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Thinking about updating your hair style? It can be a difficult decision to make, especially if you have been riding your current do for a few years. We all have huge debates with ourselves about what hair style to go with when we finally decide to make a change; should I go shorter, longer, new color, highlights, who should do the cut, aaahhhhh! It can feel overwhelming at times because so much of the way we feel about how we look is bound up in our hair style â?? and it makes sense after all your hair frames your face and gives endless hints to others about who you are.

Changing Your Hair Style

Making the big decision takes guts, you have to commit to what you fear may be a terrible mistake and that you will come out the other end â?? Ugly!

The first thing to remember is that no matter what hairstyle you choose you will look different, not better or worse, and making changes is fun. This is an area to challenge yourself in and potentially a personal growth experience for you.

When to Change Hairstyles

 

It has been more than 3 years since you really changed the style of your hair

You feel like your life is stagnant whether it is your career, family, relationship, or money. Making one change often leads to others â?? start with your hair and see what happens.

Your fashion and your hairstyle donâ??t seem to match

If any one of these criteria match then itâ??s time to change that hair!

Now you are ready to decide on a new hair style, I admit itâ??s tricky and you can never be sure. My best advice for this phase of change is take no more than 1 week to decide, preferably no more than 48 hours. Chances are if you are thinking about changing your hair you have been thinking about it for a while. Sit down with a friend, a hair style magazine, your stylist or all three and hash out some ideas; then youâ??ve got to just do it.

 

The Best Hair Styles for Your Face Shape

As fun as it is to play around with different hairstyles, itâ??s important to remember that not every hairstyle that looks great on a friend, co-worker or celebrity will look good on you. The shape of your face can greatly determine whether a hairstyle works for you or works against you.

Determine your face shape?First of all, you need to figure out exactly what your face shape is. There are several ways to come up with this answer, some more scientific than others. Chose the method that appeals most to you:

The Tracing Method: Hold your face up to a mirror and trace around your face onto the mirror with lipstick. Pull your head away, and voila, Your face shape. This method tends to be clumsy and a little inaccurate.

The Towel Method: Cover your face with a thin towel or piece of cloth. This creates a simple blank outline to be viewed without your facial features to distract. Then ask a friend to tell you what shape your face is. This method allows for some interpretation but can still be pretty effective. If your friendâ??s not up to figuring it out alone, have her/him take a picture of you and then the two of you can discuss it together.

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Many women are obsessed with the concept of beauty. As a society we build up the many aspects of physical, outer beauty. Though women have typically been the ones focused on how to look their best men are starting to be more open about their need to look their best.
If you walk up to anyone on the street and ask them whether we emphasize outer appearance more than we should you will probably get a high percentage of “yes” answers but those same people will do everything they can to look their best. This is why the beauty industry is so strong.
So what are the key areas that we should focus on when we want to become beautiful or maintain our beauty? Here is a 6 broad areas that will cover your beauty needs:
1. Hair
2. Skin
3. Fitness
4. Cosmetics
5. Nail Care
6. Fashion
Hair:
A good haircut and styling can make your whole look. Our society is becoming much more multicultural in the US so what defines beautiful hair is changing. Companies are now producing hair care products that are tailored to every type of hair. Whether you have curly, frizzy, straight, oily or dry hair there is a hair care product line at the drug store for you. There are hair coloring treatments, hair straightening treatments and perm products that are now available to take home. Even the men have coloring treatments to hide their gray hairs.
Men tend to have it easy when it comes to hair since most of them have shorter haircuts that don’t require too much maintenance but there is a huge demand for products related to hair loss. Even though hair loss effects women, genetically men deal with this challenge the most.
Skin:
Is beauty synonymous with youth? If you look at the area of skin care you would definitely think so. As we age we lose moisture in our skin. We no longer have that shiny new penny look that the typical 5 year old has. The area of skin care is benefiting from many advances in science. The beauty of the skin is being restored by products that slough off the old skin cells and apply nanotechnology to penetrate the skin.
Fitness:
True beauty does not mean you have to be razor thin but being fit and active is the cornerstone to a healthy body. Though dieting and weight loss get a lot of attention getting into a regular exercise routine will help you define the look of your body. Depending on your age and health you can be as aggressive as you want in defining your exercise and fitness goals.
Cosmetics:
Natural beauty is not as appreciated as it used to be. Makeup can be used to enhance a person’s appearance. As we age we definitely find more needs for that concealer that we hardly used in our youth. Cosmetics can be a great tool to highlight what we all see the most, our face. Cosmetics can be very expensive and in the wrong hands can actually detract from your appearance so use them wisely.
Nail Care:
Within the last 10 years we have definitely seen a jump in the amount of nail salons. They can’t be missed at your local mall. Manicures and pedicures definitely can make you feel beautiful and pampered. The hands in particular stand out in your everyday interaction with others. Are you more apt to remember someone with a great manicure or not?
Fashion:
Lastly is our obsession with the latest clothing fashions. Is it too late to wear white? Bootcut or straightcut jeans? Every morning we have to decide how and whether what we wear will affect how others think we look. We get our cues from the latest magazines and what people are wearing on our favorite shows. For the creative among us we can define our own styles.
So if you want to look and feel beautiful be sure to focus on understanding these 6 keys to beauty and how they relate to you. Some of us may need more help in one area than another depending on what nature gave us but we should always make the most out of the beauty assets we have been given.

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Have you ever noticed that wet hair is heavier than dry hair? Why is that? The outer layer of your hair, the cuticle, is made up of tightly over lapping scales for strength and resistance. And then there is the sebum, or the natural oil, that coats the scaly cuticle. Despite these 2 defenses, your hair still absorbs water. In fact healthy hair can absorb more than 30% of its own weight of water. Damaged hair is even more permeable – it can absorb up to 45% of its own weight of water. When the hair shaft is fully saturated, its diameter increases by 15 – 20% and it stretches or gets longer.Effects of Water

What effect does water then have on hair? When the hair shaft is saturated, the cuticle’s structure of the tightly over lapping scales is altered significantly. This causes the hair shaft to be fragile and more easily damaged. Add sunshine to this mix and you have very vulnerable hair. With the scales of the cuticle not offering enough protection, the sunshine can more easily damage the melanain – the part of your hair that is reponsible for color. Therefore, swimming on a hot summer day is refreshing for you, but it is very hard on your hair.Hair Absorbs Water

You don’t need to actually make your hair wet (by swimming, showering, or washing it) for it to absorb moisture; your hair can take in moisture from the air. People actually use human hair to make hygrometers (instruments used to measure humidity). Your hair changes in a very predictable way when you expose it to changes in humidity. It is very simple – hair stretches when it’s wet and contracts (shortens) when it’s dry. This happens at an exact rate and is proportional to the amount of water in the air. This is what makes your hair so predictably difficult to manage when the weather is humid.

Water is necessary to keep your hair clean, but it is hard on your hair by altering its structure and making it much more susceptible to damage.

Stunning huh? Wow, what I wouldn’t give to be stunning and catch the eyes of some downright gorgeous guy! Oh yeah – that would be a dream come true! Just think – me with a guy on my arm and having a great time out at the clubs and dances and – but wait – I am getting way ahead of myself. Who am I kidding? My hair looks like the cat slept in it and I can’t seem to do much of anything with it.

Wow, that sounds really depressing girl! Why don’t you give clip-in hair extensions a try? I mean they’re really easy and you could really make a difference in your hairstyle in minutes. And I MEAN minutes – like would you believe 5 minutes? I am super serious chickie! Come on let’s go take a run into the city and see what we can find!

Nothing works better for an instant fix than clip-in hair extensions. Add them in and take off, it’s just that easy. Of course if you want to really work on it and make your hair a “statement” then you might take a little longer. Are you into rainbow colors? And we mean shocking pinks etc! No problem. You can make a really wild statement by adding the whole darn rainbow to your hair. That will definitely get you some attention. But, it you want something a little less lively, then stick with the usual colors and usual kinds of styles. That’s not to say they need to be boring or anything, but stick to something that might not get you so much stopped traffic!

Clip-in hair extensions are usually, more the most part anyhow, made of 100 percent real human hair. That is because they work better to handle and style than some of the other extensions on the market – for instance 100 percent synthetic hair (be careful of this in terms of heating it too much or you’re in for a bit of a surprise) or the combination extensions of human and synthetic hair. Each of these extensions has their own benefits, but be sure to ask what those are before you buy them. Better to be safe than sorry you know. Besides if you are going to be laying out bucks for them, you’re going to want something that works.

Styling clip-in hair extensions isn’t hard to do either. Just treat them like you would your own hair (which is carefully) and go about your business. The differences in the amount of time to put these hair extensions in versus getting them bonded in makes this a viable option for many.

The main reason for having human hair is to protect the body: maintain its temperature, protect the eyes and more.
Over the years people understood that hair is not just for protection but can also affect the appearance of the human being. They started to trim, cut, design, and style the hair on their heads, and took off the extra hair from unwanted parts.
To make the hair even more pretty, people started to use chemicals and also bleach to make it look different.
In our days, people always want what they don’t have so: people with curly hair make it straight, people with straight hair perm it, people with dark hair bleach it, people with light hair color it, when they have it long they make it short, when they have it short they want it long… etc, etc, etc. We just don’t know what we want!
During all the changes we damage our hair!
Not only the weather makes our hair lose it’s vivid but we make it worse. When we use these chemicals and hairstyle products and facilities we make our hair burn, split, dry, and brittle.
So what can we do – should we not want to look our best?!
We should use mostly natural products and look carefully at the product information before we use it.
If we did use something that damaged our hair we can fix it with natural solutions; if we used chemicals that damaged our hair, we don’t want to use chemicals to try and fix it, it might make it worse!
So here are some natural treatments for damaged hair that we can make at home:
1. Cover the hair with mayonnaise and leave overnight, then wash in the morning.
2. Take an egg and separate the whites and the yolk. Whip out the whites, then blend the yolk with water in a blender and add the whipped whites. Apply on wet hair, massage and wash with cold water.
3. Mix some olive oil, honey, egg yolk and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Apply on hair and massage; wait 15 minutes and rinse with cold water.
4. Mash avocado, add some olive oil and smear on your hair. Wait for a few minutes and rinse.
5. Mix and warm: 1 teaspoon of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of sesame oil, and 1 teaspoon of coconut oil. Apply on the hair, wrap with a warm towel for half an hour and rinse with shampoo and water.
As you can see there are a lot of natural homemade ways you can treat your damaged hair with. So remember: hair is not just for protection it is for appearance as well and when your hair is not vivid and healthy, you can’t look your best.

True harmony is human hair extensions that perfectly match your own hair. True beauty is how gorgeous you will be when you are done having those extensions added to your hair. Really, there is no doubt about it. Human hair extensions are considered to be “the” best method of extending what you’ve got. Why? They’re the best method to extend what you have simply because they ARE human hair. It just handles and bonds better than other methods – weaving, clip-ins, synthetic etc.

Choose the method you want when you have your extensions added in. It could be cold fusion or hot fusion, link and lock fusion or fusion loops. Without getting way too technical, all these methods are fairly easy for you to even do at home. However, the first time you might want to think seriously about getting it done by a professional at a salon. It might look easy on the site you visit and the video you see, but trying it for the first time yourself is guaranteed to give you the colly wobbles.

All these fusion methods do have varying lengths of time that they last. The cold fusion seems to have the longest at six months, the hot fusion about four. But what you really want first and foremost is the “LOOK” that you want. Oh and of course you will want quality. That is why many hairdressers will recommend you go with human hair extensions.

Worried about color matching? No need to be. You can get your lovely new human hair extensions in just about any color you want. Just remember though, that no matter how well they bond into your hair and make you look chic, they are not permanent. You will have to have them taken out at some point and then make the decision to do them again, try something else, or go back to your own hair style. Tough decision to make that one especially once you have seen the results of having human hair extensions added into your hair.

By the way, having human hair extensions put into your hair can be a bit pricey – but – worth it. Shop around to salons and see what kind of services they provide for you. Then, once you have found a salon you think will give you the look you are after, give them a try. The hair extensions will give new life to your hair by adding volume, color, life, and texture, not to mention length. It seems to be the in thing to do, add lots of length to your hair for that really dramatic look.