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Hair Extensions Are Hot With Celebrities

Besides being most searched celebrity names, what do Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie have in common? Hair Extensions!
“Hair Extensions Latest Celebrity Hair Trends”

Only the most talked about hair in the industry. Hair extensions are hot, hot, hot. Didn’t I just see Jessica Simpson in the cutest bob hairstyle a few months back? Then the release of the movie, The Dukes . . . and she’s got that beautiful head of long hair every woman wishes she could have at least once in her lifetime, you guessed it hair extensions. Then suddenly, I’ve seen Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie sporting the same hairstyle. How do they go from a short hair bob to long hair seemingly overnight? Hair Extensions.

Hair extensions have come a looooong way in the past number of years. You probably already know things are being added in all the fluffing and buffing going on with the celebrities with hair extensions. But what about us common folk?

It may not be that you want to be Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton or Nicole Ritchie or that you want to add 10 to 12″ of hair to your hairstyle. Maybe you would just like to add a little lift at the crown, or a touch more to that thinning area at the top of your head. Well, there is enough variation of hair extensions out there to suit all of your needs.

Clip-on hair extensions, easy to use, easy on your hair and easy on your budget. You can put them in and take them out yourself. Don’t forget extensions can be trimmed to whatever length you want! You can spend from $8.95 up to $200.00 or more for hair extensions. Hair extension can be clipped, woven, melted, or layered into your hair. The effects you can achieve are added length, more volume, added height and color variation.

Human hair extensions vs. synthetic hair extensions?

• Human hair extensions:
  • Pros: can be colored, can use heat as in a curling
    iron, can wash with regular shampoo
  • Cons: high priced.
• Synthetic hair extensions:
  • Pros: Better priced
  • Cons: Cannot use heat to style, cannot color

Hair extensions are a quick way to change up your hairstyle and be in with the latest in celebrity looks.

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Color Gray Hair or Not?

If you walked out of your house tomorrow wearing your normal clothes and your normal makeup but changed to color gray hair, would you be treated differently by others?

That’s a question one woman decided was best answered by suddenly color gray hair as an experiment. MacKenzie Brown, of More.com wrote the article Try it On!

She describes in four short stories, her experiences when taking on some everyday scenarios, with color gray hair rather than her natural high lighted blonde hair. She made me laugh describing the reaction of construction workers, men at a bar, the sports club scene and a high-end shopping experience, when she wore a color gray hair wig. It’s fun reading. My only problem with it, is that she is only 29 years old. I would like to read a similar type experiment done by a 50 something woman. (I guess there are those, like a cousin of mine, who turn prematurely gray haired however.)

I would venture to say questions about color gray hair come up in every class of Finding the Right Hairstyle for You! that I teach. What’s the best way to color gray hair? Is high lighting an easier, less costly way to continue covering my color gray hair? How do I quit hair coloring and go to my natural color gray hair? Will letting my color gray hair grow out make me look older? For some of my thoughts on these questions see my blog, Going natural with your color gray hair I also highly recommend the book Going Gray, Looking Great!: The Modern Woman’s Guide to Unfading Glory

If you’ve lived long enough on this planet you will have similar questions one day. You can try on a wig and take it for a spin, or you could try on some virtual color gray hair with a new hairstyle makeover.

Next time you place an order at Amazon take a peak at “Going Gray, Looking Great! by Diana Lewis Jewell,” she’s the guru on the topic.

You might also want to check out my other grey hair style articles:

• Grey Hair Dye
• Touching Up Gray Roots
• Tips on How To Let Your Hair Go Gray
• Reverse Gray Hair?
• Dye Gray Hair but Ready to Quit?
• Celebrity Hairstyles are Going Gray!
• Gray Hair Strategies
• How to Grow Out Grey Hair

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Choosing a Hair Color From a Chart of Hair Colors

“Chart of Hair Colours”

Hair color charts is something that I see crop up in my search logs and I get emails from visitors to my hair color page who are looking for a Website where they can view a chart of hair colors.

I am always a little reluctant to put any links up, because the chart of hair colors on a computer screen can be very misleading. The same is true with the hair color on the front of the box you buy at your local retailer. It isn’t “what you see is what you get” for the hair color results on you. Your base hair color contributes to the end result you will get.

Write down this formula : YOUR STARTING HAIR COLOR+THE NEW HAIR COLOR=FINISHED HAIR COLOR

There should be a chart of hair colors on the box which gives you pictures to determine your natural hair color and then the hair color you need to choose in order to get the hair color pictured on the front of the box.

If you are still confused as to what hair color shade to buy to get the result you want, call the 1-800 number listed on the box.

Here are a couple:

Clairol – 800-223-5800
Revlon- 800-473-8566
L’Oreal- 800-631-7358

Now that I’ve got the warnings out of the way here are a couple of links you can go to to view some hair color charts: Clairol’s Shade Aid and http://revlon.com/

Below are two charts of hair colors for wigs:

• Adolfo Chart of Hair Colors
• Revlon Chart of Colors

Don’t miss our complete guide to hair coloring for more in-depth information.

You might want to check out these other articles that refer to the chart of hair colors:

• Chart of Hair Colors
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• Can I get my natural hair color back? How long do I need to wait?
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• Chart of Hair Colors Can be Deceiving!

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