Former Star of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" Says Good-Bye to Her "Reverse Mullet," Hello to Lengthy Locks

(CBS)  Kate Gosselin of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" fame must have been happy to see the last of 2009. As the old year ended, she got rid of her old look, as well.

People magazine has Kate's lengthy new look -- a far cry from her so-called "reverse mullet -- on this week's cover.

But who was behind such a complete transformation?

Celebrity stylist Ted Gibson was the man behind her new fabulous 'do.

Gibson called changing Gosselin's look a "great opportunity."

"She wanted a change and we did some really remarkable things," Gibson said.

Gibson said Gosselin had the most iconic haircut of 2009. But, as "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez pointed out, Gosselin had the same look for three years.

"We made her sexy," Gibson said. "We actually changed the way she felt about herself and I think the way that the public will view her, as well."

Gibson said he held a consultation with Gosselin.

"The idea was to take her from being kind of ordinary with that spiked in the back and that long. She was kind of hiding behind that piece in the front. So what i wanted to do, instead of making it so it was shorter to longer, I wanted to make it shorter in the front, a little sexiness around the eyes with the bang."

But did Gosselin really want the new look? Did she resist Gibson's ideas?

"Oh my God!" Gibson said. "I think that every woman kind of resists change, right? I think length of hair adds sexiness to a woman even when she doesn't expect it."

But how did Gibson actually accomplish such long hair on such a short-haired woman?

"It wasn't a staple gun," Gibson joked. "... It was actually a technique called 'Great Lengths.' It's an extensions you actually bond a piece of keratin on a hair and then it's actually bonded to your hair. And the reason why it took so long with Kate -- it took about 20 hours with Kate -- because she has so much hair. And everything was so short underneath that we had to add a lot of hair all the way through."

Gibson said the pain-free look will last three or four months, and costs around $1,500 to $5,000 in his salon.

"It's an expensive process," he said. "But look what it does. It completely changes who she is."

Gibson added Gosselin is "extremely happy" with her new long locks.

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