03.27.08
Curly Hair Styles Are Back
Learn to Create Curls or
Tame the Ones You Have!
Women have been creating curly hair styles by setting hair for centuries.
Think braids, which can create a unique wave pattern.
New products, methods and tools have emerged steadily over the decades, offering variety for hair of any texture and almost any length.
Try setting your hair to…
- Add curl to incessantly straight locks.
- Smooth and tame wild curly hair styles.
- Create body and movement in fine, limp hair.
- Funk it up by experimenting with different textures.
03.26.08
Hot New Hair Style Trends For 2008! 3
Emulsify the product in your hands so there’s a thin veil of product all over your palms and between your fingers. Then plunge right in there and move the hair around with an eye out for an appealing shape. Swoop it, swirl it around, change directions suddenly. Coiffe with reckless abandon! And when you’ve achieved the start of a good look. Grab you blowdryer (on a low setting) and maximize the peaks and waves using your most important hair styling tool…your hands. Do not strive for perfection, but do aim for an “artful” feel, and some sort of discernible shape. Then set about your day and go forth with confidence knowing you’re the baddest hipster on the block!
Color for Character
Hair color can have a dramatic effect on an otherwise plain hair style. Rich dark colors are ultra-hot this year, sprinkled with a few equally rich highlights peeking out from underneath. Deep tones of eggplant, burgundy, and mahogany are a great compliment to a dark brown or black hair color. Strategically placed highlights, lowlights, or panels can accentuate texture and add tons of character to your style. Compliment your features and skin tone, and add an edge to your haircut with some artful hair coloring.
03.25.08
Hot New Hair Style Trends For 2008! 2
Asymmetry in Action
This edgy look just keeps getting more extreme! Bold exploration is the name of the game. Unexpected texture and length differences. The asymmetrical look can be done on a range of hair styles from a short cut, a bob or a longer, layered style. And the angles can range from soft and gently sloping to an extreme plunge. This year, asymmetrical bangs are hot, and whether they’re cut blunt or heavily textured, a sloping bang adds interest and can highlight your features nicely.
03.24.08
Hot New Hair Style Trends For 2008!
Looking to experiment with new hair style trends in 2008? Your choices abound! There’s an absolute feast of looks to choose from. Update your hair style with one of these hot trends that dominate the hair scene this year.
Bobs With Bang
Precision cut bobs are huge this year, coupled with smooth, sleek styling, a blunt fringe and heaps of shine. Your bob should be carefully crafted to accentuate your unique facial structure, or highlight a long, beautiful neck. Bob hair styles range from ear level to shoulder skimming and are best for straight or slightly wavy hair. If your hair is too curly, a bob can take on the look of a triangle, widening at the bottom in an unflattering way. Only opt for the bangs with this hair style if it works with your facial structure. And if you’re feeling a little more groovy baby…incorporate a mod feel into your bob.
Mad For Mod
Heavy, side-swept bangs and blunt lines characterize this cut. A mod hair style is similar to a bob, it’s texture and direction that add a mod feel. This cut has a generous amount of slicing or texturizing to lighten up the bluntness. Your hip, mod hair do should be styled with a swooping motion, directing the hair around the head from the crown or a deep side part. Using hair products like waxes, clays, or muds add texture and a bit of grungy-funk to a mod hair style.
03.20.08
Natural Long Curly Hairstyles, Without the Natural
As hair grows longer and heavier, straight hair tends to fall and loss volume quickly. While straight, sleek hair can be beautiful, women sometimes want to live the life of those with long, curly locks. If you want to try a long curly hair style, cut have not be blessed with natural curl, don’t worry. That natural curl look is only a few twists away.
While your long hair is still wet, apply a strong hold mousse. Gather large chunks of hair and twist into a tight bun that rests on the scalp. Secure the bun with a bobby pin. Continue twisting and securing until the entire length of hair has been twisted. Dry hair on low with a blow dryer on high heat. Once hair is completely dry, spray with a firm hold hair spray and allow to dry and rest for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the bobby pins and enjoy your new no so naturally, curly, long hair.
03.19.08
Hair Tips for Perfect Hair – Hair Care
Almost everyone has hair on his or her head. Almost no one really knows what to do with that hair. Very few people know how to best care and share their hair properly. There is help for the vast majority who firmly believe that hair was simply meant to keep your head warm in winter.
1. Do not wash and repeat. The idea of keeping natural oils in your hair may seem gross, but it is actually the best way to have healthy, shiny, and beautiful hair. The most that is recommended for washing your hair is once every other day. The other days, the hair should be rinsed, but not washed. This helps to prevent the over oiling of the hair by overactive oil glands that are thrust into over activity due to the dry nature of the hair and scalp from frequent hair washing.
2. Pick a color, any color. The idea of constantly re-dying the hair over and over again is getting old and doing some serious damage to the hair. While the dying practices are much gentler now then before, dying one’s hair can still cause dry hair and scalp. Constant dying can also increase the chances of breakage and split ends.
03.18.08
Hairstyles 2008 Tips – Celebrity Red Carpet Hairstyles
Celebrities are in the spotlight nearly every day of their lives. It is up to them to set the trends of clothing, jewelry and hair in 2008. It seems that the celebs have spoken and the number one most chosen hairstyle for fine dress occasions in 2008 is going to be the pull back.
The pull back hairstyle refers to any of a wealth of styles where long hair is pulled back to the neckline and captured in some beautiful hair piece. The focus of this style in 2008 with be asymmetrical and non conforming. With the sides of the hair straight and sleek, the back bun will be filled with ringlets of curls. What appear to be small wisps of hair framing in the face, will be purposefully placed there through a careful cutting technique.
Hair jewelry will not play a huge part in hairstyles in 2008. It seems Hollywood is taking the green trend and applying it to hair styling, as well. Many pull back hair designs are featuring no hair jewelry at all. The hair seems only to hold itself, as if bound by nature itself.
In 2008, celebrities will be wisping their hairstyles behind them and focusing on what is in front of them. Long hairstyles will be retained for many, with careful wisps cut to frame the face. Nature will abound and hair jewelry will disappear.
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03.17.08
Flick Look
Flick Look with its textured shape has been growing in popularity for a number of years. However, its not as easy to achieve as one might think. To get the look a number of new styling agents have been introduced to give hair this effects For cutting edge followers of hair fashions, this means using styling wax and pomades after hair has been dried.
03.16.08
HAIR FASHIONS 2008 FOR WOMEN
Held over from 2007 are three hair fashion trends, The Pin Straight Look, The Messy Look , The Shaggy Chic Look
New this year is a soft wavy style for long hair and a return to a short care free look.
While mid length and short hair styles have grown in popularity in resent years, the vast majority of women (75%) prefer shoulder length and longer hair styles.
