Bridal Hair Styles

A wedding is a big event in a girl's life and she needs to be perfect for her special day. From venue, menu, to guest list and gowns down to the hairdo and makeup, many decisions have to be made. Bridal hair designs depend on the length and texture of the hair. Usually hairstylists have exquisite opinions and ideas of how to do a bride's hair. However sometimes people prefer to do the hair and makeup themselves of get them done by friends. In such cases it is best that women know what options they have that they can choose from.

Long and sleek hair is usually the easiest type of hair to manage as you can set it any way you like. Some people put rollers on their hair to give them slight twirls and leave one or two strands straight to dangle from the face. This look is ideal with long veils. The hairstyle of a bride should be set according to the dress and the veil. A bride can do her hair in a number of different styles.

Avoiding Barbie Hair - Getting the Right Hair Extensions

TV personality and writer Judi James needed to promote her latest book Supermodel, so she sought to make herself look as glamorous as possible. Not wanting to shell out tons of cash, she decided that investing in hair extensions to add volume to her short, dyed blonde crop would be the smartest idea.

"My hair is poker-straight and there was nothing to tie it onto, so having extensions was like tying it onto something shiny and straight," James recalls. "Four days later I was in the checkout at the supermarket, and when I ran my hand through my hair most of it came out in my fingers. The girl behind the counter nearly fainted. What made it worse for her is that I just shoved it into my shopping bag."

Not one to give up easily, James opted for an unusual solution: she went back to the hair salon and had the extensions put back on with Superglue.

"After that they stayed in, and grew along with my own hair," James says. "I can only compare it with having false nails with real nails growing underneath then, although I looked like I had low-slung lice. In the end they used some sort of glue dissolver to finally take them out, which didn't do my real hair any favors."

It wasn't that long ago that women yearning for longer hair would have to either wait patiently for their hair to grow, or invest in a wig or a weave. Not anymore. These days, you can have longer, more luxuriant hair at the click of your fingers - literally - all thanks to hair extensions.

But if you're worried that extensions will make your either penniless, completely bald or with an incredibly damaged scalp, take heart. If you do a bit of research and look into the type of extensions that are right for you, chances are you'll end up with natural-looking head of hair you really love, instead of having a shiny, Barbie-type wig stuck to your head - or having your hair fall out in clumps.

Types of Hair Extensions

Hundreds of different hair extension methods are on the market today, but in general they all fall into one of these three main categories:

Strand-by-strand. The most labor-intensive method of all, involving small clumps of hair extensions to be meticulously fastened to your own hair. This is done either by weaving, gluing, fusing, applying using specific waxes or polymers or clamping with metal tubes. The method you choose will depend not only on your hair type, but the effect you want to achieve and your budget. All except clamping involve having chemicals put on your hair.

Winning By a Hair - A History Of Hair Fashion

Because of the frequent changes of hairstyles it's difficult, to say the least, to stay up on what's in and what's out. Additionally, when it comes to celebrity fashion, lets face it; they change there hairstyles the way normal people change their shoes. Using them as examples for what kind of hairstyle to follow is like a ferret on crack chasing it's tail.

Some people may believe that it is only in recent times that society in general started to put a lot of their focus on differing hair styles. However, the truth is hair fashion has been an area that has been focused on for the past 3000 years.

Hair styles have changed so much over the years either for better or for worse. Hair fashion also depended greatly on what part of the world you lived in. We will take a look at history as far as it related to hair fashion.

A look at history shows that in ancient Egypt, it was commonplace for both men and women to wear their hair cut short and closely cropped to their head.

Nevertheless, Egyptians would normally wear elaborate wigs during special ceremonies. In ancient Greece, women typically wore their hair quite long and pulled back, and quite often dyed it with red henna.

Women from ancient Rome used to follow Greek hair fashion very closely; one noteworthy difference is that the women of Rome were more likely to have their hair dyed blonde. The women of Rome also used curling irons and hair dressing become a very popular trade.