By Beauty Snob Sharon

September 3, 2009

Obviously none of the hair looks pictured above come even close to being achieved effortlessly, but the fact that a mix of textures were used does give them a nice easy-breezy feel! This look works great especially if your hair is long (at least long enough to put up in a ponytail). I spoke with Anthony Campbell, a Redken Session Stylist, to get some specific tips on how best to achieve the mixed texture look. Jump for more!

Campbell says — “I think a good way to get duel textures for styles is doing a clean

look in the front and messy in the back or vice versa. I have always

been a fan of a slick front pulled back into a messy bun.”

To achieve

this look:

• Bring your hair back into a clean

  ponytail using a flat brush and a hair tie, you can secure fly-aways

  with Redken workforce 09 flexible volumizing spray.

• Then take the

  ponytail and spray with Redken fabricate 03 heat-active texturizer and

  hit the tail with a blow dryer on a low setting with medium heat and cup

  the hair to give it texture.

• Lastly, take the textured ponytail and

  lightly twist it up into a bun. Take large size hairpins and put in

  about 4 or 5 depending in hair density.

Another way to achieve the look, Campbell says, is “to have a loose ponytail with a bit of flyaways, and then braid the ponytail with a 3-strand

braid. The way to do this is make a loose ponytail with hair tie and

then spray very lightly with Redken’s Urban Experiment Wool Shake, and

then lightly rub the front and back of the ponytail to create

unintentional-looking fly-aways. Then braid the hair in a 3 strand braid

and away you go, it looks like it was done effortlessly.”