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Hey guys! Not that we don't LOVE long haired men, but just in case you (or any of your friends) are thinking about cutting off your hair, we may be able to help you do it the right way with a great hair stylist and free of charge! We are doing a TV pilot for CHER and Telepictures called "Style Challenge" We want to "make over" some men but have found that when we do it with short haired guys, all we are really doing is changing their clothes! So, we want guys with long hair or big beards (or both) who live in or around the Southern California area. We will have LA's top stylists here to give you a new do and a cool new outfit you get to keep! Maybe your wife or girlfriend has always wanted you to cut your hair....well, you can come on the show with her and do it!!! We are taping this the first week in October, so please reply ASAP if you're interested. My e-mail address is: stylchlg3@aol.com Feel free to pass it on to your friends who may be interested too. Thanks so much! -Erin I. Producer, "Style Challenge"
That's exactly why I come to this board. Sign me up for one head-shaving, please. I want to look just like everyone else.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is it written that a "make over" means cutting off hair? Why don't you style the long hair and change the clothes?
Yeah right -- you LOVE long-haired men so you can DEFILE them... perhaps a few of them genuinely want to go back to short hair but a good many are probably in great pain about having someone who really shouldn't have any say in the matter force them to destroy an essential part (or two) of their natural physical identity. This trash shouldn't be a public spectacle but if one of your not-completely-willing guests breaks down and starts crying during the make-over... I really hate to see a man's pain put so public but yet I hope you use a few such segments in the show anyway... perhaps it would give a hint to the booboisie viewers of this garbage that removing a man's hair or beard ISN'T always such a funny thing after all...his physical identity DOES mean something to him... would it help us...I don't know... I know if I saw something like this I would no doubt be left crying with him for a long time... (brother I know what you're going through... I am sorry I can't help you but at least I will do everything I can to make sure as many as possible of the boobs seeing your pain understand it for what it really is...your suffering will not be in vain if I can do anything at all about it...)
sorry for the rant but I find this kind of treatment of the issue of hair genuinely obscene.
Yeah, Wild Man, I have to agree with you. The portrayal of anti-longhair "makeovers" is as much an insult to our community as making over African men to look less black would be to theirs, because it expresses an opinion that we are inferior. That is defamatory. Its portrayal is also offensive because many longhaired men, and particularly boys, are being hounded, abused, and mutilated against their will.
Only when enough people yell and scream about this sort of trash will its airing come to an end.
Why not try this? Take some of those short haired boys, place a well styled longhair wig on them, and show them how much better they look being a longhaired man that a short hair.
Long hair appreciation and makeovers are not compatible. I'm wondering that something like this appears on this board. Or is this a forum to discuss all and everything?
Please know that this forum was founded in order to give longhairs a place to talk without being harrassed by haircutters. Consequently, your post will not be welcome here by many. Since it is not directed at anyone specifically, and since it is actually a longhair issue, I am leaving it for now. However, perhaps a better forum for your query would be the buy/sell hair forum. There you will find people whose intention it already is to cut their hair.
No, I don't want to see headshaved women and girls. They are also in focus of hair destroying methods. Long hair is a beautiful attribute of both gender and I think we should stay together against this makeover freaks and styling fetishists.
I agree with Victor that, no matter how well-meaning ( and I have to really go out on a long limb to give her the benefit of the doubt on this), Erin should not be posting here.
We longhairs know what this show is going to be like---the producers will find some long-haired schlub, who doesn't take the best care of his long hair, strut him around the stage, lead him off and cut his hair short. When he returns, there will be oohs and ahs from the audience as well as their sustained applause until some smug hostess (presumably Cher) will declare how much better the schlub looks with short hair. Instead of cutting the schnook's hair, why not give it a good condition and show how great long hair can be on a man? (What would be even more tragic is if the guy has great looking hair to begin with and gets it shorn! Can anyone say Anthony Kleidis--and that pitiful mohawk?)
As for Cher, she usually seems so outspoken and openminded---why would she even agree to endorse such an event? Why doesn't Cher forget the infomercials and concentrate on reviving her sagging film career? She has the talent and the ambition and an Oscar to prove it...so Cher, leave us longhairs alone! Hey Cher..."do you believe... in hair, in hair, in hair?"
Obviously the woman just doesn't get the purpose of this board.And while she may 'LOVE' longhaired men,she truely doesn't understand that to many,long hair is more than a fashion statement. I know people are allowed to have their own opinions and likes, but I will never be able to see how chopping off a man's hair is supposed to be an improvement!! I can't tell you how many times I have seen a nice looking man and thought to myself,"If he only had long hair,he would be hot!" Keep it long,guys :)
I guess you don't have enough viewers to find a longhair who wants a haircut. Oh what a pity. So you come here looking for help.
I don't think you'll find anyone here stupid enough to appear on your show. People don't like to have family secrets revealed on national television, then have to fear for their lives once they leave the studio. People with phobia of cockroaches don't like being chased around the studio by someone holding a cockroach the size of a spoon. What surprise do you have for some sucker who wants a "make over"--whatever that means?
...where they did a 'make-over' of a woman with below waste-length hair? I didn't see the show but I heard they cut her hair to her shoulders and the poor woman was crying the whole time. She was crying because she didn't want to get it cut but was heavily pressured by both the show and her family for her to do it. I feel sorry for the woman without even seeing the show and I would hate to see some other poor Loghaired placed in the same position.
Gordo
i think your right.
It appears the post by "Erin I" on September 18 is a flame intended to pit longhairs against CHER. I don't believe Cher is currently doing any "Style Challenge" makeover shows or any new discussion shows. I couldn't find any information about such a show, nor could I find any stylchlg3 web page at the AOL member web site.
As for the "makeover shows", I think all the talk-discussion shows have them. I quit watching them years ago. I don't know why people still watch commercial broadcast TV.