Hairstyle Design Rss Feed What Can I do With My Short Hair Already

So you got your hair cut short and suddenly discover you’re not creative enough to do anything interesting with it. What now? If you can’t kidnap your hairstylist then perhaps finding inspiration from Barbara Wuillot who is sure to get you out of your rut is more up your alley.

Sleek and sexy is never a bad thing and thanks to evolving times, women have more mental liberation and physical freedom to experiment with their hairstyles. I’ll bet you have tons of hair accessories just sitting on a desk somewhere waiting to be picked up and explored…go on!! Explore! Short hair doesn’t have to be simply let out frill free- make it exciting by using clips, bandeau’s, scarfs and any other accessory you have lying around unused.

Just get out of bed? It must be amazing to wake up, run your hands through your tresses and be out the door…oh yes, brush your teeth first of course!

If you want a real sleek look, opt for some hair gel or paste. This really gives a great retro S wave at the top of the head.

Colorful Hues From Tracey Hughes

Besides having the reputation for being one of the friendliest places on earth, having adorable kangaroos, cuddly koalas and amazing surfing conditions, Australia is also renowned for having some of the most incredible hairstylists around the globe.

Tracey Hughes, Creative Director of Collingwood’s Mieka Hairdressing is one of the best to hail from down under and it’s no surprise she has been recently named Australian Hairdresser of the Year Finalist at the prestigious Australian Hair Fashion Awards for 2010.

PARAGON, her latest photographic submission can be best characterized as presenting her distinct style and in this deliciously colorful collection, her style highlights more than the cut, style and texture.

Tracey’s hairstyling hub, Mieka hairdressing, has received more than 200 awards including Salon of the Year a total of 7 times; we believe Paragon is a collection sure to bring in yet another one.

This pin straight hairstyle is spiced up with bold color in the bangs.

8 Steps for Your Most Beautiful Day

The current trend in Bridal Fashion is of simple elegance. Undone is the new ‘do, and this season offers us a romantic revival of mid-century simplicity with a fresh finish. Our modern brides are trading in elaborate headdresses and veils for sleek twists on classic chignons and super chic headbands.

Make-up should be ultra clean. Create a bridal glow with a bare-faced style beauty, or go more dramatic with the oh-so-in red lip and a vintage flair. They key for a stylish bride in 2010 is to look polished without looking like it took all day. Be soft, be touchable, and don’t be afraid to leave a little lipstick on that blushing groom’s cheek.

1. Plan ahead! Start a wedding folio with hair pics that you love. — AND pics that you hate. It helps your stylist, and you, to understand what you desire for your big day, while steering clear of any gaps in communication that could lead to bad prom hair experiences.
2. 6 months- Consult with a few stylists and salons and find one that suits your needs and that of your bridal party. Ask questions! Do they travel? Can they close down the salon for a more private experience? Are there fees for those things? In all of the hub-bub of the day, it will be such a relief knowing your beauty team has planned ahead for you.
3. 3 months- See your stylist and consult about your big day. Go over your folder of images, and get your first trim and color. This will give you the time to fine-tune any changes in the cut or color BEFORE the big day. Make appointments for follow-up services you’ll need before the wedding like shine treatments, glosses or color retouches) (Begin Byu-ti Hair Therapy’s Bio-Niu vitamins for healthy hair that grows twice as fast!)
4. 2 months- Have your hairstyle trial. Take advantage of the fabulous test-run do and plan a fun evening out with the future Mr.!
5. 2-4 weeks- Color & Cut. You’ve got the formulation perfect, and having these services done this far ahead of time allows the color to settle and soften to look more natural and lived in.
6. 2 days- Perform an at-home treatment. Drench hair with a deep conditioner like Pureology’s NanoWorks masque; wrap hair in hot steam towel for 15 minutes. Rinse.
7. 1 day-prepare your hair for your big day by having a blow-dry for your day-before event. Not only will your hair be in the perfect condition for holding your style, you’ll look fabulous at the rehearsal dinner, too!
8. Wedding Day– Do not wash hair (unless recommended by your stylist). Have hair styled as planned.

Ten of The Sexiest Formal Hairstyles for Any Occasion

If a busy lifestyle doesn’t offer you many opportunities to dress up, you may not have the slightest clue on how to wear your hair for that upcoming formal event. Formal hairstyles don’t have to include lots of fancy accessories or updos-in fact, they can be left out and lovely as long as your tresses look healthy. Wavy and curly are often the best way to achieve a sexy down hairstyle and with the right set of hairstyling tools or a professional stylist, you can have the sexiest hair at any event! Here are some of our personal favorites.

Seen on left, this pretty curly hairstyle dazzles with the flower in the hair. The key to this look is a head full of healthy defined curls; this means no frizz. A curling iron or twirling strands of hair around your fingers and using a diffuser can help to achieve this look depending on the texture. This look embodies both aspects of classy and sexy.

Gosh we love curls but this hairstyle takes the cake. Big, fat, delicious curls tossed upon each other sit atop her head. Any formal attire would be a near match for this hairstyle. This is definitely one of our favorites.

Hello again big curls. Longer than our previous favorite curly hairstyle, this look is great for a low back dress or strapless formal dress. With hair this long and curls this perfect, it is best to show it off with less around the neck and shoulder area.

Summer Hairstyles

DOWNEY, CA During those hot summer months, it will be important to stay cool, while keeping fashionable in your sassy summer styles. Keeping up on seasonal trends and tools will ensure that you always remain stylish and fashion forward. Rosey Ibarra, owner of the Urban Roots Salon in Downey, CA continually proves herself to be on the forefront of fashion and has the hottest summer hairstyle tips to share with you!

When it comes to your overall look and hair fashions of summer, Ibarra predicts the newest trends will focus on loose and natural looking hairstyles. “This season, it will be all about exuding effortless hair designs with soft beach waves that feature long and loose layers. Your summer hairstyles should not emphasize perfection of hair with exact placement of curls,” notes Ibarra. To achieve the natural, beach wave, Ibarra recommends creatively using a new ceramic styling rod. “Enzo Milano’s new styling rod is my personal favorite to create these loose and natural waves that will last a couple of days,” notes Ibarra. She also suggests separating your waves and curls by using a very soft wax and styling products that your professional hair designer can recommend for you. “Place a small amount of wax on your hand, flip your hair over in the front and pull product through from underneath to create texture with layered looks. Flip hair back and let it naturally fall into place. This will provide you with wonderful volume and separation in the waves to give it that effortless glamour.”

Natural Summer Hair color Ibarra suggests that you talk with your professional hairstylist about all of the new summer hair color and highlight options that are available to you. Explore lightening your hair, while working with warmer tones. “For brunettes, I recommend hair color shades of the sunset with both golden and amber tones. This will brighten up your complexion for a healthy summer glow. For redheads, use the gold tones as well, yet you should try warm copper instead of cooler red shades. For blondes, you will need to enhance you summer looks with a soft, sun kissed set of beautiful highlights. Talk to your hairstylist about leaving a touch of shadow in the re-growth, to give your hair a glamorous natural look.” Ibarra remains the only American Board of Certified Hair colorist in a 10 mile radius of Downey, CA.

Summer Hairstyles “Many of my clients go on summer vacations and the last thing they want to worry about is their hair. As a hairstylist, I suggest you consider taking advantage of a new Brazilian Blowout service this summer. This hair smoothing service will provide you with totally frizz-free, shiny and effortlessly manageable hair with plenty of body and bounce. It will last up to 12 weeks,” notes Ibarra. For the ladies who have long, layered hair, Ibarra suggests you learn how to create a new faux-bob to keep hair off your neck in the heat. “To create the faux-bob, gather the longer, underneath section of your hair. Then, twist and pin your hair tightly around the nape. Let the longer, top layers fall over the tucked hair to create a beautiful soft bob hair design,” notes Ibarra.

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Trevor Sorbie’s JOHANNA CREE BROWN is a bundle of innovation with her new ATOMIC COLLECTION. When I see styles like this I have to ask myself WHO comes up with this stuff? Johanna Cree Brown, that’s who! I enjoy these hairstyles because while they express the seriousness of Joanna’s art as a stylist, they are designs that would state not to take oneself TOO seriously. Life is too short! Wear your hair in a hair bow why don’t cha! While everyone is too busy getting bobs, pixies and growing hair out from a lack of hairstyle creativeness, Johanna’s coming up with fun new looks that serve to inspire fellow stylists, photographers and the everyday person who is just too darn scared to try something new.

Use Trevor Sorbie Salon Exclusive prep hair to blow dry the hair, then roughly backcomb all the hair except hairline. Roll the two side sections up and the top section back. Flatten the front of the hair with a hairdryer and Salon Exclusive FIX SPRAY, place the veiled section around the shape and secure.

Part the hair in the middle and take out the fringe section and a small section on each side of the parting. Massively back comb all the rest of the hair. Use Trevor Sorbie Salon Exclusive MAX FIX hairspray and a hair dryer to shape and sculpt the backcombed hair. Drop down the parting section, adding in coloured pieces. Using flat irons and Salon Exclusive fix SPRAY iron in folds all the way up to the points, gather all hair leaving out two sections at the front and secure in a ponytail. Pull the fringe section back through the middle, shape and secure.

As Art Hairstyle

The intricate design, the attention paid to detail, the elaborate patterns and colours…we Are not talking about wallpaper here people, this is all about hair! Unless your hairstyle is extremely out there, you may have never experienced the ooohs and ahhhs of onlookers with their eyes fixed on your tresses.
ANGELO SEMINARA of Trevor Sorbie Hair Salon is not only accustomed to getting attention for his inventive looks, he thinks outside of the box to create hairstyles that onlookers can’t stop staring at.
Behold Angelo’s canvas-the head! Also behold one of his latest collections, GAME; one can see the art behind the images and the detail that is required to create something so beautiful. With hairstyles like these, who wants to wash their hair?

What does Angelo has to say about his work?
*I love combining art with hairdressing, and so this new tinting technique was a natural development for me to achieve the results I really wanted. I wanted to create something really revolutionary for this collection, and for the overall spirit of the pictures to be like fine art drawings – soft, beautiful and ethereal. My vision for the girls was to create gorgeous astral dolls!*
Angelo Seminara, International Creative Director, Trevor Sorbie

The natural world inspired this collection where snakes, mackerel, reptiles and birds are more the obvious choice for attire, but somehow Angelo makes it work for hair!

The detail in this hairstyle is amazing. Angelo captures the look of the *wild* perfectly.

Hard to believe this is actual hair and not skin from a reptile. This might not typically be the sort of hairstyle one will wear on a jaunt down the street but when evening comes if you want to be all eyes on you, go GAME!

Latest Shade Hair Color

One’s natural hair color isn’t always 1 shade all over. Lighter and darker hues reflect and deflect light and hair colors change as we step in the sun or use certain products.

Highlights seem to be the normal thing to get every summer…go lighter with the warmer weather they say. Who are they, anyway? If you’d rather go for something solid, such as your natural hair color before the sun baked it or products touched it, check out our hairstyle gallery for some great ideas on non-highlighted looks. The pretty brown shade on the left from the stylists at Hob Salon isn’t too dark and not too light but most importantly, it’s not obviously riddled with numerous shades. Here are some other great colors from HOB SALON stylists.

While red is not a color everyone is comfortable becoming, it IS a color everyone notices. If you want to be one single shade of hair color AND still get lots of attention, go red.

Dark ebony black is gorgeous and has of late, become popular on fairer skinned complexions where it was once known to be too dark. Going jet black is a drastic change but you will be sure of one thing-highlights be gone!

This solid dark brown is not quite as dark as black but nearly. It hides any signs of previous color or highlights without being as drastic as black.

Not many highlights on this head because the entire look is extremely light to begin with. There will always be a few strands darker or lighter on blonder tresses but dying it one solid color will bring it back to a more even tone allover.

Straight Up Blonde Hairstyle

I love, I love, I love my blonde hair! But I was not always a blonde. My hair used to be a mousy brown with blonde highlights and at times, I would pull the blonde chunks in front of my face appreciating the light on my skin…the features it brought out…the vitality I appeared to have! To go completely blonde however was an entirely different obstacle I had to get over if I wanted to stop wishing I were blonde and become it. Many blonde hairstyles wig try ons, virtual hairstyle applications, consultations with the salon and 3 years later, I finally took the plunge and went blonde…but not just blonde, BLONDE blond-like holy cow you are blonde!! blonde. In any case, I turned to look at the mirror and saw this stranger wearing my clothes looking at me…and she was freaking HOT. It was yours truly, and that was the day I found myself…alright who am I kidding. That was the day I found my hair color. Think you have enough skill to attempt this puppy yourself at home? I sure would not! When it comes to dying your hair blonde, missing spots can be tricky, getting the hairline, having some parts in various shades due to a miscalculation in formula…this drastic a change deserves some professional treatment at a well reputed salon. Besides, if all goes to hell you will have someone to sue! Below are some pretty blonde shades that might inspire you to lighten up this summer.

This long blonde hair is a great shade of various yellows and light browns creating a mish mash of color. It looks healthy, it looks natural and it looks like the blonde of an all American girl next door.

Almost a hint of red in this blonde, this is the perfect shade for this type of curly hair; anything lighter would create a dryer look.

Ayy Carumba! This blonde is platinum; not a typical blonde anymore but it sure is gorgeous. Definitely get professional advice on this hair color and not just in terms of doing it yourself or having a professional, more in the sense of WILL THIS HAIR COLOR SUIT ME? When you go this light, skin complexion and hair type are more of a consideration.

Not as white as the platinum and not as yellow as the all American girl next door, this blonde is a sexy solid shade that says look at me while still being somewhat modest. This is one of my favorite colors. Sold on going blonde yet? If so, write and tell us about it! We might feature you in one of our upcoming articles!