Celebrity Curly Hair-Style

Any celebrity can have a curly hair-style one day and something different the next.

The pictures of curly hair styles in this celebrity photo gallery include a number of women who are not aways known for their curly hair-style.

There are some you'd expect to see with curly hair of some description because curly really is their natural hair texture.

Actresses Elizabeth Shue, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Brooke Shields, supermodel Frankie Rayder and singer Shakira, all appear more often than not with wavy or curly hair-styles.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer has always had a curly, wavy look to her long tresses.

Singers Jessica Simpson and Beyonce Knowles and actress Jessica Alba, in the course of their careers, have all delved into various manifestations of straight and curly hair.

Also inclined both ways, in a hair texture sense, are three more actresses - Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman and Mischa Barton.

But Jodie Foster and Sharon Stone are women not normally associated with images of curly or even wavy hair styles.

Yet here each and every celebrity has a curly hair-style.

Like celebrities curly hair-styles can be seen everywhere, glittering in flashlight explosions, pausing on red carpet, presiding at podia and mingling at invitation-only events.

Curly hair is in fashion.

And fashion is something few celebrities will turn a blind eye to. Whether they believe their fans want them to model the latest in everything, or they simply lack the self-confidence to go it alone and make up their own minds where style is involved, celebrities are lining up for curly hair-styles.

A celebrity whose curly hair-style doesn't work will certainly read about it soon enough, along with all the other lapses, disasters and alleged fashion crimes perpetrated in front of someone with a camera - white bras under black tops, that sort of thing.

Yet any celebrity with a curly hair-style that's natural has little to fear in terms of criticism or harsh style assessments by the fashion police.

That's assuming the celebrity has left her curls in peace to pursue their development, unhindered by the ruthlessly marketed products and blasts of hot air that are death to curly hair.

Healthy, naturally curly hair can't help but look good, as long as its owner has even the most elementary idea of how to use her hair to accentuate her looks rather than impair them.

For the celebrity whose curly hair-style needs to be an artificial creation there are two possibilities. She can use curling solutions and a host of related commercial potions, weakening the health of her own hair, shortening its life and sacrificing its lustre.

Or she can leave her own hair alone and genuinely fake her celebrity curly hair-style with wigs and hair extensions.

This method, much safer for her own hair and infinitely more flexible, allows the celebrity to appear suddenly with a curly hair-style of long, luxurious waves or botticelli spirals, when just the day before she might have been sporting a new short hair-style.

There's something fundamentally genuine about faking a hair-style so brazenly that nobody could believe it to be real.

There's an honesty about it.

She's not asking anyone else to buy into the fantasy that her celebrity curly hair-style, any more than her ever-changing, ever youthful beauty, is anything other than a round of celebrity dress-ups.

And that's a game you expect celebrities to play.

Fionnuala Sherry is not the sort of celebrity who'd let her curly hair styles go for the sake of a passing look.

Nor is Keri Russell, who was a curly haired celebrity when curly hair styles didn't exist on the fashion horizon at all.

Her curly hair is a trademark. It's all hers, and all natural.

When she cut it short without any warning, her audience was so distressed that her next contract committed her to maintaining the length of her hair.

Celebrity curly hair styles don't have to be wild, daring, bizarre, retro, iconic, or anything else concocted by celebrity stylists.

They can be natural.

Any stylist can create "a look". But if the look is achieved at a cost that will be paid further down the track in terms of damaged hair falling out or weakened hair that breaks constantly, they're not working in the best interests of their client.

A stylist behind many celebrity curly hair styles is Anthony Dickey. Another is Lorraine Massey. Both work in New York. What's notable is that they respect the natural hair texture of their clients - even the celebrities - and try to work within the limits of that texture.

Both consider it important to maintain the health as well as the looks of the celebrity curly hair they style.

It's a win win proposition, of course, because healthy hair naturally looks good.

Keri Russell is a celebrity for whom only curly hair styles will do, because curly is her natural texture and that's what she's sticking to. No straightening for her, no so-called relaxing.

Her approach guarantees that, years down the track, she'll look a lot better than her celebrity colleagues who steal "the look" whenever "the look" changes (every five minutes).

There's no must-have celebrity hair style, and you don't have to steal any woman's look.

You just have to find your own.

If you have naturally curly hair and you're after ideas, looking at celebrities and their curly hair styles is one strategy. You might strike somebody famous with a hair cut that really suits you - and suits your natural hair type.

But there are plenty of non-celebrity curly hair styles out there as well, gorgeous hair cuts that turn heads wherever they go.

And yours is probably one of them.

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