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Batman actor Christian Bale debuted an extreme style change as he arrived at Los Angeles’ airport with a shaved head and beard.

Usually a star’s new look might be a new colour or a change of hairstyle but ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ actor isn’t one for messing about, opting to shave his head bald and team it with a full beard for a very dramatic change.

He had flown in from New York where he’s filming a new movie, ‘American Hustle’, alongside Amy Adams, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.

Following Friday’s Scottish heat of Wella TrendVision Award 2013 news item, today we can announce the winners.

Held at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange, with our own Kay McIntyre acting as judge, the theme this year was to interpret ‘The Sound Of Colour’ in both the ‘Colour’ an ‘Young Talent’ categories.

The full list of winners were:

Young Talent:
Mhairi Walker – Frances Hunter Hairdressing
Arianne Kennedy – Jo Anderson
Zarina Ainslie – The Head Gardener
Callum Taylor – U Concept
Gemma Kellacher – Hair Directory

Color:
Pamela McNie – Frances Hunter Hairdressing

‘The Rachel’, the hairstyle worn by Jennifer Aniston in the TV show ‘Friends’, remains the most requested hairstyle ahead even of Kate Middleton’s.

Talking to the Daily Mail, hairdresser Richard Ward, who counts Kate Middleton as a client, says that the hairstyle is still the most requested by clients even twenty years after it debuted on the U.S. television show.

While the royal mum-to-be, Kate Middleton, has become a style icon and role model to many following her wedding to Prince William, her flowing hair remains in the shadow of Aniston’s era defining look.

Nicole Kidman shone with a sleek new hairstyle amidst a down pour of rain at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival where she is on the judging panel this year.

Combining a high volume quiff with slicked back sides and a ponytail, the distinctive look stole the limelight at the opening ceremony of the French film festival.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival, the 66th, runs from the 15th to the 26th May with Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ adaptation, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opening the event.

Kidman is rumoured to next star in the planned Gracy Kelly biopic, ‘Grace Of Monaco’.

A new study commissioned by Kerastase has found that woman’s hair looks at its best when they are 29 years old.

It seems that by that age woman have stopped experimenting with their hair and have the disposable income to spend on it helping the tail end of their twenties be the optimum age for woman’s hair excellence. Celebrities currently at that magic age include Cheryl Cole, Alexa Chung, Mila Kunis, Nicky (sister of Paris) Hilton and Olivia Wilde. So there might be something in it after all.

Wella’s TrendVision Award is one close to McIntyres’ heart with our own Sammy winning the Gold Award For Colour in 2011. Today sees Kay McIntyre step up to judge the Scottish regional heat at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange.

The regional heats continue in Manchester, Nottingham and London over the next few weeks before the UK Final at Camden’s Roundhouse in October then the World Finals in Frankfurt in October where Kay has been asked to attend.

The theme for this year’s TrendVision Award is ‘The Sound Of Colour’ with entrants asked to offer their interpretation of that concept.

A busy day lies ahead for McIntyres’ Union Street salon as a team from P&G visit to shoot a ‘Global Success Video’ and talk to Kay about her role as UK Nioxin Ambassador.

For those uninitiated into its benefits, Nioxin is professional hair care brand specializing in hair thinning for men and woman with Kay appointed its UK Education Ambassador in December last year as well as taking up a role heading up a new nationwide cutting and styling course.

Beyonce has topped a new poll as the person most woman aim to emulate as they head out for a night on the town.

The 31 year old superstar, who gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter by husband Jay-Z last year, topped the survey of half a million woman by website fashionfuse.com with Rihanna, Cheryl Cole and Kim Kardashian also heavy featured as inspirational style icons.

shu uemura have announced two new products, Clay Definer pomade and Touch Of Gloss melt in wax. Buy both now from Mcintyres online shop.

Clay Definer is a rough moulding pomade for a strong yet mouldable hold and a touchable shine-free finish which uses soft Kaolin powder, known by artists for centuries as the softest and most malleable clay, to define hair and add texture, for a strong yet workable hold, it spreads easily and gives a silky matte finish.