Health and Beauty: Hairstyling tips

Grasscroft’s LIZ NORBURY, from the Hair & Beauty Therapies department of Oldham College, teams up with Gill Morson, Curriculum lead for Hairdressing & Barbering, to offer summer hairstyling tips

Holiday hair and all the sparkle and shimmer of the season can inspire any woman to have fun with her hairstyle.

Here is how to create and maintain a fish tail braid – perfect for the beach.   

• Comb the hair towards the back of the head, off the face. A tight-toothed comb or hard brush works best to gather hair together. Make sure hair is smooth and free of tangles.
• Divide the hair into two sections. A parting can be made in the middle of the head or the hairstyle can be created without a parting and using two equal sections of hair.
• Start at the top of the head with two small strands of hair from the outer part of the left and right sections closest to the scalp. Take the comb or brush and make sure the hair is smooth before proceeding.
• Hold both sections of hair in the left hand securely. Use a tail comb or your left index finger to separate two small sections on the left and right side.
• Cross the left thin strand of hair over the right bunch of hair. The right thin strand should be crossed over to the left bunch of hair and pulled away from each other to tighten.
• Cross the right thin strand of hair over to the left bunch of hair. Another left thin strand of hair should be crossed back over to the right side of hair.
• Continue to crisscross the smaller outer strands of hair into the larger opposite bunches of hair, pulling the hair bunches tightly away from each other to tighten the braid and secure it to the scalp.
• Repeat until all the hair is braided. Use gel or cream to help with fly-away and loose or shorter hair on the sides of the head.
• Take a hair pin, clip or hair band and secure the braid at the end. Hair clips can also be used to create pin-up.

Why not come along to The Colour Rooms to see how else they can enhance your hair styles? What The Colour Rooms Hairdressing and Barbering at Oldham College offers:

• Our prices are very competitive and we offer a full range of services from styling hair, hair up, colour and perming to colour correction and foils using Wella products.
• Courses from Level 1 to Level 3.
• We run commercial and work experience Salons on Monday afternoons, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, all day Friday and Saturday mornings.
• Our students work under excellent supervision from fully qualified staff.

To book an appointment phone The Colour Rooms on 0161 785 4162.