Many modern women choose haircuts for short hair for their style and practicality. For 5 years now, they have reliably come into fashion. Because of this, there are hundreds of such hairstyles, which this article will help you figure out.
Features of creating beautiful hairstyles for short hair
Hairstyles for short hair are easy to do at home. The two main moods of short styling are elegance and boldness. Elegant hairstyles, in turn, are performed in a romantic or business style.
A provocative daring accent in the form of a “hedgehog” 2 cm long with variations in the use of a bright color, asymmetry or contrasting length of hair on the back of the head, is most often inherent in representatives of subcultures, but slight notes of mischief can be seen in the hairstyles of women of all ages and social status.
Pure expression of romantic or business style is much less common than mixed options.
Interestingly, regardless of the haircut, styling can completely change the character of the hairstyle.
The exception is a haircut for a minimum length of 3 cm. It is quite difficult to give such a short haircut a feminine touch. But no matter what informational component the haircut carries, they all have one common constant - short hair.
And for short hair, there are a number of rules that will help you make a beautiful hairstyle based on any type of haircut:
- When styling a short haircut, use only a flat brush or a tunnel brush with sparse teeth. The first, accompanied by a hair dryer, creates a sleek effect in the style of the gangster era of the early 19th century. The second is a hairdressing tool that creates root volume and clearly defines the styling guidelines.
- Means for creating styling should be selected based on the desired effect. So, to give hair the effect of "wet hair" requires a gel with the appropriate name and fixation. And, for example, to give a romantic look, it is better to use gel-wax or hair pomade containing oils in its composition.
- Styling mousse or styling powder - this will create the necessary volume when styling cut hair. A prerequisite is that the products should be applied only to the hair roots. The approximate volume for short hair is a full palm without top.
- The final stability of the hairstyle is given by varnish. The choice of fixation is up to the person whose hairstyle will be fixed. The varnish is applied from approximately 20 cm.
- To create a strong sparkling effect on the strands, hairdressers use one little trick: the varnish is applied to the desired strands, before applying wax to them.
Hairstyles for short hair can be done with 4 basic styling tools:
Properties of basic styling products
Styling powder or mousse | Volume at the roots |
Wet Look Gel | Wet hair effect and firm hold |
Hair wax | Shine, soft hold, guides and waves |
Hair spray | Shine and hold |
Casual hairstyles for short hair
Short hair is easy to deal with, but that doesn't mean that wearers don't want to look stylish and feminine. To create different looks, they can pay attention to such styling.
Soft waves
The basis is a square of medium length or just any regrown haircuts:
- Apply mousse, foam or other styling product to add volume to the root part of the hair.
- Make a parting and curl up the ends of the hair with a curling iron.
Sprinkle the resulting curls a little with varnish and comb with your fingers, giving the strands a wave shape. - Raise the top of the head with a hairdryer;
- Tuck the ends of the strands inward with wax.
- The desired direction of the hairstyle can be given with your fingers, a comb with sparse large teeth or an iron.
Waterfall
The basis is a bob haircut. The hairstyle looks good on both wavy and straight hair. The difference is that this hairstyle looks more prominent on straight hair.
How to do it:
- Separate a strand around the head circumference, around the parietal part and begin to weave a thin pigtail from it. Weaving method: French braid, but with the difference that the upper part of each strand must be released down so that it hangs freely, and under the braid, take additional hair and weave it into the base, forming a new strand of it. Then release the formed top strand again.
- So weave around the circumference of the entire head.
- On the opposite, from the beginning of weaving, the side of the head - fasten the weaving with a hairpin or invisible.
The "waterfall" hairstyle can be done not only on the basis of a French braid, but by braiding a flagellum, throwing over 2 strands. When weaving a flagellum, two strands are taken and thrown among themselves. The top strand becomes the bottom one and is released downward. And to the remaining strand a new strand from the base of the hair is braided and becomes a new lower one. And again the locks are thrown.
The top becomes the bottom and goes down. And so around the whole head. In both the first and second cases, the remaining strands form hanging, beautiful separate curls, similar to the streams of a waterfall.
Feminine hedgehog
The short "hedgehog" hairstyle was originally a purely masculine hairstyle. Now there are several options for a female hedgehog: loose, feminine, protruding and classic, very, very short. As a daytime option, a hedgehog with an elongated parietal part and thick layered bangs looks great in combination with scarves and scarves.
Step by step instructions:
- The bangs fit, starting from the parietal part, forward or to the side, or in waves - according to the mood. For styling, you can use mousse or wax.
- The ends of the hair are treated with wax for fixation and release.
- You should not fix your hair under a scarf with varnish. If a scarf is not planned, you can fix your hair with varnish. For the daytime version, the use of strong hold is not recommended. The hair will look too static.
Beautiful evening hairstyles
An evening hairstyle is a reason to use your imagination and "walk" expensive or unusual accessories. You can emphasize your attractiveness with such hairstyles.
Shell
The foundation: covering the neck square.
Instructions:
- Treat the hair with styling products at a distance from the middle of the length to the ends, then curl it with medium curlers or a curling iron.
- Comb on the back of the head and secure with invisibility.
- Gather most of the hair into a ponytail and secure with an elastic band.
- Form waves from the remaining mass of hanging hair and slip it under the elastic for fixation.Gradually, all remaining hair will be fixed in a ponytail.
- Form a conch curl from the ponytail hair. Secure with invisible
- Spray your hair with varnish.
A shell hairstyle can be made smooth and voluminous. Hair curled from the root will create more volume. Hair curled from the middle will create volume, mainly in the "shell" itself. If you curl only the ends of your hair and make a "shell" hairstyle, you get the smoothest version of this hairstyle, similar to an intricate bun.
Evening hedgehog
Hairstyles for short hair and extremely short hair length look stylish and always attract the attention of others:
- Comb the hedgehog using styling material. If the length of the hair permits, the occipito-parietal part is styled. The direction of laying is arbitrary: forward or backward, sideways or herringbone.
- To create a tighter hold, gel and varnish are used. To create soft waves - wax and varnish. Laying is best done with a tunnel brush or plastic with sparse teeth.
- The shortest version of the hedgehog is laid as follows: the hair is lifted up with a gel and fixed with varnish. Using a glitter polish will add glamor to the look.
Disheveled bob
The execution algorithm is as follows:
- Hair is treated with dry shampoo.
- The strands are twisted with a curling iron or on curlers - in different directions to get the effect of tousled hair.
- Small curls need to be twisted with pliers and combed in different directions.
- After the hairstyle is "properly disheveled", apply varnish.
- With this styling, an interesting effect is provided by a simple change in the location of the parting. The hairstyle changes completely.
Holiday hairstyles for short hair
At the holiday, you want to have a light and airy mood to have fun and relax. A suitable hairstyle will help to create it.
Caret-asymmetry
An asymmetric bob hairstyle is not the same as an asymmetrical hairstyle.
Hair is laid on one side, but their length without styling is the same:
- Apply mousse or foam to washed hair.
- Curl curls directed inward with a curling iron.
- Do not wind the bangs.
- Comb all hair to one side with a wide-toothed comb. You need to comb it in a row, fixing each strand with invisibility.
- The strands should be directed so that a beautiful parting is created from the back of the head, with a transition to a side parting in front.
- Using your waxed hands, straighten the curls, giving them the desired shape and direction.
- Fix the remaining hair that did not fit into the thrown strands with invisible behind the ear.
- After the creation of the hairstyle is completed, fix it with varnish. You can decorate your hair with accessories.
Light curls
The basis of this hairstyle is a square with an even edge or with slightly elongated front hair strands:
- At night, you should put on an elastic band on your head, which adheres to the head, but does not press. It should be located in the middle of the frontal part and further in a circle.
- All hair must be wrapped around it, forming a roller from the hair.
- The hair of the lower part of the head, which is not included in the roller, simply do not touch.
- In the morning, carefully remove the elastic and smooth out the resulting curls. The direction of the curls depends on which way they were wrapped.
- Spread out soft, flowing curls, covering the hair on the bottom of the head. Treat the front strands and bangs with glitter gel. Lightly fix the rest of the hair with varnish.
Corrugation
If absolutely no styling accessories are available at home, you can use braids to create a hairstyle with extreme volume and fun texture.
Basis: square.
Execution example:
- Braid many very small braids from damp hair. Fasten so as not to unravel.
- Dry with a hairdryer. As thoroughly as possible.
- Unwrap the resulting volume of corrugated hair and style it into a hairstyle. To do this, you can select individual strands with wax. They also treat the ends of the hair, which are better to twist with a curling iron.
- A disheveled and fun hairstyle looks good in multicolored glitter hairspray.
To graduation party
Graduation happens only once in a lifetime, and many remember it for many years. A suitable hairstyle will help emphasize the uniqueness of the event.
Festive square
The foundation: A bob that reaches the neckline or covers the neck.
- Conditionally separate on the parietal part of the head the zone passing through the upper points of the ears, dividing the head into the front part and the occipital part. The front part includes the temporal and frontal areas. In other words, bangs and lateral temporal locks.
- Treat the back of the head with styling products to add volume. It can be mousse or powder.
- Curl the parietal treated part on a curling iron and lay in beautiful waves. Or:
- Place the parietal part with a hair dryer in a "ball", lifting the back of the head.
- Curl the ends with a curling iron inward and fix with wax.
- Lay the front part with an iron - you should get even bangs and strands near the ears.
- Create a gentle transition from occipital to front.
- Fix the hairstyle with varnish.
- You can decorate with accessories in the form of flowers and hairpins with rhinestones.
If the prom came at a time when the haircut for short hair has already grown back and cannot be identified, and you don’t want to cut your hair, you can do hairstyles for the hair that has grown after any haircut.
Styling short hair without a clear cut base
A regular short haircut - with an elongated back of the head and short temples, can be styled with foam and powder:
- Give the basal volume of the occipito-parietal part.
- Treat the strands from the forehead to the temples with gel and smoothly lay with a flat brush.
- The occipito-parietal part is combed and laid with a low ridge between the smooth area of the temples.
- At the back, the hairstyle can be done in 2 ways: either continue the "comb" over the entire width of the back of the head, gently going "no" to the ends of the hair bent inward. Or continue the ridge not in the entire width of the occipital part, but exactly as it goes from the front part. And from the side, continue smooth styling with gel up to the neck.
The inwardly curved tips of the occipital and lateral parts will visually unite the styling.
Styling pixie haircuts
Execution instruction:
- Raise different lengths of pixie strands by applying special means for root volume.
- Highlight the relief of the strands with wax or a lighter means.
- Highlight the ends of the hair with wax.
- The varnish should be used with care. If you fix the hair, then it is minimal. An excess of nail polish will transform the avant-garde pixie hairstyle into the usual classic haircut for middle-aged ladies.
For the wedding
At the wedding, any girl can feel like a princess from a fairy tale. And princesses don't have bad hairstyles.
Babette styling with a bow
The foundation: Bob haircut.
To make a high ponytail from the entire mass of hair:
- Tie another elastic band on the tail - above the first.
- Raise the tail up and secure it with invisibility at its base.
- Place the roller under the place where the tail is attached and fix it with pins and invisible pins.
- The roller must be hidden by putting loose hair on it.
- Fix the strands under the roller, hiding the ends of the hair and securing them with the help of invisibility.
- "Babette" can be decorated with a bow, fixing it on a hairpin at the base of the tail. If "babette" is the bride's hairstyle, decorations in the form of a comb, beads and flowers will be appropriate. Some attach a veil under the roll.
- Hairstyles for short hair after styling sometimes completely change the appearance of a woman. "Babette" is a vivid example of a possible transformation.
Asymmetrical bob hair styling - bride hairstyle
Execution algorithm:
- To tup (comb) all hair, except for the bangs.
- Gather all combed hair into a ponytail above the right ear.
- Twist the ponytail hair into curlers.
- Dry curled ponytail hair.
- Remove the curlers and use your hands in wax or gel to beautifully disassemble the resulting curls.
- Lay the bangs in a wave, fasten the ends with invisible ones at the base of the tail.
- Attach a beautiful flower to the elastic of the tail.
Wedding styling for super-short hair (from 2 cm)
Execution instruction:
- Treat wet hair with gel.
- "Put" the hair, as perpendicular to the head as possible.
- Sprinkle with glitter varnish.
- Gently guide the hair (preferably with a wide-toothed comb).
You can do this with a hairdryer on a weak mode, moving your hand as far as possible from the head. Practicing with a hairdryer takes experience, but a very nice “fixed breeze” effect is obtained. - After that, sprinkle the hair with varnish again, but without glitter. Along the perimeter of the hairstyle, soften the ends of the hair with wax.
If the bride is doing her hair, you can decorate your head with a wedding headband with flowers and / or a veil.
Stylish hairstyles for short hair
Kare, especially its classic version, is a universal haircut for creating all kinds of hairstyles. The same base can be turned into an absolutely smooth or very lush styling or a version decorated with curls.
Lush blow-dry
Execution algorithm:
- Dry hair with a tissue or towel until damp.
- Apply a medium hold styling product from roots to ends.
- Lightly treat the roots with varnish, and the ends of the hair with oil.
- Dry your hair with a hairdryer, fingering with your hands, leaving the moisture at the roots.
- Divide the hair into parts visually. You can secure them with special tweezers or rubber bands so that your hair does not get tangled. The width of each part is no wider than the comb used. The depth of the part should not exceed the depth of the bristles of the comb used.
- Blow-dry your hair starting from the back. In this case, a concentrating tip should be used.
- Pull the hair up. Dry the roots first - upwards. Then the middle part and roots - with the same direction. And only then stretch the ends of the hair. Do not forget that you need to pull upward, giving bend and volume to the strands.
- This is how all the hair of the head is laid. Especially carefully you need to work out the parietal part - it should be especially magnificent. Stretching the strands up, rotating the comb, you need to strictly perpendicular to the head.
- After all the hair is dry, stretch the top layer of each part again, giving the top strands a "ball" shape or, conversely, from the face, creating interesting directions for a lush hairstyle. At the same time, the air of the hairdryer is cold.
Attention! If you have bangs, you need to process it immediately separately. To do this, you just need to gently dry it with a hairdryer, slightly lifting it at the base and directing it inward. The hairstyle is complete. It is worth sprinkling her hair with varnish again.
Smooth styling of the square
Hairstyles for short hair can be styled smoothly for a luxurious glamorous chic to straight hair. Repeat the procedure for drying hair, indicated for lush styling, but without applying varnish at the roots. The difference is also that when drying with a hair dryer, the direction of pulling the strands is different - only downward, along the lines of the shape of the head, rounding the ends up or inward (at will).
This is when styling with a hairdryer. But, if there is a hair straightener at home, it is better to treat dry hair with it. The effect will be stronger and the process faster. You should work with the iron strictly on dry hair.
Execution algorithm:
- Straighten and smooth the strands with an iron - they should become completely smooth.
- The gel for creating the effect of wet hair is spread over the entire length. Particular attention should be paid to the area of the temple and around the neck.
- Fix hair with varnish. In the case of long hair, after gel or oil, the subsequent fixation with varnish is not always applied. But on short hair, it's better to do it. This will support the styling guidelines and the neatness of the wet hair.
- Once dry, wet styling will be the same as immediately after application.In the finished version, the hairstyle looks very stylish - this is exactly the version of "wet hair" that the public sees on the catwalks. The main condition for this styling is straight hair.
Curly bob
There is an interesting way to make small and soft curls that point in different directions:
- Apply your usual styling product to all hair.
- Divide your hair into the opposite parting.
- Evenly separating very small and medium strands, wind them on small pieces of braid or string prepared in advance.
An important point: the thickness of the strands can be different, which creates the effect of naturalness. But such different strands should be located more or less symmetrically on 2 sides of the head. - Dry the curls with a hairdryer until dry.
- With hands dipped in the styling product, disassemble the resulting curls, preserving their relief.
- Gently give the hair the desired direction and / or emphasize.
For example: select the top of the head with an elastic band, as in the "Malvina" hairstyle and attach a scarf to the elastic band, then stretching it around the head. You can also pin your hair in by experimenting near the mirror and choosing your option
To the party
The most important requirement for this type of hairstyle is the ability to withstand several hours of active dancing.
Square curled on a curling iron
How is it done:
- Wash hair, treat with mousse and dry to damp hair.
- Make the top bundle and fix it.
- Tighten the volume at the back. The curling iron should point downward from the roots. The hair on the side curls towards the face.
- The hair of the bundle is twisted chaotically, in strands of different thickness.
- The bangs are pulled out with a round brush - from the face.
- Curls are straightened with hands. You can sprinkle your hair with varnish a little.
Chaotic and stylish
Execution algorithm:
- Treat washed hair with foam or mousse.
- Dry the strands with a hair dryer, starting from the bottom and "going up" up. You need to use medium brushing.
- The strands should be dried by stretching in different directions - for greater volume.
- Parting in this hairstyle - side or straight.
- Cover the ends of the hair with wax.
Visual length
Instructions for creating:
- Cover clean hair with an indelible styling agent.
- Dry and foam on top.
- Make a side parting - divide the entire hairstyle into 2 parts.
- In front, visually separate a third of the head, and wind the curls with a large comb behind this area.
- Stab the strands with invisible in the middle. You should get curls in the style of the 30s.
- Remove invisibility. Direct the front curl to the forehead.
- Lightly varnish your hair.
For the new year
As you celebrate the new year, you will spend it. This also applies to the hairstyle.
Hairstyle in 5 minutes
Features of creation:
- Wash your head and tilt it forward, comb all the hair forward.
- Turn on the hair dryer at high power and dry your hair.
- Pull back hair in a natural direction.
- Lay the resulting volume with your hands. Hands should be smeared with gel or wax.
- Decorate the hairstyle with a ribbon or headband, then fix the volume with varnish with multi-colored sequins.
New Year's "hedgehog"
How to do:
- Wash your hair.
- Dry and lift hair with a narrow brush in the direction against hair growth.
- Treat your hair with colored varnish.
- Wax the ends of the hair around the perimeter of the hairstyle.
- The hair of the bangs, if any, should be lifted with a hairdryer and laid in uneven strands, first treated with wax, then with varnish.
A layer of varnish in front of the wax will give the strands a shine.
Stylish negligence
Execution algorithm:
- Wash hair and dry with a towel.
- Apply to towel-dried hair with maximum hold wax.
- Dry your hair again with a towel.
- Use your fingers to "go" back and forth over the head, and in the direction "from the face" to raise the extreme strands.
- Fix the hairstyle with varnish.
Classic square
Performance:
- Wash hair, dry until wet and apply mousse to them.
- Divide the head into zones visually and apply it with a hairdryer, starting from the back of the head.
- The direction of the comb is downward.Bend the tips inward.
- You don't need to add a lot of volume. Everything should be in moderation.
- After all the hair has been styled into a smooth, soft circle, the hairstyle needs to be lightly fixed with varnish.
To decorate the classic styling of the square, a ribbon with a small bow, worn around the head, is suitable.
Accessories
On short hair, haircuts look beautiful and feminine. Diverse hair styling leaves one thing unchanged - a kind of visual "defenselessness" of its owner with any hairstyle.
Styling accessories for short hair are sold in a variety of retail outlets:
- professional stores;
- ordinary shops;
- wholesale warehouses;
- markets;
These are beautiful headbands made of metal, plastic and even fabric. These are hairpins of various sizes and shapes that can be matched to any outfit.
A hairstyle accessory can be:
- scarf;
- decorative small hat;
- beautiful earring rings and other trinkets;
- great real hat.
All this can be an interesting addition to your hair and create a special look. For a festive hairstyle, say, a bright satin flower, which is attached to a hairpin or hairpin.
The hairstyle for short hair at the wedding will be gently decorated with charming small flowers. In fact, almost any piece of jewelry can become an accessory for a hairstyle - it is important to choose the right one and style it into your hair.
Article design: Anna Vinnitskaya
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It was always interesting that you can do your own hairstyle for short hair, because many things don't suit me. So I tried to curl my hair with a curling iron and I liked it so much. Thanks for the idea!)