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Quick Tip Video: My favorite beauty hack to add volume to fine hair with Velro rollers

I have to admit that I'm not the best at blowdrying my hair or using a curling iron. Frankly, I don't have to be! My easy beauty hack for using Velcro rollers to add volume to fine hair is so simple, that I don't have worry about complicated blowouts. TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00] Hey it's me Sharon from FocusOnStyle and we are here with today's Quick Beauty Tip from my bathroom. It is the super duper, crazy, lazy way to add volume to thin hair I don't know if you've noticed, but I've got crazy baby fine hair. My hair is so thin and I am horrible about blow drying it. That doesn't mean I don't do my hair every day. I

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Perfect Party Hair for a Big Night Out (or in)

New Year's Eve is just around the corner making it a smart time to get a handle on great ways to dress up your hair. Try some easy-to-follow hairstyle ideas from fab editorial and celebrity hairstylist Gad Cohen to get that special occasion hairstyle that's right for you. --S.H MORE: Hairstyle Tips 'Tis the season to look your best! From holiday office parties to your New Year's Eve bash, there's a hairstyle for every occasion.  I wanted to share some of my tips and tricks to help you make your holiday hair chic and sophisticated. Take a lesson from what I tell my clients: whether you are at an office party or at a black tie event, whichever hairstyle you

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Quick At Home Hair Color Tip: How to touch-up roots + save your highlights

I don't know about you, but I was a little scared to learn how to how to touch-up roots or fix my faded highlights at home. Not anymore! [Fade out to memory of high pigment, over saturated color and brittle ends] It's summer and for many of us it means travel and spending more time outside. We're not always as diligent as we should be in protecting our hair from the sun and highlights can take a beating. But, what to do when you can't get to your hair colorist to touch up your roots or refresh your color? I have a simple at home tip that works for me. You can touch up your roots or add a gloss to

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Steal some Bombshell Sexy hair tonight from Versace Fall 2014

Don't you love some bombshell sexy hair as a little bit of teased height is looking so right again. Let the recent Versace Fall 2014 runway lead you on the way to easy, super-glam sexy bombshell hair with professional style tips from the man who created the look himself... Sure the clothes won't hit stores until next August, but who's to say you can't rock Donatella's infamous 60's inspired Bond-Girl 'do today? And with super stylist Guido's styling tips straight off the runway, could copping it yourself be any easier? >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS And TREND SPOTLIGHTS Go ahead, have fun with it as we bet the results may surprise you and others around you! Versace Fall 2014 Redken Creative Consultant Guido created

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Milan Fashion Week Beauty Trend Spotlight: It’s the easy hair from Prada Fall 2014 you can get tonight

  The first thing that you can steal from the Prada fall 14 runway is the severely tight hair, think of it as the best reason not to wash your hair today. Miuccia Prada's "Act 2" collect referenced German avant-garde culture with austere simplicity that gave way vivid and bold outerwear, some the most flamboyantly fabulous jackets, that I may just want to add to my wish list. Along with THOSE red boots. Gosh, I don't know about you, but I can't stop thinking about red boots for fall 2014. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS And TREND SPOTLIGHTS But, back to the slicked back ballerina bun. Pulled back hair has been seen on so many runways this season, and we have the easy-peasy hairstyling

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Runway Beauty: The messy hair knot at Jenny Packham + How to get the look

 It's no surprise since we loved the easy glamour at Jenny Packham fall 2014, that we'd be equally as excited to bring you the hairstyle how to's for the messy hair knot as seen on the runway.  Thanks to the folks at TRESemmé for helping out with the hairstyle how-to's, using all drugstore products, save for the brush... Apply TRESemmé 24 Hour Body Foaming Mousse to hair and blow dry with a round brush Once hair is completely dry, back-brush hair for volume and then spray with TRESemmé Keratin Smooth Illuminating Shine Spray while gently brushing the hair away from the face Pull the hair back so that it loosely vovers the ears into a low ponytail and fasten with elastic

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Golden Globes Beauty- How to get Lupita Nyong’o’s hair

For our money  Lupita Nyong’o is one, if not THE best dressed at the Golden Globes. Ok, so her red Ralph Lauren cape gown reminds some of the Tom Ford cape dress that Gwyneth wore to the 2012 Oscars but we love it just the same, no more! Lupita Nyong’o is a consistent stunner and we are delighted to have her Golden Globes natural hairstyle tips that you can try at home. Oh, yes, we've got them for you before the show is even over!  [signupboxpagethree]Make your personal pavement your red carpet! Hop on my FREE newsletter & don't miss one stylist tip![/signupboxpagethree] Take Your Natural Hair up a Notch – Lupita Nyong’o’s Golden Globes Look by Celebrity Hairstylist Larry Sims: Larry

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Easy Summer Hairstyles by Way of WEN by Chaz Dean

Hair by WENN
Beautiful Hair Alert: Easy Summer  hairstyles with real women inspiration: I don't know about you, but I certainly logged in plenty of hours watching hair expert, Chaz Dean and his line of products, WEN by Chaz Dean go through his TV demos on QVC and pondering the products at Sephora. I've probably dedicated a chunk of my insomniac hours watching beautiful hair as Chaz describes his unique 5-in-1 formula that takes the place of your shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner, detangler and leave-in conditioner. I have no idea why it took me so long to take action, but I finally did! The products are terrific! I've been going through my annual hair color mishmash and my hair has been a bit lackluster to say the least. I tried

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How I Remember Vidal Sassoon- Some beer and an angry mom!

An ancient photo of me in Italy with one of the many incarnations of a Vidal Sassoon Salon styled bob
Bet I got your attention with this headline! I got my mom's attention too. I really owe my hair (on a good day) to Vidal Sassoon... well to the salon and their team of precision trained stylists.  The hair legend's death this week has me thinking about how his work personally helped create my hair look. >> RELATED: Hair Tips & Trends When I was about 15 my mom must have gotten sick and tired about my three threads of straggly long hippie hair and let me get a haircut at the Vidal Sassoon Salon. It was around the time that people were asking me about possibly modeling (so not for me) and I was starting to hang out with my

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How to Prevent a Bad Haircut and Horrible Color

How to prevent a bad haircut
We've all had a bad haircut & hideous color, and this time I was the unlucky receiver of a hairstylist having a VERY bad day! I turned to Gad Cohen for some advice to help YOU avoid having a bad hair day. Gad and I go way back. When I was a stylist, Gad's partner at the time, Francois Valle, was my agent, and we all shared not only many photo shoots together, but also the gift of friendship. Gad will be joining FocusOnStyle as a Contributor. Please welcome him on his first post as he shares some very important tips on how to avoid getting a bad haircut.   --S.H. How do you correct a bad haircut? When I have

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Hair Alert: Megan Fox fakes her Bob. You can too!

Red Carpet Hairstyle Tips to fake a glam bob when you have long hair Red Carpet hairstyles- Get a shorter new hairstyle without cutting your hair! The faux bob is a major red carpet hair trend this season. We love it when you can get an absolutely versatile and shorter new do, without actually cutting your hair... so low maintenance, so chic on the cheap. Get a shorter new hairstyle without cutting your hair!The faux bob is a major red carpet hair trendthis season. We love it when you can get an absolutely versatile and shorter new do, without actually cutting your hair... so low maintenance, so chic on the cheap. Megan Fox sported a soft faux bob at the

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Beauty Tips: Beautiful Big Hair

From Charlie's Angels to Kim Kardashian, beautiful big(ish) hair styling tips… I am going to show my age here, but who cares?! As a boy, I grew up with posters and pictures of Charlie’s Angels plastered all over my bedroom. It was back in the day when Drew Barrymore was in ET and had no idea (at least I think so) that she would one day try and emulate those icons of 1970's style. I would collect every, and I mean every, picture of the Angels that I could get my teenage hands on. I could go on and on, but maybe another time. Why I bring this up is that Charlie’s Angel hair, or at least the flavor, is

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Celebrity Hair-A-Like…

Celebrity Hair-A-Like: Last minute celebrity copycat hairstyles for Halloween and beyond I'm trying to figure out a last-minute Halloween costume with a celebrity theme that's inexpensive. I'm really in to hairstyles. Any suggestions? (Philadelphia, PA) Copy a celebrity hairstyle and a cheap Halloween costume is only a hairpin away... Don't forget to try our commitment-free Virtual Hairstyle Makeovers and see how you look in a new hairstyle. Start with the hair down! We prefer you think for yourselves when it comes to personal style and only use celebrities as an inspiration, not clone. But when it comes to Halloween costumes, all bets are off! Celebrity hairstylist and P2 hair care mogul, Philip Pelusi shares some how-to tips to copy an

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