8 Romantic Long Hairstyles For Spring 2011

Here’s 8 different types of long hairstyles you can go for to get ready for spring this year. They look natural, refreshing and very romantic.

The Girl-Next-Door Look: Long chestnut brown colored hair with slight waves at the ends of hair. Go for bangs for a more youthful and refreshed look. You can achieve this look without perming your hair, simply use a heated curler to curl the ends of your hair and you will get this look.

The Feminine Look: This look is pretty similar to the one above, but the length of this style is shorter (shoulder length hair). You can go for this first and when your hair grows longer, you can still get the look above.

The Diva Look: You can also use your heated hair curler to make larger curls at the bottom section of your hair to create lush curls like these.

The Tousled Look: This is a look that can be achieved with a Japanese perm to create a slight wavy look. Hair color is dark brown and bangs are sweep to the side.

The Cute Look: This is a ceramic digital hair perm that is able to create stronger and larger curls. Digital perm lasts longer and brings out stronger curls, but take note that it can also be quite damaging to hair.

The Princess Look: Get a Japanese perm to create the slight waves throughout the hair and then go for light ash brown color.

The Sweet Look: This light brown colored hair is long (below shoulders) and fringe is kept long as well with side parting. Hair ends are curled in to create the slightly wavy look.

The Chic Look: Hair color is blonde, with light natural waves throughout hair and with bangs to go with it.

Should You Go For Hair Color Or Hair Highlights? | Asian Hair

Many people like to enhance their asian hair styles with hair coloring but don’t know which hair color will be best for them. With so many hair salons and hair coloring products in the market, it can get very confusing when it comes to deciding which hair color option to go for.

Two popular asian hair coloring services are overall hair color/hair dye and hair highlights. Both can be great way for brightening up your hair and adding an interesting look to your hair styles. How do you decide between an overall hair color, a hair highlighting job or both? How do you know what’s right for your hair and individual style? Here are a few pointers to take note:

Choose overall color if:

- You have a weird hair texture (like frizzy hair) and adding hair color will help divert attention away from your hair problems.
- Your hair is extremely short and adding hair color will make it stand out more.
- You have more than 30% gray hair and adding hair color will make you look younger by at least 3 years or more.
- You have natural black asian hair and dark skin and dark eyebrows. A fresh hair color like light brown or red will prevent you from looking too dull.
- You look better in warm, vibrant colors such as red or warm brown.
- Your cut is already trendy enough and you don’t want to overdo it, so adding a new hair color is a better option than adding contrasting hair highlights.

Choose hair highlights if:

- Your hairstyle is plain with no layers or no other interesting cuts. Hair highlights will help to make your hair stand out more.
- If you have dirty blonde or light brown hair, adding darker hair highlights will make you look more interesting and less dull.
- If you have a little bit of gray hair and you just want to blend it in, then adding some hair highlights will help make your gray hair look less obvious.
- If you can’t commit to getting your roots touched up regularly, adding hair highlights are a great way to divert attention away from newly grown hair roots and its natural hair color.
- If you look great in cool colors such as blues and greens, go for blue or green  hair highlights instead of overall hair color, as doing an overall color of blue and green on your asian hair will make you look like a freak.
- If your hair style needs a little interesting touches to your fringe, going for a few chunky hair highlights on the fringe  will do the trick.
- If you are uncomfortable of a big change or you are scared that you might not be able to take the new hair color, going for a hair highlighting job will lessen the risk and let you visualize how you will look like if you go for a overall hair coloring job with your preferred hair dye color.

Do both if:

- You have a lot of gray hair but still like the interesting effects that only highlighting your hair can achieve. A overall hair color acts as a consistent asian hair base color while hair highlights will help to jazz up your hair style.
- You want to add some red or warm color tones and have an existing hair color that is uneven or residue hair highlights on the fringe that was done in the past.
- You want to change to another hair base color before you get new hair highlights.

There are many factors to consider before you decide to go for a overall hair coloring or hair highlighting job. If you have  a preferred asian hair color, you can talk to your hair stylist about it and do not hesitate to ask for advice if you have no idea what you want or what color suits your best .

Things You Need To Know Before Getting Your Hair Dyed | Asian Hair

Imagine you come across a luscious red head on the hair color box and you think you can simply apply the hair dye to your black asian hair and viola!  - you get the exact same hair color after an hour!  But is it really that simple and achieveable?

The truth is that the same red color is not going to turn out exactly as the one seen on the hair dye box. In fact, the color you achieve will depend on your existing hair color. If your asian hair is at its natural black or already have darker color like dark brown due from the previous hair dye job, it will come out as a dark red. But if you already have very light or blonde hair from a previous hair dye job, then it will turn out as bright red color! So don’t always think that what you see on the box is what you will get!

Many asians like to get bright hair colors like flaming red or purpleish red or pink highlights. To do that, they will need to bleach their hair in order to attain such bright colors. Bleach is not a hair dye and can cause damage to your hair if done frequently. It merely remove your existing hair color pigments and act as a base before a lighter hair dye colour like bright red, pink or blue is applied. Asians usually do more bleaching than caucasians because asians have naturally darker hair color and bleaching will help to bring out the light and bright color that they desire.

You need to know that all hair dye products will cause some damage ot the hair to a certain extent. If you seek a 100% all natural hair dye, then its best to go for plant-based henna hair dye. Otherwise, a temporary hair dye  like semi-permanent hair dye and and hair highlights should be able to color hair without harsh chemicals involved. Permanent hair dyes contain this element call hydrogen peroxide, which can be used to cover graying hair more effectively or to lighten hair color.  Semi-permanent hair dye usually won’t get washed out so fast but it will also won’t last as long as the permanent ones. However, semi-permanent hair dyes are less harmful to the hair then permanent ones.

One thing to remember is that you should never mix different hair dye products, such as buying another hair dye brand to mix with the first bottle when the first one is not enough. This will evoked potentially harmful reactions to your hair and worst still, an uneven hair color. After you had a hair dye or hair color job, you need to do touch-ups to sustain the color at least every 3 months as your hair starts to grow out and the color starts fading due to exposure sun, harsh environmental conditions and regular washing of hair.

So next time when you get your asian hair coloured, remember to set the right expectations and know what you are getting into.

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