Ms.Matsushima, 50 years old, has a hair dresser who can bring new idea and create the ideal hair style.

Ms.Matsushima is a fashionable woman who checks new  fashion and hair styles trends. Not only following the latest ones, she adopts them to her style for every day life. Therefore, her style looks natural and of course suit her perfectly.

Ms. Higuchi, her hair dresser, cuts a graduated bob with a slightly longer front. To add volume on top, she applies layer cut. For the backside  she cuts hair to go along the neck and look naturally round. From front her hair has a rhombus shape, and from side it looks round which makes her style natural and fitted.

“Ms.Matsushima is an active woman who enjoys yoga 3 times a week, so I wanted to create a style which looks good and stylish after washing hair without any styling.” Ms. Higuchi said.

Ms.Higuchi applies hair color with 7 level ash brown. Ms.Matsushima’s has about 60% of gray hair, so Ms.Higuchi applies gray color at the root of the hair, and for other parts, applies manicure and oil to prevent hair to look dry. As a result, her hair looks glossy and polished up to hair ends.

Youthful, elegant, and most importantly the style suit the person.

This is an ideal hair style for “UNIQUE PIECE” generation.

Hair salon: apish

Hair stylist: Izumi Higuchi

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Photo by Akio Nakamura

Text by Yumi Masuda