Hair

Faux Hawk Hair Look (Long or short hair)

Christina

Ling from MoonbeamStarlight show us how to do a faux hawk look eas­ily with tons of hair grips and hair spray. Did you try a look like this? Upload photos and share your look with us on Shimmer Network.

Hair Dye Happenings

Carrie

Have you ever tried to dye your hair from a box and have the color turn out dif­fer­ent from what you expected? Mona on the Make Me Blusshh blog recently tried boxed dye by Garnier for the first time. Like most peo­ple, Mona dis­cov­ered that the color she ended up with was not the color that was on the box but, luck­ily, she liked what she got!

What are some good brands of hair dye that you use? Let us know so we can put it here on MyShimmer! Also let us know if you’ve ever had a hair dye hor­ror story– for exam­ple, if you tried to dye your hair red and it turned out orange. Our job is to help you find the best beauty prod­ucts but we can’t do it without you!

Misikko Hair Tools

Christina

Remember we posted about a sale on Misikko a while ago? Either way, today I’m going to link you to Mona’s review on it. She has tried it for the past few weeks and have find it very effec­tive. If you are some­body that gets sold on pack­ag­ing, you have to see these pic­tures. Or, just order one and save the sur­prises for real!

What's your favorite flat iron? Discuss and share your two cents.

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Going Big on Hair at the Oscars

Christina

Naturally every “expert” out there has man­aged to find a way to inter­ject their opin­ion regard­ing the stars walk­ing the red car­pet at the Oscars.  And, while the fol­low­ing opin­ions are by no means from an expert, some­times I don’t think an expert is actu­ally required to make a deci­sion on what does and does not look appealing.

With that, the un-official, un-expert but very opin­ion­ated list of stars with good hair that were spot­ted on the red carpet.

What will it be the low-slung bun or the messy up-do?  Long lean and straight or big waves of curl, which will it be?  You decide:

Maybe I’m par­tial but after see­ing Kathy Ireland in per­son, hear­ing her speak and then admir­ing her beauty here, I imply think this is the best of the best of the best at the 2010 Oscars where hair is con­cerned.

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Ceramic vs Tourmaline vs Titanium Flat Irons

Emily

If you’re like most women, you prob­a­bly wish for hair that is the oppo­site of what you were born with. In my case, I was born with nat­u­rally wavy hair and since I bought my first straight­en­ing iron in the 1990s, it has become my best friend; but with all the dif­fer­ent kinds of irons on the mar­ket, how do you pick just one?

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Mini Review&Vlog (ilyjessicaomg)

Guest

I was given two hair prod­ucts. Frizz Ease Step 5 Finishing Creme and Keratin Complex Infusion by the lovely team at http://myshimmer.com/

Have your say at Stylist Choice Awards 2010

Christina

Have you ever wished you can tell every­one who ALWAYS have bad hair day they should try the sham­poos you use with­out being rude? Now, thanks to the Behindthechair.com Stylist Choice Awards, your wish can come true.

The hottest hair prod­ucts party is mov­ing to Chicago

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary for the Behindthechair.com Stylist Choice Awards, which will be held on Mar. 28 at the Grand Ballroom at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. One par­tic­u­lar aspect of these awards is that the clien­tele, namely you and me, get to choose the win­ners of the var­i­ous awards, includ­ing Favorite Shampoo, Favorite Conditioner, and Favorite Product You Can’t Live Without. As an incen­tive for vot­ing, vis­i­tors to the online bal­lot will get a $10 gift cer­tifi­cate to Behindthechair.com’s online store. So what are you wait­ing for? Log on to Behind the Chair.com and vote!  This is  a great show for hair products.

Hall of Fame: Redken, from SCA 2009Tickets for the event are on sale now for $75 for VIP tick­ets and $25 for the awards show and after party. Although this year’s pre­sen­ters are still being con­firmed, past celebrity pre­sen­ters include Robert Cromeans from John Paul Mitchell Systems Global Artistic Director, Tabatha Coffey from Bravo’s “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” and Nick Arrojo from TLC’s “What Not To Wear”.

It’s not too late to enter NAHA 2010

Are you a hair styl­ist? And an awe­some one? Check out North American Hairstyling Awards 2010. The NAHA 2010 are judged by a select group of internationally-renowned styl­ists, indus­try icons, and beauty edi­tors.    The North American Hairstyling Awards or NAHA 2010 will be held in Las Vegas and is “the OSCARS of hair­styl­ists and best hair awards”.    We were there last year when Faatemah Ampey, the win­ner of last years NAHA, intro­duced her show­case hair­styles.  Check out NAHA 2009.

Individual styl­ists and makeup artists have until Feb. 8 to enter the 2010 North American Hairstyling Awards; cat­e­gories include Hair Color, Avant Garde, and the Coveted Hairstylist of the Year award. Interested par­tic­i­pants can log on to the awards’ web­site at NAHA for more information.

Last year, Faatemah Ampey, was the win­ner of last years NAHA, check out NAHA 2009.

The 2010 North American Hairstyling Awards, which are pro­duced by the Professional Beauty Association, will be held on Jul. 18 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sponsors include Rusk, Wella, and J.C. Penney Salons.


Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba with Red Carpet Celebrity Hair Style for New Years Eve 2010

Carrie

What do Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl and Jessica Alba have in com­mon?  They all have worn this styl­ish updo with soft roman­tic curls for an ele­gant look on the runway.

This look is per­fect for New Years Eve party, a night at the Opera, any for­mal event or a wedding.

Katherine wears wears this updo to the side with part of her hair swept back and pinned.  It works well for an ele­gant evening out, and it’s best suited to longer face shapes.

Taylor Swift wears this celebrity hair style updo with gor­geous color and with soft roman­tic curls.  This celebrity hair updo is per­fect for a wed­ding or a spe­cial dinner.

Jessica Alba loves this ele­gant hair­style updo so much that she has worn it sev­eral times to red car­pet Hollywood events.  She wears this hair­style well allow­ing her to show off her beau­ti­ful drop ear­rings.  This celebrity hair­style can be done with a few bobby pins and flat iron to curl your hair.

We caught up Christmas week with Richelle De Veras who cre­ates this look for many of her clients.  Richelle is a hair­styl­ist from one of San Francisco’s lead­ing hair salons, Alcheme Salon .   Having been a model since the age of 13, she is one of Alcheme’s lead­ing hair­styl­ist work­ing in San Francisco for over 10 years and a makeup guru as well.   She spends her free time cre­at­ing DIY clas­sic hair­styles that women can recre­ate by them­selves at home with­out a beauty degree.   Each movie star has styl­ists but some of the celebrity hair­styles are either too dif­fi­cult to repli­cate or just not prac­ti­cal on many women’s hairs.  In this video below, Celebrity Hairstyles for New Years Eve 2010-Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl (Part I), she demon­strate a step-by-step ele­gant celebrity hair­style and how to recre­ate this hair­style at home.

 

This is Part 2 of the hair video:

Happy New Year and hope this style helps with your get­ting ready for the big night routine!

Susan Boyle’s Hairstyle Tutorial

Christina
SUSAN BOYLE - I DREAMED A DREAM

SUSAN BOYLE — I DREAMED A DREAM

Today, Susan Boyle’s album “I Dreamed a Dream” is finally released. This album is the most pre-ordered album world­wide of all time. You may not have a beau­ti­ful voice like she does, but per­haps it shall inspire you to chase your dreams.

We love her air of ele­gance and astute­ness por­trayed on her album arts. And since it has been a while we do any tuto­ri­als on short hair, we chose two tuto­ri­als on how to curl short hair.

 

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Snow White Look for Best Halloween Makeup

Carrie

We found sev­eral looks for the Snow White makeup looks for Halloween.    Thanks to these video stars for show­ing us one of the best looks for Halloween.

The first one is from a while ago, xSpark­age did a series of videos of makeup for Disney char­ac­ters.  Snow White was one of her more pop­u­lar looks.

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