How to Create Holiday Hair

It's party time! But what do we do with our hair? Everyday hair with a sparkling party dress doesn't look festive, but fixed and formal updos can look like prom night.

Celebrity stylist Roy Teeluck offers some answers with three fresh looks created with products from Nexxus Salon Hair Care. Teeluck, owner of his namesake salon in New York City, is stylist to Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Bebe Neuwirth, Rita Wilson and Carrie Fisher, among others.

The hairdos are designed to do at home, but you may want to start with a professional haircut and styling. We sent Teeluck's styles to three area salons for comments on the styles and suggestions for variations.

If the headband on the short style is a bit much, decorate instead with vintage buttons, said Sherry Markowitz, stylist and owner of Today's Headlines in Bartlett, Tenn. The salon takes favorite ornate buttons people have at home and threads them onto a bobby pin to create a unique hair ornament, she said. The bobby pins are angled so they don't show. They can also use brooches.

Corey Welch, stylist at Cabello II Salon in
Southaven, Tenn., said he was already doing the long and wavy look.
"It's fresh, young and current. All ages can wear it if you modify it
around the face," he said, but your hair must have some natural wave in
it. He creates it with a flat iron. You can do the style at home with
foam rollers at least an inch in diameter, he said. He suggests
applying equal parts conditioner and mousse, mixed in your palm, before
you roll.

The chignon is easy, said Kim Williams-Greer, stylist and owner of
Station Square Salon in Tennessee. "It's an elegant after-5 look," she
said, but it's better for medium to coarse hair because it may require
some backcombing. She would create the chignon with hair pins, which
are open and thinner than bobby pins, and twist them into the hair to
conceal them.

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