway to Heaven, he didn't even get a Emmy nomination
in all his years of acting.
Gwen and her
famous dad, who died of pancreatic cancer in 1991,
when Gwen was seven years old, worked together on one episode of Highway to Heaven and
Us, the TV pilot that was made into a movie after
Michael Landon died. Jennifer just started on the
soap a year and a half ago as a recurring player.
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Jennifer
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Jennifer, who is
just beginning her acting career was very deserving of
her award. Not only does she play an intriguing
character on ATWT, she has fantastic short hair that she
wears in a variety of edgy, sassy styles.
It's no surprise that Jennifer won the Emmy.
The combination of her winning smile, great acting chops
and sassy cropped cut put her over the top.
Jennifer alters the
texture of her short tresses to keep them looking fresh
and interesting.
The stunning blonde
alternates between wearing her hair straight and combed
down over her forehead (image to the side) to using
styling products to spike her strands up over her
hairline (image below).
Just the simple
change of brushing her hair back off her forehead gives
her a completely different image.
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It also clearly demonstrates
instantly how versatile Jennifer's blonde short
layered hair style really is.
For the actual Emmy Awards, Jennifer pulled off yet a
third alluring look for her short style. She
appeared at the Daytime Emmy show in a romantic look
with head full of big tousled curls and waves that
cascaded down along her forehead from a high side part.
Jennifer's platinum tresses are composed of highlights,
lowlights and chunks of very dark contrasts.
With any short style like Jennifer's it is important to
start with a great hair cut that is custom designed for
your face shape, skin and eye tone and lifestyle.
A
precision haircut will also have the added advantage of
growing out gracefully. Which gives you the option
to try different variations of styles as your short do
grows longer.
With the proper cut, you can copy Jennifer's hair style
versatility.
Steal Jennifer's Short Sassy Bob Hairstyles
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Jennifer
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Complete the following steps to re-create Jennifer's
short bob styles:
1.
Use your
favorite shampoo with warm, not hot water, and use a
volumizing shampoo (like
PhytoVolume or
PhytoMousse Volume shampoo) that builds in lots of
lush body.
If your hair is thick or full or has other needs (dry,
chemically damaged) select the shampoo that works
best for your hair's
special requirements.
If you prefer, use a diluted shampoo formulation or
conditioner only.
Note: A conditioning only step may make
hair sleeker. Consider this if lots of volume is
your focus.
3. Skip a rinse-out conditioning step unless your hair
is chemically damaged and requires a leave-in
conditioner.
Remember, while a rinse-out conditioner builds in
softness and adds back moisture, it works again lots of
hair fullness and volume. Skip this step to
guarantee maximum volume.
4. Finish with a cool/cold water rinse to instant shine
and help swell the cuticle.
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5. Towel blot hair to remove excess moisture but
leave hair damp enough to apply appropriate volume
enhancing styling products. If your hair tends to
frizz, apply a
good defrisant product
like
Phytodefrisant of similar. If your hair
requires a good
leave-in conditioner, apply a little to the ends or
the areas that need the most moisture.
6. Apply a baseball sized dollop of
volumizing mousse to the palms of your hands. Work
into your strands completely from the roots to the
ends. Add a volumizing product to the roots like
Phytovolume Actif Spray if your strands tend to be
limp or lank.
7. Bend over at the waist and blow-dry your hair upside
down against the direction of your hair's natural
growth. Focusing your attention on the roots is
key because that it what helps to create lots of
volume.
If you prefer not to bend over, separate hair into small
one inch sections and use your hands to lift the hair up
at the roots.
Direct the blow dryer up the hair shaft
from the ends to the roots to ruffle the cuticle and
make it swell.
8. When hair is completely dry, carefully smooth hair
into place using a pick or tail of a comb to avoid
flattening your new volume.
Apply a light spritz of
soft hold hairspray. A light application of
shine spray can be added but be careful to only use
a little to avoid weighing hair down or causing it to
attract debris.
If you hair is not as full as you would like you have
additional options.
These include:
1. Backcombing Your Strands.
2. Using Velcro
Brand
(a registered trademark of
Velcro Industries B.V.)
or similar style Hook & Loop
Rollers that self grip hair.
3. Hot Rollers or Irons.
Experiment with one or all of the additional volume
building options for your hair.
Create Jennifer's Different Hairstyles
The key to
January's hairstyles always starts with her array of
side hair parts.
Experiment with
deep side parts and sweeping the fringe across the
forehead covering all or part of one eye.
Also try moving
the part higher up the scalp more towards the middle of
the head. Sweeping the hair over from a different
parting will provide a completely different look.
January
recalibrates her styles slightly be using a curling iron
to create big soft curls around the perimeter of her
bob. She also uses a straight iron to get a
different texture.
 To
really change up your look, do as January has done for
some of her movie roles and pop on a
gorgeous silk flower hair clip.
For the soft flip
style, use a round brush while blow drying and slightly
roll tresses around the brush while drying.
Summary
Jennifer Landon is blonde, beautiful and has a stunning
short chin length bob. Even better, the talented
actress who continues to move up way up the acting
ladder, creatively coifs her bob into a number of
stellar looks that range from sassy and fun to classy
and sophisticated. Take a hint from Jennifer and
try on some of her gorgeous styles. |