Quick and Easy ways to style long hair

from left pic via allure - all women stalk-glamour

I tried to put together a few quick and easy, but not boring, ways to style long hair.  Fresh looks we can add to our well-tested ones. Fashionable but quick enough to be hair-dos for every day life, time-saving techniques to style our hair and get out in the morning and still easy to learn.

How do you style your hair? Do you have tips and techniques you would like to share?

left pic via all women stalk - wrap around side braid tutorial via Linen lace&Love

Braids can be as easy as the school girl's one or incredibly complicated.
This wrapped around side braid is a good compromise. It's a nice twist of the classic version and it's also doable. Read the how to on Linen Lace&Love.
Isolate the section of the hair you're going to braid. It makes it all easier. Brush the front hair on one side, then braid.

beachy waves by Allure - by Hair and beauty tips

 Wear hair down with natural looking waves. To get this look Allure suggests to spread a salt spray over wet hair with before blow-dry. On Hair and Beauty tips I found a tip to achieve beachy waves with an hair straightener. Divide hair into big sections, twist them and go over with the hair straightener a few times without pressing. It's much quicker than curl each wisp with the curling iron and the result is more natural.

Elie Saab spring 2012

Wrapped ponytail.  Make a ponytail and leave a strand out. Wrap the loose wisp around the elastic band and secure its end on the head with a bobby pin. For a more visible effect wrap more than one strand.

from left : bow bun tutorial by Running on happiness - half way up hair bow tutorial by Hair and make up by steph

Despite the complicated appearance these are very quick and easy tutorials to create an hair bow. Check them out. Bow bun tutorial by Running on happiness - half way up hair bow tutorial by Hair and make up by steph

A twist of the classical bun  read how to make a knot bun  on glamour.com

Pump up the volume: how to tease your hair

DSquared2 fall winter 2013

The big hair technique: each horizontal hair section must be teasead  from the top down - see more here

the quick way to build volume: Bumpits

Dean and Dan Caten's woman for fall 2013 comes right from the fifties and sports a sophisticate Grease look completed by a big hairdo. How can we copy this look at home?

How to make big hair

• Divide the hair at the top (from the hairline till the top of ears) into horizontal sections
• Tease each wisp  from the top down
•  Once you finished making the "nest", spray it with an aerosol hairspray 
• then smooth out the hair on top of the nest.

Refined hairstyles like this one can really boost our look but can be difficult to do at home. Hair straighteners and curlers have made our lives a lot easier because not everyone's bestfriend is an hairstylist, isn't it Jessica Simpson? Surfing the web I found this hair tool called Bumpits that should allow us to obtain big hair skipping the teasing process. These hair lifters are inserted under the top hair giving istant volume. This is hair architecture! But will the structure hold up? I don't know right know but the price of this miracle in a box is so little that we just have to try it! What do you think? Have you tried them yet? Will they stay in place?

La donna DSquared2 avanza verso la stagione autunnale indossando un look anni 50 con tanto di capigliatura cotonata. Come possiamo copiare questo look in casa?

Come cotonare i capelli

• Concentratevi sui capelli dall'attaccatura fin sopra le orecchie
• Separate le ciocche in sezioni orizzontali
• cotonate ogni ciocca con la spazzola pettinando dalle punte verso la testa 
• quando avrete cotonato tutte le ciocche fissate "il nido" con della lacca
• terminate lisciando i capelli solo sulla superficie con un pettine

Pettinature sofisticate come questa completano il  look ma possono essere difficili da realizzare in casa. Purtroppo non tutte noi possiamo essere seguite in ogni occasione dal nostro parrucchiere per questo abbiamo bisogno di soluzioni rapide che rendano facile lo styling dei capelli in casa. Navigando sul web ho trovato questo curioso accessorio che promette di rendere semplice da realizzare anche il look cotonato. Si tratta di Bumpits, una serie di pettinini da fissare sulla testa per donare istantaneamente volume saltando la procedura della cotonatura. Questa è architettura del capello! Ma reggerà l'impalcatura? Per ora non so rispondervi però il prezzo di questo miracle in a box è così basso che non ci resta che provarlo!