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From classic braids to nifty knots, ponytail veil to ballet bun, Hair has more than 40 great styles for girls to try. Easy-to-follow instructions, stylist secrets, and great grooming tips will make haircare a breeze.Author: American Girl Editors Spiral-bound: 64 pages Company: Amer Girl (2000-09-01) (2000-09-01) ISBN: 1584850388 List Price: $8.95 Amazon Price: $4.48 Used Price: $0.01 
Cutting hair is rife with inspiration and style but has room for critique. Understanding how to read and work with hair is something many stylists work toward their entire lives. Cosmo Easterly, master stylist and the author of this book, brings his expertise to you in this complete guide to understanding hair. Designed to guide even the most untrained hair stylists through the rigors of the industry, you will learn everything you need to know to transform yourself from just another stylist into one with returning customers. This book features tips on hair styling methods and outlines the required resources you need to be a successful hair stylist. You will learn all the necessary aspects of the hair styling profession, starting with the most essential: the mindset every stylist needs when cutting and styling hair. You will learn the essence of creativity in reading, cutting, forming, coloring, and texturing hair. You will also learn how to talk with your clients and learn what they want, how they react to you, and what you can expect when cutting their hair. Presented by Cosmo Easterly, a premier name in hair styling, this guide will teach you everything imaginable about the industry before jumping into the key components of cutting, shaping, coloring, and perming. You will learn about balance points, symmetry, lotions, tension wrapping, and the particular needs of fine, medium, and coarse hair. For every potential and soon-to-be hair stylist, Cosmo Easterly's complete guide to understanding and styling hair is a stepping stone into the industry.Author: Cosmo Easterly Paperback: 116 pages Company: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) (2009-08-03) ISBN: 1601384025 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $14.97 Used Price: $14.97 
Originally published in 1948 and considered to be one of the rarest styling books of the era, this book covers general principles of hairdressing as well as the components necessary to create fantastic 1940s styles. Creating pin curls, direction of lines, proper finger positions, and other techniques are demonstrated.
The author breaks the hairstyle portion of the book down into 12 basic pin curl settings with detailed illustrations. These pin curl settings are numbered, with each hairstyle referencing the number of the pin curl setting to use when creating each style. 12 hairstyles are demonstrated with an easy-to-use chart. Another 9 hairstyles with instructions are located in the Swirl, Sweep and Roll chapters and an additional 11 hairstyles can be found in the Hair Style Designs chapter of the book. Beautiful updos still fashionable today can be learned from this book.
A large section of the book is devoted to water waving with 34 illustrations and 20 pages walking you through the process of setting the hair, joining the waves, placing the curls, and creating different hairstyles based on the parting of the hair including a center parting, full pompadour, semi-pompadour, and double dip pompadour. Instructions are also provided for creating waves using setting combs.
The book also contains chapters on: Shaping and Tapering for Successful Styling, Art of Curling, Hairline and Practical Setting, Definition of Beauty, Styling to Type, Adapting Postiche to Modern Hairdressing, Variations of the Bang Design, Hair Style Designs, and Modern Hair Fashions Influenced by Historical Hairdressing. Sample hairstyles and illustration images are shown at the top of this page. ==== FOR MORE FANTASTIC 1940s HAIRSTYLING BOOKS please see Creative Hairshaping and Hairstyling You Can Do, Hair Style Design -- 1940s Hairshaping, Finger Waving and Styling Techniques, and How to Create 1940s Hairstyles -- Instructions and Illustrations for 17 Swing Era Styles.Author: Alfred Morris Paperback: 151 pages Company: Bramcost Publications (2008) ISBN: 1934268836 List Price: Amazon Price: $17.95 
Selection of the Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Styling girls’ hair is easy with advice from the owner of Cozy’s Cuts for Kids.Little girls love to have pretty hair, and parents and grandparents can spend hours trying to achieve the best styles for their daughters. This book gives an insider’s look at how to make the task trouble-free and fun for both girls and their caretakers. An expert on hair care—with a chain of children’s hair salons and a nationwide line of hair products for kids—Cozy Friedman shares her years of training to give each girl the best look to fit her style and personality. Starting with a hair identification guide, the book recommends the products, methods, and tools for each hair type from curly to straight. Expert advice includes step-by-step instructions for how to cut hair at home and how to fix bad-hair days. Best of all, there are wonderful styles (with clear directions on how to achieve them) for girls’ everyday hair, dress-up dos, and fantasy looks, and even suggested styles for babies, too. Chock-full of color photographs, the look-book aspect of Cozy’s Complete Guide to Girls’ Hair will appeal to both girls and their parents. Grown-ups can browse through photographs of more than thirty different hairstyles and choose one that works best for their little girl! Author: Cozy Friedman Hardcover-spiral: 200 pages Company: Artisan (2011-02-01) ISBN: 1579654223 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.49 Used Price: $6.17 
All you need to create your own great hair style at home! Vetica preaches that professional techniques are not difficult; readers just need to know what to do and follow directions. In this ultimate hair styling book, he delivers to the reader all they need to know to create great hair at home or direct a professional stylist. He reveals insider secrets and techniques for recreating magazine and celebrity hairstyles, and how to adapt the look for the average reader’s tools and time constraints. The book is divided into three parts; 1. hair treatment and care, 2. hair cutting and styling techniques and 3. how to find a look for your faces structure and personal style. Even beginners will be able to style their hair like a pro while professional stylists can fine tune their skills with Vetica’s secrets and shortcuts. Step-by-step diagrams and photos illustrate different styles and how to work with tools of the trade such as curling irons, hair clips, and blow dryers. Before-and-after photos show readers the best hairstyles based on face shape, bone structure, type of hair, age, and personal style. Vetica peppers all of the techniques with his experience and insights gained from working with Hollywood’s top celebrities. Author: Robert Vetica Paperback: 272 pages Company: Fair Winds Press (2009-01-01) ISBN: 1592333575 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $15.50 Used Price: $10.11 
Going to a hairstylist before every special occasion can be both expensive and time-consuming. It’s much more convenient, and very easy, to create the perfect hairstyle right at home! Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-color photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques. There are dos” for any length, mood, and occasion, from a night out at the hottest club to the fanciest wedding. Select from elegant chignons, waterfalls of curls that cascade down your back, or loose, playful tendrils that frame the face. Some have jewel or flower adornments, while others feature braids, twists, and hair weaves. Every look is beautiful and unique. Author: Davis Biton Paperback: 256 pages Company: Sterling/Penn (2007-11-01) ISBN: 1402747365 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $9.34 Used Price: $8.99 
DK has created a fresh, fabulous series all about finding your own style and using the baubles girls adore as the perfect way to personalize a hairstyle or outfit. In Fabulous Hair and Super Style, the how-to book is raised to a new level of glamour and fun.Author: DK Publishing Paperback: 96 pages Company: DK CHILDREN (2006-03-06) ISBN: 0756615895 List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $5.40 Used Price: $1.15 
How to look salon-fabulous every day, with this complete practical guide to styling your hair, from simple styles to braiding, curling and elegant up-dosAuthor: Nicky Pope Paperback: 160 pages Company: Anness (2011-11-16) ISBN: 1844769798 List Price: $18.99 Amazon Price: $13.93 Used Price: $14.97 
Big, ebullient, brimming over with know-how and passion, Beauty by Rona Berg is the only beauty book you'll ever need-a one-size-fits-all, 500-page guide of information, anecdotes and attitude. Illustrated throughout in two-color and featuring a 96-page full-color section, Beauty is filled with step-by-step how-tos, professional techniques, brand and product comparisons, and inside tips gleaned from a pro's pro who's covered the world of beauty for The New York Times Magazine, Elle magazine and other national publications.The book tackles all three major categories-The Face, Hair, The Body. The emphasis is on simplicity and a healthy, natural approach, and the range cuts across all ethnicities and ages. There are five minute skin regimes, facials, makeup tricks and health tips. How to reduce stress in the bath and pamper yourself with an easy home spa. The long and short of hair care-including what to do on bad hair days. Remedies for beauty emergencies (eyes puffy from fatigue? do what the models do and use a dab of Preparation H). Plus make-overs, recipes, historical lore, stories, time-lines, and an extensive glossary and list of resources. It's a knock-out. Author: Rona Berg, Anja Kroencke, Deborah Jaffe Paperback: 416 pages Company: Workman Publishing Company (2001-01-01) ISBN: 0761101861 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $4.75 Used Price: $0.06 
Whether the aim is to look like Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, or Brigitte Bardot, this retro-gorgeous tome provides everything needed to create authentic hairdos Filled with step-by-step instructions, tips, techniques, and detailed photographs, this resource to recreating hairstyles from the 1930s to the 1960s puts retro glamour right at readers' fingertips. It outlines essential equipment, and offers photos of each step of the process. It also offers photos of a classic icon showcasing each style as well as a popular contemporary recreation of the look—such as Marlene Dietrich's and Christina Aguilera's takes on finger waves, or the bouffants of both Jackie Kennedy and Joan Holloway. Whether for a special party or event, a night out, or just for fun, this must-have book breaks down the steps to recreating the decadence and fun of vintage styles, and is filled with inspirational images and tips on make-up and accessories. Author: Belinda Hay Hardcover: 112 pages Company: Pavilion (2011-05-01) ISBN: 1862059020 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.84 Used Price: $10.39 Amazon.com Books: hair styles
Whether the aim is to look like Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, or Brigitte Bardot, this retro-gorgeous tome provides everything needed to create authentic hairdos Filled with step-by-step instructions, tips, techniques, and detailed photographs, this resource to recreating hairstyles from the 1930s to the 1960s puts retro glamour right at readers' fingertips. It outlines essential equipment, and offers photos of each step of the process. It also offers photos of a classic icon showcasing each style as well as a popular contemporary recreation of the look—such as Marlene Dietrich's and Christina Aguilera's takes on finger waves, or the bouffants of both Jackie Kennedy and Joan Holloway. Whether for a special party or event, a night out, or just for fun, this must-have book breaks down the steps to recreating the decadence and fun of vintage styles, and is filled with inspirational images and tips on make-up and accessories. Author: Belinda Hay Hardcover: 112 pages Company: Pavilion (2011-05-01) ISBN: 1862059020 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.84 Used Price: $10.39 
Ever wonder why a certain hairstyle looked fabulous on a celebrity or your best friend and AWFUL on you? The shape of your face is the single most important factor to choosing a hairstyle. While other factors exist, such as texture, color, facial features, the length of your neck, weight gain/loss, etc., by identifying your face shape and using the Dos and Don'ts in this book you will know How to Wear Your Hair with confidence!Author: Morgan Gantt Hardcover: 96 pages Company: Tate Publishing (2010-06-22) ISBN: 1615669086 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $15.99 Used Price: $15.99 
If you'd like to have the PERFECT hairstyle for your unique face shape... and never again be frustrated and depressed after spending a small fortune on various styles that don't work... then this short book will show you how.The title is: "How To Pick The Perfect Hairstyle For Your Face Shape" And it includes the best hairstyles for: Round Face Square Face Oblong Face Oval Face Diamond FaceIn addition... it also shows you hairstyle tips for ALL face shapes and, how to save money on picking the best tool for creating curls and gives you lots of examples of celebrities and what shape faces they have (to make it even easier to know what your style should be). Bottom line? This book is short and sweet! It doesn't waste your time with fluff or nonsense -- just solid, practical tips for having the perfect hairstyle for your unique face. Get your copy today and see how great your hair looks tomorrow! Author: Tanna Settle Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: MakeRight Publishing (2011-11-09) (2011-11-09) List Price: Amazon Price:
DK has created a fresh, fabulous series all about finding your own style and using the baubles girls adore as the perfect way to personalize a hairstyle or outfit. In Fabulous Hair and Super Style, the how-to book is raised to a new level of glamour and fun.Author: DK Publishing Paperback: 96 pages Company: DK CHILDREN (2006-03-06) ISBN: 0756615895 List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: $5.40 Used Price: $1.15 
Why go to an expensive salon when it’s so easy to look like a million bucks without spending a dime? Whether for a black-tie party, a night at the movies, or an ordinary day at the office, Spectacular Hair has the right do” for the occasion. From long, romantic tresses to short and sassy, it features beautiful hairstyles for every cut. Color photographs and easy to follow directions guide you each step of the way, and all the styling basics are clearly laid out: how to use a diffuser to pump up the volume and accentuate curls; apply molding wax to sculpt your hair; use pretty accessories as finishing touches, and so much more. Author: Eric Mayost Paperback: 192 pages Company: Sterling (2010-05-04) ISBN: 1402768982 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.62 Used Price: $9.62
How to look salon-fabulous every day, with this complete practical guide to styling your hair, from simple styles to braiding, curling and elegant up-dosAuthor: Nicky Pope Paperback: 160 pages Company: Anness (2011-11-16) ISBN: 1844769798 List Price: $18.99 Amazon Price: $13.93 Used Price: $14.97
All you need to create your own great hair style at home! Vetica preaches that professional techniques are not difficult; readers just need to know what to do and follow directions. In this ultimate hair styling book, he delivers to the reader all they need to know to create great hair at home or direct a professional stylist. He reveals insider secrets and techniques for recreating magazine and celebrity hairstyles, and how to adapt the look for the average reader’s tools and time constraints. The book is divided into three parts; 1. hair treatment and care, 2. hair cutting and styling techniques and 3. how to find a look for your faces structure and personal style. Even beginners will be able to style their hair like a pro while professional stylists can fine tune their skills with Vetica’s secrets and shortcuts. Step-by-step diagrams and photos illustrate different styles and how to work with tools of the trade such as curling irons, hair clips, and blow dryers. Before-and-after photos show readers the best hairstyles based on face shape, bone structure, type of hair, age, and personal style. Vetica peppers all of the techniques with his experience and insights gained from working with Hollywood’s top celebrities. Author: Robert Vetica Paperback: 272 pages Company: Fair Winds Press (2009-01-01) ISBN: 1592333575 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $15.50 Used Price: $10.11
Selection of the Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Styling girls’ hair is easy with advice from the owner of Cozy’s Cuts for Kids.Little girls love to have pretty hair, and parents and grandparents can spend hours trying to achieve the best styles for their daughters. This book gives an insider’s look at how to make the task trouble-free and fun for both girls and their caretakers. An expert on hair care—with a chain of children’s hair salons and a nationwide line of hair products for kids—Cozy Friedman shares her years of training to give each girl the best look to fit her style and personality. Starting with a hair identification guide, the book recommends the products, methods, and tools for each hair type from curly to straight. Expert advice includes step-by-step instructions for how to cut hair at home and how to fix bad-hair days. Best of all, there are wonderful styles (with clear directions on how to achieve them) for girls’ everyday hair, dress-up dos, and fantasy looks, and even suggested styles for babies, too. Chock-full of color photographs, the look-book aspect of Cozy’s Complete Guide to Girls’ Hair will appeal to both girls and their parents. Grown-ups can browse through photographs of more than thirty different hairstyles and choose one that works best for their little girl! Author: Cozy Friedman Hardcover-spiral: 200 pages Company: Artisan (2011-02-01) ISBN: 1579654223 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.49 Used Price: $6.17
Going to a hairstylist before every special occasion can be both expensive and time-consuming. It’s much more convenient, and very easy, to create the perfect hairstyle right at home! Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-color photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques. There are dos” for any length, mood, and occasion, from a night out at the hottest club to the fanciest wedding. Select from elegant chignons, waterfalls of curls that cascade down your back, or loose, playful tendrils that frame the face. Some have jewel or flower adornments, while others feature braids, twists, and hair weaves. Every look is beautiful and unique. Author: Davis Biton Paperback: 256 pages Company: Sterling/Penn (2007-11-01) ISBN: 1402747365 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $9.34 Used Price: $8.99 
Beautiful Braids (over 700,000 sold) owes its steady success to the simple fact that, as the most affordable and complete book on braiding on the market, it represents incomparable value. From elegant chignons and classic English braids to the sporty Duchess braid, these elaborate styles will continue to turn heads.Author: Patricia Coen, Joe Maxwell Paperback: 64 pages Company: Three Rivers Press (1996-08-20) (1996-08-20) ISBN: 0517886170 List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $2.85 Used Price: $3.74 |
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