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Step by step instructions on how to achieve many different hairstyles along with pictures to help you.

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If you are looking for a cute way to wear your hair with a trendy headband, then check out this cute style. This young woman has curly hair but has styled it into a straightened 60s hairdo with the use of hair products and a flat iron. First she uses a straightening balm and then uses a large round brush when blow-drying. She runs over the strands with a flat iron one small section at at time. The top crown of her head is back combed to add some height and then the outer layer is smoothed over for a clean look. Some hair spray is added at the end. A wide polka-doted headband is placed for a fabulous retro statement. This hair accessory has an elasticized bottom to allow it to stay in place better.

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That 60s bouffant seems to be the popular thing these days as Hilary Duff shows us during her live performance on NBC's The Today Show Concert Series. A little back combing on top or a great hair product by Aveda called "hair potion" can transform flat hair into big hair. For today's take on the traditional beehive, long hair in back will get you there with bangs brushed to the side and the front section pulled up and back. This style shows off the length along with the height at the crown.

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This young woman is donning some real 40's charm in this photograph taken in the late 1940's. She is sporting tight pin-curls on top with the sides pulled back and held in place with bobbypins. The back of her hair is curly also but in a more subtle fashion. She is wearing a feminine sheer blouse with lacey camisole and has a vintage heart shaped pin. Women of this peirod typicalled wore dark-red lipstick which was associated with Hollywood glamour.

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Bouffant hair is becoming increasing popular with today's current hairstyles and it gets its roots from the 60's. The 50's were a time of more conservative styles for hair and then came the next decade which brought about many changes in culture, fashion, and style. This style was known for its height and fullness at the crown of the head which was quite the change from the pixie cuts and ponytails from the prior decade. Women of the 1960's spent a great deal of time to achieve this poofy hair and read on to find out how they did it.

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This picture of Fergie ( Stacy Ann Ferguson ) was taken at ABC's Good Morning America Summer Concert Series on May 25th 2007. Her hair is long and straight and cut into a layered style with graduated ends. She has a middle part without bangs which has a seventies feel and then the top back portion is lifted up and combed toward the back of her head which has a tendency to look somewhat sixtyish. Her hair looks shiny and healthy and hip for this American pop singer who is a solo artist as well as vocalist for The Black Eyed Peas.

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