Hair How-To: A Textured Twist

Celebrity hairstylist Ryan Trygstad shows you exactly how to get this majorly gorgeous textured twist. You know you want to wear the hell out of it Saturday night.

1. Tease your hair. Spray Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray at the root of your crown, and then backcomb that entire area, creating height. Then, make a deep side part from your hairline almost to the crown of your head, using the end of a rattail comb, making sure to keep the volume and movement in place. 

2. Put your hair in a ponytail. Take a ponytail holder that matches your hair and create a loose, low ponytail. Next, pull the ponytail holder toward the ends of your hair so that it's at the last two inches. This will keep your hair together as you roll it toward your head, but still allowing it to feel loose and messy.

3. Twist your hair. Starting with the ends, create a French twist by rolling the ponytail in towards the head until it's tight, hiding the fastened end.

4. Set the twist. Position the twist in the middle of the back of your head.

5. Pin the twist. Using large French pins/U-pin, starting at the nape, pin along the twist until it feels secure and continue working the pins all the way up the pleat of the twist to the top.

6. Finish with hairspray. Finish by spraying Redken Forceful 23 Super Strength Finishing Spray for hold.

Done and done! Now go Instagram the hell out of your sexy hair and tweet us with hashtag #Cosmosexyhair. 

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Hair How-To: The New French Twist

This new unfinished French Twist is cooler than the plastics in Mean Girls. To recreate it at home, hairstylist Britney Williams walks you through the steps below.

1. Blow dry your hair away from your face. Here, Brenna used a Maison Pearson boar bristle paddle brush and a blow dryer with a nozzle to help focus the air and brush her hair away from her face to get it all going in the right direction.

2. Create a bend in your hair with a curling iron. You don't want a full-on curl for this style — just a little wave. "So, what I do to get this look usually is wrap pieces of hair in sections of different sizes around a two-inch barrel curling iron for a just second to give it a bit of a bend," Williams says. 

3. Apply a texturizing cream. Scoop out a dime-size amount of texturizing cream with your fingers and spread it evenly onto both hands, warming it between your palms first. Then, rake your hair back away from your face lightly using your fingertips to give the hair a little hold. Brenna used Bumble and Bumble Thickening Creme Contour here. 

4. Twist the tail. Pull your hair back in a low pony, and then twist the tail around your thumb until your hair is tight and close to your head.

5. Pin the twist. Take a few U-pins and secure the twist flat to the scalp. Be sure to pin it along the rolled side, and don't worry about the strands peeking out of the bottom of the twist — that's what gives this style the cool-girl effect.

6. Continue pinning until it's secure along the rolled side.

Voila! You're done and you look damn good. 

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A Scary New Twist in the Debate Over Free Birth Control

Between The Blunt Amendment and the heated emotion surrounding Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke’s congressional testimony, we didn’t think the debate surrounding free birth control could get any more controversial. We were so wrong.

Now, a new law has been proposed in Arizona that would give employers the right to demand that women who are prescribed birth control pills give proof that they’re not using it for sexual reasons.

That means, if you live in Arizona and this law passes, you’ll have to prove to your boss that you’re not using The Pill to prevent pregnancy in order for your employer to cover it through your insurance. Instead, you’ll need to pony up a doctor’s note that shows that you’re using it for hormone control or acne treatment.

Arizona House Bill 2625 was written by Republican state representative Debbie Lesko (yup, a woman) and was endorsed by Arizona’s Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week. It will move forward in the state and eventually go to a vote before Arizona’s state legislature.

“We live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” Lesko told Arizona University’s The State Press newspaper. “Government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.”

We doubt this proposal will actually be passed since it violates all kinds of privacy laws. But, if you live in Arizona and don’t want to risk having to produce a doctor’s note stating that you need birth control for your “acne problem,” contact your local state representative. Not sure who that is? Click here to find out.

What do you think of this proposed law?

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