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HAIR for the holidays
Whether you're sporting a pixie cut or shoulder-length locks to a
dinner party or New Year's bash, a stylish do is the essential capper to
polish off your holiday ensemble. Jo-Anne Dicken, co-owner of the Fringe
Hair Company, a Calgary salon, says curls and waves boasting softness
but lots of volume are high on the list of must-haves for holiday hair.
Whether you're sporting a pixie cut or shoulder-length locks to a dinner
party or New Year's bash, a stylish do is the essential capper to polish
off your holiday ensemble. Jo-Anne Dicken, co-owner of the Fringe Hair
Company, a Calgary salon, says curls and waves boasting softness but
lots of volume are high on the list of must-haves for holiday hair.
Let loose: flowing curls, waves, faux bobs among hot holiday hair looks
Whether you're sporting a pixie cut or shoulder-length locks to the
office soiree, dinner party or New Year's bash, a stylish 'do is the
essential capper to polish off your holiday ensemble.
Jo-Anne Dicken, AG Hair Cosmetics' artistic team leader and co-owner of
the Fringe Hair Company, a Calgary salon, says curls and waves boasting
softness but lots of volume are high on the list of must-haves for
holiday hair.
"One of the looks is down hair, hair that's just left long, but you can
set it with an iron so that it has these really big waves, this
unstructured sort of wavy feeling,'' she said.
"We call it starlet hair, movie star hair, and it's really all over the
magazines.''
Dicken says another popular look making waves is the faux bob.
Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and Jessica Simpson are among the stars
that have rocked the red carpet with a style that allows those with long
hair to pin up and fold under their tresses into the bob shape.
"It's just so cute and adorable,'' Dicken said. "(It's) a good little
trick without having the hair pulled back and pinned back. It's still
allowed to hang but it's hanging really short.''
TO GET THE LOOK:
Hair is round-brushed to get it nice and smooth along with use of a
foundational product.
Take vertical sections, because they give less fullness, wrapping the
hair around the outside of the barrel of the iron so you don't open the
iron, which differs from the ringlet look.
Draw the hair into a low ponytail, secure with an elastic or ponytail
holder but don't make a full ponytail.
The last time you pull the hair through the elastic leave it in a loop.
Take that loop and elastic and roll it under at the nape of the neck,
and then a couple of bobby pins will hold that ponytail tucked up
underneath.
To complete the look with a '50s inspired style, use a really deep side
part, curl all the hair forward to one side, while the other is pulled
back behind the ear.
"That's where you put bling,'' Dicken said. "That's where a little
holiday accessory should go.''
SHORT HAIR:
Dicken recommends the addition of a curl as the best way to turn
everyday hair into a hot holiday look.
She recommends using a standard iron technique to curl hair, while
accessorizing the look with a beautiful, sparkly hairband.
"It actually looks like the hair then is up,'' she said.
Another alternative for those with shorter 'dos is to consider adding in
temporary, clip-on extensions, which also works for those wanting to
augment longer manes, she said.
CURLY HAIR:
The challenge with naturally curly hair is that it can prove difficult
to diffuse dry and make perfect rather than fuzzy, Dicken said.
"It's a little bit less easy to work with when it's been diffuse dried,
so some options are to blow it smooth and then add curling iron curl,
which is a lot easier. You can break it up and make it smooth again.''
For those who opt to diffuse dry their hair naturally, Dicken suggests
using the wraparound technique with an iron to add refined curls to
one's own naturally curly hair.
"Sometimes naturally curly hair is not as curly at the front or it's not
as curly at the top, so that's a really good trick to add a little bit
more curl with an iron to embellish the beautiful curl that the gals
already have.''
BANGS:
"We're seeing a bit more of an '80s kind of influence,'' Dicken said.
"'80s hair is bigger at the front, and so by rolling that hair forward,
it tends to give it a little more kick at the root and a little more
modern, a little more off-the-face kind of feeling.''
Dicken cautions that look only works if the fringe is long enough to
manipulate. If it's right at the brow, it tends to be a bit stiffer.
"In that case, if the fringe is a bit shorter, I would definitely
recommend a side part and really push that hair over and give it a
really romantic kind of sideswept feel.''
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