The Big Tease

Here are a few pictures of me dressed up for Halloween. I'm Betty Draper from the hit show Mad Men. This classic 1960's style requires lots and lots of backcombing along with a ton of hairspray.








I parted off the top section and curled it all towards the back. Then I parted the back down the middle and curled the 1" sections forward towards my face.
Once it was cool I went to town with my comb. I teased the crap out of me entire head. Then, using just the edge of my comb and my mason pearson brush I smoothed it over and into the shape I wanted.

Crimpin Some Hair!

This past Friday night we did a show at Suite 200, a club here in Denver. It was a white party.

This is my model before we started (I didn't do the make-up)

After I crimped her hair-yes crimped!

Me and my model-she is in heels and I'm in flats :)

Charlie with the 2 of models he styled

Charlie with another model and yes that is all her hair!

Hanging out after having some fun

Why curly girls should give up the towel

The other day I was reading my local message board on The Nest and came across a topic on curly hair. Thinking I might be able to give some advice I opened the post. I did have a few things to offer, but learned something in the process. Curly haired girls shouldn't use a regular terrycloth towel to dry their hair because it causes the frizz. So what should they use instead? A T-shirt! Who knew? Being the hair girl that I am I took to the interwebz and found a few things I wanted to share, like this Plop method of drying I found on naturallycurly.com. You can use either a T-shirt or a microfiber towel. Apply your product first then follow the instructions below.

You leave it up like this for 15-30 min. You might need to add a little more product after you take it down. Then you can finish by diffusing or letting air dry.
So my curly haired friends try it out and let me know.

Blow-drying

The tools needed for a good blow-dry

1.Products:

-Kevin Murphy Staying Alive Leave in conditioner

-Kevin Murphy Anti Gravity Volumiser

2. Good Blow-dryer like the Chi Rocket

You need heat and tension for a smooth blowdry.

Read my post on Blowdryers for some more good ones.

3. Brush; mine is an Aveda ceramic brush. I like ceramic brushes because they heat up and that helps smooth the hair

4. Something to clip up sections of the hair.

I section my hair into 2 sections front and back and I work from bottom to top. If you do it this way, you don't have to clip up what you've already done.

The finer the hair the thicker the sections can be. If you have really coarse hair you're going to want to take pretty thin sections so you can get all they way to the root.

I do the front first because it's most important (also, if you get tired on the back it's doesn't matter as much).

If you want more volume at the top then have the hair cool

down around rollers.

I love velcro rollers (avaliable at target or any beauty supply) because you don't need clips to hold them in and they don't leave marks in the hair.

There you go a quick smooth blowdry.

Curling with a Flat Iron

You need a smaller flat iron with rounded edges on the plates. I don't usually curl hair with mine because I just use a curling iron. But if all you have is your flat iron you can still curl your hair. I snagged this from youtube because it's a really good demo on how to do it.