Archive for the 'Hair' Category

Short and Colourful

While nowadays, short hair done in side fringes is traditionally associated with the emo culture, it has also become popular among others who don’t wish to dye their hair black and listen to False Start.
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Seen in many different colours and lengths, the fluffy style is easy to maintain, and makes a lovely look similar to […]

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Quiffs

Such a pretty way to do one’s fringe, and it only requires a few bobby pins. What more could you want?
Perhaps the craze of putting one’s hair in a quiff originated when someone decided their hair looked rather shapeless flat, or perhaps it began when someone pulled their fringe back and decided they liked it […]

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Headbands

Another hair accessory that used to be popular, and is back again.
While in somewhat recent years past, the headband was more popular in it’s stretchy fabric form, headbands are back, and the majority are hard, thin, plastic.
Usually black, these are one of the more recent additions to a girls’ hair-drobe.

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Side Fringes

Instead of the old-style box fringes or the other alternative - no fringe, teenagers now tend to be going for the newest addition to the fringe collection, the side fringe.
Almost every teenage female visit to the hairdressers’ will end with some form of a side fringe, and while one of the main attractions appears to […]

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Straightened

Not all that long ago, curly hair was “in”. Now, however, it seems the straighteners have taken over.
The trend started a little while ago, possibly originating as a way to eliminate annoying frizz, but it turned into one of the most popular styles of today. Suddenly, every homeware store in the country began selling their […]

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Platinum Blonde

Christina Aguilera started the teenage hair-bleaching phase a while ago, when she went platinum blonde.
Since, everyone from gingas (ginger hair turned blonde, with ginger regrowth can be an interesting sight..) to those with lovely brunette hair have been following the trend, paying at times hundreds, only to have their head look like a carbon copy […]

Monday, September 18th, 2006