Hair Mistake: Over Highlighting

Nick Arrojo, founder/owner and master stylist at ARROJO Studio has a great tip to help hid over highlighted hair. Over highlighting your hair leads to highlights that are beyond obvious. If your highlights are too obvious, one thing to do is pin the lightened sections inside the rest of the haircut. The effect you’re going for is to hide them away with only small splashes of color popping through, giving you a more lived-in beach-ready look.

Hair Mistake: Cutting your own Bangs

Think about it like this, bangs lay right in your face so if you miss up they are front and center. Why would you try and do that yourself? I've tried so many times to cut on own bangs and it's been a disaster every time. The only time it's worked is when I just trim up bangs that have been cut by a pro.

Already made the mistake? Check out how to grow out bangs gracefully.

Hair Mistake: Under Conditioning

If you are relaxed or natural, your hair needs to be conditioned. I like to condition my hair at least every time I shampoo, so that would be once a week. Now I'm talking a deep conditioner, where I apply it to freshly shampooed, damp hair, and allow it to really get in there by adding some heat with my hooded dryer.

I double condition, meaning I use an instant conditioner and then a deep conditioner. When I used to just use an instant conditioner my hair wasn't thriving like it is now. The best way to start is to use a moisturizing conditioner over a protein based conditioner, because most people need more moisture.