What does a hot babe do when she feels, well, hot? Simple, she goes ahead and cuts her hair! One of the hottest gals of Bollywood, Bips, went snip, snip when she wanted to stand out from amongst the lot. She sported the bob cut popularised by American singing sensation Rihanna and Hollywood actress Katie Holmes. Considering that wigs and hair extensions come to the rescue of those who don’t have the ideal lambe, ghane baal, and also save film producers from pulling apart their own hair, going for ‘short cuts’ is not an issue anymore for our trendy tinsel town babes.
Bipasha’s beau John Abraham may or may not have got inspired by his lady love and chopped off his zulfeia, but it sure looks like actresses Mandira Bedi, Gul Panag, Eesha Koppikhar, Sonali Bendre, Rakshanda Khan and model Carol Gracious have taken after Bips. While Mandy said that she wasn’t happy with her hair cut and so went for the short look, for Eesha it was an impromptu decision, something she did for herself and not for a film.Gul, too, sports short hair these days and it goes well with her personality, which is that of a sports freak. Sonali, on the other hand, with her short hair is now looking like the badi behen of TV actress Gauri Pradhan. While Carol had some guts to cut her long tresses.
So is the trend picking up? Hairstylist Sapna Bhavnani, who has coloured her hair platinum blonde and herself sports short hair, says that she gets customers almost everyday “who want to hack it all off ”. “If you have long hair and keep it tied up all the time, then it does nothing to your face. Short hair frames the face and enhances your features,” says the stylist, who has given Bips and Mandy their cut.
Hairstylist Aalim feels that women having become vocal about their needs now. “Gone are the days when only long hair was said to be feminine. Short hair makes you look energetic, fresh and sexy,” says Aalim, who feels that the clothes and shoes should also match with the hair cut. “If you are going for a classy bob than you need to be classy in your dressing too, like Preity Zinta or Victoria Beckham,” he says.
And is the short hair only meant for slim women? “It need not be like that. Look at rapper Missy Elliot, she’s big but looks cool in short hair,” says Aalim. However, there’s one thing that you need to team up with the short hair, feel both the stylists and that’s your attitude!
