Hair Tips: Common Short Hair Styling Mistakes

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Don’t make yourself look old and dated by styling your short hair wrong.

Your hairstylist can give you the trendy hair cut that you’ve always wanted, but it is up to you to learn how they style it.

Learn from your stylist, watch them, ask questions, read my blog 😉 and put those styling tricks into practice.

1) I love Volume
Use a mousse on your crown, because after all, the higher the hair the closer to God. No but for real, volume makes your face look thinner and is pleasing to the eye.

2) Shiny Healthy Hair
When your hair is short it is imperative that it be healthy [or appear healthy] There is nothing worse to look at than a dry, dull, short, frizzy ball of hair. This is one of the main reasons I colored my hair from blonde to brown. Changing the color of your hair isn’t the only way to add shine. Another way to achieve optimum shine is to use a moisturizing serum before and after you blow dry. This will coat the cuticle letting the light reflect off of your hair.

3) Section Your Hair
With short hair you only have so much room to go lax on your styling. When you section your hair it makes you hair more manageable. Start in the back at the bottom and work your way up.

4) Handling Your Brush
Here is the kicker… You want volume on your crown BUT NOT ON THE PERIMETER OF YOUR HAIR. If you see in the above picture on the left you will see where the sides are very rounded under. This dates you! Direct your nozzle straight down and do not turn your brush as you are blow drying. Get the sides as straight as possible.

For goodness sake do not blow dry your bangs full of volume and straight forward. If you are going to blow dry them forward make sure that you don’t put volume in them. You can do this by using your round brush to get the kinks out and hold your nozzle straight down. I start by blow drying mine straight forward and while they are still warm manipulate them and push them to the side. Then I round brush them going backwards to get the extra lift to the side.

5) Touch Up The Edges
I section off the top section of my hair and flat iron the perimeter to make this haircut look trendy.

6) Finish Off With a Spray Wax, Shine Spray & Hairspray
I love spray wax vs a pomade. It is so workable and weightless. It gives your hair a piece-y look.
The shine spray will close your cuticle and protect against humidity while leaving your hair shiny and youthful.
You can never have enough hairspray. Hold your bangs back, spray some hair spray, and manipulate them before the hairspray dries.

 

 

My Work: Short Wavy Ombre Hair

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My client brought in this picture and I was excited for some fun effortless hair!

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  1. She started off with a shoulder length cut and level 5 all over.
  2. I began by cutting her hair into this short stacked bob.
  3. I brought her to the bowl while she was still wet and used a 100vol developer mixed with blondor.
  4. I first picked up little pinky sized sections and did balayage piece by piece.
  5. Once that got to processing I worked my way from her ends up to the mid shaft to get the overall lightness.
  6. To style her hair I took her directly from the bowl to the chair. I didn’t brush out her hair.
  7. I had her turn her head upside down while I towel blotted her hair to start establishing her curl pattern.
  8. Next I applied Aquage Curl Cream, Aquage Sea Salt Spray, and Moroccan Oil Mousse and did a little bit more towel blotting.
  9. I placed her under the dryer (or upside down using your diffuser at home) and let her dry
  10. Then I used a 1″ Hot Tools curling iron and only curled her roots, leaving out her ends, to get the more effortless look.

Short Effortless Hair