Summer Do's

With temperatures reaching 150 degrees on a daily basis lately, looking good can be a little tricky. I think that we can all agree that sweat, unless in a hot music video or a steamy movie scene, is NOT sexy. Here are a few ways to get all that hair off your neck and not look like you're just going grocery shopping or working out in the yard. Or, if you ARE doing those things- to look hot while you're doing them!

1. Textured Coiffe
Fighting humidity is never fun. Why not just embrace it and make it a feature? After shampooing and conditioning with the Love smoothing line by Davines, run a nickle size amount of Momo moisturizing Anti-frizz protection fluid through tresses, braid random air dried sections in random sizes toward the bottom of your head and pin up in a messy undone updo.

2. High Bun

For those of you that don't quite have the texure to pull off the messy updo, try smoothing dry hair with some Davines Defining Wonder Wax into a high ponytail. Twist the pony into one long twist and wrap in the opposite direction of your twist making it look like the hair is coming out of the center of the bun. Pin in all four corners of the bun with an open bobby pin letting it close before pushing it into the bun. Add an extra four pins in the four corners that have no pins and spray lightly with some Defining Invisible hairspray to smooth away flyaways.

3. Classic Pony Tail

Gather your hair into a ponytail at the point of your head where your hair starts to fall back instead of to the sides with a bit of Davines Defining Wonder Wax. Take a small piece of hair from the bottom of the pony and wrap around your elastic. Wrap the end of the piece into the base of your gather and pin. Continue securing in all four corners opposite the initial pin. Spray lightly with Defining Invisible Hairspray.

4. Side Swept Braid

Braids are a mega popular hit trend lately in any shape or form. This rendition is a quick one that can be worn down as a casual quick answer to a bad hairday or with some bobby pins for a lightning speed updo on the way out for a night on the town. A fish tail braid is a way to spice this look up a bit.

5. The Headband

While not a style per say, a headband can transform any style into a SUPER style. Wear a thin elastic toward the face or a scarf wide from the hairline to the top of the head. Headbands can be made from all sorts of different things, ribbons, shoestrings and scarves to name a few. If you can tie it- odds are you can band it so have fun trying new, out of the box ideas.

Hope these give you a little hope where being Cool in both senses of the word are concerned!

Breezy necks and Mexican Martinis,
Jeanie