B.W. COOK -- The Look

“Most women want a new and different look,” says hairstylist Craig

Brown of Great Lengths Salon in Corona del Mar. “They want to be updated

with the current look for their hair and makeup.”

Brown, who has been referred to as the stylist to the local stars, has

been trimming and snipping the hair of the social movers and shakers in

town for many years. He has become a confidant for many local women who

make the wheels of social, cultural and business circles turn.

He swears that he’ll never write a book -- unless he’s on his deathbed

and someone has crossed him. More has been whispered in his ear than he

says he cares to remember, and he considers his clients to be friends.

Some are very close friends, and they volunteered to show off the new

fall hairstyles for “The Look.’

“Personally, I feel that timeless hairstyles are sleek, elegant and

classic,” Brown says. “What changes most is the color. And, the right

color is very important to enhance the person’s skin tone.”

Brown is quick to add that most women want to keep styles simple.

“They don’t want to fuss, making easy care very important,” he says.

“That means that a good haircut is essential.”

It is also essential that the cut complement the person’s facial

structure. Not every cut, no matter how popular or in vogue, may work for

everyone.

“If it doesn’t work with the person’s bone structure, we just don’t do

it,” chides Brown, who often works with friend Richard Stevens, a

professional makeup consultant affiliated with Julia Cross at the Stevens

and Cross Make Up Studio in Newport Beach.

Stevens joined Brown to create fall magic for our Newport Beach

models: Ollie Hill, Martha Green, and mother-daughter duo Pat Cranford

and Kimberly Matteson.

CUTLINES

1. Lido Isle’s Ollie Hill can often be seen jogging the streets of

Newport to keep her figure in shape. This exercise and fitness fanatic

has more energy than many 20-year-olds. When it comes to hair and makeup,

Ollie chooses a short, layered haircut with her bangs over the eye. The

color of choice is a reddish brown. For makeup, Richard Stevens applies

warm tones to Hill’s eyes with gold highlights. Dark brown liner is also

used around the eyes. A sheer, raisin-colored blush is used on her skin.

The eyebrows are defined in taupe, and a lip liner, also in raisin, is

used with a mocha glace lip color.

2. Newport socialite Martha Green is not into diet and exercise per

se. “I watch my diet but not with any great obsession. And I’ve never

been a big fan of exercise,” she says. Craig Brown does a short bob with

a layered top for Green’s cut of preference. Her makeup includes shades

of charcoal on the eyes with highlights applied in shimmering pink.

Again, well-defined brows are the rage, with Green’s done in tornado. Her

lips are cherry, with a second coat of berry red applied to add color.

3. It has been said that Pat Cranford has the best hair in Orange

County. At a recent charity luncheon, ladies were actually pointing their

fingers at Pat’s do. Craig Brown has layered Pat’s hair, with one side

swooshing up and back over her head. The color of choice is a light

golden brown with faint golden highlights. Richard Stevens has mixed

seasonal fall shades of mauve and plum to color Pat’s eyes. The liner is

soft charcoal accented with violet. Again, plum-colored makeup is applied

to her cheeks and her lips, which are lined in plum lip liner and then

topped with heather lip color.

4. Kimberly Matteson is as blond as they come. “I feel like Farrah

Fawcett with this cut,” muses Matteson, showing off her long, flowing

blond curls with bangs on the side. Matteson jokes with Brown, who works

to de-Farrah the Newport beauty a bit by subduing some of the wave in her

locks. Craig Stevens says that gold is fall’s most popular color for the

eyes, and he applies it to Kimberly’s lids. Accents of brown-black

eyeliner and lots of mascara make the “big eye” look. Kimberly’s lips are

lined with natural gold-gleam lip lacquer.