Tips For Selecting A Style.
What Category?
What one person perceives as 'short' varies greatly with another
person. Our breakdown is as follows:
VERY SHORT: The weight line of the hair is at or above the ear
line.
SHORT: The cut line is between the ear and the jaw line.
MEDIUM: The weight line is between the jaw and the shoulder.
LONG: Below the shoulder.
FUNKY: All sizes, shapes and lengths, ranging from the chic to the
crazy.
If you think you would like a 'short' style', you should bracket
and also look at all of the 'very short' and 'medium' styles as the
differences are at times slight.
Ignore the age, race, size and hair color of the model. Most styles
will fit any age group and hair color is an easy adjustment. Don't
let these be a tool to narrow your list of potential styles or
cuts.
Face Matching:
The mathematical rules for selecting a style to match your face are
complicated. Some easy rules of thumb are these:
WEIGHT OR CUT LINE: At some point most cuts have a sharp line or
accent line. Be sure this line is at your best feature as the
viewers eye will naturally focus on that spot. Make doubly sure
that line or accent doesn't point to your worst feature. If your
nose is somewhat generous, you don't want people focused on
it.
LENGTH: Many women wear long hair because their significant other
demands it, or because the female is insecure and hides behind her
hair. Both of these reasons suck. You should wear the hair style
'best' suited to you, and as long as you are hiding behind your
hair, your confidence level can't increase and will therefor affect
your earnings and success in life.
Far too many women wear long hair far too late in life. It makes
them look older, not younger.
Most women finally hack their hair off the same day they file for
divorce. Interesting side note don't you think.
Long hair is fine and can even look beautiful, just make sure you
keep it long for the right reasons and that it makes you look
great.
COLOR and CURL: If you are a brunette and want to have platinum
hair, you might as well forget it. It most cases it can't be done,
and in the few cases where it can be bleached often enough over the
course of several days, your hair is shot and will soon be
gone.
Color should be compatible with your skin tone, and accent your
eyes. If there is a red tint to your skin, red hair will not be
flattering and does not work well with brown eyes either.
Stick within your race. Blonde hair on a black or asian woman looks
as dumb as corn rows on a pasty white girl. Celebrate your cultural
difference, its much sexier.
Surrender to the natural laws of chemistry and biology. Some hair
types just will not curl no matter how often it is permed and some
curl is likely to remain no matter how many relaxers are put on.
Live within these limits or you will cause yourself much
grief.
CELEBS, MODELS AND MAINTENANCE: ALL HAIR requires some degree of
maintenance and some require more than others. Make sure your hair
style fits your life style. A Meg Ryan cut only looks good on Meg
Ryan and even if your stylist has the talent to give you the same
cut, you are still not going to look like Meg Ryan, in fact, you
may look downright silly with the same cut. Be yourself, and
getting the cut that looks best on you, will make you MUCH more
attractive than some celeb knock off.
If you absolutely must have the celeb cut, here are a few things to
keep in mind:
1. Remember which movie. There are many Meg Ryan hair cuts over the
years and if you and your stylist are not on the same page it is
not going to be the most rewarding experience of your life.
2. What you saw Meg Ryan wearing in the movie is backed with an
army of the most talented stylists in the world that are touching
her hair up EVERY FEW MINUTES. Trust me, I have worked on these
sets. Unless you can command the same level of attention for your
hair, it is not going to work.
3. The same goes for hair styles on models. When you see them off
location you will hardly recognize them. Some are down right ugly
and plain. Added to the time and talent spent for a shoot, before
the picture made the cover it went to a touch-up artist who spent
about $10,000 getting that picture ready by removing every stray
hair and covering every skin blemish and wrinkle.
YOUR STYLIST: Last but most important, find a good stylist. If you
spend $9.95 on a cut you are likely to get your money's worth. Few
stylists are really good, so hunt them out. If you need some hints
about discovering a good stylist you may want to read, 'How To Find
A Good Stylist.'
Well, that should about do it. Armed with this knowledge you can
now go through the site with a much higher degree of success of
finding the new style for you.
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