Beyonce's super braids

So there we were thinking they might be too long, too extreme and too well, two-tone, for the world's most fashionable stylists, but it seems they like Beyoncé's new super braids too.

Yes, whatever Ms Knowles does to hair, the halo never moves out of place; "I love it!" explained celebrity hair stylist George Northwood. What, even the roots? "Yes, the texture always looks great and I love what she does with the colour with the roots. It always looks really natural even though it's super long and that's because of the natural texture and it never looks too thick or thin."

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Oh. So what about Adam Read, the stylist to Diane Kruger, Sophie Dahl and Yasmin Le Bon, who is usually anti-length? "You know what, I absolutely love it," he tells us. "I always think Beyoncé wears a Marmite head of hair, sometimes you love what she does, sometimes you absolutely don't. And this, although it's a risk, I absolutely do."

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Read admits that this length isn't one the rest of us can get away with, "but it really suits B. She can get away with it." Why? "Because firstly this kind of length will be creating using super light fibre and secondly she never wears a hairstyle for too long, which means she won't be wrecking her hair or scalp. But most of all, because now hair is all about extremities."

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"We're obsessed with hair trends. But they don't last six months anymore - they last a week," explains Reed. So he thinks it's down to pop stars that are using wigs, extensions and fake hair (case in point Beyoncé, Rihanna and Lady Gaga) to set, satisfy and follow those micro-trend moments - and it's best done in extreme styling.

Adds Read: "Super short, super long, super colours - we're really going back to the era where fake hair was used to achieve any kind of look, and fast. Take Cher, she had a different style every time you saw her during the Sixties and Seventies."

So now you see Beyoncé's braids, next week you won't. But we, like the professionals, liked them while they lasted.

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