s
ummer has been about the blonde at least
as far back as 1959, when Sandra Dee
played pint-sized surfer Frances Lawrence
in Gidget, spawning a rash of beach party
movies targeted to teens, including Where
the Boys Are (1960). Still, Gidget was a
double-processed blonde without a trace
of gold in her hair because that was the
look that Hollywood dictated back then.
"Real surfer girls have dark roots and white
ends that have been bleached by the sun,"
says Brad Johns, Hair Color Director at the
Spa & Salon at Saks Fifth Avenue in New
York, who created a technique he calls
"tipping" that comes closest to the look
he's describing. "I take some chunks out
of the front and lighten them, placing three
foils on each side of the ear and three on
the forehead," he says. "After those six to
nine packets, I keep going back but only
on the ends and nothing near the root."
The result? That little-girl-at-the-beach
look. On these pages, 15 other tricks of
the trade for creating summer blondes that
are simply to dye for.
summer
blondes
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