Make Your Hair Stand Up

Many hair styles, usually short styles, look best with all or part of the hair standing at attention. If your hair is a bit coarse and you wear it in a short style, you won't have much difficulty getting your hair to stand up--in fact this may be your natural look each time you get out of bed in the morning. If the latter is the case, you may grumble about your hair and it might not help if I remind you that some celebrities in Hollywood pay a lot of money for that look. That aside, there may be times when even those with coarse hair have difficulty making hair cooperate and stand up the way they would prefer. Never fear. There are ways to take control over even the most unruly hair.

Instructions

Make Your Hair Stand Up

1. Shampoo your hair as normal, but leave the conditioner for another time. Conditioner, no matter what kind, makes hair softer but also makes it less likely to stand up.

2. Towel-dry your hair and then add a small amount of hair gel, or pomade with beeswax, to your hair. Work the product in from the roots to the tips. If you use a pomade with wax and not a general hair gel in this step, move on to step six.

3. Turn your hair dryer on to the low or medium setting and bend at the waist so your hair is pointing to the floor. Dry your hair at the roots first and work your way to the tips. Be sure to dry your hair completely.

4. Place a small amount of extra strength hair gel or waxy pomade onto your fingers. Starting again at the roots, apply the dressing to your hair. Make sure to cover all strands for which you want the extra hold and then run your fingers, or a wide-toothed comb, through your hair making it stand up.

5. Turn the hair dryer on the lowest setting and hold at arms length to dry the gel (if using gel), or let your hair dry naturally. Avoid moving around to much or doing anything else that might make you perspire while the gel is still wet. Perspiration will loosen the gel's hold at the roots

6. Spray your hair with hairspray as a finishing touch. This will help hold the style for a longer time, especially if you used gel instead of waxy pomade or hair paste.

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