Each season has its special trend where hair, garments, footwear, and other accessories are concerned. This season's hair trend is texture. You can have fringed ends to soft waves, crimped waves to Afro puffs. Aim is hair should fall in waves.
Simplest way to get that trendy look is a texturizing treatment - temporary or semi-permanent.
Go through the following tips and become your own stylist -
1. Color Me
Use a color, which is one tone lighter than your natural color. Cut small strands at the surface, twist and apply color. Coil them on top of your head. You will get easy and quick highlights. Color a strand underneath first to check the look.
If the requirement is of subtle highlights - add a very small measure of depth. If roots have to be dark and heavy - add lots of it. Allover highlighting (including strands around the face) is necessary in case of lots of texture.
2. Crimp It
Pick a single section of your hair roughly two inches wide and press it with a crimping iron from slightly above the roots until the ends. Let rests of the hair fall straight.
The iron should not be too hot. Crimping will look great when you crimp one-piece near the face. Besides crimping, hair also needs volume, body and curl. To achieve greater volume and less curl, roller should be big. Curling iron is used for a quick hair set. After the curls have cooled, spray a finishing spray. With fingers, open the curls little bit.
For a quick root lift, wet slightly the roots with a finishing spray. Keep the roller mid-strand. Roll it to the roots and let the ends be free. Remove the rollers when hair is dry.
3. Try the New Perms
Perms retexturize hair temporarily, adding volume, movement, body and wave. Nowadays perms are designed to last only 6 weeks. This way you can try out other styles. A perming product can give curly hair a straight look. After application, comb continuously from roots to ends.
To attain maximum texture and minimum curl, make your own rollers or perming rods. Remove the ends of orange juice cans. Tie the cans to the hair with plastic-coated hairpins (metal is a strict no with perm solution), and perm the hair. The result is hair with a superb bounce!
Pigtail perming is suggested in case deep waves on long hair are desired. In it, pigtails are made – loose or fat and tight, depending on the mood. Now the hair is permed.
Flexile cloth strips get an appearance of the old rag perm- wonderful texture, and loose curls. You can create designer perming according to the texture you wish.
4. Cut It In
Traditionally, layering adds texture to any look. Shorter strands on longer ones create an uneven surface, giving volume to styled hair. A shortcut to great texture is adding slightly chopped ends or loose bangs to the cut. Unfliped ends take on a subtle texture. Emphasize razor cut texture with texture creams or tone down by flatiron.
5. Rely on Liquid Products
Used with a blow dryer, gels, mousses, texturizing and straightening creams give varied textures. The diameter of the brush decides the curl you get. To turn curls to wave, use styling equipment on a slightly layered cut. Shampoo your hair, towel dry and lastly apply a smoothing product.
For heavy hair, add little gel, comb and style hair into waves and allow it to dry. Pomades add any type of texture to a shortcut. Gently run a small amount through damp hair. Comb hair smoothly for a “wet" look. Another way is to add pomade in the front portion only to get a fancy fringe or a spit curl. With smooth styles, pomades also give more textural looks. For a shine, blow-dry hair with a small amount of pomade. Now apply a texture cream, into individual sections.
About the Author
My name is Marquetta Breslin and I'm a professional hair braider with over 12 years of experiance. I own http://www.braidsbybreslin.com where I sell intructional hair braiding and weave DVDs teaching the world how to braid and weave.