3 Hot Hair Trends: Right Now!

1.*The retro shag  -   Side-Swept Shag      
2.*Tousled beach hair  -  Sexy Hair Products
3.*Lots of volume  -  Sexy Hair: Get More Volume Now


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*The retro shag  -   Side-Swept Shag
*1.This modern-day side-swept haircut offers a fresh and jaunty attitude that we fell in love with instantly. Created by Charles Worthington and aptly named the urban shag, it's a contemporary trend that embodies carefree sophistication and just plain fun. The texture is achieved with a choppy "razor cutting" method, in which hair is cut at an angle to frame the face in long extended wisps. The hair is then blown dry after an application of Charles Worthington Relax & Unwind Blow-Dry Straightening Balm (available at drugstores nationwide). After each section is dried in a downward motion, hair is blasted with cold air to help seal the cuticle. Next, a light application of Worthington's Results Straightening-Iron Protection Spray, and then a straightening iron is run from the roots to the ends to ensure poker-straight hair.

*Road Test: Sexy Hair Products
*2.Does your hair ever look better than it does after a day of sand, surf and cool ocean breezes? Ours doesn't, which is why we seek sexy beach hair from a bottle! Our testers tried out the hottest texturizing sprays on the market and found some superstars for year-round summer style. As an added bonus, these beach-in-a-bottle products won't damage your hair like a day in the sun will.
By the Sea

Product name: Ocean Waves Sea Spray Texturizing Styler
Claim: This "sea water" spray by John Frieda promises sexy, tousled waves, just like the ones you end up with at the beach.
Tester says: First off, the smell was fantastic! It's like spraying coconut suntan lotion in your hair. Yum. I put it in and let my hair dry naturally. The waves were incredible: big and loose and messy. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it didn't tame my frizz. It didn't claim to, but I thought it would. I tried it again paired with an anti-frizz spray, and my hair looked absolutely perfect.
Price: $6.49

*Sexy Hair: Get More Volume Now

*3.Could you do with a little lift? Here are 10 elevating options, including a couple of secret techniques to get this season's sexy volume. So go and lift yourself higher!

1.Get highlights or lowlights: Aside from the fact that hair usually has more body when it's colored, sometimes "lift," or hair volume, is more of an impression, and that's where what's known as dimensional hair color comes in. When hair is monochromatic, it appears flatter. When you add color dimensions to hair, says Louis Viél, color director at Miano Viél, it gives the perception of lift. As with an optical illusion, your eyes perceive movement, even where it might not exist.

2.Use root volumizers: These are products designed to lift hair at the scalp. They come in gel, mousse and spray versions, and you place the product directly at the roots of towel-dried hair, lifting hair with your fingers as you apply. Miano's favorite is BigWigg, which comes out almost like spray-starch foam. And he likes the fact that you can spray it on, which he says makes it easier to move around on your head.

3.Hot/cold blow-dry your hair at the roots: Blow-drying will give you a good lift if used with a fairly large, round brush. The trick is to situate the brush as close to your scalp as you can, essentially pulling the hair straight up from the base of your head, and using bursts of heat from the blow-dryer, aimed at the brush, followed by cool air which "sets" the style.

4.Set with Velcro rollers: A few strategically placed Velcro rollers will give your hair terrific volume. After hair is washed and blow-dried, curve one-inch sections of the hair you want lifted around the roller (small rollers for a slight lift and large for a higher lift). Three or four rollers should do the trick. Leave rollers in for about five minutes, remove and arrange newly lifted hair with your fingers. It's recommended you don't brush at this point, as brushing could "deflate" the set.

5.Use a curling iron... the right way: Because of the intense heat generated, a curling iron will give an instant lift. Starting at the crown of the head, take hold of one-inch sections of hair and lift vertically, wrapping hair around the iron, as close to your scalp as you can. Then spray with a holding product such as Alterna Caviar Working Hairspray for a firm but still flexible hold.


6.Try some rats! Popular in theatre and TV, Hair Rats are forms that actually stay in your hair, providing lift. They come in two shapes, donut or cylindrical, and are made of foam or nylon mesh so they're soft and malleable. Rats are attached to the underside of hair with hairpins, after which hair is brushed up and over to obscure them. Okay, so it's like hiding an Easter egg in your hair — but it works!

7.Get a haircut with shorter layers: If your hair has a little wave or some curl, layers offer a ready-made lift. Nikki Flaming of the Beehive Salon likes layers just at the crown of the head. If they're cut very short, you'll get a punkish-pixie look; if they're cut in longer layers, you'll get more of a graduated, subtle lift.

8.Try Do Dads: Damien Miano, owner of Miano Viel Salon raved about these miniature hairpieces called Do Dads, which are, in fact, simple hair combs with hair extensions attached. You choose the color to match your own, or a contrasting color if you're feeling funky. To get the lift, you fasten it on just as you would a traditional hair comb by combing it in against the grain of your hair.

9.Go for carefully concealed pin curls: Vu Nguyen, stylist at Frederic Fekkai Salon and Spa, always keeps a few basic hairpins handy, which he recommends using to create lift on curly or coarse tresses with four or five tiny pin-curls buried under the top layers of hair, which are secured with pins. He then flips over the top sections of hair, concealing the pin curls, resulting in a lift.

10.Rubber band it: Nguyen came up with this idea when he ran out of hair pins, and it's become one of his trademarks ever since. He makes miniature bushels of hair by tying off small segments and securing with rubber bands, then flipping top sections of hair over the bushels.


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