These hairstyles that don't age: 22 celebrities over 50 who have the right haircut

Jennifer Lopez, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cate Blanchett, Monica Bellucci... These celebrities have broken down barriers and freed themselves from age-related dictates in the film and music industry.

“Today, we are no longer in a question of a decade, it is no longer a question of being in your thirties or fifties, analyzes hairdresser Olivier Lebrun.

Thanks to the look and the hairstyle, we retain a certain youthfulness for a long time... until a tipping point.

Often it is the cape of white hair.

Just look at Jane Fonda and Andie MacDowell who made that choice at some point.”

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The hairstyle is therefore important to feel good at your age.

"Today, we assume the latter but it does not mean that we feel old", explains the founder of the Olab Paris salon.

"And you have to free yourself from preconceived ideas like that you have to cut your hair after a certain age."

The specialist lists the essential elements to maintain: the shine of the hair, the right color, the choice of cut and an apparent thickness.

“It all depends on the texture of each one.

And then, you can cheat with the cut, not to taper too much if there is a lack of material.

And I advise my clients to pay attention to the products they use but also to the way they wash their hair.

Indeed, in the living room,

he notices that the washes are too frequent and with too much product at the risk of eliminating all the sebum which is important.

“And finally, food is a key element for beautiful hair.

And do not hesitate to take cures of B vitamins (B6 and B12), zinc and iron.

22 women over 50 who have the right haircut

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Play on the hairstyle to lift your features

If Jennifer Lopez or Sarah Jessica Parker overdo it, it's because there's a secret: pulled hairstyles (ponytail, braid, bun, etc.) have the gift of creating a lifting effect.

A simple but proven trick.

Moreover, she even gave her name to a real cosmetic surgery technique, the

.

“It's a legacy of theater and cinema where we pulled hair as much as possible to put on wigs.

Then it happened on fashion shows and it's true that this technique has a real lifting effect, the best ambassador of which is Bella Hadid, even if she is young!

However, it is important to make your ponytail well to obtain a convincing result.

“Often women pull the hair well above the head to the back.

But it is at the level of the temples and the ears that it is played.

You don't have to do it straight, but upwards to raise your eyes,” according to Olivier Lebrun.

The latter even advises to leave this part detached, to make his ponytail, then to bring the hair at the level of the temples towards the back, at the level of the attachment.

"Not only do we get this lifting effect, but the light enters better."

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Like Julianne Moore, we adopt it in a high bun version for an evening or at the office.

But nothing prevents to play the card of simplicity with a simple ponytail or a braid.

Moreover, during a recent evening, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian offered three ways to adopt this little hair lift.

Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian, specialists in lifting hairstyles.

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The charm of the parting in the middle

Is it because Generation Z has made it the most beautiful argument of its youth that the parting in the middle is essential?

However, it has long been discouraged when you were getting older because it would tend to look severe.

“Which is surprising because it is emblematic of the 1970s, a period of cool, laid-back.

For me, it's the parting on the side which can on the contrary harden the features”, laughs the hairdresser.

Now, it seems to seduce many personalities.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts or Naomi Watts have become followers.

“It is very fashionable for technical reasons.

First of all because it makes it easier to place a curtain fringe.

Ditto with a curler or a straightener, it is easier to work in perfect symmetry.”

For Olivier Lebrun, the fashion for asymmetry was launched by supermodels, like Cindy Crawford and her mole.

"But with cosmetic surgery, the trend has turned to things in perfect symmetry."

Hence the crowning of the parting in the middle.

"And it's really the perfect ally for hairdressers because it allows you to evenly distribute the volumes, to balance according to the oval of the face."

Adapt your hair routine

A bit like face care that evolves over the years and needs, Olivier Lebrun recommends adapting your hair routine.

"I've always worked hair like skin," says the hairdresser.

Hydration and reconstruction are all needs that must be met.

“You can also opt for treatments with plant ceramides.

At home, you can absolutely buy them at Aroma-Zone and integrate them into your mask to replace the scales of the hair fiber.

Just like adding hyaluronic acid for shiny lengths.

“For hair to reflect light, it must be as uniform as possible.

And we use our own sebum by brushing our hair well.

And you avoid suffocating your scalp: a treatment only applies to the lengths, for example!”

The softness of the fringe

The fringe is not lacking either in arguments to seduce actresses.

The proof of Charlotte Gainsbourg to Cate Blanchett via Monica Bellucci, all have tried it successfully.

Perfect to energize a square or to give character to a ponytail (like Sophie Marceau during the Jacquemus show in December), it comes to sign a hairstyle.

The most fashionable?

The curtain fringe, easier to adopt.

“She has like the wavy, the good taste to place herself easily.

But you can also bet on a tapered fringe as during the last Viktor & Rolf fashion show.

It can be full and more graphic too.”

Because the other advantage of the fringe when you get older is that it can hide wrinkles.

White hair or coloring?

For a long time, we pointed out the slightest white hair.

Then, the confinement contributed to freeing it and assuming it.

Until establishing a new diktat?

“It is true that we have gone from one extreme to the other.

And it's perfect if it freed up some women, like Sophie Fontanel.

But that doesn't mean it will be the case for everyone.

And that we must make those who make colors feel guilty, ”regrets the founder of Olab Paris.

Because assuming his white hair is not easy, these always rhyme with old age in the collective imagination.

“It's that famous tipping point.

Jane Fonda and Andie MacDowell did it when they were ready.

For it to be successful, it has to be an assumed will.

And we must find ourselves at least as pretty as

with its coloring.

Olivier Lebrun also advises to support his white hair with a look, a beautiful lipstick or even a worked make-up.

“And then to switch to white, you can also go see a specialized hairdresser who will create this white or this gray.

Not everyone has beautiful silver hair naturally.

It is necessary to avoid the yellow side, but also the defects of the fiber because a white hair can have a different texture, be thinner or thicker on the contrary.

In short, we can control this change.”

And what about those who don't feel ready or who don't want to?

“It's true that hiding your white hair can quickly lock us into a complicated circle.

Some of my clients come every 10 days.

And then there is this awareness of products that are neither good for health nor good for nature.

But vegetable colorings have really evolved and today, the results are very conclusive”,

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Smooth or wavy?

A bit like the length, it's all a question of desire but also of textures, the important thing being to follow your desires and not forbid yourself anything.

And on the Hollywood red carpet side, the wavy is still on the rise as evidenced by Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow or Julia Roberts.

“The wavy is very Anglo-Saxon.

And can have a very fixed side and can even age so be careful not to abuse it.

I would reserve it for special occasions personally,” moderates Olivier Lebrun.

The hairdresser recognizes all the same that "well worked with locks that fall at the level of the cheekbones or the jaws, the undulations also make it possible to highlight certain areas of the face."

As for extra-smooth hair, particularly brought back to light with the liquid hair trend, it is of course always possible, the