Keri Russell's hair


I'm really getting sick of the side swoop style she has. Does it always have to be swooped to the left side? I guess she is NEVER going back to her curly hair.

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Maybe she'll cut it to be really short...and everyone will hate her.



"What in wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?!"

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Ahahahahaha

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LOL!!!

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LOL you must have watched felicity ??
I hated the curly hair.

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amen, why is it that actresses think shaving their head and short hair is sexy? unless it is one of those Britney Spear's crazy episodes.

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Sexy is subjective and you are not her target.

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Beautiful woman. Great actress. Plays the character to perfection.

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I prefer her hair straight.

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I grew up in the 80s, but I don't remember girls wearing that style. So I'm waiting for Elizabeth to get with the times and get big, teased, AquaNet Hair with a poof ball in front and flared out wings on the side. While there at it, hopefully they'll drown her lids in blue eye shadow and square out her shoulders with uber-thick shoulder pads in all her blouses.

Carl Grimes will one day rule the world!

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big, teased, AquaNet Hair with a poof ball in front and flared out wings on the side.

You are describing a style that was much more popular during the late 1980s. Don't forget that this show is set in the early 1980s. In real life, every decade takes a few years to transition into its signature styles. So it is completely normal for some styles in the show to look more like the end of the decade before it than our stereotypical ideas of the decade it is, and Elizabeth's side-swept straight hairstyle is much more reminiscent of the late 1970s than your image of what the '80s is "supposed" to look like. For an example, look at these photos of Meryl Streep at the 1979 Oscars:

http://www.elle.com/beauty/hair/tips/g2384/awards-season-special-hairstyle-retrospective-521619/?slide=1
http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryassets/mydailyuk/996481/mryl_strp_699a.jpg

Her hairstyle looks almost exactly like Elizabeth's usual style to me.

Viewers also complained about this at the beginning of Mad Men as well--the show started in 1960, and people were confused that the clothes still looked more like their image of 1950s than their idea of the "peace and love" groovy '60s.

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True. I remember the first half of the '60s very well, and they looked pretty much the same as the '50s.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! So true!!!

Sorry, I know this is an old thread, but I love it!

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I find it funny how she really looks that certain decade when she is undercover, using wigs and big sunglasses, but when she is herself, she is very 2016, we can almost think the story is about these days and not the 80s. But it doesn't matter since Keri and Matthew are awesome actors! :)

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The curly hair was fine for Felicity, but Russell is in her 40s and sleek hair suits her better. I don't mind the swoop at all, especially since she so often wears wigs that do not flatter her (and wouldn't flatter any woman).

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If she as a spy had curly hair, it would be very difficult for her to put on wigs. But she should use a curly wig just once.

Now, most of the show is stylized 80´s- as many other tv shows or movies do nowadays. Just take a look at the clothes. Sometimes they forget the´re set up in the eighties. Although, to be fair, 80´s were kind of awful, you don´t need to do exact copies but just take what you like of it. More like retro.

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It's also kinda weird that she always wears that same look on red carpets and other public appearances. Never anything else. I find this hairstyle also kinda odd, because stuff like this never stays in place unless you use a whole bottle of hairspray, and requires a lot of fixes throughout the day, which I just can't see a working mom and spy doing.

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I agree. I think people got off track on this thread, or at least for me. It's not about sleek vs. curly or big vs. not big enough ... it's that in every single EP when she's not wearing a wig, all of her hair is placed over her shoulder on one side. Hair cannot stay that way constantly (I know, long hair my whole life). Not sure if they are trying to distinguish between Elizabeth and her disguises or not, but if they are, it's not helping and I, too, find it annoying since it's so artificial.

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