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Does your frizzy hair leave you envying women with sleek, straight hair? Well, forget $500 straightening treatments. Here’s how to style wavy and curly hair into beautiful, frizz-free ringlets in less than half an hour.

Steps:

1. Condition your hair, massaging your scalp to get rid of build-up and excess oil. Shampoo your hair every other day, or best; only two days in a week. (shampooing every day dries out your hair)Once a week is best if you can.
2. Comb hair in shower while conditioner is still in. Never towel dry hair. Instead, air dry or diffuse.
3. Pour a dollop of liquid straightening serum and a smaller dollop of glossing serum into your hand and mix them together.
4. Apply the straightening-glossing serum mixture to sections of your hair. Twist each section around your fingers, hold for a few seconds, then release. Do this all over your head.
5. Turn your head down. Dry your hair with a blow-dryer with a diffuser attachment until your hair is completely dry.
6. Spray hair lightly with an anti-frizz spray.
7. Or… You can be sure to condition your hair thoroughly in the shower, combing through it with you fingers (not a comb). When you get out of the shower, put some leave-in conditioner or curl cream in it, followed by gel (don’t worry, your hair will absorb a lot and prevent frizz–it won’t get crusty unless you overload on the gel). Let air dry.

Tips:

• Diffusers have prongs to lift the hair as it is dried. If you want volume at the roots, buy a diffuser with the longest prongs you can find. These are most easily found at salons or beauty supply stores.
• When blow-drying with a diffuser, gather large sections of hair into the cup of the diffuser and hold close to your head.
• For extra volume at the roots, move the blow-dryer in a small circular motion while hair is cupped in the diffuser at the scalp.
• Save money by using a straightening serum, which works wonderfully for blow-drying hair into ringlets or creating a straight style.
• If you want to do something different (and you can stand to part with your long hair) consider this style: have long bangs, but cut the rest of your hair really short (like only an inch or two long). The really short part is too short to curl, and you can straighten your bangs if you want. If your hair is more wavy than curly, your bangs might look fine as is, though. This haircut is also really easy to wash and takes no time at all to style.
• Only wash your hair once a day, every other day or every 2 days. That may sound gross to you, but as long as you take a shower and clean your body and put conditioner in it, it will look good and not be greasy.
• Some good products are Pantene Pro-V for curly hair, Sun Silk for curly hair, John Frieda frizz ease for curly hair and Garnier curl and shine. Herbal Essences also has a new line for curly hair that works wonders!
• Thick and wavy hair requires different care than straight. If you aren’t willing to work with it, consider cutting it shorter. Keep in mind that shorter hair won’t weigh itself down & may look “poofy” if cut too short.
• Don’t blow dry too closely to your head or frizz may occur!
• Try a method that NaturallyCurly.com calls “plopping.” Comb your hair in the shower, use your favorite product to scrunch your hair (make sure you REALLY scrunch all the way around). Lay a t-shirt flat on a chair, with the neck hole closest to you. Pile (or plop!) your hair on top of your head and lean upside down over the t-shirt. Fold the widest part of the t-shirt (not the neck) over your head/hair and secure it in place by tieing the sleaves together. Let your hair dry, or almost dry, plopped up on your head and your curls will be amazing!!

Warnings:

• Don’t brush your hair after it is dry, or you you will get really poofy bad hair that isn’t straight, curly or wavy!
• It is possible to burn yourself with a diffuser, so hold it an inch or two away from your scalp.
• Do not get the spray in your eyes!

How to Style Wavy and Curly Hair

• Diffusers
• Shampoo
• Conditioner
• Heat Protection Spray (not necessary, but it helps protect your hair from heat damage!)

How to Enhance the Beauty of Your Hair.

Hair is an important part of what makes our appearance and builds our personality. The hair is directly affected by stress, poor diet and genetic factors, which can encourage thinning and baldness with age in both men and women. Here are a few tips and suggestions on how to care for your care for your hair in order to obtain the hair beauty and texture you desire.What Is Your Hair Type?

There are four main types of hair and they are: dry, oily, normal and limp with a variety of texture that can either be frizzy and hard to manage or silky and luxurious depending on how you care for it. The care you apply should meet to requirements of your hair directly. For example if you have thin, limp hair that has been colored you will need moisturizing shampoo with a color protecting conditioner and a volume building mousse to apply directly on your hair before you blow dry it.
Hair Beauty Comes from Within

Remember that stress affects your hair directly. Not only that, but your hair growth, texture and appearance will be reflected by your diet and intake of proper vitamins and minerals. Stress and sudden grief as well as poor diet will reflect on your hair in approximately three months when you will experience sudden excessive hair loss and even balding.

While you cannot ensure that you will be stress free always, you need to maintain your hair beauty by eating right and if that too is not possible all the time you should take vitamins and supplements for your hair’s benefits. If you are pregnant and/or are going through a rough time take extra supplements for your hair and your hair beauty will survive such patches.

Finding the Right Hair Beauty Products

Your hair stylist is probably the best person to approach for advice on getting the right hair beauty products for you. Firstly, your hair stylist knows your hair’s requirements and secondly he or she may have just the hair beauty products you are looking. This is because if you want to achieve the salon look at home then you might as well use professional styling products as your hair stylist does.
Helpful Tips

Wash your hair three times a week; always use a conditioner and if you are too lazy to do that ensure that your shampoo includes one. Hair beauty and growth will depend directly on the care you take of your hair, the products you use and the diet and vitamins you take.

Haircut Styles presents Hair Conditioning Tips

Hair conditioning should be done according the texture of hair. While dry and frizzy hair requires more conditioning, straight and oily hair would hardly require any conditioning. Healthy hair is dependent on the diet, health, climatic conditions and genetic makeup of a person. For thousands of years, natural oils such as olive oil, jojoba oil, tea tree oil and coconut oil have been used to oil and condition hair.

Today there are many conditioners apart from the natural oils that are available in the market, that can be used to nourish and condition the hair. There are several types of hair conditioners available in the market such as pack conditioners, hold conditioners and leave in conditioners. They serve various purposes. Pack conditioners are heavy and thick and are able to glue the hair structure together.

Hold conditioners are used to hold the hair in the desired look and hairstyle. They are usually applied to the hair for along time. Leave in conditioners are thinner and contain different surfactants make the hair shinier. They are quite similar to hair gels. Hair conditioners are used for replacing the stripped out sebum from the hair. When hair conditioners are applied, one should wear a hat in the sun for the conditioner to work effectively.