Wear your favourite accessory - your hair - in self-inspired style. June Tomkyns tells you how...
If you need a straightening balm, gel, shine serum or a strong-hold spray to make a hair statement, you’re all messed up. Get a cut that’s versatile and completely YOU!

Your Hairdo Should:
* Be uncomplicated
* Be low maintenance
* Require minimum of styling products
* Work for your hair type and facial features

So, If You Are:
A SQUARE FACE: Choose a style with long, lightly wavy or curly layers, to softly frame the face and detract from the hard facial lines. Avoid a fringe or a side parting. Layers work like magic and you get a new look without sacrificing length.

A ROUND FACE: Go short in length to make your face appear narrower, and opt for a short fringe to give the illusion of facial length.

AN OVAL FACE: This shape is perfect and allows you the freedom to wear a style of your choice. Hair can look sexy in all lengths.

A LONG FACE: This facial shape needs more body at the top. Choppy bangs or short layers is a good bet. What will also work is a bob with a fringe to create width (horizontal lines). Scrunch-dried, curly bobs balance a long face.

However, don’t forget a glance at your body shape before going the whole hog.

And if you wear glasses, your frame and hairstyle should complement each other. Large spectacles could spoil a neat, feathered cut, while fine frames will be lost in a large, voluminous style. Wear your glasses before your stylist cuts your hair.

Tressed Out!
Curls are still very strong. And face-framing fringes with soft highlights are trendy, too. It’s also the time to let your hair down the ’60s way!

Style File
June Tomkyns did a classic cutting course at Toni & Guy in the UK and in Singapore and keeps up-to- date with their collection via video cuts. She has also done a course by Terence Renati. Her tools of style are a pair of scissors, a razor, clippers, hair shapers and thinning scissors.

She can be contacted at: 1 C, Lovelock Place, 3rd Floor, Calcutta — 700019. Tel: (022) 475-0468; Mobile — 9830202971


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