How To Style Your Hair | Daily Hair Care

IF YOUR HAIR IS...

TYPE (STRAIGHT/WAVY/CURLY/TIGHT CURLS): The natural state of your hair before any treatments or styling.

TEXTURE (COARSE/FINE): Thickness of the strands of hair. Coarse hair tends to be less shiny and harder to colour. Fine hair can be sensitive to colour. 

DENSITY (THIN/THICK): The amount of actual strands of hair on your head. The longer it takes your hair to naturally dry, the thicker the density.

STRAIGHT+FINE+THIN: Add graduated layers to build up weight and volume. If you're speaking to your hairdresser, these are technically called convex layers.

STRAIGHT+FINE+THICK: Refer back to your face shape, since your hair is usually very manageable and whatever works best for your shape will work for your hair type. Layers are usually great, particularly if you want to add any volumes up top.

STRAIGHT+COARSE+THIN: Graduated layers are best. A round brush can help you get your texture in check, but you will still want to add weight and volume. 

STRAIGHT+COARSE+THICK: This is usually found in women with grey hair. You typically want to remove length from around the face to avoid getting the dreaded frizzy tangle. 

WAVY/CURLY+FINE+THIN: Even though you have curls, you still want to add volume. Ask for graduated layers. 

WAVY/CURLY+FINE+THICK: Your hair may be fine, but you have a lot of it, so you'll want to minimize the volume by adding layers to remove the triangle and cutting out some weight.

WAVY/CURLY+COARSE+THIN: Before you make any moves here, consider how you wear your hair. If you like to blow it out, give it some layers for movement. If you wear it curly, go with long layers around the face to keep it from looking bulky. 

WAVY/CURLY+COARSE+THICK: Layer it up! Taking out weight is key with this hair type. You'll want to remove the volume but keep the length. 

TIGHT CURLS+COARSE: This is a very specific hair type and requires a specialised skill set, so be sure that the person cutting your hair knows what they are doing. Generally a hairdresser should cut your hair down when it is dry, because if it is cut wet it will shrink up afterward and become an entirely different shape. If your hair is short, add layers to build volume. 

TIGHT CURLS+FINE: Follow the same insturctions as above, but go easy! Fine, tight curled hair should be cut with caution because you can see the shape change so quickly.