Cute & Easy Summer Hairstyle

Perky Ponytail
Upgrade your ponytail by giving your roots a lift and the base a boost, suggests NYC hairstylist Noah Hatton, who created these looks. Here's how:

Starting with dry locks, section off the top middle 2 inches, then put the rest of your strands in a high ponytail. Hatton likes to use a bungee elastic, which is a stretchy cord with a hook at each end. "It will make the base of your ponytail stick out," he reveals.

Now tease the loose top section, finger-rake it back, and gently wrap a clear elastic around it and the ponytail.

Spritz the tail with texturizer for a tousled look. Try Bumble and Bumble Does It All Styling Spray, $21. Top: Jean Paul Gaultier.

Keep your Hair Hot in Summer

It is an open secret that in summer our hair is sorely in need of special summer hair care. Among the main summer hair threats are high summer temperatures, sea water and UV-rays. Head overheating causes hair follicle overheating that can’t but lead to hair weakening. Sea water mixed with direct UV-rays makes a terribly harmful cocktail for our hair that causes hair splitting and extreme dryness. Just follow our summer hair care tips and avoid all those ‘hair risks’.

• The most important thing about summer hair care is that in hot summertime you are to opt for various moisturising shampoos and conditioners, as well as hair care remedies containing SPF. Also invest in sun-resisting sprays such as Victoria’s Secret’s Color Protect UV Shield Spray that would help to protect your hair against harmful UV-rays.

• Don’t forget of deep moisturising. Once a week make a moisturising hair mask.

• There is a lot of harmful dirt that sea water contains and your usual daily shampoo couldn't manage to clean your hair properly. That’s why we strongly recommend you to use high-alkaline shampoos once per month to provide your hair with a proper cleansing. But don’t forget to apply a hair mask after using this high PH-level shampoo.

• It is better to reject (as far as possible) using hair tools such as hairdryer, hair strengthener and curler as well as perm and hair dying.

• Besides, try to avoid using hair gels and oils prior to going out in direct sunlight. The sun can cause these hair products to heat up, and put your hair at greater risk for drying.

Source: www.ourvanity.com

Stars are flipping for the latest style in hair, a deep side part that's casual and adaptable

Celebrities and the cool girls who want to look like them are sporting a new, but familiar, look in hair -- the deep side part.

A part that’s an inch or two farther to the side may seem insignificant, but the way in which celebs such as Jessica Alba, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart are doing it certainly makes a statement that’s casual, flirty and reminiscent of a 1980s Valley girl.

Alba in particular has been wearing a deep side part with a starting point that sometimes looks to be near her ear. The part gives the hair that’s flipped over to the other side of her head some volume and a wave that appears to be waiting to get teased, curled and sprayed as was in vogue through the early ’90s.

Lively and Stewart are also eschewing the typical middle-parted, L.A. boho hair and are going for something edgier in Stewart’s case, and evocative of Veronica Lake in Lively’s version.

"They’re giving us a retro glamour that’s less formal than finger waves," says celebrity hairstylist Scott Cunha, who styles Nicole Richie and Lucy Hale. "The part is deep to the side but the rest is loose, wavy and a little undone."

He recommends using the arch of the eyebrow as a good marker of where to start a deep side part. "You don’t want it over as far your ear," Cunha says. Use a comb to make a clean part and rub a little volumizing mousse through the hair to give it some wave and body. Otherwise a deep side part plus flat hair will leave you looking like a trendy drowned rat.

Lively’s hair with its deep side part always manages to look lovely and elegant. Her long, strawberry blond locks are generally parted deeply at one side, so that about two-thirds of it cascades down the side for a modern-day, more laid-back version of Lake’s famous ’do.

On the other end of the spectrum, Stewart’s take on the trend is edgy and definitely a little rock ’n’ roll. She showed up to the recent MTV Movie Awards with a deep side part and tons of body in her hair. "I loved her look at the MTV Movie Awards," Cunha says. "She really got the whole thing right."

Source: Los Angeles Times

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