Homemakers.com : Hot hairstyle trends for spring and summer 2009

Want to add instant style to your look? Explore the latest and greatest hair trends of the season before heading to a salon near you.

By Natalie Bahadur

Best trends for your hair colour: blondes, brunettes and redheads

What is it about the changing of the seasons that invites a physical transformation too? Ready for a new haircut or colour? Spring is the season of renewal and summer spells fun so these seasons mark perfect times to play with your style. Head to your hairdresser's chair for an instant update, but not before finding out which hairstyles are turning heads this season.

John Frieda's celebrity stylist Alain Larivee shares his professional perspectives on the hottest hairstyles and trends for spring and summer 2009.

Homemakers.com: What hair colour is hot now?
Alain Larivee: Spring 2009 is looking blonder than ever. You'll see rich, dimensional blondes: lighter highlights on top with darker blonde tones blended in the interior. Natural blondes can use shampoos that gradually and naturally lighten hair. If your blonde is colour-treated, try Sheer Blonde Colour Renew Tone Restoring shampoo and conditioner to keep your colour from going brassy and to help keep your hair looking salon fresh.Brunettes don't need to go blonde to be hot for spring. A darker brown tone, tickled with very fine brighter highlights is a refreshing way for brunettes to prepare for warmer weather. Brown hair can appear matte and dull so keep hair looking shiny and healthy with Brilliant Brunette Liquid Shine Illuminating shampoo and conditioner.

Homemakers.com: What about highlights?
AL: Highlights are in, but make sure that your stylist understands the difference between highlights and streaks. Fashionable looks are created with a multitude of fine light sections and not few thick light sections.

Homemakers.com: How can blondes, brunettes and redheads stay on trend this season?
AL: The best advice I can offer for all hair colours is using tone-appropriate hair care. Using the right shampoo and conditioner is a must. It's the best way to maintain shine and richness.

Blondes: Go blonder gradually!

Brunettes: Be brave and open to change -- add dimension to your colour with highlights and definitely add shine!

Redheads: Add lighter dimensional copper effects and treat yourself to a good weekly conditioning treatment.

Homemakers.com: Which celebrities are sporting the must-have look of the season?
AL: Karinne Vanasse, a French-Canadian actress, has a fabulous haircut: a modified layered bob with feminine carefree curls -- a great spring/summer cut. Also, Jennifer Aniston always has smart hair colour and is wearing braids and different hair textures. Rihanna's smart, short and versatile cut, as well as supermodel Gisele's fringe, come to mind.

Homemakers.com: What's more popular this season – long hair or short?
AL: This season, both long and short looks are in.

Long hair is individual: layered to complement individual bone structure. Versatility is a must, meaning length depends on the hair's ability to hold different looks during the day and night.

Hot and adaptable short haircuts worn straight and shiny with beautiful definition or soft and carefree are a look that is both bold and feminine.

Homemakers.com: How can you update a hairstyle, without doing anything too crazy?
AL: Strategically adding a few layers or modifying your hair colour for the new season are fun and easy ways to add a little change to your hair.

Homemakers.com: In your opinion, which celebrity has the hottest hair right now?
AL: The perfect example of good colour, smart versatile layers and style conscious sexiness is Gwyneth Paltrow's hairstyle.

Homemakers.com: Can you offer five tips for maintaining your hair this spring?
AL:
1. The number 1 trend is healthy hair. If your hair is dry, damaged or broken, it will always be a "don't."

2. You don't need to scream to be noticed. Simply have your stylist lighten up your look for the season.

3. Embrace your curls! Find the right products to sculpt your hair without crunch or frizz.

4. Change up your look! With the help of heat styling tools like curling irons, flat irons and hot rollers, you can transform your hair. However, always protect your hair when using heat styling. Frizz-Ease Heat Defeat Protective Styling Spray works with heat tools to condition and straighten strands as it helps block humidity and rehydrate hair for ultra-safe styling

5. Trends are meant to influence, and not dictate! Avoid being a fashion victim and start your visit to the salon with a conversation about how to make your hair reflect who you are.



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Ourbis.com: Cajh Maitres Coiffeurs

• 743, avenue Atwater
• Montréal, QC, H3J 2K3
• 514-932-6303

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This place has got to be the only real down to earth high end hair shop of the city. Now in the new space at 743 ATWATER the boys at CAJH are still launching new trendy looks with you in mind. Just back from Europe with the latest Alain and Justin rule when it comes to amazing cuts and colour. You've got to book in advanced in order to get in with these boys but it's totally worth the wait. CAJH starts off 2009 with some new players.
Elodie, a truly talented senior hairstylist from Marseille, France has joined the team and is really creating a buzz of her own, she's got a direct line for booking at 514.794.4121. Direct lines are also coming for the newly added essential prevention aesthetic floor.

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Lipstick powder n paint.com : New Year’s Eve Belles

New Year’s Eve is a time to let down your hair, so to celebrate 2009 in style we’re going with big, bold curls and sexy waves. We got the low down on how to achieve luscious locks from John Frieda’s Canadian Creative Consultants Howard Barr and Alain Larivée. Follow these easy steps and you’ll be the belle of the ball.
Wash your hair with a shampoo and conditioner that add weightless volume. Spritz the roots with a volumizing, blow dry spray. Flip your head over and blast your roots with a blow dryer until dry.
Set your hair in one-inch sections, in Velcro or hot rollers. This will lift the hair from the root and add the volume you’re looking for. Let hair sit in rollers for 10 minutes or until it has cooled. Gently unwind your hair from around the roller and comb through hair with a wide toothed comb.
Wrap the one-inch sections of hair around a curling iron, making sure they’re not too tight. Repeat this process with all of your hair. Gently run your fingers or a wide toothed comb through your hair.
This will give the style a more natural look. Finish off this head turning do with a generous mist of light hold hairspray. This will set your style so that it moves with you all night long.
Adding a pretty hair band or an ornate hair piece to the finished look, guarantees glam.

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Elle Quebec.com : Les tendances coiffure de l'automne 2010

Tous les trucs pour recréer les tendances coiffure qui nous ont séduites pendant les défilés.

Par Karina Goma

1. Les boucles à la folie Les spirales sont de nouveau tendance. Tantôt déliées, tantôt exubérantes ou vaporeuses, les boucles respectent toutefois une constante: elles ne sont jamais parfaites. Une fois les spirales formées, on prend donc soin de les défaire avec les doigts.
Photo: défilé Dior, automne-hiver 2010 (Imaxtree)

2. Le coiffé décoiffé

Vive la spontanéité des chevelures savamment décoiffées! Quelques pinces piquées ici et là, un élastique enroulé à la va-vite, et nous voilà prête à faire tourner les têtes! Surtout, on s'assure que nos cheveux conservent leur souplesse et leur brillance naturelles: on donne congé aux formules sculptantes.
Photo: défilé Michael Kors, automne-hiver 2010 (Imaxtree)











3. La queue de cheval plastifiée
La queue de cheval qui ne laisse aucun cheveu dépasser est l'ultime symbole du raffinement. Alain Larivée, consultant en création pour John Frieda, suggère de finir en enroulant une mèche autour de l'élastique afin de camoufler celui-ci.
Photo: défilé Louis Vuitton, automne-hiver 2010 (Imaxtree)











4. Les cheveux de paille
Pour la chevelure, on mise sur la texture. À l'affiche: des tignasses parfois crêpées, souvent gonflées, mais toujours d'aspect desséché. L'astuce d'Alain Larivée: après avoir donné du volume aux cheveux au moyen de rouleaux chauffants ou d'un fer à friser, on penche la tête vers l'avant et on vaporise du fixatif sur la chevelure.
Photo: défilé Jill Stuart (Imaxtree)

5. Le chignon haut perché

On le hisse bien haut sur la tête. Pour que le chignon reste en place et que n'apparaissent pas de frisottis, Alain Larivée conseille de lisser d'abord les cheveux et de vaporiser ensuite un nuage de fixatif à tenue ferme.

Photo: défilé Ruffian (Imaxtree)

http://www.ellequebec.com/Beaute/Cheveux/Les-tendances-coiffure-de-l-automne-2010/a/35248

Chatelaine magazine

Vitamin daily.com ; Mane attraction

Your boy is cute as a button, but if his hair reminds you of a whirling dervish, it’s time to slip him some product.

Lock, Stock and Barrel is a super stylish line of Brit grooming products and we’re the only city in Eastern Canada to carry it.
Along with shampoos and conditioners, there’s a whole range of putties, clays and gums that will give your guy’s hair just the right amount of textured swerve. Make sure to snag him the Pucka Grooming Crème ($27), giving massive volume, natural shine and medium hold to his hair (and yours too).
Tell him it’s only fair to share.

Available exclusively at CAJH Maîtres Coiffeurs, 743 Atwater, Montreal, 514-932-6303, http://www.cajh.ca/

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Canada.com : Damage control for the overexposed

With the lazy, hazy days of summer upon us, the first signs of "summer hair" appear: dull, brittle locks with split ends or out-of-control frizz. Fortunately, there are a slew of new products intended to keep hair looking healthy and sleekly styled.

By The Gazette (Montreal)

 

With the lazy, hazy days of summer upon us, the first signs of "summer hair" appear: dull, brittle locks with split ends or out-of-control frizz. Fortunately, there are a slew of new products intended to keep hair looking healthy and sleekly styled.
Volume Control
Those blessed with curly mops know all about the dandelion puffball shape hair naturally assumes during our city's humid summers. And even a slightly wavy mane will take on a life all its own when the heat's on.
Paradoxically, it is dryness that's to blame for such bad-hair behaviour, according to Montreal hairdresser Alain Larivée, a Canadian creative consultant for John Frieda. "The sun and wind dry the hair and make it more porous," he said. "So it then soaks up the moisture it needs from the environment."
To keep your coif serenely under control, the co-owner of Cajh Maître Coiffeurs on Atwater Ave. suggests switching to a shampoo and conditioner that shield hair from the elements. "Look for one that seals the hair cuticle and locks out the humidity." The key words to look for on labels are "anti-frizz," "silicone" or "smoothing." Adding a serum, or leave-in ultra conditioner, after you rinse can add to the benefits.
Fine hair, on the other hand, goes
noodle-limp once the humidity rises. Larivée suggests going with moisturizing shampoos and conditioners that promise volume, then apply styling products with a light hand, concentrating on the ends of the hair.
Taking a Shine
Lolling by the pool or sipping cocktails on a sun-drenched terrace, you naturally reach for the sunscreen. But what about your hair?
"Protecting the hair becomes crucial in summer," said Deborah Crouse, who is responsible for training in Canada for Kérastase Paris. The company has been making the Soleil line of hair products since 1992. "Prevention really is the best way to avoid summer hair."
Like using a hair product made to go on just like sunscreen for skin. Simply spray one of the liquids, such as ultra-light Kérastase Micro Voile Protecteur (spray, $36) or Schwarzkopf Professional BC SUN UV Protection Spray (spray, $14, shown) or apply a cream or gel product with your hands.
And, just like your skin protection product, she suggests applying hair protection religiously before sun exposure and reapplying every few hours. Bonus: These products provide added moisturizing and gloss-enhancing benefits similar to a leave-in conditioner. "So hair can actually become shinier and more healthy looking after a day in the sun, providing you don't overdo the sun exposure," she said.
Hair Conditioning
A growing number of hair products, including shampoos and conditioners, include UV filters. And for those with colour-treated hair, that's a good thing, according to Clifford Albert, medical director of the Canadian Institute for Laser Surgery and a clinical instructor at McGill University. "If you have dyes in your hair the colour will be affected by light," he said. "Because there will be unwanted chemical interactions."
To keep dyed locks looking better for longer, he feels products with UV protection or that say "for colour-treated hair" can be beneficial. And if your hair colour has not been chemically enhanced, it may prevent the streaks or highlights that naturally occur after being in the sun a long time.
Don't forget that the chemicals in pool water and the salt in sea water can further strip hair of moisture. They're both forms of chloride, which is a bleach and has a drying effect, says Albert. Try an old lifeguard trick and douse your hair with freshwater just before and after a dip in the ocean. Alternatively, wear a swimming cap so water doesn't touch your tresses.
The best sun protection of all might be an old-fashioned wide-brimmed hat. "You'll not only protect your hair from the sun, but your face as well," he said.

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