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Big 80's Hair guide: "Dear, oh dear!" Was the phrase hovering on the lips of every gran in the 80's upon seeing the latest fashions being sported by her grand children. The hair styles in the 80's are one of the most memorble things about the decade, if only because of their size. If you want to add an 80's touch to your hair the first thing to do is triple the size of it, yes you read right triple the size. Now this may sound easy to anybody who has never had big hair before, you are extreamly mistaken there. Of course you have quite rightly observed that such hair destrying weather problems like rain, wind and freak hurricanes make your small style biger, but as with all hair styles they do the opisite of what you realy want. Thus big styles are 'deflated' by these problems or worse you start to look like a yeti! Amusing as it may be, it realy dosen't help you acheive that sophsticated stylish image you'd probably like, so this info guide is aimed at people who do not want to look like a yeti. Now don't get me wrong as a person who loves their giant 80's hair, I belive these styles are worth the extra effort, and can be relatively easy to mantain. So lets get on with the guide, firstly as somone who has had several large styles and now sports a fairly large mans style that goes with my 80's image, I know about big hair. I would say the most obvious thing is to get a good hair cut, talk to your hair dresser about what you realy want to have done since it is worth the time, also a picture is great to take as a guide for them. Remember a picture speaks a thousand words, effectively saving you the bother of having too. Another peice of advisce is to talk to the stylist about having some texture, I persanaly like to have loads of texture, but it's your call. Now that you have your hair cut how you want you have to keep it looking nice, of course as with any new style ask the hairdresser's advisce on what products to use since they'll know better than me having cut it. But a good rule to follow is if you're like me you'll have plenty of hair products lying around, now look at them and if you have any with such phrases as; natural hold, caring, gentle styling or plain usless on them, throw them away. Yes I said ditch them / fling them the the far side of the earth because anything that says that won't work, you'd probably have better results performing Voodo ceromonys on your hair brush than you will with those crapy products! I know you want to belive those claims, I know I would like to, but there are unfortunatly no wonder hair products that let your hair fly around 'naturaly' in the breeze then as if a mirical had happend drop back just where it should be. This isn't TV! It's not like everytime a refreshing gust of wind goes by the camera stops rolling and a $40 an hour stylist fixes it, then they can film again leaving you looking perfect for all of ten more minutes! Those telly people might be able to chase the bad guys through rain, mud and blizzards and emerge from it with imiculate hair, but here in the real world we have to survive the long hours of reality and still look good. So, do your self a favour get some good hair styling products. Besides who actuarly needs the inifective ones, you could just use less of the good ones for the same effect? Note: Helpfull products usualy have things like; mega hold, super hold and maximum control on writen on them. One way of getting some bounce in your hair is volumising shampoo, it's not great but it creates a noticeable difference that really helps with shorter men's styles, and can help with woman's hair as well. After the volumising shampoo while it's still damp rub in some gel, this is great for men and woman's styles since it helps control the hair and creates even bounce later. Now all you have to do is wait for it to dry, or use the hair dryer to bounce it up and it should be fine. This is about all I do with mine and most days it looks nice, and it's easy since it takes around 15 minutes every other day to do this. For longer styles use a volumising hair dryer attachment, they are wonderful at making hair big. Also heated hair brushes can help, a good hint is to dry the roots first. This causes the hair to get bigger at the top, solving the annoying big sides, flat top problem. |
