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February 17, 2009 11:45 am
Hairstylists Orlando Pita and Eugene Souleiman were in something of a hairpin-off backstage yesterday as they competed to see who could put more accessories into models’ hair. “70 to 100,” was Pita’s guesstimation at Carolina Herrera, where he incorporated plain bobby pins and others with floral clusters that came directly from the embellishments on the collection’s clothes and accessories. Keeping a little volume at the top of the head, Pita sprayed his hand with T3 Control Hairspray and finger-combed hair backward to maintain softness and femininity. He then rolled the hair into a chignon, which was barely visible beneath its coat of copper armor. Downtown at Donna Karan, Souleiman was going for a more masculine look in front, where models sported sleek and deep side parts that evolved into softer, off center buns in the back. He painstakingly placed “about 100″ straight black hairpins, starting from behind the ear and moving around the chignon, so that the rounded tips of each pin were visible from the top of the look, almost like elaborate, 3-D scales. “I wanted it to appear really pretty, but hard at the same time,” he said, an objective he definitely managed to pull off.
tags: Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Eugene Souleiman, Hair, Orlando Pita, T3
