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Hairstyles for Round Faces

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What are best hairstyles for a round faces, a curly or straight hairstyle?

Ahhh . . . this question recently posted on my comment board is a good one. Katie asks:

I think with Katie’s curly, voluminous hair, she’ll find it much more flattering hairstyles for round faces to tone down her curls.

The most important consideration in Finding the right hairstyle for any woman, is, . . . face shape . . . face shape . . . face shape.

If you have a round face, your face has soft, full contours with a rounded jaw and chin line. You’ll want to avoid hairstyles with bangs. Your hairline may be softly rounded as well. Also, your face shapeRight Hairstyle for Round Faces Can Really Make a Difference is more symmetrical; the width and length of your face are approximately the same. Your face gives the appearance of being more symmetrical.

For some reason, every woman who thinks she has a round face shape, thinks she is cursed! Grant it, a wrong hairstyle on a round face shape can be kinda . . . well, discouraging. But as you can see from the picture of my favorite celebrity with a round face shape, Isabella Rossellini a round face shape can be gorgeous with the right hairstyle.

So Katie, toning down the volume of your hairstyle is a good start. I agree, that straightening it everyday, with a flat iron, or whatever tool you choose, will take it’s toll on your hair. The stripe-y effect you refer to, IS more exaggerated when your hair is in it’s curly state because curly hair CLUMPS together into curls. When your hair is straightened, it has a more BLENDED effect; as you brush through it to take out snarls for instance. Try searching for a hairdresser who has experience with straightening hair, and consider softening your curls. The key here is, in the straightening process, to process your hair to a softened state, not a stick straight look. An experienced hairdresser can soften your hair just enough to take out the volume you now get from the curls, and turn it into soft waves. This leaves your hair in much better condition than straightening all the curl out. In that way, you have an option of leaving it wavy or smoothing it out with less damage, less heat on the hair. And, both of these looks will tame down the voluminous look of your hair which is the wrong look for your face shape.

Check out my web site for more on face shapes and hairstyles I have a special section just about hairstyles for round faces.

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Taming frizz hair styles

I live in a climate that frizzy hair is not much of an issue except for a handful of days each year so my strategy for dealing with frizz hair styles is pretty much “wait until tomorrow”. But for those of you who live in high humidity or tropical climates this issue must be agony for some of you. For that reason I try to pass along as much information as I can that I run across on fighting frizz hair. Here thanks to Myrtle Beach Online is one of the best articles I have seen in a long while on the subject on helping anyone with thick, wavy or curly hair deal with this troublesome frizz hair issue.

Roth’s associate, Michael Williams, agrees, likening hair care to taking care of delicate fabrics. ‘Think about how bad your black silk shirt or linen trousers would look if you washed, dried or ironed them incorrectly. Hair needs the same kind of precise attention.’

Regularly trimming away split ends every six to eight weeks is the first step to combating frizzy hair. If volume is a problem during the humid months, ask your hairdresser about using thinning shears.

The cut is of primary importance, but the shampoo and conditioner come in a close second. Look for hair care products formulated for your hair type containing buzzwords such as ‘shine,’ ‘straightening,’ ‘moisturizing’ or ‘frizz control.’
Orlando Martinez, hair hairdresser and owner of Hair by Orlando in Myrtle Beach, recommends rinsing your hair in lukewarm water to begin closing the hair’s cuticle, which is the key to shiny hair.

Instead of towel-drying your hair, gently squeeze or blot out excess water before blow-drying. To prepare your hair for blow-drying, apply a leave-in conditioner and light heat protectant designed for wet hair.
“When you add heat, it opens up the cuticle and when you take it away, it closes it,’ Martinez said. ‘What the products do to help stop the frizziness is locking down the cuticle of the hair right away.

Martinez cautions that most people have a tendency to use more hair care product than necessary. He teaches his clients how to distribute the product, roots to ends, using the fingers. After combing out your hair with a wide-toothed comb, the next step is to section the hair using alligator clips. The more hair you have, the more sections you’ll need.

Roth suggests that her clients use a nylon and boar’s hair paddle brush when going for sleek styles at home.
Begin the drying process at the back of the head. One section at a time, follow the brush with a hair dryer on a medium setting equipped with a nozzle to direct the heat down the hair shaft. This way you can concentrate on blow-drying one section of hair at a time while preventing hair from stirring around, which will only give excess bulk and frizz. Take the time to dry each section of hair completely, finishing with a cold shot of air.

A flat-iron used with the right product is essential in the pursuit of a smooth mane that will last between washings. Re-section the hair using the alligator clips. Working on one section at a time, spray with a heat protectant designed specifically for flat ironing.

You also might want to check out my article on Thick Hair

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• The Best Ways to Tame Frizzy Hair
• Frizzy Hair Fixes
• Chelsea Clinton Tames Her Frizzy Hair!

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Bonded hair extensions techniques continue to evolve

“New Bonded Hair Extensions”

If you live in Northern California or the San Francisco area you’ve got a chance to try out a new bonded hair extension technique that sounds pretty cutting edge. The rest of us will just have to wait until we start hearing good things about this new bonded hair extension technique that avoids glueing the hair to a hair extension. You can bet if reports start coming about significant improvements in hair damage issues that this new technology will be available in your hair salon soon. I’m a bit of a skeptic about the claims though, if they are using heat to apply these plastic tubes then you run the risk of damage to the hair from the heat.

Anyway, here is their press release:

Beauty Trends Extensions and Wigs: $10 off Purchase of $60 or more. Coupon Code 035310

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