Edward Beale – Melbourne

Hair Collection · 2006

Edward Beale – Melbourne is an after-dark studio editorial that runs through several distinct looks. It opens with sharp, textured crops – piecey razored layers and a spiky fringe framing the face, finished with smoky blue eyes and leopard-print styling – then moves to a sleek, glossy brunette bob with a heavy blunt fringe, and closes on full, voluminous auburn curls. Pearls, gold body chains and jewel-tone gowns tie the story together: playful, glamorous and unmistakably editorial.

The collection is pure 2006. That year salon hair leaned into choppy, razored layers, blunt and side-swept fringes and a mod revival of sharp, textured crops, alongside the glossy, poker-straight finish of the mid-2000s. Edward Beale’s Melbourne studio captures all of it – the piecey crop, the heavy blunt fringe and the polished shine – in one confident, contemporary editorial.

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