Vintage & Gothic Hairstyles:
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Top 10 Short Indie Hairstyles That Are Easy Or At Least Achievable
We've scouted around for short indie hairstyles that look lovely but feasible. We wanted to give you a moodboard of potentials rather than Gagaesque hair art.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Healthy hair how-to guide: Is your hair dying from dying?
Your hair is the first thing the world sees, and it's your best chance at communicating who you are. A hairstyle says volumes about you, from your music tastes to when you like to wake up and who your friends are. Are there things you could do to keep your lovely hair more healthy?
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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...
Beauty Product Reviews
Undercut hair - how to
Undercut and undershaved hair gives your hairstyle a pleasingly fierce and warrior-like beauty. Choose which undercut suits you, learn how to do your own undercut and even learn how to grow out an undercut when its time is done.
Beauty Product Reviews
How to get Halloween hairstyles
OSiS Ambassador Adrian Allen gives you tips on how to experiment with exaggerated and unruly hair for louche Halloween hairstyles - Gothic hair and Zombie hair.
Alt Hair Styles
How to dye hair white blonde
There's nothing more dramatic than white hair - but it's one of the hardest looks to create and mantain. Here's how to do it, from bleaching to purple toner and upkeep afterwards.
Alt Hair Styles
How to wear wigs
A seasoned manga lover tells you how to choose the right wig for your face shape (from Tank Girl to Rapunzel), which wig colours suit you, social stigma, and how much you'd pay - from cheap cosplay costume wigs to Kanekalon fiber. Plus: How to make a wig cap!
Alt Hair Styles
Henna For Hair
Do you want to dye your hair without recourse to chemicals? Yes, there's always semi permanent vegetable dye, but if you want a natural permanent hair dye with a Bronze Age heritage, go for henna.
Vintage Hair Styles
Sweetheart Rolls
Hairstyles tutorials: Also known as the Victory Roll, the Sweetheart Roll probably looks best when you sport a pretty frock, a huge Popeye anchor tattoo and you're kissing a soldier of either gender persuasion. It will look lovely regardless of your style or sensibilities...
Indie / Jrock Hair Styles
Jrock hairstyles
How to style your hair like a jrocker. If you love visual kei clothing, you've probably had a go at jrock hairstyles already...
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
How to grow out short hair styles
Short hair styles: How to cope if you don't like your new Louise Brooks bob, A-line, Asymmetrical, Pixie haircut, Mullet or V-fringe and want to grow your short hair long again.
Beauty Product Reviews
How to give straight hair texture and volume
OSiS Ambassador Adrian Allen gives you a step by step account on how to give your straight hair some tantilising texture and volume.
Beauty Product Reviews
How to make curls last longer and stay all day
If you've got straight hair and want to curl it, or if you've got curly hair and want it to look 'curly on purpose', preparation is key. How to use the OSiS hair range to make curls last longer - in fact, stay all day.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Marilyn Monroe hairstyles - Basic curls
Step by step hairstyles: I wanna be loved by you... Achieve a vintage pinup look with the first of our two Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Basic curls made easy!
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Soft curls
Step by step hairstyles: You heartbreaker, you! Achieve a vintage pinup look with the second of our two Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Soft curls made easy!
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Dreadlocks hairstyles
Dreadlocks hairstyles: Let's look at the myths and facts of dreadlocks - from how to make and care for them to how to take them out!
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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...
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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...
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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...
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Mooky guide to choosing the best alternative hair colours for you
Hairdye tips: Hair stylist Anya Goy was asked by a customer if Audrey Kitching's current hairdye (pink with white streaks) would suite her darker bronze skin tone. The rules for unnatural, alternative hairdyes are unwritten. What hairdye colour would suit you?
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
Hair tips for alternative black girls
Goth Hairstyles for dark girls: White goths have troubles finding the right look but it's easier for girls with white skins. Dark goths have to work their style harder due to their darker skin tones. Let's look at how to achieve healthy alternative hair if you're a black girl.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
How to wash your hair
Hair tips: Yes, you deliciously dirty urchin. Unless you're not washing your hair as a statement, or because you're backpacking, you have no excuse. Wash your hair! Here are a few of the most basic and useful hair care tips to get you on the right track.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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...
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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.
Indie / Goth Hair Styles
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!
Alternative, Vintage & Gothic Hair Styles - Mookychick
Hairstyles - Get ideas with our hairstyle tutorials for goth hairstyles, pin up girl hairstyles, scene hairstyles, emo hairstyles, jrock hairstyles, cosplay hairstyles and more - Mookychick
