Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hollywood's favorite new hairstyle (and how to get it).

According to celebrity hairstylist, Charles Baker Strahan, tousled hair is the style everyone in Hollywood is loving right now. He shows us— and one lucky Thread viewer— how to get the look!



Picture a head of low-key, artfully messy soft waves. That’s tousled hair. Charles has given this sexy, “perfectly imperfect” look to all his girls, including Becki Newton and Leighton Meester, and he insists that we can do it ourselves at home using products from Herbal Essences Tousle Me Softly collection.

Our model Jenny, 27, who works in skincare, has fantastic long, medium textured hair, which she wears up in a ponytail most of the time. Charles broke down the steps for us as he gave Jenny a tousled makeover. 

Step 1. Wash with Tousle Me Softly shampoo and conditioner.

Step 2. Prep hair with styling cream and/or mousse. In Jenny’s case he used a golf ball size handful of mousse.

Step 3. Dry hair. Use a round brush under heat to set it.

Step 4. Add tousels and volume. With a curling iron— or multiple irons of varying widths— add curls in different directions. Smooth out flyaways near the roots with a flat iron. 

Step 5. Finishing cream and flexible hold hair spray will keep the tousles in place and leave hair soft—not crunchy!

Of course, Jenny looked great—she loved the volume and the bouncy tousles— and she’s going to try it again at home and let us know how it goes.

For even more in depth instruction, here’s a link to the styling section of Herbal Essences.

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  • sunny's Avatar
    Posted by sunny Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:09am PDT

    tousled? oh, you mean wavy? funny how fashion people take new words to make something old sound new ..

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  • Stephanie A's Avatar
    Posted by Stephanie A Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:20am PDT

    WOW long hair that looks unbrushed!! Where do I sign up?

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  • MK G's Avatar
    Posted by MK G Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:45am PDT

    It would be nice if they included Hollywood's favorite new short hair style, not everyone has long hair...

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  • Jennifer's Avatar
    Posted by Jennifer Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:06pm PDT

    yeah, that was a waste...what's wrong with big hair from the 80's????'

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  • Gholam Hosein's Avatar
    Posted by Gholam Hosein Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:05am PDT

    Hi; I have very chat girls friend

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  • Audrey Clementine's Avatar
    Posted by Audrey Clementine Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:51am PDT

    I've never been able to do this style because my straight hair doesn't hold a curl

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  • memo's Avatar
    Posted by memo Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:12am PDT

    i only know that herbal is good for my hair so thank you

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  • Joy's Avatar
    Posted by Joy Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:24pm PDT

    my hair looks like that naturally before.but then i straight it. and i f------ regret it.to lose naturally curly hair.damn.so sad.

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  • ValJ's Avatar
    Posted by ValJ Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:57pm PDT

    How can anyone really do anything with this hair? Can you actually do work with it? Ridiculous

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  • lynnc's Avatar
    Posted by lynnc Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:55am PDT

    I just wonder how much Herbal Essence paid this guy do this "commercial" because a professioanl hairstylist would never reccomend a non-professional product.....or maybe he is just an actor. I am a hairstlyist and I don't know of anyone in my profession that would reccomend drug store brands.

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