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[ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ] I swear it s coming. I said to them, Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it. I take out my anger and frustration by writing songs and that s really where Frank came from. And now I m having a great time everything is going really well with the record. I m doing a lot of gigs and singing is the thing I love doing most. I ll have to start writing for a new album at some point, so I think I m going to have to take time off and live a normal life so that things can happen to me again that aren t all good. Otherwise, I ll have nothing to write about on the next album. As we shall see, Amy s hope that normal things that aren t all good would happen to her came true but surely in a bigger way than she could ever have expected. Chapter Five 36 BACK ON TRACK When she returned to the public eye with her new album, Amy s hairstyle had moved towards the beehive style she is now synonymous with. From Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany s, to Bet Lynch in Coronation Street, to Marge in The Simpsons, to Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous through to most of the women in the cartoon The Far Side, the beehive hairstyle is a popular one. It originated in the 1950s when Margaret Vinci Heldt, a hairdresser from Elmhurst, Illinois, was asked to create a new style. It s kind of nice to know maybe in my own way I was able to give something to my profession that became a classic, she said. It still has a touch of glamour, doesn t it? It was sort of the peak of hairdressing, said Heldt. Everybody wanted the beehive, even women with real, real short hair. They looked more like anthills than a beehive then they got bigger and bigger and became hornets nests. It really was the last great hairdo we ve seen in thirty years, adds Jackie Summers of Modern Salon magazine. Meanwhile, UK Vogue s fashion features writer Sarah Harris says, It is about fashion, owning a style, individuality and confidence, as well as success and talent. Not just with clothes but beauty, too. Amy Winehouse s hair has become as much a signature as her clothes. Not just her signature, but an enduring mystery, too. Amy won t even tell her stylist, who also happens to be her best friend, what she does to get her hair like that, says a friend. Amy s obsessed with her hair and only does it herself it s been a huge secret. Celebrity hairdresser Alex Foden, who designs and makes Amy s £150 hairpieces, cracks some of the mystery: Amy originally created the look herself but on a much smaller scale. But since I started working with her the beehive has simply got bigger and bigger the bigger the better. Although she backcombed her own hair in the beginning, now we use furballs made from part synthetic, part real hair. These are stuffed inside hairnets and Amy s own hair is placed over the top of them and held in place with hairpins. It takes about forty minutes to fit a new hairpiece but only about five minutes to pin it up every morning once it s been made. The beehive is particularly big in the capital but is taking off everywhere as Amy becomes more popular. She is getting through one hairpiece a week at the moment so they are fairly high-maintenance, but as long as you do not sleep in one or go to the gym wearing one they can last a lot longer. As well as being very versatile, a taller, thinner beehive can alter the appearance of a person s natural body shape, adding height and making the face and body look leaner. It has very much caught on, too. Amy Winehouse has a lot to answer for! laughs Lorraine Ellis, manager at the Hair Spa in Thornton Hall Hotel in Thornton Hough. But big hair is a really key trend this season and that means everything from the beehive look with a high crown, like Amy s, to a 1980s wavy style that Coleen s [McLoughlin, Wayne Rooney s fiancée] been seen with of late. That s a great look because you can wear it in the day and keep it quite soft using heated rollers, and then use Velcro rollers and tongs to glam it up a bit for night. The period between Frank and Back to Black is shrouded in mystery. Amy says, I started drinking and I fell in love. 37 And she wrote a great album. Back to Black has a dark name and a dark background. I was very hurt by something but I managed to make something good out of a bad situation, says Amy. I [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ] |