Hairstyles:
Halloween hairstyles
Halloween hairstyles: Halloween is a great time to dye your hair and have some fun with it, whether it's Halloween wigs, spray colour, clip-ins extensions, hair falls or hair dyes...
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Gothic hairstyles for girls
Hairstyles: Goths of both sexes love their gothic hairstyles, and so do we - whether we're talking the Gothic Lolita, the Deathhawk, backcombed hair or sleek gothic hair with a Spock fringe. Here are a few stereotypical (uh-oh) goth hairstyles to give you ideas for what to do with your own mop.
Retro pin-up girl hair - look like a Varga girl in 3 different ways!
Hairstyles: When you look at those retro Varga pin-up girls, don't worry that those perfect waves, sculpted ringlets and squeaky-clean locks would need a team of stylists. Sally Rebel shows you how to achieve three classic pin-up girl looks: The Natural, the Sophisticate and Victory Rolls.
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A close-cropped history of alternative hair
Hairstyles: What makes alternative hair so different? From dangerous bob cuts to mohawks now being sported by footballers, Anya Goy looks at the history of alternative hair, from its idealistic non-conformist roots (look! a pun!) to a future where subcultures are increasingly led by product and style rather than any beliefs. Read on. And chew your alternative hair with concentration as you do so.
Alternative wigs and wig accessories
Hairstyles: Sometimes you just get sick of the stuff growing out your head and no customisation is going to save it. If you're having a "what-the-hell-I'll-shave-it-all-off" moment, step away from the clippers for a second and buy yourself a new head of hair instead. Ladies (and Gentlemen), the wig is back...
Make your own hair falls
Hair falls: When Roswell Ivory fell 20 feet while rock-climbing and lost half her hair and the skin on her head, she wore hair falls so she didn't have to shave her head and lose her social life. Gather round while she tells you how to make and apply your own hair falls, and how to wear them with maximum success...
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Hair tips: Removing henna from hair
Hair tips: Henna is a natural, ethical and often beautiful option - but it's a permanent colour so once you've taken the step of putting henna in your hair it's hard to go back. Here are our tips for what to do if you have a henna-based hair disaster.
Alternative hair dye tips
Hairdye tips: Dyeing your hair strong colours has its pitfalls but if you don't try, you'll never find out what they are - and the benefits, of having hair that makes you feel happy each and every morning - cannot be overestimated. Take the sting out of dyeing your hair at home.
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Curly Hairstyles - The Twist
Curly Hairstyles: Looking for easy curly Hairstyles? Curly hair looks great with the Twist, a hair style with loose ringlets that gets rid of frizzy hair. Curly hair with no frizz? Hark - 'tis a hirsute miracle.
Goth hair tips - The art of back combing for unruly hair
Goth Hairstyles: You're dressed like Mrs Lovett from Sweeney Todd. Your dark make up is precise, right down to the eyelash. You're due to join your friends for a midnight tea party on the hill. But your hair looks like you tumbled out of bed. Good! Welcome to the art of wild and disobedient gothic hairstyling.
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Pink hair: A love affair
Hairdye tips: Ever wanted to dye your hair pink? Hair salonista Anya Goy says THE most popular alternative hair colour request is for pink hair, so you're not alone. Pink hair is like the blonde hair of the alternative world. Why? Because they's both gots binga-banga-bing-bong sex appeal! We look at the whys and wherefores of pink hair and what pink hair dye says about you...
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Mooky guide to choosing the best alternative hair colours for you
Hairdye tips: As a professional hair stylist, Anya Goy was recently asked by a customer if Audrey Kitching's current hair colour (pink with white streaks) would suite her darker bronze skin tone. Which got her thinking... The rules for which NATURAL hair colours suite different skin tones are well established. For example, if you have fair skin and light blonde eyebrows, then black hair colour will make you look washed-out, like death warmed up (which might be the look some of you are going for). However, the rules for UN-NATURAL, alternative hair colours are unwritten. So what's a girl to do?
Hair tips for alternative black girls
Goth Hairstyles for dark girls: Let's face it. White chocolate flavours (white people) can have troubles finding the right look - we all do - but it's easier for girls with white skins to strike lucky with their alternative style. Dark chocolate flavours (black people) who are alternative have to work their subcultural style that bit harder due to their darker skin tones. We're going to look at hair - how to achieve an alternative look and still keep your beautiful hair healthy if you're a black girl.
How to wash your hair
Hair tips: Yes, you deliciously dirty urchin. We mean you! Unless you're not washing your hair as a statement, or because you're backpacking, you have no excuse - and you'd be surprised how many people don't properly care for their hair on the utmost basic level. So here are a few of the most basicest and usefulest hair care tips of all to get you on the right track...
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How to deal with a really bad hair day
Hair tips: Bad dye jobs, failed chemical straightening, split ends, damaged or fried hair... some bad hair days are worse than the everyday tragedy of 'Crap, I have to disguise my greasy locks with a ponytail/hat'. Our hair advice will see you through the truly bad times.
How to dye black hair blonde...
Hairdye tips: Sometimes the urban myths are true - yes, dyeing your hair from black to blonde is a nightmare. Mookychick suggests ways to go about it, and comes up with damage limitation tips for when it all goes wrong. Breathe easy. We've all been there...
Hair tips: Removing henna from hair
Hairdye tips: Henna is a natural, ethical and often beautiful option - but it's a permanent colour so once you've taken the step of putting henna in your hair it's hard to go back. Here are our tips for what to do if you have a henna-based hair disaster.
DIY Beauty: Home-made hair-care products
Hair tips: In an age of hi-tek complicated beauty regimes, why spend a million bucks on your hair when you only end up looking like a pooky old ten? You had better raid your kitchen for natural home-made hair-care products which actually WORK, dammit!
Hairstyles - Get ideas with our Hair tutorials for goth hair, pin up girl hair, scene hair, emo hair and more - Mookychick
