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Hair, your Growing Glory

Written on August 11, 2008 – 10:23 pm | by dodo

Hair is something women universally complain about. ‘If only it were different colour/had curls/was straight/thicker/or shiny.’ We have all had the experience of the disaster cut, the one that made you look like you were wearing somebody else’s hair. You wondered how you could possible live with it. That whimsical ‘new look’ takes months to grow back into something more recognizable, more comforting, more you.

Choosing a good hairstyle requires two things. First you need to know what will suit you: your face, your lifestyle, and, most importantly, the type of hair you have. Secondly, you need the help of a talented yet sympathetic stylist.

Face Shape

If yours is a simple oval shape there’ll be lots of possibilities within the limits of the texture of your hair. For women with other shaped faces — square, oblong, round, etc — you are advised not to repeat the shape of your face but to create complementary width, softness or length where you need it.

For example, oblong faces will be emphasized and appear even longer with straight styles that end at the shoulder or below. It’s better to ‘break-up’ the extra length of these faces with angular or soft styles that create width at the sides and back.

Square faces, by contrast, have more width and less length than oblong faces. So opt for the minimum on the sides with layers on top to create height, and some length showing at the back to create length.

In selecting a style to complement your face, you will achieve a more balanced and interesting look. A lovely round face that has a full, round hairstyle just looks fat, not interesting. You make the most of your face by choosing a hairstyle that shows off its own uniqueness.

Lifestyle

If you are unlikely to spend a half hour every day working with your hair it’s fruitless to choose styles that require a lot of care and crimping. Longer styles can be time-consuming if left free, but if attractively plaited, pulled-back or up can be as easy to care for as some of the shorter styles. Before choosing any new look be sure to discuss with your hairdresser how much time you want to spend daily in caring for your hairstyle.

Texture

How thick or thin your hair is and how much body it has (on its own without mousses or gels) will affect your choice of styles. While you might hanker after the luscious locks of particular magazine models or your best friend, they may have a different type of hair to yours, and you’d be smarter to learn more about making the most of your own hair, and how to look your best.

Choosing Your Stylist

Look for a stylist who falls somewhere between the bland, uninspired yes- person who will do whatever you tell him/her to do without offering constructive advice, and the dictatorial hairdresser who insists on creating whatever he/she wants with little if any involvement from you. The best hairdressers are sympathetic as well as creative. They need to listen to what you envisage before telling you what’s possible.

Many hairdressers will debunk the photo you have torn from a glossy magazine that shows the look you want. But a good stylist should take a look at it to get a sense of your desired image. They should then advise you whether or not such a look will be possible with your hair, and if so whether it will suit you. Remember that what we see in the magazines is often the result of hours of work using all sorts of gels, mousses, rollers, pins, even hair pieces, to create the effect. So use pictures in magazines as a guide for a new length, colour, or image rather than trying to copy a look exactly.

Here are some useful tips to help you succeed with hairdressers:

• Dress the part You appearance dictates how the stylist interprets your image. So don’t pop in, unplanned, in your jogging suit, unmade-up (unless that’s your daily look) and then expect them to give you anything chic.
• Demand discussion Don’t settle for the cursory 30 second size-up. Take whatever time is required before your hair is washed to discuss your ideas, and get all your questions answered about the possibilities.
• Ask lots of questions, observe If seeing a new stylist or getting a new look, be sure you know what will be involved with creating the look yourself. If mousse or gel is required, when do you apply it — before or after blow-drying, or both? What’s the best method of blow-drying — with your fingers or using a hairbrush? What sort of hairbrush? If you wanted to create something else with your style, what are the possibilities? Don’t expect your hairdresser to actually create all the other looks, but you do deserve the time to be talked through ideas for using combs or bands, pulling back, making fuller with hot rollers or tongs, etc.
• Never make an appointment for a Saturday Your hairdresser has probably been out on the town on Friday night and so won’t be up to par. Also, Saturday hairdressing is an assembly-line operation. Stylists have little time to devote to discussion and are probably fully-booked and always running over time. A stressed and hurried hairdresser can be lethal.
• Change your hairdresser every once in a while Your favourite stylist gets used to seeing you in a certain way and might not be the best one to advise you on a new look. Once you’ve tried something new you can return to your former stylist and explain you had it done when away on holiday or business. If you like it tell him/her so and why. They’ll get the message that the new you is happy and wants to maintain the current look and not return to the former one.
• Choosing by referral If looking for a new hairdresser ask women (whose hair you admire) who does it for them. All women love to receive a compliment and should be delighted to share the person behind their mane. Shop assistants in fashion stores or behind the beauty counter will happily proffer their hairdresser. These women are in the beauty business and are used to sharing tips with other women.

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