Short Hair Styles for Women

As well as being stylish, shorter hair is often easy to care for and manage.  Some of the best short hairdos & hairstyles for women are those where they are well styled and cut, giving real body and shape to even wispy, flyaway hair.

Short & Trendy Hairstyles

More woman than ever before are opting for a trendy, short look.

With all the products to great body, waves and lift, it's not surprising that we can create just about any style that we choose.

Some of the top models and celebrities are choosing to cut their hair short, with amazing results.

Check the latest pictures of Keira Knightley, who has had her hair cut short at the back with a large side sweeping fringe, with golden highlights. Her look is very chic and sophisticated and the fringe keeps her look very feminine.

Jessica Simpson has had her hair shortened, although it is still long enough to put up in a ponytail if she wanted. This look is very wearable, and you can do all sorts of things with it.

Just ask your hairdresser to have the total length of your hair shortened to shoulder length, with the shortest layers just 2 inches up from this and have the hair closest to your face cut 2-3 inches shorter than shoulder length. You can also see this look on Jennifer Lopez.

Whilst some celebrity styles are super-short and others shoulder length, the most popular cut at the moment is a bob.

Jessica Alba, Ashley Simpson and Mandy Moore are just some of the stars with this great, versatile hair cut, which is miles better than a long limp straight cut. Bobs look great straight, or curled, with a side fringe or a centre parting.

Try having the parts closest to your face cut a bit longer for a very recent look, although this look is definitely better kept very simple. The really great thing about this look is that it looks sophisticated all the time, and not much has to be done to it to keep it looking so.

Black hair can look great in this, just think of Halle Berry, who for many years had a cropped look, which looked stunning.

To recreate this look, make sure to ask your hairdresser to get your hair to about 2 or 3 inches all over and to make it layered, also if you ask to have the ends razored your look will look much more expensive.

To style this at home, get some thin hair straighteners (many places sell them with a half inch width) and curl each hair strand and then flip out the ends. Or you could create this look by blow drying your hair, simply get a small round bristled brush and curl each piece, to create a really textured look.

Spiky Hairstyles

If you've got the face shape and youth to carry it off, this kind of look can be very trendy.  Ask your salon stylist whether this look is the right one for you.

Neve Campbell and Natalie Portman are celebrities who have had short spiky hair recently, and look great with it. Short hair can look boyish, but if you have it cut correctly it can also look incredibly sexy.

Perhaps you should think about having some highlights put through your hair, or a total change of hair color, although be sure that you don’t shock yourself by a completely drastic change of image.

How to Manage Very Short Hair

More women are sporting very short hair styles - and it's not just for the younger woman, older women can look great in these kind of styles if they have a great salon cut and have the face shape to wear it.  Black hair can look great in these increasingly short styles.

Judi Dench for example keeps her short hair looking stunning. Try to copy this look by warming some hair wax up in your hands, and then adding it all over your hair, lifting the hair up from the roots, to give it a really textured look.

As long as you have some wax on hand all the time your hair should always look stunning. Try getting other people to apply it for you, if you start to get a bit bored of it.

Some of the favourite styling products for short hair are Body Shop’s Coconut Oil Hair Shine or Fructis Style Hard Gel.

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