Beatuty: Your Best Asset? A Super Great Haircut

A great haircut is like good health. You don’t notice it until you don’t have it. Nothing is more of a turn off than split ends, a grown out hair cut, etc. It just looks like you’re not maintaining your best self. So keep up your hair. Even long hair needs to be trimmed regularly to keep it thick and clean lined. If your budget is limited, find a salon like Vidal Sassoon, which teaches future hairdressers, and needs models to teach on. You will wind up with a free haircut that is probably great.

Got gear?
Okay, you’re home. You have a great new cut. You have new color. You have a bag full of product. You look like a million bucks. Now it’s time to face a woman’s greatest fear. The fear that far outweighs spiders, the dark and rats: THE SHOWER after a salon appointment!!

What will happen to your great new style if you wash it and are left to make it look like it did the day you left the salon? How many days can you go without washing it so you don’t have to face the dreaded “reconstruction?”

Relax. Leave the horror to the horror movies. There is no reason you can’t get your hair to look just as good tomorrow, as it looks today. You just need the right gear.

* A good hair dryer that powers up to at least 1200 watts and has at least three temperature settings. Also, make sure it isn’t too heavy, so you don’t pull a muscle drying your hair. Make sure to clean out the screen area in the back of the dryer every month. Dust and particles get caught in there, and will slow down drying time.

* A diffuser is an attachment that will spread the air out, when you’re drying it — especially handy for curly or wavy hair, when you want to keep the curls or waves. Intense streams of heat will straighten hair, so if you want some curl, or want to protect your curl, pick up a diffuser to attach to your dryer.

* Brushes are an easy way to make your hair look great by using the correct ones. Paddle brushes are wonderful for long, straight hair. They straighten as they brush. If you don’t want your hair straight, don’t use a paddle brush. A vented brush with spaces between bristles is great for blow drying because the spaces allow the dryer air to circulate through your strands while you style, speeding styling. A brush with a hollow, metal core, essentially functions as curlers as you dry, transferring and holding the heat against the hair instead of it just blow through your locks. Brushes with natural boar hair bristles are great for a finishing look.

For more hair tips and beauty advice check out my book Think & Date Like A Man.