Hairstyling How-Tos
How To: Get voluminous big Victoria's Secret curls using steam rollers
What girl doesn't want Victoria's Secret hair? You know what we're talking about, ladies: Big, voluminous curls that look undone but not too messy and always goddess-like. It's the type of hair most celebrities wear on the covers of magazines and the most requested hairstyle in salons.
How To: Do singer Park Bom's hairstyle from 2ne1's "Follow Me" video
Here in the U.S., the name Park Bom may not ellicit any knowing responses, But in Korea, Park Bom is one part of pop group 2ne1, more or less the hottest girl group in the country. While Bom's vocal chords got her into the business, it's her trendy yet edgy style that has fans all over copying her look.
How To: Do your hair in long curly waves like Ke$ha
Techno-pop-starlet Ke$ha's hair is one of her greatest assets. It looks great all the time, and is pretty much always this curvy-wavy long style. This video will show you how to do that on yourself with only some simple hair care products.
How To: Style an elegant faux bob glam updo hairstyle for medium or long curly hair
This hairstyle is only for curly or wavy hair, so if you have straight hair, you need to find a way to curl or make it wavy first. You'll also need a headband and hairpiece similar to the one in this video. This hairdo is perfect for that fake "faux" bob look and works well on long and medium hair.
How To: Reduce the frizz in your hair
Bad hair day? Is your naturally curly hair just extra frizzy today? Here's a quick tip to tame your mane - after your spray your hair with hairspray, roll the canister over your hair to smooth out the ends of the frizzies and make them lay flat
How To: Create a retro and glamorous Bettie Page pompadour
Bettie Page was the ultimate pin up girl. Naturally curvaceous and blessed with batty eyes and full lips, Page was adored by men all over and had women copying her every hairstyle and makeup look. It's no wonder, then, that we still see so many interpretations of her signature pompadour hair look today.
How To: Straighten your hair easily with a ceramic flat iron
Straight hair seems like the easiest type of hairstyle to style, right? Wrong. If you happened to be born with curly or frizzy hair, then you know how difficult it is - and how long it takes before school in the morning - to tame those tumbleweed frizzies into pin-straight locks.
How To: Create a simple casual updo with a messy side bun
Messy hair is not sexy. Especially not when you've just rolled out of bed with teeming array of hair mats and a piece of gum stuck to a few strands.
How To: Create a quick and easy bohemian updo with a twist side braid
Bohemian hair makes us happy. Maybe it's something about how "undone" it looks: Loose, wavy, and with stray hairs all over the place, it's the ultimate romantic hairstyle and somehow always elevates you from just woken up sleepy mole person to ravishing fairytale princess.
How To: Create a loose romantic low bun with stray hairs and a high bun
If you're anything like us, then you try to take the easiest route possible when styling your hair in the morning before work. You know: Wake up, brush your teeth, and then wearily comb through your hair a few times with your eyes closed.
How To: Style a poufy and spiky high bun for summer
If you're anything like us, then you try to take the easiest route possible when styling your hair in the morning before work. You know: Wake up, brush your teeth, and then wearily comb through your hair a few times with your eyes closed.
How To: Style an easy Bohemian French braid for spring
French braids have always been the much cooler and more elegant older sister of the basic braid (you know, the ones you wore in pigtails with Sesame Street ties when you were a kid). Which is why we love the way they add a whimsical touch to any hairstyle that incorporates them.
How To: Create a half up, half down pompadour hairstyle
Simplicity is best, especially when it comes to styling your hair at 5 AM in the morning before you dash to school with a cup of espresso in your hand. If you care about making your hair look presentable but don't care for spending half the morning teasing and primping it, then check out this video.
How To: Create a half up, half down back to school pompadour
Pompadours sound kind of, well, pompous, and look rather prosh. With a literal "I'm above you" upward beehive bump that towers over your own head and others, a pompadour is a hairstyle with 'tude, and while before people that it was too ostentatious to wear, starlets like Jennifer Lopez and Rachel McAdams have worn the style on the red carpet to much acclaim (and copycats).
How To: Get an easy blowout at home with a blowdryer
In our opinion, blowouts at salons are WAY overpriced. A few spritzes of heat protectant, a few good twirls of the blowdryer, and you're done. Well, after you pay $50.
How To: Create loose, beachy waves with a deep waver
Unlike its name suggests, beachy waves aren't an easy, carefree hairstyle you can achieve simply by hitting up the beach for a day and letting the sun and surf do its work. In fact, if you did just that you'd probably end up with fried, damanged, and dry hair that doesn't look the least "beachy" and pretty.
How To: Style an elegant, yet messy bun updo like Megan Fox (for long hair)
Short on time and cash? No problem! It doesn't mean you have to be short on celebrity style!
How To: Get bouncy curls with braided headband
In this video, we learn how to get bouncy curls with a braided headband. First, you will need to spray heat protector on your hair before you put heat on it. Next, you will take small sections of your hair and wrap your hair around it, then pull straight down. Once you do this to the entire head, style as you prefer with your hands. Next tease the hair to give it volume, then spray hair spray on the entire head. Next, you will need to braid underneath your on both sides, then wrap it around t...
How To: Do a fancy messy side bun
In this video, we learn how to do a fancy and messy side bun. First, curl your hair however you would prefer, but it should be more wavy than curly. Now, part your hair on the side and then tie your hair on one side. Bring your bands out of the tie, then start to tease your pony tail in small sections. Make sure to use a lot of hair spray while doing this, then afterwards as well. Now, take the pony tail and connect it to the head. Use small sections and connect them with bobby pins. When fin...
How To: Get Kim Kardashian pin-straight hair with bangs
In this tutorial, we learn how to get Kim Kardashian pin-straight hair with bangs. First, section off the bottom half of your hair and clip the top up. Next, take your straightening iron and run it through your hair until there are no bumps or curls and it's completely straight. Continue to straighten your hair until all of it is completely flat and straight. When you get to your bags, you want to straighten them while pulling the hair straight up and pulling with the iron. Tease your hair an...
How To: Do an elegant side bun
In this video, we learn how to do an elegant side bun. First, take your hair and brush it out. Next, tie your hair up on one side of the head, then ball your hair up with your hands. Use bobby pins to start to pin the hair on the head. Make the hair straight and without any lumps as you shape it with your hands. Stick it into place using bobby pins and use the pins to place any stray hairs as well. When finished, you can spray with hair spray for a stronger hold, then you are finished and rea...
How To: Get a feathered look with your hair
In this video, we learn how to get a feathered look with your hair. First, take the top of your hair and hair spray it on the back. After this, tease the hair and then place a large barrel curling iron in it. Then, take a clip and roll it into the clip. Continue to do this all the way down until you reach the bottom middle of your hair. After this, hairspray your hair, then do this on the sides of your hair and on your bangs. When finished, take the pins out of your hair and hair spray, then ...
How To: Make a large fancy hair bun
In this video, we learn how to make a large fancy hair bun. First, you want to have your hair brushed and straightened. You will need: brush, hair ties, bobby pins, rolled up sock, and hair spray. Start off bringing your hair up into a pony tail, then tie it with an elastic. Next, grab a hair roll and bring it under the base of the pony tail around to the font. Now, let your hair fall evenly, while pushing your head down. Grab you elastic, and wrap it around the base of the hair bun. Next, ta...
How To: Get a spunky hairdo with a fishtail braid
In this video, we learn how to get a spunky hairdo with a fishtail braid. First, make sure you have straight and clean hair, then grab a teasing comb and tease from the back of your hair up to the front to give your hair a more volumized look. Spray with hair spray, then let the hair down and gently brush the top to make it appear soft and not tangled. Once you're done, bring the hair back and place into a side pony tail, tied with an elastic behind your ear. Now, take a rat tail comb and lif...
How To: Get super curls like Kim Kardashian
In this video, we learn how to get super curls like Kim Kardashian. First, apply heat protector to your hair, then heat up your curling iron. Next, take small sections of your hair and place them into your curling iron. Leave the hair in the curling iron for several seconds, or until the hair is hot. Next, drop the hair out of the curling iron, then brush out with your fingers and spray hair spray onto it. Continue to do this in sections around your entire head until all your hair is curled. ...
How To: Create bouncy curls with a flat iron
In this video, we learn how to create bouncy curls with a flat iron. Start off by applying heat protector to your entire head of hair, then heat up your flat iron. Next, grab a small section of your hair (as small as you want to curls to be) and place the flat iron inside the top, then twist the iron 180 degrees and pull the hair straight down. When it reaches the bottom, the hair should be completely curled. To make a tighter curl, use smaller sections of hair and leave the iron in longer. C...
How To: Create a vampire look for Halloween with your hair
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a vampire look for Halloween with your hair. First, curl your entire head of hair, then put half your hair in a high pony tail. Now, add in more curls on the pony tail and pin your bangs off to the side, using gel to give it a sleek look. When curling the hair, leave some hair on the bottom and only curl the top and middle. When curling the bottom of the hair, only curl the bottom half of the strands, not the entire thing. Next, add some lace to the si...
How To: Create a simple and elegant fishtail braid
Fishtail braids are really not much different from your typical braids, only that they trail off from being thick at the top to very thin and delicate on the bottom (yes, like a fish tail). But this one feature is what makes them infinitely more elegant and romantic than the typical braids we wore in 5th grade.
How To: Create a fringed lace/Dutch braid swirl hair adornment
We love this hair tutorial because it teaches you how to create the equivalent of a cinnamon bun on the side of your head. A Dutch braid is basically a braid that you swirl around and around itself in order to form a circular shape. While doing this on both sides of your head would be a little much (we're not going for Princess Leia here), opting for just a single Dutch braid on one side.
How To: Create an elegant retro side twist hairstyle
Be as lazy as you want the rest of your life when it comes to makeup and hair, but on your wedding day you better be amping it up in the style department. If you're looking for a not too hard hairstyle to sport on your big day, check out this elegant side twist updo. You've probably seen it on the likes of old Hollywood-inspired stars like Gwen Stefani and Rachel McAdams.
How To: Create the classic pin-up hairstyle with curly hair
Compared to ladies of the '40s and '50s, we are damned lazy ladies today. Most of us wouldn't flinch to pull on some sweatpants to go the grocery store or even to go to school. And while we totally dig comfort, which is a good thing, it's nice to "put on your lady face" every once in a while an dress up a bit before you go out.
How To: Create a huge, voluminous '60s updo with a headband
Want to look like Jacie O? The famously fashionable first lady is only comparable to Michelle Obama in terms of good taste and pretty hairdos. As JFK's presidency was in the early sixties, Jackie O sported the most popular hairstyles of the time: Beehives, major volume with curls, updos with major volume. As you can see, big hair was in no matter what hairstyle you did.
How To: Create a Barbie high ponytail hairstyle for Halloween
Every little girl wants to look like Barbie (not a particularly good thing, but bear with us here). And while all of us grow up and realize we come in all sizes and colors, it's always fun to reminisce a bit about our childhood and Barbie, one of our most beloved dolls. While we don't advocate you really look like Barbie by starving yourself and getting implants, it may be fun to dress up like her for Halloween.
How To: Create big faux finger waves like Gwen Stefani
Finger curls probably don't sound familiar to you, but we can bet you've seen them before. Think Marilyn Monroe's tightly curled hairdo, Gwen Stefani's tight waves in her cameo for "The Aviator," or Rachel McAdams' curls at one of the "Sherlock Holmes" premieres.
How To: Create a pin-up hairstyle with retro victory rolls
Victory rolls may not sound like a familiar term these days because almost no one does them anymore. But you'd sure recognize them if we showed you some photos from the 1940s and 1950's: Actresses like Rita Hayworth and Katherine Hepburn loved wearing them, and as they did so did the rest of the nation who looked to them for beauty inspiration.
How To: Achieve rolled-up pin-up bangs a la Beyoncé in "Telephone"
Now, rolled-up bangs may not be a good choice for going clubbing (at least not if you're trying to catch a cutie's eye in a positive way) or for work, but work great for Halloween if you're dressing up as a movie star or teeny bopper.
How To: Create a loose updo for a beach wedding
For both the bride and groom and the guests, beach weddings are a little messier to deal with. And when it comes to dressing and getting your hair and makeup ready, there are the additional considerations of practicality (you're going to be trotting on sand, after all) including how to do your hair so the wind won't whip it into a frizz cloud and how to apply makeup so it won't all slide off before the "I Do."
How To: Create a voluminously curly side swept holiday hairstyle
This beautiful hairstyle would look good for any special occasion, but it especially fits the holidays, when you're hitting up cocktail party after cocktail party and need to look your absolute best (you never know when you may meet a hottie through your coworker!).
How To: Style a colorful cheetah print on your hair
You've probably heard of cheetah print nails and even cheetah print eyeshadow (think the eyeshadow "rub-ons" at Sephora), but we can bet you've never heard of cheetah print hair. Your first question is probably whether or not this is even possible, but trust us, with a compressor doing cheetah prints on your hair is as easy as pie.
How To: Get longer and healthier hair with natural remedies
If you were blessed with a natural mane bursting with shine, volume, and movement like those chicks in Pantene commercials, then we don't like you. Just kidding, but if that is your lot then you really don't have to check out this tutorial.