Stars with High-Maintenance Hair

by Jeffrey Slonim



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Forget the characters they play on-screen. In real life, stars are not only shape shifters, they're hair-color changers and constant length adjusters. The reasons for this are legion: They're getting ready for a photo shoot, they've landed a new role, or they're running away from an old role during a break in filming. We asked several stars about their latest hair tweaks at recent fashion shows for Diane von Furstenberg, Prabal Gurung, and Christian Siriano, at the DKNY 25th Anniversary fete, and at Variety's Women in Film party in Beverly Hills.

Elisabeth Moss: "I tend to go a little bit different from Peggy when I'm not playing her. It's a little blonder, a little shorter. I've done a couple films this summer, and this hair will be featured in them."

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Elettra Weidemann: "This cut? Tim Rogers did it. I've had it since May. He was pushing me to do it, and I said, 'No, I like my haircut the way it is.' And then he gave me three glasses of champagne and asked me again. And I said yes. I love it. It's very easy between cuts, but it's more maintenance. Everybody says I look more like my mom [Isabella Rossellini]. I guess I'm at the age now where I think that's OK. When you're young, you don't want to look like your mom, and now, if I look like her, that's OK."

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Selma Blair: "I went blonde probably a couple of months ago. It's a process. It will probably go blonder and blonder. My hair is actually pretty white, so I'm trying to grow it out for a role, a movie called Sex, Drugs, and Bowling. I'm playing a grieving woman, so she's kind of gray and blonde. I'm actually blondish. I've dyed it every week for the past 15 years, starting with drugstore L'Oreal--because you're worth it--and I've basically put shoe polish on it every week to cover up my roots."

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Coco Rocha: "I got a trim last night, but about a month ago Anh Co Tran did this cut. Why short? Because my hair was dead from all the treatments, from coloring it. From being flatironed and curled every single day of my life. Oddly enough, to make it grow, I needed to cut it. And I've already had three trims since last month. Last night, over margaritas, it was Veronica Chu and my husband who got to do the snipping."

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Carrie Preston: "This color is custom made for me. I do it here in Los Angeles at Gavert Atelier and in New York at Angelo David Salon. And they both have the same formula, but I don't think they have ever given it to anybody else, though. The shine is what they came up with for True Blood. Gavert, who first turned me red, came up with the formula, and then you have to go every three weeks."

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Karlie Kloss: "Blonder? No, it's summer and I've sort of been out in the sun a lot so it just sort of changes."

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