To celebrate 1,500 Hairdresser On Fire Facebook Fans*, we are doing a giveaway!
Je Veux is a product I use constantly at work. It is an Argan Oil that is great for blow drying, and protecting your ends from curling irons and the daily elements. I love this product for my highlighted ends, it’s one of those hair drinks I keep talking about!

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment. You may leave one extra comment if you blog or tweet about this giveaway (and link to my blog). This is a worldwide giveaway, so the more the merrier, friends! I’ll pick a winner a week from today.

*We are pretty close to 2,000 Facebook fans, so if you haven’t already, make sure you become a fan and I’ll do another giveaway every 500 likes.

photo by Jake for HDOF.

Michelle Williams is a great example of my favorite kind of hair. She always has a great cut, and when it’s long, she keeps it healthy and beautiful with simple styles.

I love this photo of her soft blow dry. Just the right amount of volume, wave and texture. To get this look, you would blow dry with lots of volume at the roots. Once your hair is dry, take large sections and curl mid-shaft (like the messy waves tutorial) with a 1 inch curling iron. You are going for more of a bend than a curl, so you just need to turn the iron a little, maybe once or twice at the most.

Finish up with some Ocean Mist and shake it all about.

Congratulations, you are now my newest girl crush!

Does anyone know where this photo comes from? I’m sure it’s a legit shoot and I’d love to credit the magazine and photographer if anyone knows that source

Good Morning! In our fifth and final video in our Aussie series, I’ll be showing you some ways to prevent damage on your hair from heat styling using the Aussie Heat Protecting Shine Spray.  I’ll be doing a natural hand-blow dry on my model, Amanda Blair, before using a curling iron to create very soft and loose waves. To finish up the style, I’ll be using the Aussie Smoothing Serum, that will help the style looking smooth and shiny all day.

To see our other Aussie videos click on the links below!

Aussie Spray Gloss
Aussie Split End Protector
Aussie Anti-Frizz Cream
Aussie Anti-Breakage Spray

Visit the Aussie site to learn more about this, and other Aussie Stylers.

I recently talked about the reverse ombre and why it’s a bad idea. But there is another way to do it that looks good and isn’t so much maintenance.

Instead of painting the highlights on to gradually go from light roots to dark ends, you can do your highlights on top like normal, and do a single process underneath. By going a few shades darker underneath, you are actually creating a very natural look. Naturally the sun wouldn’t lighten that hair, because it’s not ever reaching it. If you have layers, even long layers, the darker underneath part will peek through the lighter parts, making a similar “reverse ombre” effect. There is actually very minimal damage with color like this, because you don’t have to do highlights underneath, and that saves your ends from a lot of grief! I had my hair like this for several years. I would do a 7N or 8N underneath, and do highlights on top every few months to keep it bright.

Here are a few pictures!

You guys, I don’t know why I just don’t enjoy J-Simps’ company. Her hair is a good example of what I’m talking about though.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s is my favorite!

Nicole always has great hair. Not because she has naturally great hair, but because she has a great stylist.

Way back in beauty school, we called this look The Shadowbox. We did a more severe look like Christina Aguilera though. Back in 2002, I loved the platinum blonde with red or black underneath. You couldn’t pay me to do it now. Ha.

Would you try this look?

 I have had a very annoying time trying to find a good way to store my hats. I have wanted to find a cool antique mannequin head for a while, but I’ve never seen one in a thrift store, and the ones on ebay I have found were in the $400 range. So, the one I ended up getting doesn’t have a charming finger wave or lovely scary drag make up, but I think the androgyny of it is kind of funny. Plus I love the color so much and I think it will look great with a hat on it once it gets here.

The only problem is that it doesn’t really solve my hat storage problem at all. Just the storage of one hat. And factoring in the space that the mannequin will take up means that I am totally forgetting the purpose of the original hat storage problem.

I’m just smart and practical like that.

PS We have reached 1,500 (plus!) facebook likers so I will be doing a giveaway next week. I’m so excited. Remember, every new 500 facebook likes, there will be a new giveaway!