Celebrity hair looks how to get them From: Lance Christopher 2/15/2009 Lance Christopher Salon, Beverly Hills Luxury for Less September 2005 Get Highlights Like Gisele Gisele’s highlights are usually a two-step process, depending on your original hair color. If you have dark to medium hair, you want to lighten your base color first by one to two levels basically to soften the brown. Ask your stylist what your hair color level is. The key is actually to soften the base color—you want to go softer, not lighter. If you lighten your base color too much, you'll end up looking brassy, and that never looks good. For the highlights, ask your stylist to add golden highlights of medium thickness to the top front half of your head. You don't want the highlights to be either chunky or fine. My view is that they look best on the top of your head because you want to look sun-kissed and natural. The highlights are there to add shine and subtle contrast, not to stand out. If the highlights come out too brassy or red, don’t worry—that’s easily fixed with a toner, preferably one that is a light golden-blonde color. This will even up the highlights. All-Over Color Like Jules Asner Rich brown is always a winner. Of course, there are different levels, so explore with your stylist what you consider to be “rich.” This depends primarily on your skin color. You don't want to match your skin color, or you could look jaundiced. If you have red in your skin, watch out for those brown colors that have red tones. If you have pale or whiter skin, ask for a deep brown with warm auburn tones. The point is to warm up your look. If your hair is light, ask for a little gold on your ends. Often when you go from light to dark, the ends of the hair go ash. You don't want that, so ask your stylist to add a lightening, golden brown touch on the ends. If your hair is already dark, you might want to consider adding richer, darker lowlights throughout your hair. This will add depth. If you want your newly rich-brown hair to pop with shine and feel like silk, I recommend a color gloss like a cellophane at the end of the process. Extensions Like Nicole Richie Extensions add hair to your head, so do something special. They can always come off if you change your mind. If you have the option, buy your hair with your hairdresser present. This is far better than the hairdresser taking a swatch of your hair and buying it without you present, or conversely sending you off with instructions on how to buy your hair. When both of you are present, you can better explore all the hair texture and color possibilities that make sense for you. You can take advantage of your hairdresser’s expertise, and your hairdresser can view your entire situation intelligently with you present. If you want a full head of extensions, get extensions that match your hair color. If you want to add a little depth or funk it up a bit, pick contrasting colors or bright colors. For brighter colors, you only need to add a few pieces toward the front of your head. Ask yourself what effect you're going for and tell your stylist. Do you want extensions all over, or just a few accents? I always say it’s safe to stick with colors found in nature, but fashion colors are the latest. Fashion colors are natural colors taken a step further to become edgy and wild. Don’t go as far as bright greens, which are clown colors. Think reds, blue-blacks, or purple-browns that are not too far from brown. Nicole chose yellow accents, and you can see how that works for her. Choose colors that will look good with your skin and hair. Remember—it's not permanent, so have a little fun. Blowout Like Cindy Crawford The key to achieving this hair style lies first in the round brush and then in the technique. Try to stay away from a thermal round brush, which will hold the heat too much and end up curling your hair and giving you an old-fashioned flip. What you want to invest in is two round brushes, one with bristles three inches in diameter and another of two inches. The bristles should be boar’s hair and soft. The softer bristles grip your hair better and will allow you to pull and stretch your hair, which will smooth out your hair and add shine. You might also want to consider purchasing a 2000-watt blowdryer. This is a powerful one and will dry your hair faster. Shampoo and condition your hair first. Towel-dry and then put a little detangler or leave-in conditioner in your hair. Just a dime-sized amount, maybe a quarter if you have a lot of hair. You can add a little straightener product instead of or in addition to the conditioner, but be careful. You don't want to weigh your hair down with product. I find that using cream products instead of gel products is better because the gel is heavier and will slow the drying process. The cream actually protects your hair from the heat better and the results are often smoother. Ah, the technique. Here goes. Blowdry your hair about 90% dry. Then, start with the bangs. Always start with the bangs; because if you let them dry first before styling, you'll have a tough time getting them to do what you want. Use the two-inch brush for the bangs and lift bangs straight up. As you roll your hair around the brush, roll down. Blowdry along the entire length of the bangs as you do so. When you’re done with the bangs, proceed with the rest of your hair. Grab about a two-inch section of hair at the side of your head, keeping the hair next to it out of your way by using a pointed nose clip. Roll it around the brush, then heat it up by move the drier back and forth over the brush for 20 seconds. Keep the drier moving constantly. Put the drier down, unroll the hair from the brush, brush out the section a bit, then repeat the process two or three or three times per section by rolling it up again from the ends of the hair up to the roots and blowdrying the hair around the brush again. Do this around your entire head, but don't worry too much about the back because it'll be harder to reach than the tops and sides. Lastly, run a comb though your hair with the dryer to smooth out your hair all over. Finish with a waxy or soft pomade or smoothing serum by emulsifying the product in your palms. Put product in your hair by raking through with fingertips, not the palm of your hand. Pull at the ends or your hair to break it up a little bit, give your head a shake, and you look like Cindy Crawford. Kirsten Dunst Haircut You'll want to ask for a shaggy bob that's round layered and has lots of movement. Find the length that compliments your face shape. Do you want shoulder length or up to your chin. Consider your neck, is it long? Thick? Keep this in mind when going shorter. Do it right, you don't want to look to heavy on the bottom. Ask your stylist for layers on the top and bottom of your hair. Often times, layers are added to the top and front of your hair, and then you have a cut that's more blunt and has less movement. Break up the bottom with texture scissors. Don't over do it or your cut will get flippy at the ends. For bangs, decide on if you want a long sweepy bang or go a little shorter. Keep in mind what looks best on you and not the celebrity. Color with Highlights Like Jennifer Aniston This look depends on the darkness of your hair, are you a soft brown or a dark brown? This will depend on if you're going to get highlights or lowlights, or maybe a little bit of both. You basically want the light to show a little glimpse of contrast. If you have medium brown hair, you want very subtle golden brown lowlights. The lowlights should be 1 level lighter than the base, and keep them golden. You don't want to look ashy or smokey. As long as there's gold in the lowlight, you'll look good. Concentrate on the ends of the hair, it'll look more natural and thin out the neck with the darker toned unders of your hair. Ask for a light golden cellophane to make your hair shiney and silky and the lowlights and highlights will blend better. Jennifer's look is very natural looking and subtle. She just has a few hints of shine not all-over highlights. Jennifer had a 1 process highlights and lowlights because she's a light/soft brunette. Lance Christopher Salon: Celebrity Looks for You and Me The Lance Christopher Salon was born with the hip and trendy crowd in mind. We offer our clients the latest in color and styles and want you to walk out feeling stylish and beautiful. The staff is friendly and very in-the-know about current trends. We're not old-school and we like our clientele to look up-to-date and stylish. If you want to get noticed, you go to the Lance Christopher Salon. I want the clients to feel welcome and comfortable. It's always a good idea to bring in pictures of the cuts or celebrity style you want. It makes it easier for the stylist to determine what needs to be done, what shouldn't be done and what you want. We're hairstylists, not psychics and we don't want to guess at what you want. Never be afraid to ask your stylist if you think a certain hairstyle will look good on you. They'll give they're honest opinion because once you leave the salon, you're a walking advertisement for that stylist and if you look bad, the stylist looks bad. Comment on this posting.

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