While Tori was getting her locks snipped, co-star JENNIE GARTH was contining her trend from last year and letting hers grow, as you can see from the picture to the left.  I still greatly approve of the additional length on Jennie, however, I don't get what's she's going for with the color.  I know she's naturally a dark blonde and goes lighter through color or highlighting, but these too widely spaced highlights just make for a streaky mess.  Go back and let them finsh the job, Jennie v  Continuing on the new growth and blonde theme, "Jessie"'s CHRISTINA APPLEGATE had let her hair grow quite a bit since last season.  It now not only falls a good six inches below her shoulders, it's all blonde, eliminating that weird, very dark, Lead-Singer-of-Berlin-Teri-Nunn-esque underlayer she had last year.  While all that is good, Christina needs to do something other than just letting it hang there.  At least last year's shoulder-length flip had style to it v Speaking of Applegates (how often to you get to use that phrase?), "Later Today"'s JODIE APPLEGATE continues to break from the dual NBC morning show style standard of very short or tucked by letting her thick, dark hair grow out into a longer, fuller, and lightly layered style.  Jodi has terrific hair is not only able to wear this style well, but even looked good in the transition stage.  Alas, for things to remain in balance, someone apparently had to make a sacrifice, which is the only way I can explain why ANN CURRY removed all the length from the back of her style.  Sure, her new shorter cut is attractive on her, but don't you think the first picture (on the left) looks better than my incredibly accurate simulation of the crop (on the right)?

Talk show host LEEZA GIBBONS has let her locks propagate (ain't thesaurus' great?) after several years of wearing progressively shorter styles.  It's now back to a long, layered bob that falls just below her shoulders.  Leeza has had styles close to this before and this one is just as flattering on her.  Uh, meaning that I'm saying like the others it's rather fetching (yes, fetching) and not that I'm secretly saying it also sucks v  After shearing her locks from shoulder-length to very short on "The Practice" (in such a major change that the drasticness of it was referred to frequently in the show's plot), LISA GAY HAMILTON has started to reclaim her lost locks.  Her previous head hugging cap of curls has blossomed about 4 inches or so into a full, feminine, afro-like style.  Assuming she's going to continue the growth, she's carrying off the transition stage very well v  In the months since HBO's "The Sopranos" (an excellent show if you're not watching it) wrapped last season, LORRAINE BRACCO has let her short hairline-length bob with bangs grow out to her shoulders in a full, no-bang style, reminiscent of the style with which she began last season.  I like the additional length since it's more complimentary to her square jawline and the other style just looked a bit to harsh on her.  I mean, she's supposed to be the therapist and not one of Tony's crew, capiche? 

Finally, we get to a few things that I'm not sure about or simply don't understand.  The first questionable item concerns ROMA DOWNEY.  Saw a clip on "ET" about her debut album (yup, apparently she sings) and it looked as though she had cut her formerly hip-length red locks back up to about mid-back, an apparently loss of about a foot.  Haven't been able to confirm it since with any other sightings or pictures, though.  Anyone have any info on this? v  The next piece of confusion comes courtesy of RENEE ZELLWEGER.  Though I never heard or read any direct comment on it, I know she was sporting a short crop at this year's Oscars (the pictures are just too plain).  However, in every recent spotting of Renee lately (e.g., the MTV Music Video Awards) she has a voluminous mass of blonde locks falling well below her shoulders.  Best guess is that it's a wig/extensions she's wearing for the movies "Me, Myself, and Irene" with Jim Carrey and "The Bachelor" with Chris O'Donnell.  If that's wrong, I'll let ya know v  Now we get to the stuff I just don't understand, like when KIRSTIE ALLEY spun the big Wheel Of Haircolor and it came up "Bleached Blonde With White Streaks and Dark Roots", she didn't cash in her "Free Spin" and give it another whirl.  I mean, just the law of averages says she had to pass a mirror at some point, right?  What the heck was she thinking? v  And finally, the last person weighing on my mind is BARBARA HERSHEY, who has just joined the cast of "Chicago Hope".  I don't understand why she doesn't think Bette Midler will be upset when she finds out that Barbara rummaged through Bette's wardrobe after "Beaches" wrapped and stole her wig.  What's that you say?  That was Bette's real hair in the movie and this is Barbara's real hair now?  Huh.  How about that.  I wonder what are the odds are that both of them at would have the same horribly unflattering, triangular shaped haystack of red waves 11 years apart? 

Jennie Garth picture courtesy FOX, Ann Curry picture courtesy People, Lorraine Bracco picture courtesy Reuters, Barbara Hershey picture courtesy CBS

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"Her color looks just like Nicole Kidman’s now," says color expert Matthew Boger, who treated Tyler in a 4 ½ hour session in a quiet upstairs nook at Cristophe in Beverly Hills. "It doesn’t look fake." He lifted Liv’s base color, then added highlights. Liv’s hair is now shoulder-length and a blend of gold, red and coppery brown. Boger, who made blond Lauren Holly into a carrot-top in her "Picket Fences" era, sees Tyler every seven days to touch her up. Ironically, Liv needs dark hair for a few movie scenes as well (so) she’ll have to wear a wig. 

FashionDish also provides an update on the recently shorn BAI LING.  Looks like Bai was all THAT enamored with the hairless look, despite her statements that the loss of her below hip-length locks was a liberating experience...

Last time we checked with starlet Bai Ling, she was putting a long wig over the bald head she’d shaved for the upcoming “Anna and the King”. Now she’s in the pretty, gamine stage of growing it out.  At the recent San Francisco Levi’s opening party, Bai wore a scarf, then took it off so we could se the new do. By the way, her wig is made of her own, saved hair.

Finally, I have two, count 'em two, oddly related bits of scoop on NEVE CAMPBELL.  The first popped up from an interview with "Entertainment Tonight".  Neve is portraying a hairdresser in a new movie and was asked if she had a hair horror story she could relate...

When I was 13, I decided to go to Little Italy in Toronto and have my hair permed. I ended up looking like Bozo the Clown. I had like really tight ringlets and I sat crying for about four hours with my mom saying, "You look great!" All the while she was taking pictures of me. It was horrifying!

Party of Five star Neve Campbell confesses that she is an alopecia survivor; she battled the disease, which caused her hair to fall out in chunks, several years ago.

"I was working far too much and I wasn't getting enough sleep, so I started getting a bald spot on the back of my head," the 26-year-old actress tells Cosmopolitan. "An acupuncturist had to insert, like, 20 needles into my scalp to make my hair grow back."

Liv Tyler picture courtesy TV Guide Online, Bai Ling picture courtesy Reuters, Neve Campbell pictures courtesy ET Online and Fox

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