Short Hair: Fine Hair

Short Hair: Fine Hair - Styling Secrets For Volume

Introduction

Sharon Stone With Sleek Heavily Layered Super Short Tresses 8-21-04

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Actress Sharon Stone has been very outspoken about the fact that she has very fine hair. Although the lovely Sharon (March 10, 1958) way went with longer hair extensions in the middle of 2005, she is most famous for her short hair styles.

Celebrity hairdresser Robert Hallowell has worked with Sharon's hair in the past, confirmed that Sharon used "to cut her own hair" when it was super short (image to the left). Robert used many of his fine hair styling secrets on the beautiful blonde star when he was working with her tresses for various events.

Sharon has gone on record in the past with the media telling them she "took a scissors to own hair and chopped it herself".

Although Sharon has baby fine hair, she has learned all the various hair styling tricks for dealing with her fine hair. Whether she wears it sleek and slicked down against her scalp or goes with a variety of faux mohawks, super ruffled or edgy hairstyles, she knows how to create lots of volume for her tresses.

FINE HAIR SOLUTIONS:

FINE HAIR SOLUTIONS:

Introduction

Model With Fine Strands Shear Genius 3 2010

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Nothing underscores life's irony like career paths. While one of my friends, a complete teetotaler, became a brand manager at Seagram's Liqueur, I, with my baby fine, impossibly slow-to-grow hair, ended up writing for cosmetology textbooks, salon and beauty magazines, and even hair care manufacturers.

Talk about initiation by fire! Suddenly, I was expected to have a hurricane mane (like half the women around me) and to be a hair expert. I was flooded with requests from hairdressers to perm or cut my hair--more pointedly, they'd say, "You have to cut that mop; fine hair looks terrible that long."

Back then, the thinking was that fine hair never looked good unless it was cut into a super-short bob and the tactics for getting clients were clearly unrefined.

Throughout my 25+ year career, I've been in hundreds of salons, from London to Moscow, New York to San Francisco, and had haircuts that ranged from $15 to $250+. I've also had every cut imaginable, a slew of bad perms and hair colors I shouldn't have tried.

Naturally, fine hair became my forte and I explored countless techniques for "enhancing" fine hair, ranging from undercutting, in which short pieces of hair "plump" up longer surface strands to create volume, to relaxing fine hair, since sodium hydroxide "will really blow up the cuticle," transforming fine, straight strands into a real bomb. (I passed on actually trying the later.)

If you're ready for the best, the worst and what really works, here's 25+ year's worth of hard-earned knowledge, straight from the best hairdressers in the world--and the real-life litmus test!

Face Shape Considerations

Face Shape Considerations

This elegant sleek style highlights the face along with the dress. Although most face shapes will be flattered by this style, if your face is long and thin it is better to design the updo so it lays closer to the head with more volume added along the sides.

Oval and heart shaped faces will look beautiful in this style. Square faces can achieve balance by carefully pulling ringlet tendrils down around the jaw and cheeks to soften. Round face shapes can achieve a slimming effect by adding more height at the crown, adding tendrils at the cheeks and playing with a light dusting of side parted bangs or hairline tendrils.

Hairstyle Definition

Hairstyle Definition

The hairdo described is designed around a very basic tightly crafted ponytail that is anchored at the top of the crown with hair sculpted to fan out and up. The base of the updo hugs the crown and the back of the head. Although the model is not wearing bangs, this style could also be created with any type of fringed front hairline.

Simply Elegant Updo - Steps To Create

Simply Elegant Updo - Steps To Create

Style #3673 Alfred Angelo Prom Collection

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With a stunning front and elegant back, this fairytale dress calls for a soft yet sleek romantic updo.

To compliment the gown you could go with the edgy fanned updo look (as shown on the model) or you could also go with a ballerina type of bun or a nape knot.

Prom 2009 Hair: Simply Elegant

Prom 2009 Hair: Simply Elegant

Introduction

Style #3673 Alfred Angelo Prom Collection

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Prom Season 2009 offers an array of absolutely gorgeous Prom gowns in every style, color and fashion.

For 2009, as we have done in the past, HairBoutique.com is selecting various prom gowns from the top manufacturers with matching hairstyles and providing the details on how to match a Prom hairstyle to the gown.

The gown in this article is Style#3673 from the Alfred Angelo Prom 2009 collection and truly matches the article's description of Simply Elegant.

Keeping with the hottest fashion trends from the world's famous catwalks, this gorgeous spaghetti strapped gown comes in a scrumptious shade of red and is encrusted with spectacular crystal beading (see photo to the side of the front of the gown).

Style #3673 Alfred Angelo Prom Collection

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The gown has a sensuous front slit that forms a triangular peek-a-boo opening from the knees to the toes.

The front split is decorated with a saucy ruffle, also keeping with current fashion trends for ruffled fashion designs. (Where To Buy: Alfred Angelo Store Locator).

This breathtakingly beautiful dress would be very flattering for someone who is taller, wants to enhance their chest area or wants to show off a beautiful back, shoulders or legs. This dress will also help to accentuate a tiny waist.

It would also work well for someone that has an athletic build since it would look smashing against well developed upper body curves.

Style #3673 Alfred Angelo Prom Collection

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Because the dress has beautiful crystal beading and delicate front and back spaghetti straps, an ideal hairstyle would be one that is pulled back off the face and elegantly pinned up.

The slightly fanned updo hairstyle that the model is wearing is very elegant, yet simple to do. Even better, it shows off the front and back of the dress to absolute perfection.

The updo hairstyle also allows for the addition of a gorgeous choker style necklace, matching crystal looped or chandelier earrings and delicate bracelet.

Strappy high heeled sandals add a wonderful finish for the lower slit area of the dress. Add one or two playful toe rings to be a little naughty underneath your elegant style.