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Back to School Hair – waterfall braids!

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Back to School Hairstyles- Keep it Simple!

The transition from summer beachy hairstyles to back to school hairstyles doesn’t need to be anything  major or complicated. The most important thing you can do to have great looking hair going back to school is to give your hair a little extra TLC. A few deep conditioning hair treatments and a great haircut for your hair type are a couple of things that will go a long way in healthy, shiny hair is its healthiest and shiniest shape. After that, keep it simple and your back to school hairstyle will be fabulous!
“Back to School Hairstyle”
Back to school hairstyles should be healthy!

Since summer has its ways of fading, drying out and damaging your hair, now is the time to spend a little more effort getting your hair back to health. It will pay off to take a little bit of time to do these things for the health of your hair. If you swim in salt water or a pool you should use a clarifying shampoo and moisturize your hair to get it healthy, shiny, and more vibrant. Great looking back to school hairstyles start with healthy hair! When hair is dull, dry and damaged looking, no matter how much time you try camouflaging it by styling it, you still have dull, dry damaged looking hair. Here’s a routine that will get your hair in its best shape possible for whatever back to school hairstyles you choose to wear!

• Use a clarifying shampoo once or twice a week if needed, to rid your hair of product buildup.
• Use a deep hair conditioning treatment once a week, after clarifying your hair. (Joico K-Pak Deep-Penetrating Reconstructor was voted best deep conditioner at Stylists Choice Awards).
• Use a shower cap or saran wrap and towel to generate heat, leave it in your hair for at least 20 minutes in order to penetrate the hair shaft more deeply. A hood dryer is a great way to deliver heat when doing a deep conditioning treatment.
• Add moisture if you have dry hair, by using a good hair moisturizing conditioner or moisturizing leave-in hair conditioner. (PureOlogy Hydrate Conditioner was also a Stylists Choice Awards winner)
• Add protein if your hair is lifeless. That is a hair conditioner with collagen and elastin which adds a slight feel of thickness to the hair. (Try Frederic Fekkai Protein RX Reparative Conditioner)

Back to school hairstyles should work with your hair type!

Keep it simple – Your back to school hairstyle should not be a style that requires a lot of work before going out the door. Instead, the hairstyle you wear should work with your hair type and not against it. Getting a hairstyle that works with the natural grain of your hair will give you more easy styling options.

Unless you are very talented with styling your hair, a big hairstyle change may mean significantly more time spent upfront in your styling routine each morning. Who needs this kind of stress when you’re pressed for time? Consider saving the new hairstyle change until after you are into your new back to school routine.  If you want to make a hairstyle change, remember less-is-more.  A small change like wearing bangs or no bangs can make a huge difference in your look without a lot of fuss.

Learn 3 different ways to style your back to school hairstyle – By spending just a little time up front learning a couple new hair styling techniques, you can give your hair a break, save yourself time every day and get a reputation as being fashionista too!

You will probably have a favorite way of hair styling, but by changing it around a bit, it won’t get old and tired looking.  At every haircut appointment be sure to ask your hairdresser to show you a new way of styling your hair. Make sure to make note of the styling hair care product recommendations at the same time.  If you would rather buy over-the-counter hair products, just stay with the same type of product your hairstylist recommended i.e.; mouse, gel, oil, straightening serum etc.

Learn how to use one new hair styling tool. Try a flat iron, different size curling iron, velcro rollers, hot rollers, rag rollers, bendy rollers, pin curls, roller brush iron, blow-dryer, and diffuser.

Learn to style with a hair care product only and give your hair a break. Try one of these, gel, spray gel, mousse, pomade, serum, curl enhancer, shine product, smoothing product, styling cream, root lifter, sculpting lotion, thermal spray, and volumizer.

Learn a new updo. If your hair is long enough, learn one new way to get a classic, casual, contemporary or elegant look. It will change your look totally and quickly. A good hairdresser will be happy to help you out here. Your hair doesn’t need to be as long as you may think to do some chic updo or half updo hairstyles.

Learn to braid.  Braids once again have made a big comeback!  Allow yourself a little practice time to learn a new braid, it will give your hair a break and give you some unique looks of your own. Classes are given at my local Community Education; check it out in your area. The library is another source for learning how to do new braids! Or, just invite over one or two of your friends that have the knack!

The Waterfall braid . . . . Love this look!

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Hair Styles for Round Faces

I recently received this comment, obviously from a reader who wasn’t helped by this post on hairstyles for round faces.

I may not have expressed myself clearly in the post Rena refers to. Let me clarify that I know the celebrities I used as examples for hairstyles for round faces in that post, do not have round faces themselves. The point in that post  was that the hairstyles these celebrities were wearing are hairstyles that will also work for round faces.

I am aware of the problem of finding hairstyles for round faces.  Here are some pictures of hairstyles for round faces that are for curly hair that I think work great!  See what you think!

Hairstyles for round faces with curly hair

Kelly Osborne in a cute hairstyle for round faces and curly hair

Kelly Osborne has come a long way baby!  If you want to see some hairstyles for round faces that DON’T work, you only need to look back to many of Kelly’s old hairstyles. This hairstyle works famously for round faces with its deep off-center part and inverted layers (shorter in the back, longer on the sides.)  It creates an asymmetrical look which always balances well with round faces!

This long layered hairstyle is a great hairstyle for round faces. This models round face shape is balanced by the off center part with a bit of height on top. And check-out the over-all outline of the haircut . . . its shape is a diamond shape. A hairstyle that can be styled into a diamond shape . . . that is with height on top, width to the sides and tapering on the bottom . . . is a perfect hairstyle for round face shapes!

Julia Stiles in a perfect hairstyle for round faces

This mid-length wavy, curly bob looked great on Julia Stiles some years back. Julia’s round face shape is softened by this hairstyle. This hairstyle works for round faces when styled with a deep side part and soft, long layers.

Isabella Rossellini in a perfect hairstyle for round faces

Isn’t Isabella Rossellini is a stunning woman?  Her face shape is about as round as round gets and still when you see her smiling this big, and at this angle, it takes away from the roundness a bit. Isabella’s hair is normally straighter but her shorter, curly hairstyle works for round faces with an asymmetrical feel to it.  Tucked behind an ear, and styled with a side part and cut into a wedge, this hairstyle creates angles to its shape which balances well with her round face shape.

If you want more hairstyles for round faces check these other articles out:

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Got a question, war story or comment about this topic? Click on the "Leave Your Comments" link at the very bottom of this article. Some of my best ideas for future articles come from reading reader comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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Chelsea Clintons Wedding Photo

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What’s your best hair style?

Since we’ve been on the Chelsea Clinton hair bandwagon lately, I thought why stop now . . . Chelsea’s Mom, that would be current Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, was no doubt key in influencing Chelsea’s Cinderella story from unruly, curly girl to the chic, smooth haired, sophisticated lady she is today. Do you know, “what’s your best hairstyle?” It matters!

“What’s Your Best Hairstyle? Bangs or No Bangs?, Layered Hairstyle?”Maybe it was because of the wild-child hair Chelsea Clinton was born with, that pushed her Mother into becoming an adamant, pro-hair image type, or not. But, Hilary clearly tells us how important she believes our hairstyles are in our lives.

Here is what Hilary had to say in her commencement speech to the graduating class at Yale University in 2005, regarding her thoughts about the significance of their hair or hair styles. “The most important thing I have to say today, is “hair matters” . . . Pay attention to your hairstyle because everyone else will.”

Chelsea Clinton all grown up!

Wow, that was surprising! When “the most important thing” Hilary Clinton had to say to the Yale graduating class was . . .”pay attention to your hair” . . . well, I must confess, I was taken back a bit! But then as I thought about it, the entire Clinton family, President Clinton, Hilary and Chelsea, have all been under a microscope pretty much all of their lives where any and every flaw or imperfection is magnified ten times over.

So I know you know, hair matters, Chelsea Clinton’s hairstyle changes are a good example, but do you know, “What’s your best hairstyle?” What’s it going to be bangs or no bangs? Layered hairstyles?

If you’re still searching for what’s your best hairstyle, check out more posts from hairstyle blog to get you headed in the right direction! What’s the Right Hair for Body Shape, Find Your Best Hairdresser Now Online, Hair Stylists on Face Shapes and Hairstyles.

Got a question, war story or comment about this topic? Click on the "Leave Your Comments" link at the very bottom of this article. Some of my best ideas for future articles come from reading reader comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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