Doing it Up, Style!

This weekend was full of weddings for me!  Which is always FUN!  My husband's cousin got hitched so, we attended that wedding. In addition to doing hair for a wedding at the salon...

Weddings are our time as adults to get all prettied up go out with our special someone.  But, always remember if you are not the Bride don't ever try to out do her and defiantly don't duplicate her hairstyle.  I know even as a brides maid you want to look gorgeous.  Take a step back because truly no one is really looking at you.  All eyes are on her.  She has spent months or sometimes years anticipating the way she will look, extra time and money practicing it.  Let her shine.

Therefore, lets learn some DIY wedding/party hair!  This is where that teasing blog I did will come into handy and also products I always tell you about that are so important.

Check out this link... martha stewart weddings  this is a  really good resource.  There is step by step and pictures.  Also some beauty tip too... never can get too many of them!

 If your hair is shorter and you are unable to achieve these looks at home.  Get a good accessory!  like a head band or broach and pin it into the side of your hair.

Teasing {101}

Who does not like great volume?  When you leave the salon you feel so peaked up but for some reason you have trouble recreating the look at home.  Well besides all the great product that we use learning how to tease  will help you recreate salon style at home. Teasing back combing and ratting (terrible word) are all the same.  This is a way to build a foundation to any hairstyle.   Your stylist will tease your hair after it is completely dry to give it that massive volume that we love.

This visual may help.

1. You will want to take a rat tail comb and section off zone #1. Pin it up and out of the way.

2. Then you need to take about 1 in. sections of zone 2 and from the left temple all the way around to the right temple. Be sure to spray each teased section with hair spray.

3. Comb hair back about one inch from the scalp to the scalp each section about 10 times.

{Do not be worried about what this looks like because it will not look pretty yet.}

4.  You will then un-clip zone 1  and smooth hair gently over the teased hair with a brush and into place zone one will cover the messy teasing. 

This will help to give you awesome volume for dressy, regular or just pulling your hair into a pony tail days. 

Tah-dah!!!! Teased Hair...