Teased Tendrils
A roughed-up, teased-out texture is so sock-hop-meets-punk-rock. Spray hair with hair spray and backcomb the back section. Pull a few pieces forward to frame your face. Twirl around your fingers for a tendril-ish effect.
Throw a few haphazard bobby pins in to keep the messy, quickie beehive texture.
Chic Curls
It's easy to get these sexy curls. In the shower, go easy on the shampoo — the more natural oils left in your hair the better. Steer clear of vigorously towel-drying and instead, blot hair so your bathroom floor doesn't end up covered in water.
Then cocktail equal parts gel and leave-in conditioner and coat damp hair in the mixture. Carefully and lightly scrunch hair (stopping a few inches below the root, so you get the top to lie flat). Air-dry, and keep your hands off since touching your hair creates frizz.
Fun and Flirty
To get this flirty look, apply a texture spray to damp hair. Roughly blow-dry, working hair through your hands.
Take a mini flat iron and straighten sections for definition and shine.
Tousled Texture
Get a sexy tousled look in a few easy steps. Wash hair with a volumizing shampoo-skimp on the conditioner since you want healthy hair but don't want to weigh it down. Spray volumizer all over and blow-dry hair fast and furious without a comb or brush, just shaking your fingers through to rough up the texture.
Once it's absolutely dry, use a bit of dry shampoo to ramp up the bedhead-y texture.
Pretty Pixie
A cropped pixie cut for curly textures looks so chic — but you need to use products that add a lot of moisture and shine to keep hair from puffing up. Even though hair is short, use a rich conditioner. Run a cocktail of styling cream and gel through damp hair. If you can stand it, let your hair air-dry.
Otherwise, use a small round brush to smooth out the very front sections, then blow-dry brush-free on a very low setting.
Va-va-voom Volume
First thing's first: Get shiny sideswept bangs. Run a styling cream through and dry immediately, making sure you pull the brush down and to the side as you go, training the bangs to stay put. Comb an anti-frizz through your hair (use a brush to make sure you really distribute the product).
Blow-dry sections in back with a round brush to smooth out the look. Then, dry the front pieces by combing them through with your fingers so you get that great, sexy wave.
Bold Bangs
For a modern-looking bob, keep hair well-moisturized and massage your scalp gently even when you don't wash your hair. Place small sections of hair into large rollers and sit under a drying hood.
When your hair is nearly dry, remove the rollers and blow-dry on a very low heat.
Flat iron your bangs for the finishing touch.
Sleek Shine
Rock your natural texture and go all '60s folk-rock goddess with a combination of middle part and glossy finish. For dark brunettes, a moisturizing, color-enhancing shampoo and conditioner is the first step to slippery shine. Make a strong middle part while hair is damp and dry hair on a cool setting. Then, methodically flat iron one-inch sections from root to tip.
Run a shine serum through your hair, using your palms to really smooth down any flyaways at the roots.
Soft and Sultry
To get this sultry style, spritz hair with styling spray and blow-dry with a round brush for volume and so ends are smooth and polished. Take medium-sized Velcro rollers and wrap hair down around them in one-inch sections. Leave rollers in your hair for at least 20 minutes. Spray with a fine-mist, strong-hold hairspray before removing the rollers.
With a natural boar bristle paddle brush, brush out the front/top section of your hair so you get that swooshy, sexy hair-falling-over-one-eye effect. Leave the rest of the curls more solidly in tact. Just shake them out a little bit so hair looks soft.
Textured Tresses
Finger-comb through dry hair to get a little volume and separation. Mist hair with spray gel to give separation, texture and hold.
Pull one side loosely back, keeping hair in front of your ear-this should look undone and almost messy.
Source: marie claire