Hairstyles of Soap Stars

The Best Hairstyles of Soap Stars

The hairstyles of soap stars that women love are not the fancy up-do styles that the actresses sport for the swanky to-dos on their shows. Instead, fans want the seemingly natural looks that don’t require a stylist to chase them around with a teasing brush and hairspray.

Michelle Stafford

Daytime Emmy Winner Michelle Stafford plays Phyllis Summers on the Young and the Restless. Her hairstyles have long appeared to be the naturally tousled and rolled out of bed look whether she was vamping it up by stealing Christine’s husband or dressing for success at Newman Enterprises. Over the years she’s sported the wavy long hairstyle, wavy medium hairstyle and the curly medium hairstyle.

Sharon Case

Sharon Case’s beleaguered Sharon Newman Abbott (Y&R)possesses an elegance that is still rough around the edges and befitting the girl from the wrong side of the tracks that married her high school sweetheart and is still more at home as a housewife than she is the corporate world. When her daughter Cassie died a few years ago, Case’s hair reflected her emotions as much as much as her face did. It was often down or pulled back with wisps and tendrils falling down around her face.

Rebecca Herbst

Becky Herbst is a down to earth girl playing a down to earth nurse. A single mother with two children, Herbst’s Elizabeth Webber Spencer (GH) doesn’t have a lot of money and her hairstyles often reflect that. Whether sporting her short bob in the late 90s and early 2000s or the back length tresses of today, her hair often looks like it requires a good brushing and she’s ready to go. While at work, Elizabeth’s hair is usually pulled back and off her face, but in an easy style that appears as though she twisted it there on her way in the doors after dropping the kids off.

Soap Opera Hair is Big Business

Soap opera actors and actresses often have signature hairstyles that are recognizable even without the face. Soap Opera Digest often features articles and behind the scenes tips from some of daytime’s best hairstylists as well as posting pictures by reader request for hairstyles they want to emulate.

Hairstyling Emmy Awards

Soap hairstyles are big items for the daytime dramas and there are two categories in the Creative Arts for the Daytime Emmy Awards that are given for hairstyling. Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling honors have been given to Days of Our Lives, General Hospital As the World Turns, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Tyra Banks Show and The View.