looks like the old thread is dead.

i noticed the similar hairdo to that on idoru. if it's supposed to be cayce, i reckoned they've missed the fashion forward moment by a while.

the girl actually looks a lot like heidi klum to me.

This one?

I have the North American one so I just had to go search for that.

Fashion Forward? As in, you think that hairstyle is unfashionable? Check again. I have it (and I'm 20 years old). So do a bunch of teens in this Livejournal community. Perhaps you need to keep up with popculture? Razorcutting is IN. It's also one of the most popular haircuts in Japan because their hair texture is so thick. Razorcutting thins out the bulk of the hair and gives shape.

Fucking hipsters.

I'm not cool enough to be a hipster. I'm just cybernerd Japanophile.

sorry, saturnine, i should have been more specific.

yes, that was the cover i was referring to.

and yes, i'm faced each day with a million shaggy rock dog cuts. my point exactly. i can't see cayce with her sense of style going for the most obvious cut out there right now. i was also making the point that if the cut was avant in 1996 or whenever, it just can't be cutting edge in 2003/4.

but i think it's great you've got a hairdo you love.

But didn't she get her hair cut in Japan? And then she returns to London, and (gosh darn it, I left my copy in Vancouver) someone asks her if she got her hair cut in Japan because it's the exact style that is found out there right now, and has been for the last 10 years or so. That's the way that cut has survived in Japan.

So at least in my opinion it's accurate. Just because Westerners pick up on it, it doesn't mean to say she wouldn't too, because it's a neat, basic cut for those with thick dark hair. You have to remember when WG set it (2001-2002): that hairstyle didn't come into huge mainstream fashion until the last year or so. And the Western version isn't exactly like the Japanese version anyway. There's more emphasis on the bangs/fringe than the layers in the West.

It wasn't like she got it two-toned and half-dyed Hot Pink.

Also, consider the uprise of minimalism. That's pretty mainstream these days, and she epitimised it. And the invention of the iPod. I'm pretty sure she couldn't walk around and still use a Mac, what with the overbranded Apple icon everywhere.

very good points, saturnine.

Hmmm...this thread reminded me to make an appointment with my hairdresser :-)

Now that I've gone back to my natural color and have got an MA-1 inspired jacket, I think I just might need a razor-cut. Too bad my hair isn't thick. :-)

But I won't be getting any Black 501's. The Danish futurologist Jesper Bo Jensen's teenage children have told him, "black jeans are for old men". (Meaning 40-50 year olds)

It is fortunate then that I just got some Lagerfeld Black Jeans. I have always wanted to be 40ish.

And I have almost always had my hair razor cut, although I suspect that sixty something hairdresser gives it a different meaning that you do...

José

Yeah... I'm actually on my second razor cut now. I pay $60 per haircut and that's with no dying, so I only do it once a year, and I'm almost due again, so it's been about two and a half years that I've had one of those haircuts. My current one is actually a pretty severe bi-level, so once it grew out you couldn't really tell it was a razor cut anymore. But I get them because I get less split ends.

There are indeed tons of indie kids out here with razor cuts. It's kinda creepy.

As for the cover girl, I can't reconcile her with my vision of Cayce. Too much well-applied makeup.

Somehow, to me the hair is too long for Cayce. Though the whole point of the Japanese experience is that she is totally groomed, she would still have had shorter hair to begin with, or what?

When I was reading PR, I imagined Cayce as one of my friends, a person with a similar job in NYC. She never wore make-up or designer clothes, and had freckles and 'practical' hair, which was often cut by glamorous stylists on photo-shoots with top-models.

Anime hair, rendered hi-rez?

"Her hair, she has to admit, is really something,
some paradoxical state between sleek and tousled"

Above are the results of today's visit to my hairdresser. I told her that I was finished with the crazed newly hatched chicken look and gave her free reign. Not exactly anime hair rendered hi-rez, but I'm quite satisfied.

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But I won't be getting any Black 501's. The Danish futurologist Jesper Bo Jensen's teenage children have told him, "black jeans are for old men". (Meaning 40-50 year olds)

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They are. Add cowboy hats, black t-shirts, a glass of Jack Daniels and denim jackets and you've got the perfect single 40-something male.

I love cliches.

Ok, call me uniformed, uncool or whatever suits you but what the heck is a razorcut? Is it actually cut with a razor? If so, I hope the electric variety Or is it just the name of the cut?
THanks

Yes ...it is done with an actual razor, and not the electric variety.

Like these:


Often it is done with a razor like S286, where the razor is behind a shield. The hairdresser grabs a tot of hair and it feels a bit like they are tearing of bits of your hair. The shield works so that only some of the hairs are cut. Thus giving a great variety in the lengths of the hairs that have just been razor cut.

I got my hair cut on Friday (wanted to impress somebody....) but even though it *was* razor cut, it didn't turn out as good as the last time.

I think it should be clarified the difference between razorcut, the style, and razor cut, the technique, as I have had my hair razor cut for years, but certainly it does not look as anything Cayce would do. My over sixty hairdresser uses a comb and razor to sculpt the hair. It does not seem to make a lot of difference with normal scissor cut, but it is apparent two months later (I use a seasonal approach to hairdressing) when it still looks symmetrical and sane, in a mad scientist way.

I also had my hair cut recently (which meant I needed a cap to keep my thoughts warm). Coincidence?

José

It has recently (a couple of days ago) become apparent to me that my hairdresser is clearly an alcoholic. Not a bad hairdresser, he just likes a bit of a drink on the job. Don't think I will be having a razorcut done by him.

And here I thought black-wearin' was just gothy.

Black jeans don't show oil streaks, and black t-shirts are just better than, say, pastels.

Besides it sets off the silver hair *grin*

Ack... I'm 42 and wear black jeans all the time. Luke, I am my father...

A.Q-11, the oil streak comment was scary. What oil streaks? ~panic~

me thinks it is the same girl! idoru