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Former Top Ten Tresses, H-N

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These pages are a record of all women who were on the Super-Hair Top 10 list at least once, since the first list was posted on the Internet in December 1999. Included is when the style was listed, and an explanation of why it dropped off the list.

LISA HALUSHKA -- December 1999 - March 2000. The mid-length, feathery style of this Michigan prosecutor gained fame when she argued the Nathaniel Abraham murder case. She could return to the Top Ten, but she's been out of the spotlight for awhile.

DOROTHY HAMILL -- April 2000 - November 2001. The wedge is quite an award winner: a Super-Hair Wars undefeated champion; a Crown Award winner; added to the Ultimate 50 on 7 May 2K; and a Gold Award honoree. But hard as it was to do it, we dropped her because her hair looks thin, tired and weak in recent commercials for Vioxx. To be honest, the hair doesn't really move at all, so it's more perfect -- but it's simply not what it used to be.

KAMALA HARRIS -- March 2006 - March 2007. The San Francisco District Attorney snuck up on us with well-controlled mid-length hair. Then she went to shoulder-length, and impressed us even more. But just after passing the Gold Award mark for a year on our list, a breezy March day almost shoved that right-side hair in her eyes (we only have one picture of it sitting very close). She's still unbeaten -- but on probation, subject to appeal. (Courtesy KGO-TV)

KATHERINE HARRIS -- December 2000-July 2001. As Florida Secretary of State, her extra-large pageboy hung in place and bounced incredibly well. She's still unbeaten and could come back -- but she did a major modification to get elected to Congress, and doesn't get the attention she once did.

SAMANTHA HARRIS - February - August 2006 and September 2006 - January 2007. The entertainment reporter gained national fame as a co-host of Dancing With the Stars. Our polls rated her the best style on the show, and suggested she have straight locks instead of waves. She's kept both unbeaten well, but a red carpet interview on YouTube shows her seriously fighting for hold from only a light breeze. She won, but that was too close for us.

COLLEEN HASKELL -- September-October 2000. Her tight, short cut was a five-week "Survivor" on a Pacific island. We've never seen it fall, but it's become plenty messy. We dropped her for something more precise, but she could come back.

JILL HENNESSY - September 2001. The waves of this "Crossing Jordan" star are drop-dead (pun) fabulous, and move as an amazing unit on TV. But "Entertainment Weekly" published a photo with stray strands across her right eye. Yup, we did jump the gun on this one.

STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN - January-May 2007. Perhaps the first member of the list from South Dakota, this U.S. House member won a 2006 Crown Award winner for developing a long helmet-like style. But a windswept tour of a farm in May seemed to outfight it, as a couple of bangs slipped below an eyelash in a picture on her Congressional web site. It's a "fine print" loss, but still a loss.

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT - June 2006. She won a 2005 Crown Award for her bangs on Ghost Whisperer, then made a controversial short cut which we liked (even if voters in a poll here did not). But for all the hold and control she shows now, too many pictures lurk online of how messy and defeated her long locks were then.

SHANA HIATT - January-March 2007. She's considered the real reason why most people stay up after 2:00 a.m. to watch Poker After Dark. Her medium-long hair looks great there -- but big bad Stuff magazine dared to put her in a photo shoot with locks practically in her left eye. We don't think it's a full "flop," but she's crossed our "river" for now.

CAROLYN HUGHES -- August 2001-April 2002. This newscaster's beautifully solid style came from nowhere (just kidding, El Paso) to cause a Super-Hair Wars firestorm. She won the 2001 regular-season title, and made the playoff finals. We dropped her only because her old TV station stopped cyber-casting, making it impossible for us to see her. But Fox Sports Net has given her a Sunday night show, so that could change. Read our exclusive interview!

DARLENE HUNT -- September-December 2006. This character actor made her prime-time TV series debut in a comedy about a support group called Help Me Help You. But the show didn't gain enough public support, so ABC put it on "hiatus." Her nice long hair must go there as well, because of this -- but it's undefeated, and we like it.

CAREN JANSSEN - January-March 2006. Perhaps the only redeeming thing we've found in the Natalee Holloway case is the wavy pageboy hair of the Aruba Attorney General. It holds surprisingly well in Caribbean breezes, and is undefeated in our view. But a dreadful performance in the 2005 Crown Awards puts her out for a while.

NORAH JONES -- July 2002-February 2004 and May-June 2005. Forget this singer's comments about being nerdy. Her care with long waves is smart, strong and impressive -- good enough to merit a Gold Award from us. She's unbeaten and could come back anytime, but a Cup winner pushed her to #11 for now. (Courtesy Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

ANDREA JUNG -- April-May 2000. This top executive of Avon has the best hair we've seen in the "long hair with side part" trend. It seems to stay put well, but she was dropped from the Top Ten after losing a "knockout round" to Lisa Ling in Super-Hair Wars.

MELINA KANAKAREDES -- October 2004 - January 2006. We accuse the series CSI: New York of toying with Hair Fans, by showing extreme artsy close-ups of this investigator's extraordinary natural curls. She won a 2001 Crown Award for them, and she earned a Gold Award for one year in the Top Ten. But the 1 February episode pushed the envelope to the absolute brink, with a strip of fringe curls falling across the forehead. They were surprisingly NOT long enough to fall, but they were literally an eyelash from defeat -- so consider this her "holding room," while we keep her under surveillance.

JACQUE KESSLER -- March-June 2003. The court reporter on "Judge Joe Brown" actually goes out in the elements to interview plaintiffs and defendants. While her sidepart stands up strongly there, on 26 Jun bangs plopped down almost in her left eye inside the courtroom. She's still technically unbeaten -- but as the judge would say, "The Court's condolences."

DIANA KRALL -- February-June 2002. Canada's crown jewel of jazz has long blonde hair that's grown more attractive with time, and works well either straight (our preference) or wavy. But the cover of her "Live in Paris" DVD finds her hair dipping much too close to the eyes at the keyboard. We lean toward calling her defeated, but we could be persuaded otherwise.

MICHELLE KWAN -- December 1999 - March 2000. When she cut her hair this short, it had dynamic strength even while in motion. But she's let it grow out (we dare her to do a skating routine unpinned at its current length), so she was taken out.

MARY LANDRIEU -- July-August 2003. The Senator from Louisiana takes good precise care of her blonde hair, and she's even won a Cutting-Edge poll on our web site about it. But someone had to go, to make room for a "Hall of Fame" style -- and a poll ranking the Top Ten left her knocked out.

JOY LESLIE - October 2007. Her long drop-dead perfect hair impressed us when the video show Online Nation premiered. But The CW canceled the program so fast, she couldn't draw a following -- and that's the sole reason why we dropped her. That network can keep the "Top Models," too.

ANANDA LEWIS -- January-June 2002. This talk show host does a masterful job of keeping natural, wavy long hair in position through any situation. How disappointed we were to find a cover of "D&W" magazine with one strip of hair across her nose, and another well inside her right eye. When will champion cuts learn to just say no to this?

LISA LING -- May 2000-February 2002. Whether bouncing above her shoulders or chest-long (our preference), her hair was kept so close and so strong that she was an impressive Gold Award selection. But when we viewed "The View" 2/12/2, she went on a trip to Disney World without tying her style back. That quite-rare mistake cost her, as a roller coaster ride threw Ling's lovely locks into her face.

LEA LITTLE -- March-August 2004. Bangs + sprayed layers + occasional glasses = a long-lasting, face hugging look which wows us when watching "Shop at Home TV." She's still quite unbeaten, but Hair Fans didn't seem interested at all when they ranked the Top Ten in August. Read our exclusive interview!

JENNIFER LONDON -- 2004 (month being checked) - November 2006. She's wowed us for years on the NBC networks with long hair which stuck in place through West Coast assignments. Her work in wildfires led us to rank her among the best. But ironically, what NBC's web site called "powerful and erratic winds" pushing a wildfire finally pushed her hair into her face 4 December -- even though she had a ponytail seriously wrapped around her neck.