Showing posts with label Waves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waves. Show all posts

Monday, September 1, 2014

Hair How-To: Flirty Finger Waves

Need a subtle yet sexy style for a night out on the town? Hair stylist Joshua Ristaino shows you the way.

1. Comb

2. Large styling clips

3. Large barrel curling iron

4. Pinch hair clips

5. Bobby pins

6. Boar bristle paddle brush

7. Sectioning clips

1. Part your hair in line with the arch of your right eyebrow. Use a comb to make the line perfectly straight, like model and interior designer Lindsay Marcella did here.

2. Section your hair into several sections (back, sides, front) using styling clips, like Harry Josh Pro Styling Clips. Curl the top section of your hair with a large barrel curling iron (Lindsay used Conair 1.5-Inch Ceramic Curling Iron), wrapping it over and around the barrel. Then, keeping the curl in a circular formation as you release it from the iron, pin the curl with a pinch hair clip as it cools and sets. Make three rows of curls this way.

3. Make sure all your hair is clipped into place while your curls cool. This will cause the curl to hold longer.

4. Curl the next 1.5-inch section of hair along the right side of your head, wrapping your hair under the barrel and away from your face. Curling your hair this way will draw focus to your face by opening it up. As you continue to curl your hair in 1.5-inch segments, alternate how you curl each section between wrapping the hair over the barrel, and under the barrel. This will differentiate the way the S-curves you'll create in step seven will lie.

5. Continue securing every curl on your head with a pinch hair clip.

6. Brush out your curls with a boar bristle brush. This helps work your hair into a more uniform wave. Lindsay used a Mason Pearson Boar Bristle Brush here.

7. Insert a long silver sectioning clip any part where the wave juts toward the back of your head. This will help exaggerate the indent and secure it while you do your makeup. When you remove the clips, the glamorous waves will be locked into place even more.

Finally, remove the sectioning clips, hit your hair with hairspray, and go!

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

How to Get Perfect Textured Waves

Got stick-straight hair and want to add some movement into your mane's mix? Then you're in luck. Tommy Buckett, a stylist from the Serge Normant Salon in NYC, shares his secret to getting cool-girl texture below.

1. Create imperfect spirals. "Start by wrapping your straight hair around the rod of a curling iron, leaving the ends out just a bit so they're not perfectly finished," Buckett says. "Then, switch up the way you wrap each section around the rod — one over and then another under and around — to make each spiral different from the next. This gives a more natural effect."

2. Scrunch up your strands. Buckett told hair Bianca to cup the ends of her hair and scrunch the whole way up to her roots to make the curls look piece-y.

3. Spritz your hair. To give it cool-girl texture and added volume, spray a thickening formula over your entire head. Bianca used Philip B. Maui Wowie Volumizing and Thickening Beach Mist.

4. Tug gently on your curls. "This will make them less curly, leaving you with a wavy texture," he says. 

Finally, add some bling — Bianca threw on a Jennifer Behr headpiece — pose and take a selfie of your gorgeously textured hair.

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Griffin

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

<i>Cosmo</i>'s Celeb Style Secrets Video Series: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's Undone Waves Edition

We're all secretly dying to walk around flaunting a headful of hair that looks exactly like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's. It's perfectly undone with a finish that screams bedhead beautiful, yet seems damn near impossible to create in the comfort of your own bathroom sans a pro stylist. Until today.

Thanks to Cosmo's latest webisode (for the first and second ones click here and here), you can now prop your tablet up on your toilet tank (seat closed, of course) and allow celebrity stylist Adir Abergel and Cosmo's beauty director Leah Wyar to show you, step-by-step, just how Adir has created those unfinished waves on Rosie on countless occasions.

Watch, listen, learn, copy, and then wear the hell out of your new undone wavy mane!

Seeking out more hairstyles? Stay tuned for videos on how to create Anne Hathaway's soft pixie, and more!

Photo Credit: Getty Images

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