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"I admit, this is not one of my personal beauty conundrums, but I have plenty a friend who complains of it. What&amp;#x27;s a girl to do when a girl&amp;#x27;s hair just refuses to hold any sort of wave?We always see celebrities with those loose, pretty waves, but they&amp;#x27;re not always so easy to achieve in real life--and for some people, they&amp;#x27;re even harder to hold onto. Well last week, I got a little wavy-hair tutorial from Liam Carey of the Ted Gibson Salon (Anne Hathaway is among the clientele), with my friend Jen as hair model. Ever since I met her a few years ago, Jen has had short hair that&amp;#x27;s cute, swingy and pretty straight. She recently decided to start growing her hair long, and in the meantime, she&amp;#x27;d like to start wearing it in loose waves to mix things up. However, every time she tries to curl it, it falls stick-straight again by mid day. Thus our visit to Liam to score some new techniques. His first move? Lightly coating her dry hair with hairspray, to give the curl more &amp;quot;grip&amp;quot;. Then the curling began. Liam used a relatively inexpensive, medium-barrel curling iron from Hot Tools, but he said using a tinier one is a good idea if you really want your waves to last. Start wrapping each section about 1/3 of the way down from the roots. Hold for just about five seconds (make sure your iron gets really really hot, or consider investing in a new one--it&amp;#x27;ll be worth it), then slide the iron out from the bottom of the ringlet you&amp;#x27;ve created. The trick to longer-lasting waves is to make the curl way more dramatic than you want it to end up. Liam covered Jen&amp;#x27;s head in Shirley Temple-esque ringlets, winding each one the opposite direction around the iron to keep the texture varied. He said women often style their hair the way they want it to look, rather than anticipating how much the curl will relax. A visual: Here&amp;#x27;s how Jen looked right as we exited the salon ... ... and here she is a couple hours later at home. The curls were still there, but much subtler. It was impressive that they lasted at all, considering how humid the day was. Now Jen&amp;#x27;s going to play around with the waves more and let us know how it goes; she has ordered the curling iron, plus some Velcro rollers, which Liam said would help prevent her roots from going flat just a couple hours after styling. In the meantime, let&amp;#x27;s discuss: How many of you have trouble getting loose waves to stay in your hair? What&amp;#x27;s the best trick you&amp;#x27;ve ever learned for solving this problem? P.S. - Keep an eye out for an upcoming post about the awesome round brush I&amp;#x27;ve seen Liam and lots of other hairstylists using lately! P.P.S: - Check out the post Beth did on getting curl to hold, back in June. Girlfriend is the master when it comes to curl!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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