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"  Hairstylist Mandy Lyons hails from across the pond but calls New York her home. Here, she plays hairstylist to Sarah Jessica Parker and Parker&amp;#039;s alter ego, Carrie Bradshaw\u2014a post she&amp;#039;s held for eight years. Keep reading to see what Lyons has to say about the fabulous dos of Sex and the City 2 and what a day on set with SJP is like.           How do you create Carrie&amp;#039;s signature waves? I&amp;#039;ve always tried to keep her hair full of different textures. I never use just one curling iron\u2014I use about five! SJ has fine, medium-wavy hair but there&amp;#039;s a lot of it. I start by applyingK\u00E9rastase Mousse Nutri-Sculpt andBumble and bumble Styling Lotion at the roots when they&amp;#039;re damp. I keep her ends completely free of products, though, so that her hair moves more. Next, I blow it out straight. After I run different-size curling irons through her strands, they just become an amazing mass of textures.  Describe a typical morning on set with SJP. We had a really lovely atmosphere in the trailer\u2014besides SJ, it was just myself and Judy Chin, her makeup artist. Since we all listen to the same kind of music, there&amp;#039;d always be some playing. SJ likes &amp;#039;80s music that we can sing to\u2014songs by Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Peter Gabriel. She makes pretty good playlists! We also had a toaster and kettle in the trailer, so we&amp;#039;d make breakfast\u2014usually it&amp;#039;d be my PG Tips English Tea with avocado and eggs on toast. SJ always reads a newspaper while I do her hair so I got plenty of SJP synopses of the world. It was all very relaxed because we know each other so well. We had some good laughs!          How have Carrie&amp;#039;s hairstyles changed since the last SATC movie? Now that Carrie&amp;#039;s married, we wanted her hair to be more grownup and sophisticated. You&amp;#039;ll see that for the bulk of the movie, she wears these big brushed-out waves that are very glamorous\u2014we don&amp;#039;t normally do that to her hair. The brushed-out style is reminiscent of Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger in the &amp;#039;70s. There&amp;#039;s also a bit of Old Hollywood mixed in there. What did SJP think of Carrie&amp;#039;s new brushed-out hairstyle? She really loved it! I think it was her favorite hairstyle in the movie. I&amp;#039;d put pieces of extensions in and wave them with her own hair. Then I&amp;#039;d take a big Mason Pearson brush and just brush it through.          How did the Moroccan setting for the movie influence Carrie&amp;#039;s hairstyles? We had a lot of fun with turbans and head scarves, which were really popular in the 1970s. Pat [Field] had SJ wearing a lot of vintagelike Halston so the turbans and scarves went well with that. Pat gave me some to play with and we just put them on SJ whenever it felt right. They were all kind of thrown on at the last minute.  At one point in the movie\u2014it&amp;#039;s only a very small segment\u2014I did a huge bun and wrapped a scarf around it. It&amp;#039;s sort of a wink to women in Morocco who cover up their hair. We literally just wrapped material over the whole of SJ&amp;#039;s bun and let the ends hang down the side. A scarf is a really fun accessory for summer and easy to incorporate.          Tell us about the stylish bun that Carrie wore for Smith Jerrod&amp;#039;s movie premiere. I use a lot of hairpieces that I design with a wig maker in New York. We create these pieces that can be clipped in very quickly so that when there are rushed changes from one scene to another I can take one piece off and chuck another piece in. For the bun, we backcombed SJ&amp;#039;s real hair and wrapped two ponytail extensions around it. I left a few pins showing so that it&amp;#039;s not completely perfect\u2014I like her hairstyles to be a tiny bit flawed so that they seem human.          Carrie&amp;#039;s hairstyles have a way of looking effortlessly chic\u2014her coif in the scene where she&amp;#039;s shopping with Samantha exemplifies this. How did it come about? Yes, we did this funny little top knot. It was going to be a bun and then half of it fell down and I loved how it looked. So I just quickly secured it with these huge pins and she ran out of the trailer! It worked out perfectly because even though her hair was off her face she also had all this wonderful texture. I like this one because it looks as though Carrie could have done it herself\u2014it&amp;#039;s not a style that&amp;#039;s ultradifficult to do. I also like that the texture appears rough and slept-in.           What was the thought process behind Carrie&amp;#039;s bohemian poolside hairdo? She&amp;#039;s wearing a headband over a head scarf. The headband was a vintage piece from the 1920s that Pat found. At first we left SJ&amp;#039;s hair loose but as we were looking at her I decided that she&amp;#039;d look better with a &amp;#039;20s bob. I said to her, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s get rid of some of that hair,&amp;quot; and she was all for it. It was very impromptu\u2014I&amp;#039;d already prepped her hair with great texture so I just tucked the ends under and she continued doing the scene. Working on set requires you to think on your feet, but it&amp;#039;s really fun!          Carrie wears the &amp;#039;20s headband again when she and the girls do karaoke. How did you concoct the hairstyle for this scene? The headband allowed me to play with different widths and shapes. When you watch the scene, you&amp;#039;ll see that I gave SJ a big bubble shape at the back. I did this by tying the headband underneath the roundest part of her head so that it made the whole back section of her hair bubble outward. It&amp;#039;s an amazing profile. And when you look at it from the front, you&amp;#039;ll notice that the headband pushes some of the hair down and makes it billow out at the sides.           Carrie&amp;#039;s crimped ends at Stanford and Anthony&amp;#039;s wedding have been getting tons of attention. Can you talk about the inspiration behind the hairstyle? We wanted to be provocative\u2014people will either love it or hate it. But with Carrie being the best man at the wedding and wearing a suit, we didn&amp;#039;t want to do anything classic or too obvious. It was actually really hard coming up with the right hairstyle because we&amp;#039;ve done everything on Sex and the City! In the end, we decided to give her big hair so that it would go against the slim, angular silhouette of her suit. I took a classic Carrie look\u2014pulling a triangular front piece back from her face like Catherine Deneuve\u2014and magnified it with massive curls. The crimped sections at the bottom make the hairstyle different, though\u2014they&amp;#039;re a play on the &amp;#039;80s and add some fun.  Click here to see what Sarah Jessica Parker has to say about her beauty must-haves! Photos: Courtesy of Warner Bros. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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