hair styles

Total Beauty: 10 Easy Updos

With a few (and only a few) key products and styling tools, you can quickly give yourself a salon-worthy 'do. And hey, if you hate it, try a different one -- at least you haven't blown 60 bucks and a hour of precious time on it.

Cutesy name: Beach Hippie
Time it took us: 2 minutes

Works on:
· Medium or long hair
· Unwashed, dry, slept-on hair

Stuff to have handy:
· Large bobby pins
· 1-inch curling iron
· Shine spray
· Light-hold hairspray

How to:
Step 1
Flip hair over and lightly spritz hairspray on underside. Flip upright and spray on the top. Finger-tousle as it dries.
Step 2
Gather your bang-hair area and bobby-pin it out of the way so you can style the rest of your hair first.
Step 3
Curl 1-inch sections (away from your face). Start wrapping your hair around the iron at ear level, not above. And leave your ends out of the curling iron.
Step 4
Unpin the bang section and curl as you did the rest of your hair.
Step 5
Insert spread fingers into hair at the nape of your neck. Shake your hair (but do not run fingers through) to make the curls messy.
Step 6
Now pin back a piece of hair on each side of your part. (Remember, messy = good.)
Secure them together with a bobby pin and mist with shine spray.

Cutesy name: Side-swept Bun
Time it took us: 5 minutes

Works on:
· Medium or long hair

Stuff to have handy:
· A hair stick, or bracket thingy like the one pictured
· Shine serum or spray
· Comb
· Hair elastic

How to:
Step 1
Make a deep side part with a comb. Apply a bit of shine serum all over and comb through to tame flyaways.
Step 2
Gather your hair into a low side pony behind the ear opposite your part. Secure with a hair elastic.
Step 3
Wrap the tail up toward your ear, then under the pony (into a bun), leaving the endsfree.
Step 4
Pierce the bun with your hair stick, making sure to thread one end of the stick through the elastic before letting it pop out the other side. This holds the bun in place.

Cutesy name: High-volume Pony
Time it took us: 5 minutes

Works on:
· Medium or long hair
· Dirty hair

Stuff to have handy:
· Headband
· Comb
· Hair elastic
· Clip (to hold hair out of the way)

How to:
Step 1
Divide hair from ear to ear over the top of your head. Clip that front section out of the way.
Step 2
At the crown of your head, take a two-inch section of the remaining hair and tease thearea near your scalp to create the bouffant behind the headband. Messy is fine; we're about to cover it up anyway.
Step 3
Un-clip the front section and smooth it back over the teased area, gathering all your hair into a low pony. Reserve a one-inch section of your longest hair and secure the rest with an elastic.
Step 4
Wrap the reserved hair around the hair elastic and secure underneath with a bobby pin.
Step 5
Slip on a headband.

Cutesy name: Mile-high Curls
Time it took us: 5 minutes

Works on:
· Any length -- super cute option for short hair
· Natural wave or curl
· Dirty hair -- day or two after shampooing

Stuff to have handy:
· Slim, jeweled headband
· Bobby pins
· 1/2-inch curling iron
· Shine spray




How to:
Step 1
Pump up any flattened or low-volume curls on top. To do this, wrap sections ofhair around the barrel of a curling iron, starting at the root. (No need to
get the ends or to use the clamp.)
Step 2
Loosely grab chunks of hair in back, then bobby pin and spray, tucking the ends under so you don't see straight pieces.
Step 3
Slip on a slim headband, but keep it close to your hairline. We have itabout an inch or so back.
Step 4
Top with shine spray. The overall effect should be touchable and fun, not
too perfect.

Cutesy name: Bun o' Curls
Time it took us: 2 minutes

Works on:
· Short or medium length hair
· Curly hair

Stuff to have handy:
· Bobby pins
· Hair elastic
· Fine-tooth comb
· Hair spray
· Shine serum

How to:
Step 1
Smooth shine serum over your top layer of hair.
Step 2
Secure tightly into a ponytail. Smooth any strays by lightly combing them
into place.
Step 3
Use bobby pins to anchor your curls to the sleek hair surrounding the elastic tocamouflage it.
Step 4
Give an overall shot of hairspray to finish.




Cutesy name: Pin-up Curves
Time it took us: 10 minutes

Works on:
· Curly or wavy hair in any length
· Straight-haired girls can pull it off too with five extra minutes of curling iron time

Stuff to have handy:
· 1-inch curling iron
· Bobby pins
· Hairspray
· Clip (to keep hair out of the way)