Best Way to Reinvent Your Hair

Hair transformation

Hair is your strongest visual characteristic and changing it is one of the best ways to transform yourself from boring to bombshell. According to Antoinette Beenders, the Aveda Urban Retreat’s creative director for hair: A new haircut can update you, make you look sexier, younger, smarter or more sophisticated’. Here are some ideas for changing your look.

• Wearing your hair up, or pinning front sections back, are quick and easy ways in which to change your look.

• Have a versatile cut that you can wear in different ways.
• If you have sleek, straight hair, you could try changing to a side, centre or zig-zag parting.
• Revamp your hairstyle by adding lift at the roots.
• Instead of wearing your hair forward, smooth it back off your face.
• If you have short hair, gel or wax it back into a sleek finish.

Become colourful

Colouring your hair can have a huge impact on your image. Even going just a couple of shades lighter or darker, introducing colour around the face, or adding interesting high- or lowlights will give you a new look. For instant colour, try colour mousses, colour-enhancing shampoos, conditioners and hair mascaras, or simply clip on coloured hairpieces.

Just-stepped-out-of-the-salon-looking hair

For salon-style volume, bounce and shine, utilise the excellent salon formula styling products (professional hair products or stylists’ own product lines) on the market.

• Invest in a hairdryer with the maximum number of heat and speed settings.
• Equip yourself with the right tools: good brushes; Velcro rollers in different sizes; bendy sticks; heated appliances, such as straightening irons and heated rollers.
• A shiny, sleek finish can be yours by applying an anti-frizz product or shine serum and then spritzing your hair with a gentle holding spray.