Posts Tagged ‘Hairstyles Guide’

Celebrity Hair Long Bobs

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Celebrity Hair Long Bobs

Take your cue from these trendsetting stars, and start working your long bob look. Pick your inspiration using our hairstyles guide to find styles that match your perfect look.

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway has chopped her long tresses into a sleek crop just above the shoulders.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow,s long bob is a shoulder skimming hair length and can be worn both wavy and poke straight.

Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham’s hair is cut long at the front but is cropped at the back, showing off the nape of her neck, making this a very sexy style.

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman wears her long bob in elegant curls at the ends, ideal for a night out.

Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl’s wears her long bob side-parted and straightened for a sleek, elegant look. Choppy layers in the front frame her face perfectly.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal wears her brunette hair soft, emphasising its natural wave. This is perfect low maintenance, holiday hair.

Liv Tyler

Liv Tyler wears her hair shoulder length, long enough to be tied back off your face but short enough to give your mane a bit of a makeover.

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Celebrity Hair Short Bobs

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Celebrity Hair Short Bobs

Take your cue from these trendsetting stars, and start working your short bob look. Pick your inspiration using our RMUK hairstyles guide to find styles that match your perfect look.

Eva Longoria-Parker

Eva Longoria has created this cute curvy bob with a side parting and a gentle flick in the ends, this is a very flattering cut.

Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere has done away with her long locks and opted for a sleek face-framing bob that really sets off her eyes.

Emma Bunton

Emma Bunton’s short new length is fittingly cute. Her heart shaped face carries this style off perfectly and she keeps the look soft with a little natural wave and an uneven side parting.

Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung wears her grown out fringe swooshed to one side while her hair was parted far to the right for this evening look.

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon’s chin length bob is the perfect frame for her heart shaped face. Altering the parting is a great way to freshen up your look whatever your hair length, so if you’ve gone for a bob play with side, centre and zig zag partings.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Sophie Ellis Bextor wears her bob with a soft fringe. Her fringe highlights her beautiful eyes while the length of her hair cut shows off her bone structure to its best advantage.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron’s hair has a natural wave to it so special attention has been paid to the shape of her cut to give her this bobbed style. Her hair has been subtly layered to give her a soft shape at the ends.

Hilary Swank

Shiny hair is key to get the bobbed look, even if you wear it wavy rather than straight, as seen here on Hilary Swank.

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue,s bob is very soft and very flattering and given bounce and volume with the help of a subtle curl. A quick way to alter the look of a bob is to play with the fringe.

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes bob is truly her own. With a short, blunt fringe framing her face and a slightly graduated Twenties-style Louise Brooks cut, this is a style which shows off Katie’s eyes and frames her face.

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Celebrity Hair Plaits & Braids

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Celebrity Hair Plaits & Braids

Take your cue from these trendsetting stars, and start working your plait & braid look. Pick your inspiration using our RMUK hairstyles guide to find styles that match your perfect look.

Blake Lively

Blake Lively uses plaits in a very simple way, but to full effect. Her hairstylist has added three unevenly placed slim braids in the front part of her hair. Though her hairstyle would be gorgeous without them, they make her hair a little more interesting and give her look a youthful edge. This is the perfect hairstyle match for a long summer maxi dress.

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway is perfectly suited to this Grecian look and proves plaits can actually be very grown up. Team this chic look with chandelier earrings and you’re ready to party!

Kate Hudson

Take your inspiration from Kate Hudson and create this casual hairstyle when you want to keep all the attention on your dress. Kate,s was blow-dried hair straight using volumising spray to give lift at the crown and then plaited and fastened with a rubber band. We suggest pulling out a few strands at the front and casually tossing the braid over one shoulder for instant celebrity beauty.

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Emma Watson

Emma Watson creates this look by incorporating plaits in an upsweep. It is a clever way of dressing down this formal hairstyle. First, make a couple of skinny braids on either side of your head. Then, tie hair back in a messy bun with several Kirby grips and arrange the plaits to cross over your head. Secure with a little hairspray and pull out a few wisps of hair from the front. Easy, chic and very sexy!

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar wears an elaborate take on this trend. The hair is side parted and loosely braided into two French plaits around either side of the head. The lengths of Sarah’s hair have been curled and pinned into a messy bun to keep the style relaxed and natural looking. Fix with plenty of hairspray!

Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller’s free spirited bohemian look is the perfect style match for braided hair. Here Sienna creates her look in a messy bun with a wide braid around her head, looking every inch the Greek goddess.

Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie works the Heidi hair trend by plaiting two braids on either side of her parting. The plaits are secured in a messy bun, pinned low, just above the nape of the neck, giving her a very demure and sexy look.

Diane Kruger

French plaits like Diane Kruger’s is not the easiest to create, but it’s well worth learning how to create this hairstyle as you can get creative and place them wherever you like. Diane, for instance, has arranged her wavy shoulder-length hair in a single plait that wrap around the crown of her head.

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