Hairdresser Michael Van Clarke tells you how to get the 'New Rachel'

For those of us who won’t see 40 — or indeed 50 — again, it is rather a tonic that the woman who set the alight beauty-wise wasn’t some young whippersnapper, but , who will hit her mid-50s next month.

Jennifer is of the ‘if it ain’t broke . . .’ school, rocking a shorter, softly-layered, choppily straight, yet ‘piecey’ cut that commentators immediately deemed the New Rachel.

For many fiftysomething women, there’s a real romance in the idea of revisiting the ‘do’ of their youth when they were fashion-forward and carefree, hair spring-chickenishly luxuriant. It’s a show of self-confidence that speaks of mojo at its peak.

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