The LOOK: Gray Is Sexy

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Frank Barbosa, GoLocal Style Expert

Gray is sexy, if you do it right.

He was the lead hair stylist on Sex and the City 2, he made Anne Hathaway fabulous on film, and he's GoLocalProv's weekly style expert. Frank Barbosa, the Newport-based celebrity stylist, brings red carpet perspective to hair, makeup, and overall style.

Going gray can be a gorgeous experience, but it takes finesse. Here are my 4 steps to making that transition work for you in the best way possible.

1. Sit with your beauty professional and discuss your journey into the gray zone.

2. Always transition slowly into gray and make it your own.

3. One transition is to allow yourself to gray at the temples or create a gray accent around your face, but you would still have to color every so often to keep your gray looking fab.

4. Never let your gray grow out with old color at the ends… unless you will live in your hat for a couple years! Natural gray isn't always the most attractive, anyway--it can be very muddy and clash with your skin tone.

Which leads to the bottom line: bring a powerful ally along for the transition… a colorist. Make sure he or she specializes in the going-gray look, and work out your strategy together.

From Sex and the City 2 to Rachel Getting Married, from The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Bride Wars, Frank Barbosa has styled some of the biggest celebrities in film, TV, and theater. He's just finished styling on location alongside film stylist Alan D'Angerio on the film, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, starring Jennifer Garner. He's been in the industry for 17 years, moving from hip neighborhoods in Chicago, to Boston's Newbury St, to Bellevue Avenue in Newport. He maintains that his real passion, though, is being behind a salon chair at Frank Antonio Hair and Makeup in Newport.

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