Anastasia Nam

We all know that water from the fountain of youth doesn’t come in a bottle.

However, your hairstyle could really make you look younger (or it can do the opposite and add a few years to your aura).

Yes, it’s true that many gorgeous, mature hairstyles come with an “age-addition” inconvenience if for only because they appear as if something is holding them back.

This week, let’s talk about removing the age from your adult locks by adding a few tweaks, where the number-one rule is: just be daring!

Massive Curls

Mature Style: As a rule, owning extra hair volume is a great perk as one gets older; but because curls are so voluptuous, offsetting in style them may make your locks appear less full.

Younger Tweak: Have your stylist create a curly bob that hits just above the shoulders with wavy ends to show off the youthful lines of your face.

Deep-Side Parts

Mature Style: Women who part their hair deep at the side most likely want to generate a striking profile; however, the adult locks that hang from the side part may tend to get scruffy at the ends when left exposed to the elements all day.

Younger Tweak: Make an appointment to add a high-shine finish on the mane. Your parted hair will look tighter and neater, and your new finish will definitely send out some much younger vibes.

Long, Wavy and Formal

Mature Style: Let’s be clear…formal hair is gorgeous, but going long and wavy for those reserved bashes can make mature tresses appear a bit tense and elaborate.

Younger Tweak: Here, your stylist will most likely try securing an imperfect knot at the top or create a furry hairline with some loose flyaways falling from a chic bun to offer your waves a more young-at-heart, dashing appeal.

Girl-Next-Door Hair

Mature Style: Soccer mom hair is attractive, as long as the cut is not a mid-length blunt. Furthermore, drapes of deep bangs can add some years to your girl-next-door facade.

Younger Tweak: Get some layers that begin way below the shoulders with some jagged, point-cut ends to introduce movement. The outcome usually will produce a hot, soccer-mom grandeur.

Ends-Curled Under

Mature Style: Think of the local news weather woman with perfectly curved-under ends, and you’ll kind of get a picture of what we’re talking about here.

Younger Tweak: Ask your stylist for some resolute and haphazard texture in piece-y or beachy forms, and you’ll notice that the older “curved-under bob” will have turned into an image of someone who looks like they enjoy living life to the fullest.

Pixies

Mature Style: The hip thing about pixies is that they show off poise and self-confidence; yet, if there’re grown out too much, they may scream for some youth-image restructuring.

Younger Tweak: Go for a few eyebrow-grazing bangs that your stylist can lighten to bring more attention to your intense eyes. Remember: light fringes frame the face perfectly on most outgrown pixies.

For a great haircut or hairstyle in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

It’s no secret that we stylists keep a careful watch on all the pre-holiday hair fads. We love letting our customers know about the hottest trends before they hit the streets, and of course, which pre-winter cuts are in vogue.

Celebrity cuts are the main holiday-hair source for discovering what us ordinary folk will soon yearn for at the salon. This post-fall season, the West Coast is shaking things up with sweeping rad-cuts that have emerged from last summer’s “chopping trend.”

Have you noticed that nearly every long-haired, A-list celeb has chopped their locks into either a bob or a mid-length cut?

Hence, take a look the pre-fall lob with traces of shaggy nuances, and you’ll understand what these holiday short-chop trends are all about…

some of which we’re gonna detail for you … right…now…

Cheekbone lobs…

Somewhere amid an extended pixie and undersized bob lies a 2016 jaw-length style that holds a taper, which just slightly kisses a shaved the neck. Haley Bennett gave this polished and personal cut a whirl at Hollywood’s “Girl on the Train” premier, and people went bananas, afterwards.

Here, one can also add a few piece-y bangs with this grown-out lob to take this pretty pixie into 60s mode, which we believe a lot of folks will be asking for this holiday season.

The Kendall lob…

Kendall Jenner recently transitioned from super long to a soft-layer lob of which her stylist inserted some choppy waves for her Vogue cover photo. This cut is an absolutely-popular adoption of the lob, as most top-models soon followed Kendall’s lead with their own variation of the Kendall lob.

If you own some long thick and healthy locks, you might want to think about rocking your texture in piece-y, shoulder-grazing length too. Just be sure to have your stylist point cut the ends to award your gorgeous tresses some extra “Kendall” movement.

Lobs with bangs…

Next, we present the girls this fall who shell-shocked their lobs by installing bangs. Selena Gomez’s fringe has swayed Nickelodeon TV, since 2000. She later shortened up with a curly or straight lob after moving to the silver screen.

Today, some added bangs have amped Selena’s lob into a more saggy-feathered look that had most female freshmen rushing to the saloon to get before the 2016 semester began.

And even more bangs…

Blunt bangs also work well on a layered lob. Just ask Rihanna, who sported her sleek, mid-sized cut on her latest world-tour. Her above-the-shoulder cut is actually angled upwards in the front and around the face, which gives the whole image a choppier and most modest façade.

Short and shaggy lobs…

The short and tousled look hit late summer like a storm after Jennifer Lawrence flaunted her choppy lob with lightly feathered ends in a fall Vanity Fair interview.

This lob is an agreeable dissimilarity from Jennifer’s customary longer locks, which her stylist accomplished by creating an eye-catching bob that fell between her chin and shoulders. Lawrence’s pre-fall cut is modern because she parts the tresses on the side and adds some elastic swirls.

For a hairstyle in Oklahoma City that fits you, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

Isn’t it true that sometimes we develop a serious case of hair-envy after browsing our friends’ and their friends’ Pinterest boards, and Instagram photos?

While this harmless covet is nothing more than us just gathering some hair encouragement for pulling some life back into our locks; from time to time, we do feel like we’re stuck in anxious hair mode.

Makeover cuts, color jobs, night-out locks or in-office allure, topknots and texture can become overwhelming decisions to make when needing to choose a style-marvel for reviving your comatose tresses.

Luckily, you arrived here, where your neighborhood-friendly stylist is going to help leave your melancholy grandeur by giving you some important information for livening up your mane.

BEAUTIFUL HAIR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE

Understand that owning great hair is all about rocking the style with confidence. Regardless of what your birth certificate says, you can be in your mid 20s or late 70s, always go for what YOU like.

This means owning your style with pride, and always remembering to ignore the critics who say that you can’t sport a certain look after 40, or that only older women should chop their locks in super-short form.

RECOVER YOUR SHINE THROUGH REHYDRATION

A deep conditioning session at your favorite salon will restart your hair to “natural-born” mode, and it will leave the locks in a completely nourished state after getting out of the chair.

Here, what we’re talking about is SHINE, SHINE and more SHINE. Deep-conditioning salon treatments work ten times faster than your daily at-home conditioner does. Profound hydration also keeps the locks smoother for long periods of time.

MIX IT UP A BIT

One of the simplest approaches for breathing new life into your mane is to contra-alter your hairstyle. Are you a straight hair addict, or do you always rock bouncy curls when arriving at your work desk?

If so, ditch the flat irons and curling wands, every now and then, and execute the opposite. Blown-out curls look great if your stylist can pull off a slicked-back straight allure, and the finest hair will appear eye-candy fuller after leaving the chair with some extra-wavy locks.

ASK FOR A CUT THAT FLATTERS YOUR FACE

Controlled, geometric styles are both edgy and fun–but they don’t do much to deemphasize the face features you find unpleasant.

Instead, ask your stylist for a face-framing cut with layers to lend a hand in stressing your natural-bone structure. Face-framing cuts also make your eyes noticeable, which is a good thing.

VISIT YOUR SALON REGULARLY

Form an excellent relationship with your stylist, and make regular appointments to see him or her to ensure your hair stays in peak form.

Your stylist should be your essential go-to guru on what’s hot and what’s not. He or she should also advise you on which of your compulsory indulgences will work for your particular hair texture.

For a great haircut or hairstyle in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

As summer comes to an end (along with all the UV rays, pool chlorine, and beach water that comes with it), your locks may be calling for a slight overhaul.

That’s probably why we stylists get a slight boost in appointment scheduling during the autumn pre-season, as many of our clients discover that fall is hair makeover time.

The pre-fall hair craze this year is opposite to last year’s short bob look—in 2016, a lot of women are leaving the chair with shoulder-length lobs.

Perhaps it’s because the cut is perfectly reconstructible. You can: wear it with waves; iron it straight; try chopping it up and layering the tresses; or even sport a shoulder-length blunt cut.

Or maybe the shoulder-length lob is popular because its a good starting point for folks who just can’t decide which cut they want to  bringing in the holidays with.

So, what we’re going to do for you this week is explain to you why mid-length hair stands out in a crowd, and we’ll offer you a pot-full of reasons as to why you should go for this look too…

Blunt Lob: A mid-sized blunt is a structured lob that looks awesome with most winter hat accessories or scarf wraparounds.

Medium Curly Style: This is where a person can provoke image onlookers by going shorter to add a little bounce-separation to their already, eye-candy swirls.

Thin Locks: Fine hair receives a texture boost from shoulder-length lobs because loose-gravity offers the locks extra fullness and movement.

Thick Hair: Full bangs on medium lobs with gross hair texture provide an edgy, spoiled-brat style that can be so “rock-and-roll” on the weekends.

Double-Toned Lobs: Hair that owns two or more colors becomes more interesting to look at when the hues stop at the shoulders.

French-Girl Waves: These two words say it all.

Side-Parted ‘dos: Where do we start? Hot redhead, platinum blonde, or sleek brunet cuts with deep side-parts should consider going shorter in length to make sure that the parting feature is the main attraction in the overall look.

Tight-Curls: Those who own them know that the shorter the hair,  the more naturally-tighter they’re wound. Cropping curls to a shoulder lob solves this problem because it will emphasize the curls’ natural texture instead of focusing on how snug they are.

Hippy-Hair: Go ’70s with a lob that holds platinum-dye colors to match that Height-Ashbury, tie-dye shirt you just purchased.

Slicked-Back Hair: Long locks that slick straight back require hours of daybreak maintenance to get them ready for public viewing. So, why not just give the mane a snip, and then, figure out what to do with all the extra morning time?

Silver or Gray Mane: Why go silver if the locks don’t absolutely shine both indoors and outside?  Medium lobs offer white locks a more polished allure by allowing flyaway strands to stand out naturally in any kind of light.

For a great haircut or hairstyle in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

When Jennifer Lawrence stepped onto the red carpet at this year’s Oscars, our jaws just dropped as we stared at her flowing blond tresses.

She brought it all into the spotlight as she transitioned from bob to lob. The color! The style! And yes, the extensions?

Uncommonly disclosed among pop-stars, most of those lengthy, shiny locks we see in the limelight come from professional hair-extension artistry.

Today, extensions are as routine as makeup or high heels for modern women, and Lawrence is just one immaculate example of how remarkably stylish they have become.

“Hair extension taboo is so 90s.”

Did you know that most Hollywood stylist take with them massive hair extension kits as they work between movie sets?

That’s right; pro-stylist for the stars stopped jugging around tons of hair product after the millennium hit.

They swapped their hairspray and gel for bags and bags of hair extensions that can be immaculately installed to any ay texture for adding temporary volume to updos or some extra length to waves and curls.

So, it’s no wonder that today’s public has followed in hair extension “demand mode,” seeking out the latest advancements in extension technology and application.

“Understanding the basics can get novice trendsetters into the ballgame.”

First off, you should know that this market is already a multi-billion-dollar industry, which is why we pro-stylists keep current on hair extension quality, color and bonding systems.

With all work completed in only one visit, the product options and installation methods that exist today allow women to achieve lengthier hair, a fuller mane or even allow them to try out a different hair color or highlight.

However, you should know that hair extension “art” really takes place within the application.

Your stylist will need to use her fingers to bond or weave single sections of hair, correctly, into the roots of similarly sized proportions.

This may sound easy, but it’s actually a time-consuming process that requires some professional knowledge and sturdy hands in order to achieve an amazing natural result.

Further, color always adds more elegance and shine to any hair extension mission. Hence, your stylist will have to determine if base color matching or highlighting will be necessary, which should be performed before the extensions are put in.

Extensions will also bond to the mane for months on end.  However, one should schedule a maintenance visit after about eight weeks to avoid breakage from occurring.

For long-lasting hair extensions in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.

This week, let’s talk waves.

There seems to be a movement out there where women are swinging their focus away from the basic swirly, choppy-layered lob to a wavier, flexible cut and style that works on every hair texture and type.

Hence, “loose-curl-waves” are quickly turning into the latest trendsetting thing in aesthetics for most lifestyles.

So, what can these waves do for me?

Great question; loose-curl-waves bring a resourceful guise that borders along at-home beach waves and standard S-waves.

Likewise, women can totally tailor their cut to their liking with regards to how messed up the waves will appear to onlookers.

With this versatility, wave owners can go like modish, rock-‘n’-roll on the weekend, and on Sunday, easily deconstruct their loose-curl-waves into a contemporary, finger-twist swirl style that would be completely acceptable in any work environment.

How will my stylist pull them off?

Basically, your stylist performs this modern-chic look by applying a variety of hot tools to lob hair.

Here, the pro-secret is to apply a semi-hot curling iron in a way that one usually takes a waving or crimping iron to the locks. Two-inch tress sections need to be lightly clamped in alternating directions, as the iron moves down in length, and the ends must form go-to curls before shaking them up.

Hence, this technique requires some professional hands to do the work because one must figure out the heat, time, and tension that will work correctly with your texture and how to apply the right amount of pressure on the tresses to ensure that the waves do not go too deep into S-wave mode.

Further, if comprehensive eye-candy waves are your thing, your stylist will perform an alternating barrel modus operandi to achieve some exploding loose curls that will fall down with a gracious bounce.

Are there any hitches to owning these waves?

Not really; however, there is one stipulation to owning loose-curl-waves — you must smooth-out your hair, first.

Now, smoothing really depends on texture.

Some people can head right into loose-curl processing after a simple blow dry; however, others may require a bit of chemical smoothing, beforehand, if they own very tight swirls.

Further, you may need to invest in some professional hair product to maintain those loose-curl-waves at home. Product selection will also depend on your hair’s texture.

Some locks may require dabbing oil on the ends to keep everything bouncy. Other manes may need a bit of texturizer or dry hairspray to keep the edgy look alive.

Be sure to ask your stylist about maintenance products before your appointment ends so that your new loose-curl-waves will last at least until after the holidays.

For a great haircut or hairstyle in Oklahoma City, call me (Anastasia) for an appointment.