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Styling Your Own Hair

A great hair day can make or break your attitude and confidence. Whether you're off to work, out with friends, getting ready for a date, or simply running errands, having beautifully styled hair can bring a smile to your face and a spring in your step. We've gathered information to show you how to get big volume, curls to stay, tame fly-a-ways, create an updo and much more.
How Do You Save Time on Your Hair?
Let's face it, styling your hair can take some serious time. When time is scarce, how do you save time behind the mirror?
Vampire Fetish: Embracing the Dark Side
Ready to embrace your inner vampire? Aly Walanasky shares these how-to steps on creating the stunning and erotic hairstyles from the CW's Vampire Diaries!
Behind the Scenes at New York Fashion Week
Check out these behind the scenes photos of New York Fashion Week Hair Stylist Allen Ruiz creating a super chic, 80's inspired modern ballerina bun for the Charlotte Ronson Spring 2010 Runway Show!
Ballerina Chic Hairstyle from New York Fashion Week Stylist Allen Ruiz
See step-by-step directions for creating this 80's inspired modern ballerina chic hair style, hot off the runway of Charlotte Bronson's Spring 2010 runway show at New York Fashion Week.
How Do You Style Your Hair - Different Ways to Style Your Hair
Have you unveiled secrets to create different styles? What are your favorite products for body, shine, curls, or straight hairstyles! We want to know!
One Haircut - Seven Different Styles
If you're tired of wearing your hair in the same way, everyday, check out this photo gallery with inspiration on how to style your hair in different ways! This bob haircut with bangs goes from straight and sleek, to edgy, and even long.
How to Wear A Halloween Wig
So you've decided on your costume for Halloween, now you just need to figure your hairstyle out! Why now wear an inexpensive wig? This article will show you how to wear that Halloween wig like a pro!
How to Create Sarah Palin's Updo
Sarah Palin's hair has been the talk of the 2008 Presidential Election and women everywhere want to know how to get that updo! In this article, I give you step-by-step instructions on how to quickly create this look at home!
Go Long, For a Short Period of Time
This step-by-step guide will teach you how to place clip in hair extensions at home.
How to Do a Classic Beehive Hairdo
Get your fashionable sixties housewife goin' on with this classic beehive hairdo.
Rock Star Pump!
Ever wonder how the starlets get their hair up in that fabulous and trendy pump hairstyle? See how it's done with this quick and easy pump you can do at home.
Simple DIY Updo
A classic look that anyone can pull off, the updo can be fancy or understated depending on how your rock it. Find out how to give yourself an updo at home.
Style Your Own Hair - About.com Guide to Beauty
A great hairstyle can mean the difference between feeling ordinary and extraordinary. Once you get a great cut, maintaining and styling hair properly is key. Here About.com Guide to Beauty, Julyne Derrick, shows you how to create curls, use a flatiron and we share with you the best shampoos and conditioners on the market.
12 Secrets to Sexy Hair
Don't you just love it when your stylist teaches you a trick that you just know you'll use for the rest of your life? Here we've compiled 12 secrets to sexy hair that we learned from years of talking to stylists & compiling style secrets from magazines.
Pump Up Your Volume!
It's back: big, sexy, full-body hair. Here, the pros reveal their top tress-transforming tricks.
Learn to Curl Your Hair with a Curling Iron
Curls can add an alluring bounce or subtle glamor to your hair that can always be useful to know for a last minute decision of a night out on the town. Whether you're after a flip of the ends or spiral curls, learn how to curl hair like a pro, so you don't have to pay one to do it for you.
Hair Forecast
If your hair is affected by the humidity, HairForecast.com is the right place. Hair Forecast takes the daily weather forecast for your city and translates it into a simple scale of 1 to 10 that tells how your hair will behave.

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