Jessie J Is Back To Her Dark Side!

Back to Black

 

Jessie J is one celebrity that seems to be able to carry any hair style! In March, she went from having long dark locks straight to the extreme of shaving it all off, then dying it blonde. But of course, this gorgeous singer rocked her new style and it then became her signature look. And the world loved it! But, from her instagram, Jessie J obviously needed a change and went back to her dark hair. Although this beauty clearly has no bad hair days, we prefer her striking blonde hair!

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Jennifer Lawrence Girl On Fire With New Pixie Crop

A Closer Look at the Jennifer Lawrence Pixie Cut

 

 Jennifer Lawrence's pixie-cut is a variation to traditional cropped cuts tightly tapered nape through the back, and an asymmetrical, short to long feel through the top and sides. But it’s the piece-y separation of texture that gives this style the modern, perfectly imperfect balance. She’s such a looker, and the cut exposes features like strong, high cheekbones, wide mouth, and unique eyes, which is always a good way to approach your beauty look. So while we’ll miss the flowing tousled locks that gave Jennifer a wow-factor, we can’t deny that we are loving this crop with a boyish twist.

Step 1: For a similar shape to Jennifer ask for a tightly tapered, graduated nape with length left on top. Get your stylist to create an asymmetrical, short to long feel. Razor-cutting will enhance a loose, imperfect texture.

Step 2: Cocktail Kerastase Short Mania  and Kevin Murphy Undressed to get hold and volume with a messy undone finish. Work through damp hair from roots to ends and blast dry with a blow-dryer, using hands to create movement and texture in the hair.

Step 3: Finish with a light layer of Kerastase Powder Bluff to enhance volume and slept in grit.

 

Step 4: For more durability spray lightly with Kevin Murphy Session Spray.

 

Style Notes: Lattouf Hair & Day Spa

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Anne Hathaway Goes Blonde

Anne Hathaway Goes To The Met Gala In New Blonde ‘Do

Last week we told you all about the Met’s Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: From Chaos to Couture. Now, after last night’s big celebrity Gala, stars of stage and screen can be seen getting their punk on. Anne Hathaway got in the mood for an anti-establishment freedom fight with a tough-looking black Valentino vintage gown and bleached blonde locks. The flaxen hue offers a stark contrast to her complexion and brooding brown eye color –– a striking antithesis of her usual soft and pretty looks. Like Hathaway, going blonde can make you look and feel like an entirely new person; it is, however, a big commitment, so it’s important to know your options. For our professional advice on getting fair, golden locks, come into Lattouf for your free colour consultation. 

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Pop Haircuts - Blonde Hairstyles Part 4

Brunettes or blondes that is the question and we've all heard the blonde jokes but ignore those and just go for what's going to suit you the best. If you're thinking of going blonde (or blonder), here's a guide on how to choose from the do it yourself home kits that are widely available.

The first thing to remember if you've never coloured your hair before, is that it's a risky business and we urge that you don't ignore safety features such as the 48 hour patch test and that you follow guidelines on lightening your shade or you may end up with that dodgy orange that people try so hard to avoid.

The second thing to consider is your skin tone, you may absolutely love a haircut and colour on a celebrity or friend but you have to think carefully about whether this would look good on you, in terms of skin tone, face shape and hair type. If you're not sure, your hairdresser will advise and they do tend to know what they're talking about.

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Victoria's Secret Model Rosie Huntington's Soft Curls

English actress and model, Rosie Huntington-Whitely sounds as posh as they come. And this elegant and stylishly luxurious mass of center-parted blonde waves is an aristocrat of shape and form. Playfully quaint, full of allure, the tumbling wave cascade is a seventies throwback, yet retains its modernity with a loose, whimsical attitude. Golden blonde is a perfect match for a fair complexion and blue eyes.

Step: Towel dry hair to damp and create a center-part. Step: Generously apply KMS FreeShape Hot Flex Spray which will aid in a long lasting style and protect from heat damage. Step: Starting a few inches off of the root (so the style is straight at the roots and then tumbles into waves) and curl hair with mid-size curling iron. Step: Allow to cool. Blast curls with a blowdryer and brush them into a softer shape, creating romantic, tumbling waves. Step: Mist finished look with KMS Hair Play Dry Touch Up to add texture and lighly spritz with KMS Hair Stay Medium Hold Hairspray. Style Tips Stephan Lattouf - Lattouf Hair & Day Spa...

Blonde For Non-blondes

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Celebrity HairStyle Inspiration: Golden Highlights & Long Waves for Halston Sage

Nickelodeon starlet Halston Sage knows How to Rock this mid-to-long length heavily layered cut. The color is a great fit for her California-girl complexion. Using different tones of blonde – from dark and dirty to bright and golden – the subtle combination highlighting adds depth, dimension, and looks sensational. The shape and movement of strands flowing around her face-frame accentuate her strong cheekbones and pretty eyes for a youthful, beautifying style. It’s a straightforward long layer cut, made special with great color, and artful, feature-enhancing styling. For tips to attaining a similar look see below.

Step: So as long as your natural base color is no darker than a mid-brown, these flaxen highlights are well within your reach. Talk to your colourist about all-over multi-dimensional highlights ranging from fashionable dirty blonde to classic golden.

The cut is a classic long layer shape with center-part. Layers should fall around cheekbones and chin, to spotlight femininity.

Step: For styling, blowdry hair full yet smooth by cocktailing KEVIN.MURPHY FULL AGAIN and BODY.BUILDER applying body builder to the roots and FULL.AGAIN to the mid lenghts and ends; working through damp hair, and blowdrying with boar bristle round brush.
Step: After blowdry apply 1-2 pumps of KEVIN.MURPHY YOUNG.AGAIN and create tousled, ‘S’ and ‘C’ shaped waves that dance around the face frame. Mist a layer of KEVIN.MURPHY SESSION.SPRAY to add texture, hold, and humidity defense.

Style tips: Jackey - Creative Director Lattouf Hair & Day Spa Hornsby.
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How To Get Your Vintage Faux Bob

Vintage Faux Bob

In the 1920s, when bobs first came into style, the cut was associated with the controversial flapper movement. Still wanting to be fashionable, less daring ladies wore their hair waved and pinned into head hugging shapes. Today, we know bobs are here to stay, but if you want the look without the commitment, this coif is a beautiful way to fake a shorter style. Get your own flapper inspired look in a few easy steps….

Step: Mist hair with KMS FREE SHAPE Hot Flex Spray for a longer lasting style and thermal protection. Curl in large sections using a mid-sized curling iron. Allow hair to cool and brush through gently to create soft waves.

Step: At the nape, pin hair flat with a row of crisscrossed bobby pins leaving the front sections loose. Wrap the ends up and over creating a small roll and secure into the row of pins.

Step: Sculpt the hair around the temples into defined waves and pin to hold in place. Spray with KMS HAIR STAY Medium Hold Hair Spray to hold and finish.

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Highlight From the VMAs: Taylor Swift’s Flapper Fantastic Ringlets

 

 

In the 1920s, Flappers were a new breed of women intent on flouting the rules of acceptable society. Known for being brash, treating sex casually, and dressing provocatively –– they had the temerity to bob their hair –– these fashionable young women set the scene for women’s liberation. Now, with The Great Gatsby remake bringing the Jazz Age back into style, many of springs trends are modern interpretations of the fashions of that time. Always on the pulse, Taylor Swift cut right to it at the VMAs. Her romantic pin-curls give her a faux-bob shape, creating a vintage, retro vibe that swings like a Charleston. With modern hot-tools, anyone with mid-length locks can recreate pin-curls in a few minutes, giving you a memorable style that will be the envy of your friends. Learn how in the style notes below.

Step: Prep hair with KEVIN.MURPHY FULL AGAIN Make a deep side-part. Section hair from the crown to the ears.

Step: Starting from the crown, make half-inch horizontal sections, and sub-divide into three or four vertical sections. If it helps, use pins or clips to clip sections (that you are not working on) out of the way.

Step: Now use a curing iron to create curl in these vertical sections, working inward towards the face. The barrel size of the iron determines the kinds of curls you make. For tight, flapper curls, use a 3/4 inch or one inch curling iron. (Use a bigger iron for softer, less curly, more wavy looks.)

Step: Once a curl is made, use pin-curl clips to pin to head. repeat all around. Once all curls are clipped, mist with KEVIN.MURPHY SESSION.SPRAY and allow to cool (to speed this up, use the cool air button on your blow-dryer).

Step: Once cool, brush out gently with a flat-brush until the curly shape is as you like it (use Taylor’s image as inspiration). Now use pins all around to secure in place. Mist again with SESSION.SPRAY to add extra hold to the finish.

 

Or if your not talented with a curling wand then book into a your closest Lattouf Hair & Day Spa location for a set and style this will give you the same look but with a longer lasting hold.

 

 

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Hair The Perfect Canvas

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Peeking Pastels

In this image, pastel and jewel tones come together in elegantly smudged layers of cool hues. Like the blended finish of a watercolor painting, this vibrant look is bright and clear –– with dazzling shades of violet and blue offsetting sparks of silver and beige. The sophisticated cut has shorter, tapered lengths underneath, which allows the longer strands of the fringe and crown to move with liquid fluidity.
An eye-skimming front lends a playful sexiness to the shape. To get this artful look in a few simple steps, 
Step: Shape and color work together to create this look. Start with an undercut area from temples to nape. This will collapse the hair underneath and provide a backdrop for the surface texture.
Step: Color the shorter undercut in a dark tone and lift the strand on top to a bright cool blonde. Tone the blonde with a platinum shade, then add bright pieces with hair chalk or semi-permanent color.
Step: Use color save shampoo and conditioner to keep vibrancy and prevent color bleeding between the intermingled shades.
We recommend KEVIN MURPHY BLONDE ANGEL WASH, RINSE & TREATMENT available this summer at Lattouf Hair & Day Spas www.lattouf.com.au

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Pop Haircuts - Blonde Hairstyles Part 2

Neutral golden blonde is another dark blonde hair color idea that proves to be a perfect option for people with warm skin tones. Unlike the regular golden blonde that features more of unnatural yellow tones, choosing a slightly neutral medium dark one with less golden tones can prove to be beneficial in making your tresses look natural and beautiful. Neutral golden looks beautiful especially in a hairstyle that is in an up do or is worn straight down. However it must be remembered that since neutral tones often change in artificial hair color pigments when they are exposed to various cleansing products or sun, maintaining them can prove to be difficult. Thus using a pigmented shampoo becomes vital to keep your tresses looking shiny and healthy....

Pop Haircuts - Blonde Hairstyles Part 1

Dark blonde hair color proves to be a versatile color for all seasons. A shade that can vary from a dark golden tone to cooler tone of dark ash, this hair color is at the other end of platinum blonde and features different tones including warm, cool and neutral ones. While the warmer shades work great for summer and spring, the neutral and cooler shades seem to be an ideal option for autumn and winter. So if you are looking forward for coloring your hair in this shade, choosing any one of the color ideas listed in this guide will go along way in opting the right one....

Kim Kardashian Goes Blonde!

 

 

Exciting Kardashian news today as the most famous of them all finally unveiled, properly at least, her new dark golden blonde ‘do. Twitter went into a flutter over the weekend as Kim showed a very small sneak peak with a hinting tweet, but here’s the first proper show of her latest bombshell look. Keeping it on the darker side of flaxen helps her to pair the hue with her ravishing dark eyes, without too much stark contrast. The variation in tone gives her ripples of shimmering color all over. Kim’s power and influence means this will be a hot shade for fall…

Step: Talk to your colourist about transitioning to dark blonde.“High lift blondes’ are a salon service that enables most to go 4-5 levels lighter, without bleaching. Bleaching is one of the most damaging things for hair, so exploring other options will help you keep color-treated locks as lustrous as Kim’s.
Step: Use KMS Color Vitality Blonde Shampoo and conditioner to preserve shine and tone.
Step: Use KEVIN.MURPHY BORN.AGAIN Treatment masque as a weekly, health-giving treatment conditioner. Packed with mango and shea butter, it puts back what hair loses in chemical services.
Step: Style with KMS Dry touch up, it means you can go longer between ‘wet’ shampooing. Like dry cleaning your red silk dress, this extends the life of color, instead of rinsing it away and add volume to your look with KEVIN MURPHY POWDER.PUFF.

Style tips Mary Luangkhoth from Lattouf Hair & Day Spa

 

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Pop Haircuts - Blonde Hairstyles Part 3

Highlighting is great way to add some sparkle and shine in your hair. A perfect idea for all those who have colored into ash or neutral tones, adding highlights of brown or black will not only add more interest to your color but will also aid in breaking up the color, thus making you look more fashionable and trendy....

Lordy, Lorde Is A Pop Princess

Lordy, Lorde Is A Pop Princess

 

The first New Zealander to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Lorde became pop royalty in 2016. Appropriately, The Wild Magazine dressed her in a regal crown for an editorial featured in their Youth Issue. Actually, what we love is the combination of hair textures; from straight at the crown, her style tumbles into a mass of terrific beach waves that surround her unusual and striking features.

 

 

 

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Johnny Depp Goes Blond — Love It Or Leave It?

Johnny Depp Goes Blond — Love It or Leave It?

Johnny Depp has taken a hair cue from Kim Kardashian and gone blond. The actor debuted his new look at the BFI London Film Festival Awards on Saturday, where his striking new hair almost overshadowed why he was at the event, which was to honor Sir Christopher Lee, with whom he costarred in Dark Shadows and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Johnny's dramatic new look is most likely for his new role in Into the Woods, which is currently filming in England. He will play the wolf in the highly anticipated film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical of the same name.

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The Perfect Bob-pixie Hybrid In 3 Steps

The perfect bob-pixie hybrid in 3 steps 

It’s almost spring; and summer is just around the corner. Of course, we still have a few weeks of winter left to enjoy, but if you want a new shape for spring & summer, it’s a great time to start collecting inspiration. Whether you went short for the summer or are contemplating a chic crop this bob-pixie hybrid is the perfect choice. Length up top with short sides and back is a great transition shape whether you’re going longer or shorter. A rich caramel base with lighter lengths around the face gives  a softer summer blonde.

Step 1: The sides of the cut should be kept under three inches to prevent bulkiness. A square layering technique will give leanness to the shape for a face-slimming effect. The top length can look great anywhere from cheekbone to chin, but keeping it below the corner of the mouth will allow you to cover the sides when desired for an instant bob shape that conceals the undercut.

Step 2: Kerastase Short Mania will give the shape malleable control, apply liberally when hair is damp and either air dry or gently tousle with fingers. Part deeply as shown to highlight the disconnection or part in the center for a more blended effect.

Step 3: Polish the ends and add separation with a spritz of  Kerastase spray a porter pulled through the tips and smoothed over the sides.

Style Tips Lattouf Hair and Day Spa 

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