Sugar and Spice
Long layers, dramatically side-swept bangs, chocolate and ginger colored strands…all these elements combine to give you a fabulous fall look!
How To Style:
After blow drying your hair (make sure to protect it with a heat spray!), use your flat iron to smooth strands and add shine. A light mist of hairspray should keep things in place, but still allow for movement.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, round, long, heart, square. Medium to thick in density, not too much natural texture (unless you’re ready to commit a lot of time and product to your style).
Best Hair Product:
Try Pureology’s Pure Volume Thickening Mist for more body and shine while also protecting your new color!
Tip: To make the flat ironing process smoother, spend a couple of extra minutes blow drying with a flat paddle brush from the roots to ends instead of just blowing your hair all around. It’s better for your hair and lets you keep more natural volume!
A-List
This girl ALWAYS has the best hair thanks to her Hollywood stylists. But thanks to her stylists for giving her such great cuts and colors that look amazing on a lot of different types of hair and face shapes! This one is a longer length, not quite a bob any more, with softer layering and paler blondes woven through.
How To Style:
Once hair is dry, use your flat iron on a very low setting to soften out any kinks while maintaining volume and body. You can also use your flat iron to create the large wave by just rolling it a little as you pull hair through. Use a light to medium hold for this one to keep it looking natural.
Best Hair Product:
For fantastic texture, use Sedu’s Beach Beauty Sea Salt Spray. You’ll get that beachy wind blown look without actually having to hit the beach.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, heart, long, round, square. Fine to thick density and most textures.
Tip: For those with natural curl, add a smoothing product while hair is still damp, brush it through, then let it air dry without shaking it out or fluffing it up. It will help avoid the fuzz of blow drying unless you have the time to give yourself a blow out.
Fashion Forward…
It’s shorter than you may have wanted to go, but it’s a completely hot trend right now! The shorter “pixie” type cut that frames your face and lets the real YOU shine! This one is done in a great wheaty blonde color and the pieces around the face soften the look out.
How To Style:
Use a large round brush to blow the top layers out smooth and a flat iron to get the shorter pieces tamed once hair is dry. Shouldn’t take a whole lot of product OR time!
Best Hair Product:
For smoothing, use got2b Smooth Operator Smoothing Lustre Lotion. Great for dry hair!
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, round/square/long – depending on where the face framing pieces fall, heart. Fine to thick densities work well depending on the type of product you use and the same goes for natural texture.
Tip: Keep your style an extra day by using dry shampoo!
Too Hot to Handle
This fire-engine red, super hot shag cut is perfect for back to school! The rich red with subtle low-lighting in the back is a fabulous fall color while the shaggy layers are flirty and edgy. Side swept bangs keep it from looking too harsh.
How To Style:
Blow dry hair from roots to ends using fingers if your hair is naturally straight or a paddle brush if you need help smoothing. Use your flat iron to touch up any pieces that need it once hair is completely dry. Use pomade instead of hairspray to help pieces stand out better.
Best Hair Product:
Give Blow: Mane Tame Soft Pomade a try for styling and definition.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, heart, round, square, long. For really shaggy cuts, you’ll want a decent amount of density to your hair.
Tip: Maintain the quality of your color by not exposing your hair to too much sunlight or harsh/hard chemicals and by using color-friendly shampoos, conditioners and styling products.
Short and Chic
Sassy chocolate and caramel locks are fun – especially when they are cut just at eye level in front, tapered around the ears, and short in the back. It’s low maintenance, but doesn’t give off the vibe that you just don’t care.
How To Style:
Short=easy. Blow dry and add product to define the style. Use a flat iron if you have to, but on a lower setting so you don’t burn your hair.
Best Hair Product:
Try out Redken’s Water Wax Defining Pomade. A small amount will help give you some definition as well as flexible control and amazing shine.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, heart, more subtle variations of square or round. Hair type can be pretty much any! If you’re thinning too much, you’ll want to be careful how those interior layers are cut so they don’t expose too much scalp.
Tip: Switch up your highlights every time you go in for a cut/color. It will give the whole look a different feel and you won’t end up feeling bored.
Change-Up
Wow them all with a complete makeover like the adorable Miss Emma Watson. This unexpected twist to her spot-on sense of style was a total hit. With the right personality, this haircut is perfection! Short, sweet, and hard to resist.
How To Style:
Use your fingers to shape it while damp, after adding in a light styling crème. Let it air dry and you’re done!
Best Hair Product:
Try out Sally Hershberger’s Hyper Hydration Soft Touch Shaping Cream. Gives you a lot of moisturizing and a bit of control, too.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, some subtle heart/round/square. Fine to medium density to get a similar look.
Tip: If you’ve got a lot of natural curl and want to have the same smooth style without having to flat iron your hair all the time, ask your stylist for a Keratin Complex smoothing treatment.
Not-Quite-Twilight…
It’s dark and mysterious, but with some red lowlights and a warm undertone, this deep rich color looks alive and healthy. The freshly trimmed ends keep the cut from looking straggly and sad.
How To Style:
Blow it out using a large round brush for more volume or a paddle brush for more smoothness. Make sure to use a heat protection spray as well as a styling product for smoothness and control before blow drying. If you use any hairspray at all, keep it light.
Best Hair Product:
Try out Blow’s Straight To The Point Straightening Emulsion for a sleek, fabulous luster and all-out shine.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, round, heart, long, square (the way you wear your bangs and the layering around your face will make or break this cut for you). Medium, naturally not-too-textured hair works the very best, but those of us with curl know how to work it out!
Tip: For extra volume and a little more curl, toss hair into rollers as soon as you’re done blowing it out. Let them sit for a while and cool completely off.
NBD (No Big Deal!).
Effortless style with a little effort, this long blonde curly style is perfect for heading back to the classroom. The darker roots with lighter ends is a trendy coloring process and having the natural darker roots means less time in the salon for you!
How To Style:
Wash it the night before and let it air dry overnight (don’t forget to mist it with a heat protection spray!). In the morning, wrap strands around a clampless curling iron, away from your face. Spray finished curls with hairspray and you’re done!
Best Hair Product:
TIGI’s Bed Head Maxxed-Out Massive Hold Hairspray. It promises massive hold and super shine.
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, long, some round, square, heart. Most hair types should be able to achieve a similar style, regardless of density or natural texture. If your hair is super fine, keep the length a little shorter or add extensions. If your hair is naturally really curly, it will take more prep work.
Tip: Instead of investing a ton of money into bonded extensions, buy the good quality human hair extensions that come on clips. Take them to your stylist and ask to have them blended to your hair layers, then just toss them in when you decide to wear your hair down. You can use them lots of times, so it’s a much less expensive but still fabulous option for you!
Prima-Donna
Soft sweet curls are a no-brainer. Toss in a braid around your hairline and it’s an updated classic.
How To Style:
After drying hair, French braid bangs across hairline and tuck ends underneath. Use a smaller barrel (¾” should work) to create curls throughout your mid-end lengths. Finish style with a quick spritz of medium hold hairspray.
Best Hair Product:
Aveda Pure Abundance Volumizing Hairspray is a great option to pump up your curls with still natural looking curls. Definitely a “stylist’s choice” winner!
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
This style can work with oval, some round, square, long and some heart face shapes. Medium to thick density is best, but fine hair people can work it out too.
Tip: If you’ve got a wider forehead, instead of braiding right at the hairline, drop some bangs down and scoot that braid back into your hair an inch or two. You can still rock the braid without feeling self conscious from exposing your forehead too much.
Teacher’s Pet
The hair with the healthiest look wins. If you’ve got a fantastic color naturally, lucky you! If not, try out this cinnamon brown. Too perfect for fall!
How To Style:
After blow drying hair, use your flat iron to smooth it all out. Keep bangs swept off to the side to keep your face looking open instead of hidden. Use a light hold hairspray or light pomade to make those fly-aways behave.
Best Hair Product:
Paul Mitchell’s Super Skinny Serum smooths and conditions hair while sealing the strands. And it smells amazing!
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, square, round, heart and some long. Fine to thick density, but naturally smooth works best.
Tip: Get your hair trimmed every 6 weeks or so to keep hair looking fresh. Trashed ends are a complete fail.
A Day in the Life…
Softly curled, California blonde hair looks great when it’s not overdone or perfectly styled. Loose waves keep this look touchable and natural. The center part and pinned back side open up her face and make her look more approachable.
How To Style:
Blow dry hair then wrap completely dry, large sections around a bigger barrel curling iron. Finger comb through curls once they’re all cooled off and pull one side back to pin underneath. A light mist of hairspray keeps curls locked in and fly-aways at bay.
Best Hair Product:
Sedu’s Beach Beauty Sea Salt Spray is a styling and texture spray made just for styles like this one
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, some subtle round, square, long or heart. Finer textures look a little better with this breezy curl.
Tip: Don’t over-condition your hair or it will lay limp and sad.
Not Your Average Valedictorian
Long, shiny healthy black hair looks amazing when styled with curls. Personalize your style with shorter side swept bangs or even rounded to frame out your eyes.
How To Style:
After hair has dried, use a small to medium barrel curling iron to create curls in the mid-shaft through ends of your hair. Pin bangs back and off to one side or tuck them behind your ear. Curls are locked in when you mist with a little hairspray.
Best Hair Product:
Davines Defining Invisible Hairspray will give you a little extra volume along with texture. Helps hold, but is still touchable. Perfect!
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, subtle round or square, heart, some long. Medium to thick density with at least some natural texture.
Tip: To get your shine back, use a clarifying shampoo to strip out product build-up, hard water mineral deposits, and any other junk that’s weighing it down and making it look lifeless. Once a week should be all you need to keep your hair looking shiny and fabulous.
Voted Most Likely…
If you’ve got amazingly thick, long, luxurious hair, show it off! Curly or straight, take good care of it and you’ll definitely stand out in any crowd.
How To Style:
Once hair is dry, use a 1” barrel curling iron to create ringlets all around your head. After curls have cooled, use your fingers to separate and blend them together. Use a fine mist of extra strength hairspray to really hold those curls.
Best Hair Product:
Try out Round Trip Liquid Curl Definer from Paul Mitchell. It’s technically for natural curls or waves, but the benefit of reduced drying time along with the conditioning and protection makes this curl product perfect for this style!
Best Face Shape and Hair Type:
Oval, round, square, long or heart. Medium to thick density works best with a little natural texture.
Tip: For hair that’s just too stubborn to dry in a reasonable amount of time, use a hair shammy to whisk away excess moisture and cut down on drying time by at least half!
