The hair didn't appear to move in any of the movie's scenes so it probably was a wig. I hope it was a wig because I really didn't like that hairstyle on Julie Christie.
I actually liked the hairstyle that her character in the movie, Jackie, had before Warren Beatty's character, George, cut it. IMO, the longer length and wavier look was much more flattering on her.
It made her look like a hooker.
shareBeatty's hair (as well as Jack Warden's and Lee Grant's) looked mighty wiggy too. For a movie about hair styling, eh. . .
shareLove Jack Warden (especially in Heaven Can Wait) but his hair looked terrible-especially in the last scene in the driveway-it was an unnatural red and plastered straight down across his forehead-ala Caesar. Julie Christie looked lovely but her hair was so dry and coarse (especially for the lover of a hairstylist) I hope it was a wig.
shareJCs hair was a wig, because you could see the way it was put together at the crown.
Beatty's hair really did look like a wig, as well as Christie's, Warden's, and Grant's. Also Fisher was definitely wearing a wig that looked so bad she had to wear the bandana to cover it up. Odd for a movie called Shampoo and about a hairdresser. Or was that the point?
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Everyone in this movie has terrible hair-LOL. I have never seen Warren with such awful looking hair. Don't know if Julie's hair was a wig (kind of hope so) but it looks way better in this movie than in "Heaven Can Wait"! I don't know if she had a wig or a giant perm in "Heaven Can Wait", but it was bad! Warren's hair was a little better in "Heaven Can Wait" but it was still too long! The hairstyles (or wigs) in this movie really date it! This movie looks like the inspiration for "American Hustle". Warren looks better with short, thick, wavy hair. His hair is one of his best attributes but, ironically, not in this movie where he plays a hairdresser.
shareI have never seen Warren with such awful looking hair.His hair was like this for a few years; early to mid- seventies. In The Parallax View, a year or so earlier, his hair was much like that in Shampoo. I personally didn't mind it myself. share
Julie Christie was wearing a wig. A most horrible, grey blonde seventies extreme wig. I think because her character was not supposed to be a natural beauty. She was more in the gangsters mole category of girl. The bell bottoms, the boots, the big hair, the glasses, the lashes. All part of the character of the important veneer, the sex object, who uses her looks to capture rich men. If she had her own hair, she would have looked too much like the young naive ingenue, which was Goldie's character. But the wig really detracted from Christies beauty I think.
shareperhaps it was the decade the movie was set but most of the cast really did look like wearing a wig or did they?
I like Julie Christies hairstyle if it were her real hair styled. It's almost very editorial.
I just wish that for a movie about hair, they could have at least pay attention to details about this aspect.
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If you remember the styles of the mid-to-late 1960's, wig or not, Julie's hairstyle, especially the one George does for the GOP fundraiser, is pure 60's--shorter in the back, pageboy style with long bangs and well-teased: perfect! If you look at Christie in actual 1960's films, like "Darling", "Billy Liar", "Petulia" and even period pieces like "Dr. Zhivago" and "Far From the Madding Crowd", this is her basic look.
Is it artificial? Yes, but that was a hugely popular style, NOT her long, wavy, 70's style do at the beginning (on which I had to agree with George: "Honey, it makes you look like a hooker"). Sadly they got her trousers wrong--they were totally 1970's "flare" style, not the true hip-huggers of the late 60's. But this was one of the few style mistakes that I could see.
Goldie Hawn's girly hairstyle looked like something from "Laugh-In", which I guess was appropriate. And Felicia's style was almost a copy of Jackie's but without the extreme platinum color and style. This worked because in so many ways, Felicia was treated as inferior to Jackie (by both George and Lester) and she felt that way.
Don't get me wrong...
It might be unbelievable,
But let's not say so long