Okt 6, 2012
Hair Styling Ideas
Wash, dry, and comb is the painless, quick, and easy method of hair styling. Yet, whether your hair is short, medium length, or long, our list of hair styling ideas lets you quickly and painlessly make hair styling glamour an easy part of your daily regimen.
- Fun as well as easy to use, today’s hair styling accessories add allure to hair styles for every occasion– from morning through night. You’re probably already familiar with many of them, but some less common accessories may be just the right thing to perk up your style:
- Alligator Clamps & Jaw Claws may sound like instruments of torture, but they’re really among the quickest ways to add quick elegance to a hair style.
- Add just a hint of sparkle with jewel studded bobby pins and their wider cousins, the hair forks
- Hair sticks - long and short available either as singles or in pairs.
- Medieval circlets - tiara like except that these enchanting “hair necklaces” circle your head with bright jewels that drape strikingly over your forehead.
- If your budget is tight, let your earrings enhance your hair style. Stay conservative during working hours with earring posts and studs. After hours put a little swing in even the shortest style with a pair of danglers.
- Sweep hair back with a wide leather or fabric headband.
- Fashion a hair band out of a sheer scarf. Instead of knotting a scarf, hold it together with a favorite brooch or pin.
- Before unruly hair makes you mad as the March Hare, add an Alice Band to your hair style. Named after “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, an Alice Band keeps unruly hair out of your face and puts a finishing touch on either short or long hair styles. Find Alice Bands gem-studded, fabric wrapped, or in just plain plastic in several colors and style variants in price ranges to suit every budget.
- Change your part. Go from left to right, center to off-center, even from straight to zigzag! If your style includes short top layers, pull some of that top knot forward for heavier bangs. If your top is long, consider a shorter part and pull the rest of your top tresses back into a ponytail, braid, or fasten them with a barrette or another type of clip.
- Use your curling iron to curl just the parts of your hair style that emphasize your best features. Before curling, spritzing your hair with a working spray helps keep your curl alive and bouncy throughout your day.
- Get the ultimate “curl for a day” by setting your hair with hot rollers. Again, spritz your hair with a working spray for long-lasting curl. Divide your hair into two-inch wide sections and wind each section up vertically. After the rollers cool, carefully remove them and instead of combing, style your hair by running your fingers through your curls.
- When your hair color makes you feel a bit bleached out, try the reverse on your hair. Instead of highlights, add lowlights, twilights, or veils to your hair.
- Veils — a semi-permanent method of brightening old color by applying a darker glaze over permanent color.
- Twilights — a first cousin to lowlights, twilights are a subtle addition of darker tones used to add depth and mystery to hair color treatments that have become too bright and brassy.
- Lowlights — When your hair style looks flat, it may be that your hair color is fading into the sunset. Low lighting is a hair coloring technique that pumps up your hair style by creating new dimension and depth with the introduction of a few darker tones
- http://www.hairstylingguide.com/ideas.htm
Summer Hair Care Tips
Summer moisture and the summer sun can be damaging to your hair. Proper preventative steps need to be taken during this season to ensure that your hair does not get damaged.
Summer Hair Care Tips
Wear a scarf, hat or cap to protect your hair from the sun but make sure that it's not so tight where it will restrict circulation in your scalp.If you know you are going to be in the sun for a long time and if you don't want to wear anything on your head, use a leave in conditioner with sunscreen in it before you go out.If you are outside and forgot to put leave in conditioner with sunscreen in your hair, you can put regular sunscreen in your hair, but make sure you rinse it out with a deep cleansing shampoo when you get home.Limit your use of "hot" items on your hair such as a blow dryers and curling irons.If you need to use a "hot" item, use a leave in conditioner before using the item on your hair.Avoid taking hot showers or washing your hair in hot water. Use warm or cool water instead; the heat can dry out and/or damage your hair and skin.Staying hydrated is important for healthy hair as well as your overall health so make sure that you are taking enough water.Avoid hair products with formaldehyde or alcohol in it which dry out hair. Try to use natural products that are gentler on your hair.Try washing your hair less often; shampooing your hair strips the moisture out of your hair.Use a conditioner on your hair daily.Try using a dry shampoo if you need to wash out your hair. One dry shampoo you can use is baby powder, simply sprinkle some onto your hair and use a comb to comb it off.Use a mositurizing shampoo that is gentler than your regular shampoo for the summer.Before going into the pool/ocean wet your hair; this will decrease the absorption of chlorinated/salt water into your hair.Use a clarifying shampoo after swimming to wash out the chlorine/salt and any residues that may be in your hair. Chlorine will severely dry out your hair if it is not washed out.Get your hair trimmed every six to eight weeks. Your hair grows faster in the warmer months and frizzies are more common in the summer months due to the heat and moisture.Hair products that have the word "Replenish" on it is made to moisturize your hair.Knotting your hair, braiding it or wearing it up or in a bun will help contain frizzies.Putting conditioner on the frizzy areas of your hair and sleeping with your hair up or with plastic around your hair will help remoisturize the dry areas of your hair.Once you have your hair moist, lock in the moisture by running your hair through cold water; this will also give your hair an extra shine.Hair Styling Tips
When your bad hair days outnumber your good ones, it may be time for a change of hair style! Yet, before you go under the knife - scissors, take time out to sharpen up your style knowledge with a few hair styling tips!
Solving Common Hair Styling Problems
Corralling the Bang Cowlick
Bangs are great for softening a severe cut or style and can add dimension to a too angular face shape but, when accompanied by a cowlick (Patch of hair that won't normally lie flat because it grows in a different direction), they can transform a hair style from chic to hick. To corral bang cowlicks, try drying bangs forward using a vented dryer or round brush.
Corralling the Bang Cowlick
Bangs are great for softening a severe cut or style and can add dimension to a too angular face shape but, when accompanied by a cowlick (Patch of hair that won't normally lie flat because it grows in a different direction), they can transform a hair style from chic to hick. To corral bang cowlicks, try drying bangs forward using a vented dryer or round brush.
Alternatively, you can turn the negative into a positive by basing your hair style on the natural lift of your cowlick.
- Camouflage your cowlick and add a look of natural lift to your bangs by parting your hair at your cowlick.
- Using your styling brush or vented brush like a hot roller, imitate the lift of your cowlick in other sections of your bangs.
- Pull short layers forward to effectively weigh down the cowlick.
Don’t Flip Out - Flip Under!
When your hair is rubbing you the wrong way, don’t flip out. Use your styling brush or vented brush to flip hair into a hair styling classic, the pageboy. Dry hair to about ¾ and then apply a working spray to the ends of your hair. Turn your dryer to hot. Then just as you would with hot rollers, use your styling brush or a vented brush to roll your hair under. Blow dry for about 15 seconds. Let the curl cool for about 10 seconds; then carefully remove your styling appliance. If you’re lucky enough to have a lot of volume, you may wish to separate your hair into ‘bottom’ and ‘top’ sections. Pin up the top section and use the technique on the bottom section first and then the top.
When your hair is rubbing you the wrong way, don’t flip out. Use your styling brush or vented brush to flip hair into a hair styling classic, the pageboy. Dry hair to about ¾ and then apply a working spray to the ends of your hair. Turn your dryer to hot. Then just as you would with hot rollers, use your styling brush or a vented brush to roll your hair under. Blow dry for about 15 seconds. Let the curl cool for about 10 seconds; then carefully remove your styling appliance. If you’re lucky enough to have a lot of volume, you may wish to separate your hair into ‘bottom’ and ‘top’ sections. Pin up the top section and use the technique on the bottom section first and then the top.
Grounding Fly-Away Hair
The reason hair doesn’t fly away everyday is because hair follicles naturally attract and retain moisture. However, it takes moisture to attract moisture; when conditions are dry, you need to provide your hair with some supplementary help. Although the better commercial moisturizers contain “humectants” to assist in moisture attraction and retention, you can find one inexpensive yet effective alternative right in your kitchen! The safflower oil you use for cooking is one of the beauty industry’s best-kept secrets for treating dryness in hair due to weather, perms, hair coloring, and hair relaxation techniques... and all it takes is a couple of drops.
The reason hair doesn’t fly away everyday is because hair follicles naturally attract and retain moisture. However, it takes moisture to attract moisture; when conditions are dry, you need to provide your hair with some supplementary help. Although the better commercial moisturizers contain “humectants” to assist in moisture attraction and retention, you can find one inexpensive yet effective alternative right in your kitchen! The safflower oil you use for cooking is one of the beauty industry’s best-kept secrets for treating dryness in hair due to weather, perms, hair coloring, and hair relaxation techniques... and all it takes is a couple of drops.
Rub a couple of drops of safflower oil between your palms. Your hands will look shiny in the light. Then scrunch the oil into your dry hair, starting at the ends and working towards your scalp. Leave this “conditioning” treatment in your hair. You won’t even notice it, but you will notice that it works wonders in keeping frizzies and fly-aways in their place – completely out of sight!
To keep ends in better condition, always dry with focus on the hair closest to your head and not your ends.
Taking the Limp Out of Long Hair
To build volume in thinner hair – while it’s still damp, lean over and let your hair hang forward. Finish drying starting at the nape of your neck and working towards your forehead. When you flip it back, you’ll likely see that your “mop” has turned into a magnificent mane!
To build volume in thinner hair – while it’s still damp, lean over and let your hair hang forward. Finish drying starting at the nape of your neck and working towards your forehead. When you flip it back, you’ll likely see that your “mop” has turned into a magnificent mane!
Choosing Your Hair Style
Face shape, curl (straight, wavy, curly, kinky), texture (fine, medium, thick) and the volume of your hair are the deciding elements in choosing your best hair style. However, with today’s hair styling techniques you can change almost any aspect of your hair, so the most important consideration is your face shape. Determining Your Face Shape
Put long hair into a pony tail; wet and slick back short hair. Using a bar of soap, a water soluble marker, or a crayon, look into a mirror and trace the outline of your face. Follow your hairline and trace starting with the center of your forehead to temple, jawbone, chin, jawbone, temple, and back to forehead. Stand to one side and look at your outline. It should resemble one of seven shapes. Oval, Triangle. Square, Round, Heart, Oblong, Diamond.
Face shape, curl (straight, wavy, curly, kinky), texture (fine, medium, thick) and the volume of your hair are the deciding elements in choosing your best hair style. However, with today’s hair styling techniques you can change almost any aspect of your hair, so the most important consideration is your face shape. Determining Your Face Shape
Put long hair into a pony tail; wet and slick back short hair. Using a bar of soap, a water soluble marker, or a crayon, look into a mirror and trace the outline of your face. Follow your hairline and trace starting with the center of your forehead to temple, jawbone, chin, jawbone, temple, and back to forehead. Stand to one side and look at your outline. It should resemble one of seven shapes. Oval, Triangle. Square, Round, Heart, Oblong, Diamond.
Triangular: If you have a cleft in your chin, your face shape is the exact opposite of the heart shaped face. Short cuts will help balance your dominant jaw line and you are a great candidate for today’s wedges, shags, and other styles that feature fullness at the temples.
Square: Soften the angles with short, wispy bangs and soft tendrils along the sides of your face. Naturally curly hair is an ideal accent for a square face. If you don’t have it, consider a perm or body wave. Add extra dimension to your style by layering in extra height at your crown and wearing an off-set part.
Round: Lengthen you face to get the appearance of an oval by adding some height at your crown. Keep hair swept back to show your features to their best advantage. Wear off centered parts to draw attention away from the symmetry of your face. Wear either short or long hair styles, but stay away from the medium. Keep hair either above or below your chin line.
Heart: Chin length (or longer) hair styling looks great on the heart-shaped face, adding fullness and volume where you need it. You’re also a candidate for styles that feature wispy bangs, layered at the sides to sweep forward, accenting your eyes and stunning cheekbones.
Rectangular or oblong: Try short to medium length hair styles with extra fullness at the sides. Use wispy bangs and romantic tendrils to soften the angles. Layers also add softness and roundness to straight lines. Too long hair, high hair, and center parts will serve to lengthen your face. Keep your hair above shoulder length and work to add volume at the sides of your hair style.
Diamond: Your face is almost an oval, but a bit more angular, which gives you a dramatic look that allows you to try many different hair styles. Leave weight at the nape of your neck to add weight to a narrow chin and do keep the hair out of your face to keep from hiding your great bone structure!
Baby Hair Care Tips
Baby Hair Care
Similar to many of the new and exciting events that arrive after giving birth, your baby's newly grown hair is one that can come quickly and sometimes frenziedly. The hair care order of importance is washing, combing, trimming then styling. There are numerous options for tear-free shampoos and conditioners, hair styles and hair accessories that will be fun to explore with your baby. Trying out different options is the best way to find out what you like most, and what is most manageable.
Similar to many of the new and exciting events that arrive after giving birth, your baby's newly grown hair is one that can come quickly and sometimes frenziedly. The hair care order of importance is washing, combing, trimming then styling. There are numerous options for tear-free shampoos and conditioners, hair styles and hair accessories that will be fun to explore with your baby. Trying out different options is the best way to find out what you like most, and what is most manageable.
Washing
Over washing can cause dry and flaky skin; to prevent this, bathe your baby and his or her scalp two to three times a week.
Over washing can cause dry and flaky skin; to prevent this, bathe your baby and his or her scalp two to three times a week.During bath time, gently massage baby shampoo on your baby's scalp, making sure not to overdo it.Shampoo should be rinsed before or as soon as there is any visible lather.While rinsing your child's scalp, your child's head and neck should be supported by either a reclining tub or your free hand.Using a tear-free conditioner after shampooing can be helpful for babies with thick or curly hair. Unlike shampoo, conditioner will not lather and can simply be smoothed onto your baby's scalp then rinsed immediately.
Combing/Brushing
After shampooing your child's hair, use a wide-toothed comb or soft brush to run through it while the scalp is still damp. (Do this even if your child has thin or no hair in order to stimulate the follicles and prevent a flaky scalp.)
After shampooing your child's hair, use a wide-toothed comb or soft brush to run through it while the scalp is still damp. (Do this even if your child has thin or no hair in order to stimulate the follicles and prevent a flaky scalp.)Brushes work better for thin or wispy hair, and combs work better for full or thick hair. Be sure to comb or brush your baby's hair very gently.A baby's skin is still extremely sensitive and can be upset easily by hastily-brushed or snagged hair. On days that your child does not get a bath, comb or brush the hair anyway. Be aware that hair will be more tangled when your baby's hair is dry.
Cutting/Trimming
During infancy, a baby will not need much hair cut other than stray strands that fall into the eyes.
During infancy, a baby will not need much hair cut other than stray strands that fall into the eyes.The easiest time to cut your child's hair is during his or her happiest time of the day. The task will be impossible if your child is not in a good mood.Trim the hair when it is damp and when your baby is preoccupied with a toy or other item.Parents with babies who have long or thick hair may feel more comfortable getting a hair cut by a professional. If you are not comfortable with scissors anywhere near your child.
Styling
Before getting into styling options for babies' hair, remember it is extremely important for thinly-haired or bald babies to wear caps while outside.
Before getting into styling options for babies' hair, remember it is extremely important for thinly-haired or bald babies to wear caps while outside.Wispy or long hair can be easily controlled with hair bangs, barrettes, pig tails or pony tails for girls.Curly hair can be a bit more difficult to manage, and it will be easier to style while damp. If your baby girl's hair is thick and curly, it can be kept short, held back with a headband or sectioned into ponytails.For boys, wispy and curly hair is most easily manageable when kept short. Some parents attempt comb overs, but are kept busy fixing them throughout the day.Winter Hair Care Tips
The dry and cold winter can be very damaging to your hair. Hair easily becomes dry during this time of year from the dry indoor heating and the dry cold weather outside. Proper preventative steps need to be taken during this seasons to ensure that your hair does not get damaged.
Winter Hair Care Tips
Wear a scarf, hat or cap to protect your hair from the cold and wind. Make sure that it's not so tight where it will restrict circulation in your scalp.Use a conditioner daily.Once you have your hair moist, lock in the moisture by running your hair through cold water; this will also give your hair an extra shine.Don't go outside with your hair wet, you risk breakage. Your hair will freeze if it's cold enough outside and may break.Limit your use of "hot" items on your hair such as a blow dryers and curling irons.If you need to use a "hot" item use a leave in conditioner before using the item on your hair.Avoid taking hot showers or washing your hair in hot water. Use warm or cool water instead, the heat can dry out and/or damage your hair and skin.Hair products that have the word, "Replenish" on it is made to moistureize your hair.Try using a dry shampoo if you need to wash out your hair. One dry shampoo you can use is baby powder, simply sprinkle some onto your hair and use a comb to comb it off.
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