Hairstyling How-Tos
How To: Plunk your curly hair
To plunk your curly hair, first put all your hair products in and make sure your hair is half dry. Spray lift booster into the top of your hair. Add volume boosting mousse all over your hair. Then, add a curl activator and a de-frizz product to your hair to get a more defined curl. Next, grab a t-shirt and place it on a flat surface. Place your forehead on the t-shirt and wrap the shirt around your head. Tie the arms of the t-shirt around the back of your head. Leave the shirt on your head fo...
How To: Get Kesha inspired messy loose scrunched waves
Are you a fan of the hot new pop icon Kesha? This video will teach you how to create her loose scrunched waves look. This instructional video requires you to use both a flat iron and blow dryer. The first step is to put volume product into the hair before blow drying it completely dry. Next, part the hair off to the side, making sure to not use your natural part line. Third, section off the hair into manageable strips. Then, place the strip into the flat iron and bend the hair around the iron...
How To: Use a crochet hook to maintain dread locks
Hold crochet hook with dominate hand, needle facing toward you, hold dreadlock with left hand. In a spot with numerous loose hairs poke needle through dreadlock to other side. Grab loose hairs with needle and pull them through the dreadlock (use hands to keep loose hairs on hook if necessary and to hook more hairs). Be sure to curve crochet hook out of dreadlock so it will not pull loose hairs out the other side. Do not pull crochet needle straight out, this will rip the hair and strip it.
How To: Do a multiple strand twisted bun for long hair
Britney, our host, shows how to create a multiple strand twist. Start with a high ponytail with a section of the hair twisted around to cover the rubber band. Take small sections of hair, about half an inch, and start twisting it. Keep twisting until it starts to coil up. Secure it with a bobby pin. Continue twisting sections of hair and pinning them to the head. Start pinning the sections to one side, and work your way around to the other side. Once you have worked your way all the way aroun...
How To: Get rid of greasy hair in an instant
This video demonstrates how to get rid of greasy hair. It is actually bad for your hair to wash it every day, so the host washes hers only every four days. To get rid of grease, put a small amount of baby powder on your finger tips and rub them together to evenly distribute, then run your fingers through your hair. Use as much or as little powder as needed to get rid of grease. You can buy waterless shampoos, though they tend to be more expensive than baby powder, and do essentially the same ...
How To: Make a dreadhawk out of dreadlocks
This video shows how to make a "Dreadhawk," which is a mohawk made of dreadlocks. This is a unique hairstyle that provides a very different look. The instructor begins by separating his front section of hair from the rest, and making a ponytail with it using a rubber band. He continues in this manner, making five more ponytails with sections of hair. You can then tie ponytails together, restricting their movement and keeping the Dreadhawk more intact. This hairstyle can also be done with regu...
How To: Get cheap natural-looking highlights at home
Rather than spending money at a professional salon, learn how to get inexpensive highlights at home. This technique will give you a very natural look with no orange tones. You need a product called Jolen. Mix about 1/4 teaspoon of this powder. Pull your hair back and take small sections about 1/4 of an inch thick and apply product to that section. You should make sure to wear regular gloves as you are applying the product. It is okay if the product mixes with other products. Continue this wit...
How To: Twist flip your long ponytail
Makeoversession demonstrates how to twist flip your long pony tail. A variety of hair styles reflects personality. Long hair hanging loosely around your face is one style, but it detracts from your accessories such as your earrings. To create a long flip ponytail start by brushing your hair out. The first suggestion is to brush the sides of your hair into a ponytail, leaving the back hair long beneath the tail. Wrap a hair band to hold the ponytail. From beneath the ponytail, create a hole in...
How To: Get rid of nasty split ends
Stephanie teaches viewers how to get rid of nasty split ends in hair. First, grab a brush and brush your hair. You'll want to do this very slowly and gently. Avoid pulling your hair out. You should do this to your whole head. Next, wrap a strand of hair around your pinky and underneath the next finger, and over the next and under the next finger. Next, grab hair cutting scissors, drag you fingers down, and you'll see the split ends pop up. Simply split them off when you see them pop up. Repea...
How To: Grow your hair long and get rid of split ends
To repair damaged hair. Cut off the dead ends. When shopping, remember that you get what you pay for in hair care products. Use a shampoo and conditioner that says "Strengthening" or "Repair" to rebuild the bonds in your hair. Use a leave-in conditioner that protects your hair from the heat, and protects from sun and wind. To keep it healthy, do not blow dry your hair. It causes too much damage. When you use a heat iron, use a heat protectant. Don't wash your hair every day. If your hair is f...
How To: Easily trim side swept bangs
This video is about how to easily trim side swept bangs at home. You will need a plastic grocery bag, a spray bottle, a clip or ponytail holder, a comb and some sharp scissors. First put your hair behind your ears so you can see where your bangs start and comb your bands straight down and comb the rest of your hair back and clip the back of your hair back. Get the bangs wet with your water bottle. Decide what length you want. Make sure to cut them a little longer than you want them to be beca...
How To: Apply blond highlights at home
This video shows you how to easily and properly highlight dark hair with blond highlights at home! First, you need to have your choice of store bought highlights (try Renew highlights!). First, put the gloves on that are provided in the highlighting kit. Get scissors and cut the powder and empty this in the tray. Now add this with the mix given. Stir these together with the applicator brush. Grab a towel, wrap it around yourself to protect your clothes. Select the hair that you wish to highli...
How To: Curl your hair like Taylor Swift
First wet your hair with styling cream. Take the upper part of your hair, right above your ears and clip it. Take a small section of the bottom hair layer and twist it. Clip the twisted hair with the hair curler and spin it till the root. The curler will be finished in 30 seconds. Repeat the previous three steps with all the bottom hair layer. When finished with the bottom, take another small layer of the upper clipped hair and repeat the steps but without twisting the hair. Put spray regular...
How To: Bleach your eyebrows at home using peroxide
Gabrielle demonstrates how to bleach your eyebrows with peroxide at home. Bleaching your eyebrows is helpful for people who frost or bleach their hair and need to lighten their eyebrows to match their new hair color. Put a little bit of everyday household peroxide on a q-tip and swipe it across your eyebrow. Make sure there's not too much peroxide on the q-tip so it doesn't drip down. Leave the peroxide on overnight. When you wake up the next morning, just wash your face and you will see your...
How To: Easily make a scarf
Dragontrap uses 1/2 a yard of three different colors of fleece for this scarf project. She cuts the fleece into strips of twelve to sixteen inches in length and two to three inches wide. Then she sews the strips together lengthwise, rotating the colors of fleece. Once the strips are sewn together, she has a large rectangle of pieced together fleece This is folded in half with outsides together. She sews one edge of the scarf closed and sews all the way down the long edge of the scarf. Finally...
How To: Rejuvenate and repair damaged hair
This video shows the viewer how to rejuvenate damaged hair with a few simple techniques. The first stage is to not let the hair get damaged in the first place. One of the most common causes of damaged hair is excess use of heat on the hair – either through a blow drier, straightening iron or a curling iron. Another cause of damaged hair is allowing the hair to become matted. This can be sorted out by simply combing the hair. If the hair has become damaged the recommended approach is to get it...
How To: Style your hair into a faux hawk
First you need to get some palm aid hair gel and rub it through your hair. Using a flat iron you use it where ever you want to start with your hair. While using the flat iron get a comb and brush your hair while you follow your flat iron. Using your flat iron move it upwards to get the style you like it. To get you hair to stand strait up you have to angle the flat iron away from your head to get that look. The hairspray helps to any parts in you hair that are not standing up. Then you just p...
How To: Get wavy hair with a 1" flat iron
Justine Hemondez shows us how to do wavy hair with a 1" flat iron. First she asks you to get your 1" flat iron and then get a section of your to work on. Basically what you are going to do is to roll or twist your flatter alternately in opposite way. Hold the cluster of hair in the flat iron, then roll the flatter to the outside once and then roll it to the inside once and continue doing it alternately. She says that thus we get the wavy hair. She also gets a section of hair and with the flat...
How To: Get wavy hair with a clampless curling iron
This video is a production of midget makeup. The person in the video shows us how to get wavy hair using a clampless curling iron. The first step she says is to brush your hair to get rid of any knots. Then she explains that the next step is to wet your hair a little and then apply mousse, she uses a 'got2b glued' which is a stiff mousse. She then asks you to again brush your hair nicely to get rid of any knots. She then puts on a black glove and takes a small cluster of hair. She then puts t...
How To: Braid hair extentions into your own hair
DaBartist teaches you how to braid hair extensions into your own hair. Start off with hair in the front of your head, as it's easier to control. Grab a strand of hair and then wrap the braid around it once. Your hair should be in the middle now. Twist all the strands once and start going to the left and on top, then to the right and on the bottom with the hair. You can do this until you reach the end of the fake braid hair. Then pull it back and tie it to other strands on your head.
How To: Make long hair short without cutting it
Do you ever want you hair to appear short, but feel that cutting it is the only way? Well YouTips4U has found a unique and creative strategy to making your hair appear short without even having to cut it! It's a simple process and all you need is a ribbon of your choice. YouTips4U shows you a few different basic styles and tips you can use to make your hair look short and beautiful. So if you are looking for a short new look for your hair without the cut, this is the video for you.
How To: Style short hair that you're growing out
If you're growing out your hair and are looking for a new style or are simply looking for some new ideas, this is the video for you. Nozy03 shows you her quick and easy guide to what she calls a "scene" look. To start all you'll need is to first wash your hair (of course), and then a bottle of some hair straightening cream. Nozy03 says the cream is to protect your hair from the amount of heat needed to do this. Then, simply mirror her actions and you'll have a fun new look that you can confid...
How To: Do a Snow White inspired hairstyle
Cocorais wants to show you how to do a short hairstyle inspired by Disney's Snow White. You'll need: heat-protecting spray, curl-boosting spray, a flat-iron, a rag-tail comb, hairspray, and sectioning clips. Turn on your iron and apply your heat-protecting spray. Section off your hair using the clips and iron it (section by sections) flipping it inwards at the end. The thinner the sections, the more scattered it will look. Varying degrees of thickness of the sections and randomness will also ...
How To: Get straight, silky, smooth and shiny looking hair
Using a good quality professional flat iron is essential to getting really straight shiny hair. Iron in small sections starting half an inch from the scalp and slowly moving the iron down through the hair. Prevent damage by using a protective straightening product.
How To: Get straight, sleek, smooth hair
If you want to have really sleek and straight hair you will need to start prepping in the shower. Wash your hair with a shampoo made to condition and straighten hair. Next you will need to mix in a product before drying your hair. Use a protective product and then straighten hair in sections.
How To: De-frizz your hair without using heat
If you have naturally frizzy hair and don’t want to use damaging heat products to create a smoother style then you can use this nifty trick of putting your hair into a bun with some hair product. This will relax there hair ,not to a completely straight style but will reduce the frizz adding a gentle wave in its place.
How To: Make your hair wavy like Vanessa Hudgens
Take shower at night before, don’t brush your hair and sleep with wet and messy. If you have curly hair brush it and put rollers or a hair dryer if it is needed. Heat the hair curler. When you wake up it should be one inch and half thick of a curler. It is going to be a mess. For this separate your hair in half straight in the middle and hold one side with a hair clip, while the other side you slice your hair into sections. Start from the bottom and hold the other using a hair clip. Use hair ...
How To: Do a Selena Gomez updo for short hair
Cocorais shows you how to style your hair into a Selena Gomez style up-do with short hair. Start by curling your hair, which is optional but it gives the hair shape and volume. Take your curled hair and sweep it to one side (opposite side of side-part if you have one), leaving a little hair on the other side to frame your face. Ignore any hanging hairs. Comb your hair into a ponytail, and tie it to one side. Gather your hair and tie it into a bun, using bobby-pins to secure it. For the rest o...
How To: Curl your hair like Miley Cyrus
The video begins with a photo of Miley Cyrus with her curly wavy hair. The hair stylist then begins to demonstrate the process to create that same hair style on a subject. She begins by brushing the subject’s hair and then sprays some heat protecting spray onto the hair. The next step is to spray curl boosting spray onto the hair. The hair is sectioned off into small sections. Next is to use a curling iron and wrap the hair around the iron in a spiral pattern and hold for about 30 seconds. Th...
How To: Get a scrunchy hair look without heat
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to get curly/wavy hair without heat. You will need a hair brush, hair gel, hairspray, and bobby pins. This video provides step-by-step instructions that allows the viewer to follow along and easily pause the video to keep up to pace. We are also given a visual example of how to do this hairstyle, as well as, how it will turn out. This video will benefit those viewers who do not want to use heat on their hair, as well as those who do not know how to ge...
How To: Style men's hair for a contemporary look
This how-to video teaches men how to cut their hair in a contemporary mow hawk style. First, the stylist tells you what size blade adapter he has on his buzzer, and where to cut with each adaptor. The stylist tells you what size to cut parts of the hair and how to make a faded look. He tells you how to finish off the hairstyle so it looks nice and clean. He talks about the difference between classical and contemporary haircutting. He teaches you how to avoid cutting yourself with the buzzer.
How To: Do a quick easy short hair style
The video starts out with Charmain introducing herself, stating she is about to do a quick tutorial on how to do a short sassy hairdo like the one she has. She advises to use a moisturizer right after showering. She is preparing to demonstrate the hair style on herself. She then sprays her hair with a spray moisturizer. She says to use pro style gel for the front of the hair and icing style for the back of the hair. She then demonstrates how to apply the gel. She demonstrated how to place her...
How To: Make transitional dreads for your hair
This beauty and style video demonstrates how to make transitional dreads. First the color of fibers is chosen of required lengths. The strands are put around elastic supports held taught by two posts of bed or other furniture. The base color, in this case blue, is pleated like hair up to a length required. Before pleating, the fibers are loosened with a comb. The lower portion below the pleats is loosened with a comb and twisted tight. Over the pleats the other color, in this case cream, is w...
How To: Maintain a perm to make it last
In this video the woman is lecturing on how to maintain a hair perm. She advises to locate a good salon to determine what type of perm you want for your particular hair type. After you get a perm do not wash the hair for at least 14 hours in order for the perm to set properly. Keep the hair moisturized as much as possible. Do this by looking for hair products such as shampoo and conditioners indicating it contains moisturizers. The woman very emphatically cautions against rubbing the hair wit...
How To: Make wavy hair using a curling iron
Modern Trailering shows how to curl your hair with a curling iron. First turn on the curling iron to a medium or medium-high heat. The video example suggested twenty-five to thirty. Once it is adequately heated, clamp the rods around a small piece of hair close to the base of the head. Using your wrist, turn the iron so that it is coming towards you and begin to pull the curling iron down slowly. It is important not to pull down too slowly or you might burn your hair. Next step is to enjoy yo...
How To: Make wavy hair with a curling iron
This is a video on how to make wavy hair with a curling iron. According to the sarasmilesgl after watching her video you will have that wavy full look of volume. All you will need is "Biolage Shine Renewal Spray", a blow dryer, and a hair straightener. Following the steps in the video, these will be your first basic steps. Start with spraying your hair with the renewal spray, running your fingers through your hair to remove any knots, and putting half of your hair into a pony tail. With a few...
How To: Braid extensions into hair
You will need 2 packs of kanekalon hair extensions, gel, for a firmer hold. You will also need clips to get the hair out of the way and a comb to make straight lines. A lighter is also used, to seal the ends. You first want to separate the air into sections. Put a little bit of gel at the root of the strands. You get the strand of extensions between your thumb and index finger, with the strand in the middle. Then you braid the extensions with the natural hair and twist so the two of them bond...
How To: Style wavy short hair
Cocorais shows you how to style your short hair into a crimped wavy look with a step by step example doing her own hair. You'll need a heat-protecting spray, a curl-boosting spray, a rat-tail comb, some sectioning clips, hair wax, and a flat iron. Apply heat-protecting spray and then (a lot of) curl-boosting spray. Pin up your hair so you can work with really thin sections of hair. Take one section, and pulling it straight, take your flat iron and move the flat iron back and forth. Iron layer...
How To: Cut your bangs like Hanh
Cut your bangs like Hanh! First, part off a triangular section of hair. Use a comb and keep it nice and straight. Make sure to take some of the bangs that hang down in front of your ears to frame your face. Pin the rest of your hair back. Then wet and comb your bangs. They don’t need to be soaked, but damp. Next, take a razor comb and start cutting so the shortest sections are at nose level and cascading down from there. Cut them longer as you move away from the center of your face. Make sure...
How To: Style short hair and get volume
This video demonstrates how to style short hair and get volume. If you have side bangs, part them around and up from the arch of the eyebrow. Make sure you have a blow-dryer and a large round brush, as well as a hair serum, and clips. Rub a quarter size amount of the serum on the ends of your hair, trying to avoid the roots. Put mousse on the hair roots near the top of your hair where the volume will matter the most. Section your hair off at the top and begin blow-drying by lifting the hair u...