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Style & Texture
Romantic Wedding Hairstyle Tutorial For Long Hair
Many brides-to-be want a look that can easily be transitioned from a more formal style for the ceremony to a more playful style that will stand up to dancing the night away with her other half. Gen...

Style & Texture
Crossover Loop Ponytail | Sam Villa 5 Minute Hairstyles
The Ponytail: Time Saving, Sophisticated Versatile!
Without fail, women can turn to the trusted ponytail for any occasion. The ponytail is a hairsyle that can be worn casual or dressed up for a spe...
Style & Texture
How To Blow Dry Short Hair for a Textured Finish
Is there anything sexier than short hair that looks lived-in and full of texture? Thanks to the natural texture movement that we're seeing in hair right now, it's made styling shorter hairstyles ef...

Braids Ponytails & Updos
How to Fix a Bad Hair Day - 5 Ways
Bad hair days are something that we all dread! They seem to hit at the worst time possible like before work, an interview or even a date! We can do everything in our power to prevent them but somet...
Style & Texture
Are You Applying Hair Products The Wrong Way?
Product is not an option, it is a necessity!
We have repeated this over and over and you're getting it now, right? With so many products out there, it's the misapplication of a product that pre...

Blow Dry Techniques
3 Ways To Blow Dry Hair To Achieve Various Degrees of Volume
The foundations we learned in school included the principles of setting the hair with rollers. Reach back, do you remember what you were taught about blow drying hair with a round brush?
Off Ba...
Style & Texture
Ponytail Faux Hawk Tutorial
Cindy Duplantis's passion for the hairdressing industry has taken her all over the world as a Redken Artist and Educator sharing how to create easy, relatable, and strait forward techniques for hai...

Client Consultation
Adding Volume to the Crown to Create Balance in a Hairstyle
What is the most frequent statement we hear from our clients? I want volume in the crown! So how do we go about establishing just how much volume to create for them? Too little volume and the p...

Style & Texture
How To Make Your Own Wool Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks bring back the nostalgia for me of beauty school in the 90's in Seattle. They were a staple style for the music movement at that time and place. It was a time when in the words of Nirvan...