Whether you saw your favourite celebrity rocking a new hairdo or got inspired by a look in a trendy music video, you may feel now is the time to change up your hairstyle. Choosing a new ‘do can mean choosing a dramatic change, like going from long hair to a shorter style. You might also adopt a new look with a hair colour treatment, switching from natural hues to vibrant colours.
If you’re undecided or just looking for inspiration, explore these five amazing hair transformation ideas to help you commit to a new style.
1. Brunette to Blonde Locks
Going from dark brown or light brunette to blonde can significantly change your appearance. Adopting a warm, honey-toned blonde can brighten your skin tone and bring out differing chocolate, amber, and caramel hues in brown eyes. Opting for a cool-toned platinum blonde can give you a trendy, chic look that matches your outgoing style.
Work with your stylist to choose the best colouring technique to get you to the blonde shade you desire. For instance, you can achieve a more dramatic change through all-over colour or highlights, while partial highlights offer a softer option. You can also go with foil highlights and warm toner to give a natural colour lift to neutral or strawberry blonde.
2. Colour Transformations
Switching your natural hair colour for another shade is a guaranteed way to refresh your look. Take inspiration from celebs like Megan Fox and Lizzo, and trade your blond tresses in for pink hair or two-toned mermaid styles.
On-trend saturated shades like pink, purple, and lime green work best on naturally blond or light brown hair since your natural hair needs to be bleached for the colour pigments to absorb into the strands. Always visit a salon for these colour changes to avoid hot roots and patchy ends.
Try half head highlights if you are more interested in a subtle change to your current hair colour. This treatment focuses on highlighting sections on the top layer of hair only, lightening your natural shade.
3. Natural Curls to Sleek and Straight
Swap your bouncy natural curls for a sleek do that is easy to maintain. A keratin treatment is a semi-permanent way to smooth your strands and revive dull, frizzy hair. Keratin treatments also repair damage from heat styling tools, frequent chemical treatments, and UV rays by sealing the hair strands’ outer cuticle layer.
Keratin treatments involve applying a straightening product containing glyoxylic acid and keratin, a protein naturally found in your hair, to your tresses. Then, your stylist blow dries your hair and seals the strands with a straightening iron. The process breaks and reforms the bonds that create your hair pattern, leaving you with silky straight hair.
4. Pixie Cut Transformation
Opting for a pixie cut can give you a new bold style if you have long hair. The pixie cut is a style that typically features short, inches-long hair in the back and sides with slightly more length on top.
The cut gained popularity in the late 1960s when supermodel Twiggy sported the hairdo. It’s a timeless option and offers freedom from the daily upkeep required for longer hair. It’s also easier to style and highlights your facial features.
When discussing a possible pixie cut with your stylist, communicate the look you’re going for. If you have curly hair, you might opt for longer strands as your curls may sit differently on your head once cut short. You can also go with straight-cut micro bangs, a slicked-back pixie, or completely crop your hair. Your stylist can assess your face and head shape to give you ideas of which cut will look best on you.
If you go short and decide you want long hair, you can get hair extensions until your natural locks grow back.
5. Curtain Bangs
This year’s biggest fringe trend is curtain bangs, with celebrities like Aussie favourite Elle Macpherson and style icon Jennifer Lopez sporting the look. The style is a throwback to ‘60s and ‘70s bombshells such as Farrah Fawcett and Goldie Hawn and is a softer alternative to blunt fringes.
The style is characterised by a centre-parted fringe with strands that gracefully frame your face. The strands are typically cut longer than standard bangs, often starting at the brow or cheekbones and blended back into the rest of your hair.
Curtain bangs are universally flattering on any face shape and hair length, from long blond hair to short bobs. They are easy to style by just blow drying back from your face, and they require fewer trims and maintenance than other fringe styles; as they grow out, they become framing layers.
Cutters His & Hers Hairdressing can help you stay on top of hair trends for 2022 and get that new look you want. Our expert stylists are passionate about transforming their clients’ hair and helping them sport a look that boosts their confidence and style.
We provide multiple services to help you achieve your hair transformation goals, from upkeep treatments and hair colouring services to hair cutting and styling for both men and women.
Call us today to book your appointment and change up your look.