Houston Chronicle giving away free Prom hair style makeover – Hurry

The Houston Chronicle is doing a fun promotion for Prom this spring . . . letting it’s readers vote on the most deserving high school Prom attendee, who’ll get a free prom makeover, including the dress, hairstyle and makeover. The whole ball of wax.

“Free Prom Makeovers”

It is sure to be a hit with the Houston prom aged girls. It got me thinking that free prom makeovers would be a great hair salon promotion this spring anywhere.

Prom hairstyles are a big business and girls that age usually haven’t developed a loyalty to a specific hair salon by that age. So it is pretty easy for a hairdresser to get lots of new long-term, high spending clients.

If you know of a young hairdresser just out of beauty school, pass this tip along.

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A recently posted question on stripping back to your natural hair color

From my perspective you have 3 options to get back to your natural hair color:

1. Cut it short and let the hair color grow out, or bleach and tone.

2. Bleached hair high lights, as the hairdressers you mentioned suggested but which won’t match your natural white hair color.

3. Bleach up and tone back with a semi-permanent hair color. (My choice)

Find a reputable hair colorist to do this and you’ll be happy with the results. They’ll bleach your hair up to a pale yellow hair color shade leaving your regrowth untouched.

“Getting Back to Natural Hair Color”

Then they can tone back all of the hair with a semi-permanent platinum hair color shade. Bleaching is the only way to get the blonde hair color out of your hair. A semi-permanent tone back will fade in 6 to 12 weeks or more.

You may need to tone the regrowth to even out the hair color until the old bleached hair is cut out. As the toner fades, you’re left with your natural white hair color. Since your hair is very healthy you shouldn’t have a problem going this route, unless you have extremely long hair. It’s more difficult to lift color out of long hair evenly.

Deep conditioning treatments would be good to do beforehand and afterwords. The young men you mentioned seeing on TV with white hair, no doubt had their hair bleached up and toned back to the hair color you’re seeing.

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

For further discussion on hair color correction you might want to check out these other articles:

• How to Get Back to Your Natural Hair Color
• How do I go back to my natural hair color?
• Getting Back to Your Natural Hair Color
• Can I get my natural hair color back?
• Stripping Hair Back to Natural Colour
• Dyed Hair Too Dark? Let’s Talk!

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40′s Hairstyles . . . are new again

Christina Aguilera is bringing back the romantic 40’s hairstyles with her platinum finger-waved hairstyle. In doing so, she makes a statement that is uniquely her own. The 40’s hairstyles are not hard to imitate and the dress is knock your socks off sexy and feminine.“40′s Hairstyles
are really fun”

These 40′s hairstyles just take stepping “out of the box” in order to create the look. With a little practice using these 40′s techniques for hair styling, you can transform into a Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo type of gal . . . how fun is that?

Your hair can be molded, gelled, pinned, rolled and coiffed into taking on these fabulous 40′s hair waves looks. The most defining look these hairstyles have is created by the “finger waves” and “pin curls.” Create this look by: putting a strong hold gel in damp hair. Form waves into hair with fingers at the crown and top of the head and secure with long hair clips. Create pin curls with the rest of your hair by forming curls around your fingers and use bobby pins to secure. Remove after hair is dry and finger comb into place.

Tips: For softer curls, wrap around two fingers, with damp hair. The more wet your hair is the tighter the curls will be. Experiment styling with damp and dry hair. Also barrettes, especially jeweled ones, can help to create the look. Nocturne.com’s has some step by step pin curl instructions and other vintage hair looks that might be fun to try.

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