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If you're the kind of beauty queen who's uptight about getting " beach hair " by going to the beach because all that salt water will wreck your hair, your attitude is way past its use-by date baby.
"You want a summer hairstyling tip?" asks Schwarzkopf Hairdresser of the Year and Stephen Marr stylist, Cole Schierenbeck. "For the best beach hair go for a swim at Piha and then don't wash your hair for four days. That's my tip."
Hair that looks surfed-in is such a strong look for the season that Stephen Marr is using professional salon products like Beachhead, which contains salt water, to emulate the effect of the ocean. There are cheaper alternatives:
"We keep a spray bottle of water mixed with sea salt in the salon and use it on the hair to get a similar effect,' Schierenbeck says.
Like most styling products this summer, the sea spray concept is about getting an unaffected look. "The aim is a more natural texture that doesn't look like it was done in a salon," Schierenbeck says.
As for styles, "layers are really strong", he says. "People aren't wearing their hair `solid' right now." And yes, curly hair is still being tipped to make that comeback.
Schierenbeck's fellow hairdresser Lucy Marr recommends "loose, relaxed" curls as an easy summer option that can be achieved by simply working a couple of styling products into damp hair.
"I use a combination of d:fi smoothing cream and d:fi destruct. I take about a five cent-piece worth of each, mix them together in my palm and work the product through the hair then leave it to dry naturally," Marr says. It's either that or take up surfing to get that layer beach hair look.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:13 |
