Keira Knightley’s Hairstyles – Vote on 14 Hairstyle Pictures

Keira Knightley’s Hairstyles – Vote on 14 Hairstyle Pictures - ELLE Vote for the British beauty’s best coifs through the years

Wavy Hairstyles – 2010’s Wavy Hairstyles Inspired by the 1970s – ELLE

Wavy Hairstyles – 2010’s Wavy Hairstyles Inspired by the 1970s – ELLE - ELLE Jennifer Lopez’s hairstylist on why he prefers pumped-up curls to beach waves

Hippie-inspired beach waves continue to dominate the red carpet, but at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, stylist Robert Vetica took curls a decade further. "It was '70s-inspired, like Bianca Jagger goes to Studio 54," says the coiffeur about the hairdo Jennifer Lopez, his muse of the evening, wore. "I'm kind of over messy beach hair—I wanted to make a stronger statement by giving her hair style and shape. It had lots of curl and massive volume, with more width than height."

In eschewing carefree 60s layers for Guy Bourdin worthy curls, Vetica trimmed Lopez's damp hair to one length ("When you blunt the hair it makes curls appear stacked and gives volume at the ends"). Next, he blew strands dry with a round brush to maintain hair's buoyancy and fashioned a middle part. Misting a mild fixing spray, he then created spirals with a one-inch curling iron. Working from the back to the front on each side, he finger-brushed the set with Moroccanoil Hydrating Styling Cream ("It holds the wave and takes out any dryness from the curling iron"). For a va-va-voom finish, Vetica smoothed waves with a bristled brush and backcombed under each section using a wide-tooth comb. A healthy dousing of Morocconoil Luminous Hairspray (available next month) and Lopez's head-turning do was complete.

Red Carpet Hairstyles – 2010 Celebrity Hairstyle Photos

Red Carpet Hairstyles – 2010 Celebrity Hairstyle Photos - ELLE Golden Globes or Screen Actors Guild? Vote for your favorite celebrity dos

Naughty Schoolgirl Hairstyles – Spring 2010 Beauty Trends

Naughty Schoolgirl Hairstyles – Spring 2010 Beauty Trends - ELLE Lacquered lips and sexy pigtails populated Prada's spring 2010 show

"I was thinking of Lolita," says hairstylist Guido Palau about his inspiration for the Prada spring 2010 show. "The combination of pigtails with a blow-up-doll mouth results in a dark Lolita-like look—it isn't innocent. Though hair is soft and girly, the mouth is glossy and sexual."

To create the sultry come-hither lips, makeup maestro Pat McGrath combined Laura Mercier Crème Lip Colour in Truly Red with Make Up For Ever Lacquered Lipstick in Florescent Orange and used tangerine-tinted Make Up For Ever Glossy Full Couleur Gloss as a topcoat.

Matte pigtails completed the naughty schoolgirl vibe: After applying Redken Blown Away 09 Protective Blow-Dry Gel on damp hair, Palau blew strands dry and backcombed at the crown. Making a deep side part, he then fastened locks in pigtails just below the ears and tousled tresses for a sexy, disheveled finish.

View more lacquered lips and sexy pigtails from the Prada spring 2010 show

Kim Kardashian’s Hair – 13 Kim Kardasian Hairstyle Pictures

Kim Kardashian’s Hair – 13 Kim Kardasian Hairstyle Pictures - ELLE Vote for the celebrity's best dos through the years

Wavy Hairstyles 2010 – How To Get Natural Wavy Hair

Wavy Hairstyles 2010 – How To Get Natural Wavy Hair - ELLE Orlando Pita reveals how to get runway-ready spirals sans curling iron or styling products

Push all wavers, crimpers, curling irons, and product aside—mane master Orlando Pita turned pin-straight tresses wavy the old-fashioned way for Diane von Furstenberg's spring 2010 show. "At the fitting, Diane said she was looking back to antiquity for effortless beauty—and you know, braiding is one of the oldest hairstyling techniques out there," says Pita, who misted models' strands with water before separating them into cornrows. For timing purposes, he then used a flatiron to press and set the plaits (if doing this hairstyle at home, however, you can simply sleep on braids overnight). A half hour prior to show time, Pita then let hair loose but steered clear of finishing spray—or any other kind of styling aid, for that matter. "I wanted the hair to look of the period, and there was no hairspray back then," says Pita about his choice to let locks air-dry. "There's softness to the set when you don't use a lot of product."

View more wavy hairstyles from Diane von Furstenberg's spring 2010 show

Living Proof Hair Products - Full Thickening Cream Review

Living Proof Hair Products - Full Thickening Cream Review - ELLE Big hair is back with the help of MIT scientists, who invented the molecularly advanced cream

Strange and wondrous things happen at MIT's Langer Lab. This is where renowned engineer Bob Langer perfected a Necco-esque polymer wafer that is used to treat, among other things, brain cancer (surgeons implant it post-op to continuously release medicine while cutting off blood supply to a tumor, inhibiting regrowth). It's also where Langer's team of 100 or so students and scientists—who, incidentally, look more like Abercrombie extras than the pocket-protected nerds one might imagine—chip away, day after day, at the next big breakthroughs: artificial pancreases, biodegradable cardiac stents, synthetic nerves and cartilage, and miraculous new...hair thickeners?

Can it be that Langer and his team are so finely attuned to the winds of fashion that, like us, they sense the reemerging necessity of lush, glamorous volume (Veruschka, Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Pam Grier, Marilyn—indeed, all of the most potent sex symbols of our time)? Doubtful. But Langer is a world-famous problem-solver. And last year, he and a group of scientists and investors introduced Living Proof, a brand that aims to tackle mankind's biggest beauty problems using never-before-seen (in the cosmetics realm, at least) molecules. Their first assignment: Quell loathsome static. Judging by the response received, ELLE readers are already hooked on Living Proof No Frizz, a silicone-free smoother that debuted last year.

Joining the beauty biz yields funding for MIT, but Langer is also hooked on another aspect of the industry: speed. "With a medical discovery, it takes 20 years from when you find something interesting until it becomes widely available," he says. "Here, in just a couple of years, you can make tens of thousands of people happy."

According to the hairstylist Oribe, who made his name crafting glamorous, cloud-scraping coiffures in the supermodel era, nothing makes a woman quite as happy as "gorgeous, voluptuous, beautiful hair." After all, he points out, extra-large dos tend to balance out substantial derrieres. Back in the day, though, the supes had to suffer for his art. "Once, on a shoot with [Steven] Meisel, I used a whole can of hairspray on a girl's hair," he recalls. "She fainted! It was great." These days, it's still "the bigger the better," with a key caveat: "It's about quality big hair," he says. "Not dry, crunchy. That's mall hair."

MIT to the rescue: While traditional "hold" products employ brittle resins, which create space between each strand but break when, say, your date runs his fingers through your waves, Living Proof's new Full Thickening Cream features an innovative molecular structure called poly beta amino ester-1. When applied to wet hair before styling, the cream coats each hair shaft with thousands of invisible dots, or "thickening points," which work a bit like Post-it notes: They grab at one another, leaving pockets of space between hairs, but they also separate and re-grab easily. One ELLE editor who tried it reported that her Bardot-worthy, driving-with-the-top-down bounce lasted a miraculous 36 hours—with zero crunch.

While bombshell-begetting products may have evolved, Oribe says that the techniques necessary to get the look remain endearingly classic. Hot rollers and curling irons will yield a tight wave, but "for smooth, straighter big hair, like I used to give Cindy and Claudia," he advises drying hair with a round brush, taking care to pull upward at the root. Wrap each section around a large Velcro curler while it's still hot from the dryer. After strands cool and "set," brush them out with your head upside down, backcomb a little at the root, "and run your fingers through it to make it more modern," he says. We suggest inviting your date to help with that part.

Big Hollywood Hair Big Hair Products Ranks the Best Volumizing Hair Products

Big Hair Products Ranks the Best Volumizing Hair Products - ELLE Give your hair volume like your favorite celebs with these top hair-thickening products

Cindy Crawford, queen of 1992.

Living Proof Full Thickening Cream

Beyoncé

Brigitte Bardot in the '60s.

Used in concert, the three-item Sebastian Volupt range (including Spray gel, shown) boosts hair's volume up to 75 percent.

Jane Fonda as Barbarella in 1968.

Marion Cotillard

Apply Bumble and bumble Thickening Serum before bed to plump strands while you sleep.

Gwen Stefani

Drew Barrymore

After styling, target roots with Logics Full Scale Root Finisher.

Grown Out Bob Hairstyle – 2010 Medium Hairstyles

Grown Out Bob Hairstyle – 2010 Medium Hairstyles - ELLE Celebrity hairstylist Laini Reeves reveals why looking un-freshly cut is stylish

Growing out an asymmetrical bob requires patience and tolerance; even when the front section has finally surpassed the collarbone, the bulk of it still hovers at the shoulders. Now, however, the formerly bobbed can hold their mismatched heads of hair high: The grown-out look is in, be it highlights ( Rachel Bilson got foils at Andy Lecompte Salon on Monday, inches away from her part) or haircuts. Examples of the latter include Ashley Olsen and Emily Blunt, who snipped her long strands into a faux outgrown bob last Friday. Laini Reeves, her longtime stylist, reveals why Blunt's coif is a do.

Who should get this hairstyle?
Someone who wants the best of both worlds—you get the shape of a shorter cut but the longer length allows you to still wear your hair in a pony. Though there's about a two-inch difference in length between the front and the back, the asymmetry is just barely noticeable. It's very much a grown-out look. We wanted it to appear as though it'd been cut a few months ago.

How did you and Emily decide on the do?
She said she wanted to go shorter and have a more modern look, but keep it soft and effortless. I cut round, long layers to help release weight and give the hair lift; Emily has naturally curly hair, so the layers allow her wave to come through.

I also made sure not to cut her hair solid or blunt. Rather than a solid line, I broke it up and shattered it so that the style looks soft whether it's worn straight or curly. Even when I do bobs, I don't cut in a complete geometric line—I'll cut it softer so that the look is more versatile.

At the Golden Globes, Emily went wavy. Any styling tips?
It was raining the night of the Golden Globes and Emily's hair has a natural wave to it, so I needed to use styling products that would enhance her curls but control frizz. I applied the Living Proof No Frizz Styling Cream and Living Proof Full Thickening Cream—since there's no silicone in them the hair doesn't get sticky and maintains some movement. After letting Emily's hair air-dry for a bit, I blew it dry and used curling irons to enhance the wave; I used two different barrel sizes to create a more natural-looking, imperfect style.

You're also responsible for Emily's hair color. How did you decide on dark brown?
She used to be a blond many years ago, but she gradually darkened her hair over years—we feel that chocolate brown suits her pale skin best.

Is it a myth that dying your hair darker can wash out your complexion?
If you have a pale complexion it can't be a warm brown; it has to be a cool brown. Chocolate brown is cool and has blue undertones in it so it really helps enhance blue eyes like Emily's. But warmer browns have red undertones which can have a weird effect on pale skin.

In general, rich, solid colors like Emily's—versus more stripy highlights—are very stylish. I think we'll be seeing a lot more chocolate browns and golden blonds in 2010.

Hair Color Ideas - 2012 Hair Color Trends and Tips

Hair Color Ideas - 2012 Hair Color Trends and Tips - ELLE Lorri Goddard-Clark reveals what the back of a box won't tell you

Celebrity hair pro Lorri Goddard-Clark is colorist to Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon. She is also the author of The Hair Color Mix Book: More Than 150 Recipes for Salon-Perfect Color At Home. Here, her must-see tips for DIY hair coloring.

How do you pick the most flattering hair color for your skin tone and eyes?
If you look into your eyes you will see little flecks. If they are golden or yellow, a natural match would be warmer hair colors. If they are bluer or deep bluish black then a natural match would be neutral or cooler tones. To enhance your skin tone, never go more than two shades lighter or darker—this guarantees that you won't fade or wash away your natural beauty.

When is it okay to do at-home highlights and when should you go to the salon?
When you're going for a look close to your natural color—for example, you have naturally light brown hair and want some pale honey highlights—DIY kits are fine. But if you want highlights more than two or three shades lighter than your natural color you should see a professional.

What precautions should you take when doing at-home highlights?
Always wear an old button-up shirt. This way you don't risk highlighting your clothes or ruining your highlights as you pull a tee over your head. And don't forget to set a timer. It's easy to get distracted with phone calls, emails, texts, television, reading, etc. Also, after each highlight wipe your gloves off on a towel—this keeps excess product from wandering to hair pieces you don't want to highlight.

Any highlight application tips you won't find on the back of the box?
Add one teaspoon of olive oil to the highlight bleach of your choice. I do this in the salon; it won't affect the performance of the product but it will give it a smoother consistency which yields even prettier highlights.

Hair glazes are more popular than ever. How can you recreate a salon-like glaze at home?
First, choose hair color the same shade as yours—if you have dark auburn hair, choose dark auburn hair color. Next, shampoo your hair, towel-blot, and detangle. Take the developer bottle and pour out half of the developer, adding water in its place; this allows the color to become a standard deposit-only gloss. Mix the color and distribute through your hair. Leave the mixture on for three minutes then rinse, shampoo, and condition for a gorgeous, shiny finish.

What are your hair color trend forecasts for the new year?
Sun-kissed highlights are always in, but I think platinum one-process hair color has made a comeback and will continue to do so. We'll also be seeing more cyber '80s dos with touches of wild pinks, blues, greens, and black in unexpected places, as well as luxe all-over color—think richer reds, deeper browns, and glistening blacks.

Budget Beauty: Best Affordable Hair Products Best Affordable Hair Products – 24 Inexpensive Hair Products

Best Affordable Hair Products – 24 Inexpensive Hair Products - ELLE Top hairstylists share their favorite hair care products that won’t break the bank

Amoy Pitters

For NYC-based hair stylist Pitters, whose clients include Naomi Campbell, hydration is synonymous with health: "Regular treatments make a difference."

Pantene Pro-V 5-Minute Strengthening Mask, $4: "Adds shine and eliminates frizz all in one."

L'Oréal Paris Studio Perfect Curves Curl Shaping Cream, $5: "Gives soft, never-crunchy, control."

Conair MiniPro ceramic straightener, $23: "Great for styling on the go."

Organix Nourishing Coconut Milk Shampoo, $7: "Amazing scent."

Luster's Renutrients Slick Stick, $7: "Tames flyaways and smooths edges of hair."

John Frieda Root Awakening Health Boosting Detangling Spray, $6: "Full of invigorating essential oil."

Burt's Bees Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo Hair Treatment, $9: "Luxurious treat to repair tired hair."

Indulgence Pick

Terax Crema Conditioner, $48: "Nothing leaves hair softer than this daily conditioner. Worth every penny."

Ric Pipino

"Don't shampoo daily!" advises Manhattan-based supermodel stylist Pipino. Instead, he says to use light conditioner on ends four days a week.

Conair Instant Heat Hairsetter Hot Rollers, $20: "Use your fingers to comb through curls for a tousled finish."

TRESemmé Anti-Breakage Shampoo & Conditioner, $5 each: "A really rich combo that won't overstrip hair's natural oils."

TRESemmé Anti-Breakage Conditioner, $5.

Aveeno Nourish + Condition Leave-In Treatment, $7: "Makes hair feel healthy to the touch."

Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Styling Cream, $4: "Gives a nice sheen without being greasy—focus on ends."

L'Oréal Paris Elnett Satin Hairspray, $14: "Superlight but can be layered on for more hold. Easily brushes out."

Indulgence Pick

Revolution In Cut Styling Primer, $24: "Multitasking blend of styling gel and cream helps define layers and give volume."

Aviva Perea

"Finishing products are all pretty similar, so the affordable ones are just as good on the job!" says L.A.-based stylist Perea, who crafts rocking, texturized styles for Beth Ditto.

Conair Mega Self-Grip Rollers, $10: "Create lasting body."

Aussie Hair Insurance Leave-In Conditioner Spray, $3: "Locks down the cuticle to stay frizz-free."

Pantene Pro-V Ice Shine Maximum Hold Hairspray, $4: "Adds texture to ends or volume at roots."

Sally Hershberger Wave Spray, $13: "Makes defined waves."

Goody Ouchless Detangling Comb, $5: "Rids hair of knots."

Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo, $6: "Soaks up oil."

Dove Volume Therapy Conditioner & Shampoo, $6 each: "Leaves hair easy to style."

Dove Volume Therapy Conditioner, $5.

Biolage Bodifying Spray Gel, $14: "My can't-live-without product! Plumps up strands for fullness throughout."

The Best Styling Products for Curly Hair Best Products for Curly Hair Ranks the Best Curly Hair Products

Best Products for Curly Hair Ranks the Best Curly Hair Products - ELLE You voted—these products keep your curls looking their best!

big bounce

For "cascading curls," try Moroccanoil Intense Curl Cream—"it doesn't leave hair crunchy."

shape up

"Calming" Living Proof No Frizz Styling Cream "smoothes frizz for days."

secret agent

Want "soft and shiny" curls? Try "amazing" Redken Ringlet 07.

french twist

You get "volume and bounce" with "long lasting" TRESemmé Flawless Curls Jelly.

booster club

The "super light" John Frieda Take Charge Mousse "makes the perfect ringlet."