CharlotteEmilyHoward: Short Hair Tutorial

Ite geezers.

A while ago I had a request for a tutorial explaining how I style my hair...

This style is pretty much the only thing I ever go for as I'm not a fan of my mop being straight. So, here's my everyday/every-night/every-time-in-existence hair styling routine:

1. Not a step, but this is what my hair looks like wet.

2. Instead of drying my hair straight away, I clip it up out of the way then do my makeup first. There's no particular reason for this, I just don't like dealing with wet-through hair.

3. There is no trick or technique to how I dry my hair.

All I do is run my fingers through it to give it some volume - I don't brush it at all - whilst I blast it full pelt.

4. When it is pretty much dry, I clip all my hair up again so I can deal with the under-cut parts of my hair.

Using Nicky Clarke Classic Short Style Straighteners, I curl the undercut hair and then just the ends of the longer sections until I reach my fringe.

By the way, I'm currently in the process of growing the under-cut situation out, which is why I have a random shorter section under my longer side.

Also, ignore the photo of me spraying my hair with heat protecting stuff, you should probably do this but I never do; this is purely for show and I wont tell you what make etc. it is because it's irrelevant.

5. Next I take a small section of my fringe and straighten it, but curl the very end under. I then do this to the rest of the sections of my fringe/the hair that falls forward.

6. After the long side is sorted out, I straighten the shorter side and back of my hair so none of it is sticking up and going awol.

7. You can leave it here if you wish, but I like to mess my hair up a bit after. I do this by taking a small amount of styling paste (L'Oréal something or other) and basically scrunch it into my hair and flatten any fly-aways. Obviously any styling paste/wax/putty - what a gross word - will do the same thing.