Thursday, January 8, 2009

Beauty Tips - For Hair And Appearance

By C R Bolden

Are you interested in improving your appearance? If you are, are you interested in learning what types of makeup is best for you, as well as how to properly apply it? If you are, you may have turned to the internet or to different fashion magazines, but have you ever thought about buying a beauty book? If you haven't or even if you have, you may be wondering whether or not these are really worth the money.

There are so many different beauty tips that you can use, and so the more tips that you learn, obviously the better off you will be overall. We all care what we look like and we all want to look our very best, and this is why knowing about the most beauty tips that we can is such a great idea.

Hair stylists around the globe are trained in a variety of ways to create beautiful designs with a person's hair. There are many factors that make hair more or less difficult to style. The texture of one's hair can be either fine or thick, smooth or coarse, and all different variations in between. The hair may be dry or oily, damaged or brittle, yet there are methods that can be used with any type of hair to give it a healthy and lustrous glow.

Different colored hair is suited to different styles as well. For example, blonde hair can look quite beautiful with long, golden layers. Black hair looks elegant, on the other hand, in straight short layers with a thick, shiny look. No matter what hair color is chosen, a style can be match.

A person's hair can come in all shapes and sizes and is a unique feature that each individual has to call their own. The way in which one wears their hair is a matter of personal taste and preference, as there are thousands of hairstyles, both long and short to choose from. Black hair styles are as diverse as the people who wear them as well and are highly unique to the black culture. As the texture of a black person's hair is often very coarse and/or curly, different styles are used on their hair than a person of a different race. Beauty and style are an essential part of black hair, and great care is invested into taking care of one's hair within the black community, as in many others as well.

Blonde hair is normally associated with a femme fatale, Rebel without a Cause and one notices it everywhere and women are often found in salons begging for more bleach. Hair that is Blonde is characterized by low levels of dark pigment eumelanin as well as high levels of pale pigment phemelanin and is believed to be found in various blonde in less than two per cent of the total population of the world.

It seems like curly hair is making a big splash what with trend setting celebrities such as Beyonce, Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera all sporting curly locks. It is debatable whether they are more convenient to maintain but are still associated with less time consuming hair dos. However, it tends to be dryer as well as more brittle and is prone to frizzing as compared to straight hair.

If you are beyond your high school years, the term emo might not mean much to you. However, if you belong to this age group or if you are the parent of teens, you might be aware that emo hair has become the modern punk look of today. The term emo is actually short for the word emotional and was first used to describe a genre of music. Now emo is used to describe everything from music, to hair, to clothing styles. One of the most popular aspects of this trend is the new hair styles that are referred to as emo hair. - 16004

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