5 DIY Hairstyling Tips For Asian Female Hair | Asian Hair

I always assume that a new haircut is all we need whenever we get sick of our plain and dull hairstyles. Although a good cut is important, the fact is that a nice hairstyle often requires some effort in styling with the use of a good hair spray or hair wax and other styling tools. Very often, the nice Asian hairstyle pictures we see in the site or in other Japanese hairstyle books have been styled with hairspray or curled with curling tongs. It is not possible to achieve ‘magazine looking’ hairstyles without doing anything to it. In this post, I will share some easy and quick DIY hairstyling tips to get your normal boring looking hair jazzed up within minutes.



1) Styling your short layered hair
A light tousled feel will make a difference to your everyday short hair look. Apply some hair wax or hair spray on your palm and rub your palms together. Run them through your hair crown and hair ends by scrunching them with your fingers, Loosen up your hair by inserting your fingers into your hair and flip it up and down to create the ‘messy’ look. Use your palms to flip the hair ends in upwards motion after that.









2) Styling your shoulder-length layered hair
Apply some hair wax or hair spray on your palm and rub your palms together. Run them through your hair ends by scrunching them from the base with your fingers in upwards motion. Run your fingers through your fringe and hair crown with the left-over hair wax or hair spray.








3) Styling your long layered straight hair
A lot of women with long straight hair do not bother to style their hair simply because they think there’s not much to do with their hair and so rather leave them as it is. Unless you are born with naturally straight and silky hair, otherwise if might end up looking flat, dull or even frizzy over time, especially if your hair is layered.
To create that silky straight hair look, apply some hair spray on mid-hair section to hair ends and get a good flat iron to straighten this part of your hair. Make sure the flat iron is being heated up before using. Clamp a section of hair from mid length and pulling it down slowly to hair ends and repeat for 3-4 times on same section of hair before moving on to other sections. Avoid using it for more than 3 times as it can be drying and damaging to your hair.








4) Styling your long permed hair
If you had your hair permed and dutifully apply hair styling product on your curls daily but still wondering why it does not look as gorgeous as those in hair magazines, then you really have to invest in a good curling tong. The truth is those featured in the hair magazines often had to use curling tongs to bring out those nice big looking curls even though they already had a perm, otherwise your curls will just look wavy if you use hair styling products only.








5) Styling your shoulder-length permed layered hair
If you have permed hair, you MUST always style it by applying hair styling cream or hair wax for permed hair. There is no exception, otherwise your hair will look frizzy and messy. It is best to start applying hair styling product when your hair is still damp after a shower, and either let it dry naturally or blow dry it to bring out the curls. If you want to make the curls even more prominent, you can also use a curling tong. It is harder to style it once your hair gets dry and often the curls do not last. Tip: Always remember that the longer the hair is, the easier it is to style and making it lasting on damp hair rather than dry hair.

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To achieve best results, first wet your hair using your fingers with some water. With your hands still wet, squeeze a pea size amount on your palm and then rub your palm together. Scrunch your hair from bottom in an upward motion and left it to dry naturally.

If your hair is too wet, dry it with a hair dryer. There is a tactic to blow dry your permed hair to bring out the curls. Instead of drying it in the normal up and down motion, you should lay a section of your hair on your palm and point the hair dryer to your palm and repeat this section by section. Do scrunch the hair with your fingers as you are blowing it. Blow it for 2-3 seconds and then pull the hair dryer away and then blow it for 2-3 seconds again and so forth if your fingers get too hot. Doing this will set the hair right and create lasting curls. The logic behind this is that gravity tends to pull a heavier weight on wet hair and if you let it dry naturally, the curls won’t be as nice as blowing it dry with this method.

Towards the end of the day, you might find that the curls start to frizz out. You actually do not need to reapply the hair cream, simply wet your hair using your fingers and you will ‘reactivate’ the existing hair cream on it. So wet your hair again, scrunch it and leave it to dry naturally and you will see the curls once more.

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