Retro Long Hair Styles
Retro long hair styles are easy to create when you start with straight, settled hair. Styling takes a little bit of patience and a lot of product. Detailed tips for creating the more advanced long hair styles are included below.
Retro Long Hair Styles
Mock Mullet
- Select front couple inches of hair
- Spray with light holding product
- Hold vertically to dry for a few seconds
- Fasten at back crown with mini-clip
- Brush sides back using light spray and smooth
- Fasten just above ear with bobby pins or barrettes
- Spray again with light holding product
Up and Out
- Straight-up Volume
- Separate crown with clip and leave for last
- Iron hair 1/2" away from roots
- Hold iron horizontally and apply pressure
- Move slowly down shaft
- Hold for a few seconds on ends
- Spritz crown roots with light holding spray
- Wait a few seconds then iron and re-clip
- Finish with serum concentrating on ends
- Release clip and allow hair to fall to side part
- Gently tease and spray
- Repeat along one side as well, if desired
Faux-cornrows
- Part hair in neat one inch strips
- Select one section and gently pull product to the ends
- Twist hair and roll under while moving toward back
- Clip end securely
- Spray with light holding spray
- Continue around crown as desired
More Retro Long Hair StylesFlipped Out Wings
- Sufficiently warm up medium curling iron
- Create desired clean or staggered part
- Spray ends with light holding product
- Hold iron vertically in line with ends
- Curl out ends and roll up to roots
- Clip gently and continue around head
- Spray with light holding product
- Release clips before walking out the door
Sultry Waves
- Sufficiently warm up small curling iron
- Spritz ends of hair with light holding spray
- Grab a few inch wide section of hair and curl
- Repeat four to six times or until necessary
- Carefully clip hair into rolls without crimping edges
- Continue around entire head until complete
- Spray with light holding product and allow hair to cool
- Release clips before walking out the door
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"I started washing my hair before bed then straightening it in the mornings like you suggested and feel a lot less rushed and it even look less frizzy!"
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