Tips For Selecting A Style.
What Category?
What one person perceives as 'short' varies greatly to 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 also look at the 'very short' and 'medium' styles as the differences are some times slight.
Ignore the age, race, size and hair colour of the model or picture you are looking at. Most styles will fit any age group and hair colour 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 as follows:
WEIGHT OR CUT LINE: At some point most cuts have a sharp line or an accent line. Be sure this line is at your best feature as the eye will naturally focus on that spot. Make doubly sure the line or accent doesn't point to your worst feature. For example, 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 she is insecure and hides behind her hair. Neither of these are good reasons. You should wear the hairstyle 'best' suited to you, and as long as you are hiding behind your hair, your confidence level will not increase and will therefore affect your life somewhat.
For many women wearing long hair late in life makes them look older, not younger, although to be fair, there are always exceptions to any rule.
Long hair is fine and can look beautiful. Just make sure you keep it long for the right reasons and that it makes you look and feel great.
COLOUR and CURL: If you are a brunette or have black hair and want to have platinum blonde hair, you might as well forget it. It most cases it can't be done successfully, and in the few cases where it can be bleached, often enough over the course of time your hair is ruined and will soon be gone!
Colour should always be compatible with your skin tone, and accent your eyes. If there is a red tint to your skin, red hair will not exactly be flattering and does not work well with brown eyes either.
Stick within your "race". Blonde hair on a black or Asian lady looks as unsightly as corn rows on a very pale skinned white lady. 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 if you have naturally curly hair you wish to have straightened, some curl is likely to remain no matter how many relaxers are put on. Live within these limits or you will cause your hair a great deal of damage and yourself much grief.
CELEBS, MODELS AND MAINTENANCE: All hair requires some degree of maintenance and some require more than others. Make sure your hairstyle fits you and your life style. A Meg Ryan style generally 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. Be yourself, and choose a style that looks best on you. It will make you MUCH more attractive than a Celeb " knock off".
If you absolutely must have the Celeb style, here are a few things to bare in mind:
1. Remember which movie you saw the style in. There have been many Meg Ryan hair styles over the years and if you and your stylist are not thinking of the same film 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 up with an army of the most talented hair stylists in the world who are constantly touching her hair up EVERY FEW MINUTES between shots. Unless you can command the same level of attention for your hair, it is not going to be the same.
3. The same goes for hairstyles on models. When you see them "off" location or shoot you will hardly recognize them. Some are down right plain. Added to the time and talent spent for a shoot, before the picture made the magazine cover it went to a touch-up artist who spent about £10,000 getting that picture ready by removing every strand of stray hair and covering every skin blemish and wrinkle with Photoshop or some other photo manipulation package!
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