5 Wintry Hair Color Ideas to Take You Right Into the New Season


Updated 12/20/10 7:00 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Hair Color Ideas For Winter 2010

The weather outside may be frightful, but your hair doesn't have to look the part. Celebrity colorist Jason Backe of the Ted Gibson Salon in New York has worked with stars like Anne Hathaway, Ashley Greene, and Christina Ricci, and now he has a few words of advice to share with us. So if you're feeling a bit uninspired with your hair color, let Jason guide you in the right direction. Read more

Love It or Hate It? Isabel Lucas's Blond Side-Streaks


Updated 12/08/10 11:39 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Isabel Lucas Has New Streaky Hair

Transformers star Isabel Lucas has taken her hair to a lovely espresso shade, but instead of going all-over dark brown, she's added some very blond strands peeking out from under the sides. Conventional wisdom suggests that you should put your biggest highlights at the front to brighten up your face and give your hair fullness, but do you think Isabel's way of going about it works? Love Read more

How to Get Ombré Hair Color at Home


Updated 11/14/11 5:57 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 9 comments

How To Get Ombré Hair With At-Home Hair Color

You've seen ombre hair on stars like Rachel Bilson, Drew Barrymore, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Now, stylist Jennifer J shows you how to get ombre highlights at home using box color from the drugstore. Watch our video for her secrets on how to get this dark-to-light look at home! Read more

5 Tricks For Getting Great Highlights at Home


Updated 09/20/10 9:35 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

How to Highlight Your Hair

Don't consider yourself craven if the idea of highlighting at home is daunting. There's a lot to take into consideration, and coloring yourself can be scary. Thing is, though, highlighting at home isn't hard, it saves you tons of money, and it gives you a lot more control over the size and placement of your streaks. To help you get great results, colorist Kelly Van Gogh has tips for getting Read more

Far-Out Finds: 5 Goofy-Looking Hair Products


Updated 08/16/10 8:00 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

Goofy-Looking Hair Products

About once a month, I make a stop at the beauty supply store for a few essentials. Among my many visits, I've come across plenty of goofy-looking, yet functional, finds. Remember those ear condoms from a while back? Well, hold on to your hats, and check out even more peculiar-looking beauty finds now. Source: Thinkstock Read more

Trend Alert: Ombré Highlights


Updated 01/18/11 9:36 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 17 comments

Pictures of Stars With Ombre Highlights 2010-07-26 13:00:04

Love highlights, but aren't so fond of the upkeep? Then look no further than the ombré effect that's popping up. The latest star to join in on the trend is Jessica Biel, who showed off a darker base color, complete with golden blond strands peeking out from the ends, at a photo call for The A-Team in Madrid earlier today. Ashlee Simpson and Rachel Bilson have also been wearing the graduating Read more

The Trick to Getting Shiny, Nonbrassy Blond Like Ali Larter


Updated 07/14/10 6:00 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

How to Get Ali Larter's Lucky Magazine Hair

Ali Larter's enviable blond highlights take center stage in the August issue of Lucky magazine. And it's thanks to the clever techniques of Redken Creative Consultant For Color, Tracey Cunningham. To get a similar effect, first have your colorist highlight your hair. Then, ask him or her to tone the lightened portions by using the following formula: equal parts of ammonia-free clear glaze and Read more

Badly Botched Highlights? Here's How to Fix Them


Updated 07/13/10 6:05 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

How to Fix Bad Highlights

We've all been there before: going the DIY route with highlights, only to be faced with a head of scary streaks. But colorist Kelly Van Gogh, who has worked with A-listers like Cindy Crawford, says there's a fairly easy fix. "Get an allover semi-permanent color that's two shades lighter than what you are naturally," Van Gogh says. "Apply it over the botched highlights to tone." If your Read more

Want Easy, Sun-Kissed Streaks? Here's a Quick Trick


Updated 06/07/10 5:09 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 4 comments

How to Get Natural Highlights at Home

This is the time of year lots of people go in for expensive highlights designed to make them look like they've been spending all their time on a beach somewhere in the Carribbean. For those of us who can't cough up the money for that kind of thing, though, there's a pretty sweet at-home trick to help us get pricey-looking highlights at home: Just braid before you color. First, section your hair Read more

Get Anne Hathaway's Caramel-Accented Hair


Updated 05/21/10 6:00 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

How to Get Anne Hathaway's Hair Color

If you're looking to do something different to your hair color but don't want to spend a lot of money, colorist to the stars Marie Robinson has some advice. A few weeks ago, Anne Hathaway requested shades of gold and caramel to help add dimension to her brown color, and you can achieve a similar look yourself. Marie went to work applying a semi-permanent color, as she notes, Anne "doesn't have Read more