Sarah Jessica Parker Hair Short

Pictures of short hair styles for a long-faced celebrity.

Short hair is not an obvious choice for this woman. Her long, narrow face cries out for the softening influence of an understanding hair style.

Putting short hair on Sarah Jessica Parker is a bizarre idea.

You need more than luck to get a decent result.

A few pictures show a short-haired Sarah Jessica Parker in film roles.

The central photo has her as Pierce Brosnan's love interest in Mars Attacks. She's the one on the left, holding the microphone.

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The fifteen pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker wearing short hair in this gallery, thirteen are the work of illusionists.

Nine are barely recognisable as Sarah Jessica Parker.

They've been created to sell merchandise to the public.

Many specialists have been drafted to the task of making Sarah Jessica Parker look glamorous, exciting, pretty.

And all of them - celebrity hair stylists, celebrity makeup artists, celebrity image builders - have had to work very hard indeed!

Sarah Jessica Parker with Short Hair:
Pure Fantasy

Of the carefully crafted sales photos of Sarah Jessica Parker with short hair, just one has her gazing directly at the camera - the picture that begins the middle row.

It's a total fantasy, of course.

Her hair sweeps down from a side part, rounding the top of an otherwise square forehead. Blonde hair stands away from her skin so you think her face is wider there. It flicks outwards round the ears in a splash of highlights.

That long, gaunt chin disappears against the soft tones of her throat.

Short hair, highlights, makeup and lighting have built an image of softness and curves - everything that Sarah Jessica Parker's face is not.

It's a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker ... but not really.

Sarah Jessica Parker with Short Hair:
Failed Illusion

Only one picture places Sarah Jessica Parker and her short hair anywhere near the real world - and then she comes no closer than the end of a microphone.

At the start of the top row she rests her cheek on one hand during an interview, trying subconsciously perhaps to widen her chin and the midline of her face.

She wears a short bob, tousled and rounded, a hair style that's meant to broaden her face.

It doesn't work.

The forehead-rounding part falls in line with her cheeks as they plummet vertically to the jagged rock of her chin.

This hair style actually highlights the narrowness of her face.

Sarah Jessica Parker with Short Hair: Almost Real

But two pictures below is one of the best pictures you'll find of this angular-faced celebrity wearing short hair.

She's even recognizable as herself.

This Sarah Jessica Parker hair style works because it incorporates her ears.

Her hair is pulled back on one side, descending in a forehead-softening curve. That shape echoes the rounded silhouette her hair creates as it sweeps from the top of one exposed ear to the other.

These twin devices make the upper half of her face seem rounder than it is, and wider.

But it's not just about Sarah Jessica Parker hair.

The trick involves jewelry, too.

Matched in width to her ear lobes, Sarah Jessica Parker's earrings reduce the severity of that long, harsh chin by extending the illusion of facial width even further down.

This is a real Sarah Jessica Parker hair picture.

But as we view it we're seeing an illusion - the oval face of an attractive woman.

The same Sarah Jessica Parker hair style appears side-on, at the end of the bottom row. Everything soft has vanished, leaving a face that's harsh, angular and jagged.

The look is brittle.

It is Sarah Jessica Parker.

But it's not the face you'd use to sell perfume.

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