How to Get Cosm-oh! Hair

Rock Our Lock Look
It’s easier than you think! NYC stylist Oscar Blandi, who’s done a lot of our U.S. covers, spills the four steps to a Cosmo-worthy coif.

• Apply leave-in conditioner and volumizer onto towel-dried hair. Try Pantene Total Care Leave-On Hair Moisturizer, P104.75, and Davines Nº3 Universal Mattering Mousse, P1,290. Flip hair over and blow-dry roots while pulling them taut, then dry the rest of your hair until it’s slightly damp (think 10 percent).



• Flip your hair upright and put one-inch sections in Velcro rollers. Once all your hair is set, blow-dry with a diffuser for 10 minutes on the hot setting, then 10 minutes on cool. Alternative options: Use large hot rollers or a curling iron but make sure hair is 100 percent dry first.



• Remove rollers, mix up a drop each of shine serum and gel (the perfect combo for hold and shine) between your fingers, then run hands throughout your hair.



• For an extra body boost, gently tease roots. Finish by tousling your hair into a cascade of loose come-hither curls, and give it a light spritz with hair spray.

Top Tools of the Trade
Here are the key products and primpers our experts simply refuse to work without.

• Joy Fashion Mediumsize Velcro rollers, P52 for a pack of four, (they’re usually pink) are the perfect width to produce wavy body.


• The one-and-ahalf-inch barrel of the Rowenta Imagin’ Multi Accessories, P3,650, creates bouncy coils.


• TIGI Bed Head Superstar, P1,390, and Cream Silk Lite Fix, P84.75 gives hair major long- lasting body.


• The natural bristles on the Acca Kappa flat brush, P695, reduce static and create shine.

Stylists On-Set Secrets
Our mane men dish about their tress tricks. These tips are great for real life, too:

• Beef up oily or thin hair with powder. After I prep a model’s hair with volumizer and do the perfect set, if I’m still not getting enough body, I flip her hair over and sprinkle baby powder from her scalp all the way down to her ends, then blow-dry on cool for a minute, tousle…and voilá,” says NYC salon owner Ted Gibson, who primps Angelina Jolie.



• Revive roots with hair spray. "If the model's hair starts to wilt, I flip it upside down, lift it an inch from the scalp, and mist hair spray onto her roots. Then I have her keep her locks upside down for a few seconds until the spray dries." says Ken Pavés, Carmen Electra’s mane pro. When she flips it back up, her hair has amazing body.



• Tease with a toothbrush. "Instead of back-combing with a brush or comb, I use a firm-bristled toothbrush to really get into the roots and create amazing volume," says stylist David Babaii, who works with Kate Hudson. Just spritz some light-hold hair spray directly onto the toothbrush and back-comb section by section.

Cosmopolitan Philippines May 2007