Haircuts & Styles

Short Hairstyles With Strong Vertical Lines

A short haircut provides a great way to create a dramatic change in your look or to streamline your morning routine. Short cuts have seen a boom since celebs such as Rihanna worked this look to great advantage. Short haircuts with strong vertical...

How to Sidesweep Your Hair

When you wear a bob or a ponytail just about every day, it can get boring. When you need to spice up your look for any occasion, simply sweeping your hair to the side can be a quick way to go from drab to fab. The sideswept look works for any hair...

How to Keep Hair Curly for Mixed African Americans

You want ravishing curls to reflect your inner diva, but your mixed African American hair may be brittle, dry and kinky. Diligent care can yield soft ringlets and waves, rather than a frizzy ‘fro. Work with your hair, not against it, to keep...

Unusual Cute Ways to Do Your Hair

If you’re stuck in a rut between wearing your locks loose or in a ponytail, then it’s time to inject some sass back into your style. Sure, it’s easy to become stuck in the same styling routine, but it’s not too late to...

Highlighting Hair on Dreadlocks

Rocking a head full of dreads doesn't mean you're forced to flaunt your natural hair color. Be bold and mix up your look by adding a few highlights. Go for sun-kissed sections or a wild pop of color. The process and general pitfalls of...

How to Remove Locking Gel From Hair

Locking gel can help tighten and lock your hair into strong and sturdy dreadlocks. Although you could use beeswax to form dreads, locking gel might be a better choice -- because it doesn’t build up quite as much; you can also remove locking...

How to Style a Feminine Mohawk

Nothing says badass chick like a mohawk. It's a cut that is different and dripping with style. In the past, punks pretty much had the mohawk market cornered with glued up multi-colored spikes sharp as weapons. But this edgy 'do has evolved into a...

Weave Wrap Hairstyles

You've spent time and money getting the perfect weave -- keep it looking beautiful by taking care of it. If you use hot tools to style your hair every morning, your weave hair will get damaged and need to be replaced earlier than expected. Weave...

The Best Moisture Conditioner for Braided Hair

Primitive chicks plaited their hair and tied it with animal sinews to keep it from falling into streams when dudes hunted and gals gathered. Fast-forward to today: those adorable pigtails have morphed into guy bait, so make sure your braids get...

All of the Types of Weaves & Waves

Whether you're considering a subtle change or a “look at me” dramatic new hairstyle, there are enough choices to make your head spin. Weaves are hair extensions added for fullness, a change of texture or additional length. Waves, on...

The Difference Between Choppy Layers and Wispy Layers

Sometimes to freshen up your look, a little haircut may be in order. If you're not looking to lob off all your locks, layers provide a fashionable alternative. Layers give your hair added depth, without removing any length. Your layers can be more...

How to Do a French Twist

Looking to get noticed? Lift yourself out of a hairstyle rut with a feminine and incredibly sweet French twist. Like the little black dress, this hairstyle is a mainstay in the modern woman’s wardrobe – and is simple to create at home....

Natural Black Hairstyles for Basket Weave Hair

Bold bohemian hair like the basket weave braid may swing into the spotlight on long runway locks, but this look isn't only for straight-haired stylistas. The over-and-under pattern typical of basket weaving is just as simple on micro-braids or...

Anticlockwise Hairstyles

When it comes to creating a hot look for your hair, from truly complex coifs to simple styles, twist direction can make the difference between diva and downfall. Done-up, twisted and wavy locks are dependent on consistent, planned direction, which...

Cute Hairstyles for a Sadie Hawkins Dance

Although a modern girl wouldn't be unfamiliar with the idea of asking out a crush herself, back in the 1930s, it would've been considered pretty forward. Back then, the female character Sadie Hawkins' husband-hunting antics in the comic strip...

Spiky Brush Faded Hairstyles

When you think of a spiky brush faded hairstyle, what comes to mind may depend on your own personal style. On the one hand there's the high-on-top sort, which resembles a punk style; on the other side there's the shorter, tighter, more military...

Hairstyles Using an Outliner

Love yourself with a short, sexy hairstyle but could use a little more definition in your 'do? Your trusty clippers can't always cut closely enough for the precise haircuts a modern girl craves. To get those clean, edgy looks your favorite...

How to Part Thick Hair

Sure, you may just routinely style your hair in the same way every day, but have you considered moving your part to revamp your ‘do? You don’t need to cut into your thick, lush locks to shake things up. Moving your part deep to one...

The Textures of African-American Hair Weaves

Finding extensions with the right hair type and color can mean the difference between a major hair 'do and an embarrassing hair don't. If you try to rock a weave with the wrong texture, you'll blow your whole look. Combining a straight weave with...

Definition of a Dead Weave

Are your hair extensions looking dull, dry and lifeless? Girl, you have a dead weave on your hands. Like your natural locks, a weave is totally susceptible to a bad hair day. There's no need to hide your extensions under a hat, or even hit the...