Alluring Glamour by Royston Blythe
The Royston Blythe Artistic team has created a series of hairstyles that focus on three things: Glamour, Glamour and more Glamour.
Borrowing traditional hair styling elements like rolls, quiffs, curls and braids, the team gives them a modern edge to create a collection of truly glamorous styles.
Up-Style with Crimping
The Cut: The hair is long and cut with tapering layers at the ends.
The Color: The model's hair is a lush blonde with subtle variations in highlight and lowlight colors to achieve a rich, natural-looking color.
The Style: The up-style features a smooth top and sides with a perfectly smooth roll on one side. The ends of the hair beneath and behind the roll have been crimped and fluffed out to create a soft veil of hair over the neck.
Auburn Brunette Curls
The Cut: This is a medium-length, layered haircut without bangs.
The Color: The rich auburn brunette color is given depth and fire by the addition of warm highlights and deep mahogany lowlights.
The Style: This hairstyle can be created with naturally curly hair or by wrapping the hair in large to medium rollers in descending order of size from top to bottom. Once curled (or if the hair is naturally curly, once it is dried with a diffuser for maximum volume), the hair is combed out and backcombed for added fullness. Finally, it is sprayed with a styling spritz and scrunched to define the curl more.
Updo with Crimped Hair
The Cut: The haircut here is a standard long blunt cut.
The Color: The model's natural dark brunette hair color has soft highlighting to add depth.
The Style: The upper half of the hair, at the top and sides, is backcombed and smoothed into a high, pompadour-styled beehive, with a clutch of large curls at the base. The hair at the back and nape of the head is crimped with a fine-grained crimping iron and lightly backcombed to give it extra fullness.
Criss-Crossed Braids
The Cut: This is a long razor-cut style with heavily tapered texture.
The Color: This model's hair is a pale golden blonde with very subtle dimensioning.
The Style: The hairstyle features a criss-crossed pattern of braids at the top of the head from the forehead to the crown. The sides, back, and nape hair are then crimped with a fine-grained crimper and lightly backcombed to add extra fullness, creating a billow of pale golden strands.
Pompadour-Like Quiff Updo
The Cut: The hair here is cut into a long layered style.
The Color: The deep, mahogany brunette is complemented by warm auburn highlights.
The Style: This updo takes the smoothly straightened hair and sweeps it up into a high pompadour-like quiff with a smooth finish. The hair is backcombed and wound as high as possible, then carefully smoothed for a sleek look.
Mid-Length Hairstyle & Half Curls
The Cut: This haircut is a mid-length layered style.
The Color: The hair color is auburn with lighter coppery highlights and deeper brown lowlights.
The Style: After preparing the hair with styling gel and leave-in conditioner, it's blow-dried for maximum lift. Then, taking segments of hair, each is partially wrapped around a hot curling iron to create a mass of half curls with straight ends. Finally, the ends are lightly dressed with pomade and spritz is misted on the hair, which is then scrunched to define the curls
Blown-Out and Crimped
The Cut: This model has a very long razor cut with deep texturing.
The Color: The hair color is a pale golden blonde with slightly deeper root color and paler highlights for added depth.
The Style: After prepping the hair with styling product and leave-in spray, it's blown out for maximum volume and crimped. Then, it's backcombed to create maximum height, while leaving the ends straight. The finished look is a halo of long, pale, golden tresses
Soft Curls Hairstyle
The Cut: The hair here is cut in a long, layered style.
The Color: The soft blonde color has warm honey tones, almost resembling a strawberry glow.
The Style: After prepping the hair with leave-in spray and styling gel, it's blown dry with a lot of lift. Next, Velcro rollers are used to create soft curls. Once heated and cooled, the curls are backcombed and stretched out, resulting in a magnificent, leonine mane of golden, curling hair.
Hair: Royston Blythe Artistic Team
Makeup: Gary Cockerill
Styling: Bernard Connelly
Photography: David Levine