Spring Hair Trends With Hair Stylist To The Stars Chris Mcmillan

I'M sorry, hey everybody thanks for coming to hang out with us, I'm Gwen flamberge, the beauty director of Us Weekly magazine and I'm here today with main man Chris McMillan, who is living proof celebrity stylist. He is the guy who cut Jennifer, Aniston's famous Rachel. Do that you guys all want you wanted it, then you want her hair. Now he's sheared Miley Cyrus, not awesome, like chic made her a fashion girl. He knows everything there is to know about hair, then and now, and he's gon na fill us in on hot spring hair trends and then he's gon na answer your questions that you tweet into us. So, let's start this party Chris, take it away with our first spring trend. Hey! Thank You Gwen! Thank you for having me. This is a lot right. What is it we're Kelly, Brooke, hey Leigh, it's so confusing, but we Raquel II had short hair already, and but it was a little kind of just. It was a mullet which was actually kind of cool it. Had this sort of kind of Joan Jett feel. So I'm actually loving, I love any short hair on girls. I think short. Hair is a big trend. It'S also in my world, because I work 50 % in a hair salon. I think it's always in style, no matter what I don't care, how old you are. I don't care what you look like: men have always worn hair short haircuts. Why can't any woman wear a great short haircut? I call it boy hair on girls right now, because the way it looks coolest is when it's kind. Like a boy like you know, I like that the details are like shorten over the years, rather than the soft little wispy pieces short at the nape of the neck. Rather than seeing you know kind of this and I like the kind of undercut disconnection like her hair's, you know half an inch here to four inches here, so it doesn't blend in so that you sort of that sort of like it not only controls the weight That always gets in people's hair right here when you're wearing your hair short, but it also kind of puts a cool factor into the hair and it keeps it versatile people think that short haircuts aren't versatile. But that's actually, you just showed us the big wide big line, absolutely short hair. Look. She can wear her hair down and kind of have that sort of Anne Hathaway trend where she went with over the over the award season. We can throw her hair to put a lot of product and put her hair back and up and off her face and get sort of a James Dean, Elvis Presley sort of an endogenous, 80s kind of a look you know with this glamorous is really really nice. It'S really versatile: you can put like take a bobby pin and put it over and make it really girly kind of like what we do with Michelle Williams and it's, I just think short hair looks great on everyone in it. It'S not only does it save a ton of time in the morning, maybe it's not for everyone, but I know that what I run into a lot are people. Everybody loves short hair on people, but there are always the same thing they say is. Oh, it looks great on you, but I could never wear that myself, but that's just kind of like, let's you know they kind of want their hair short a little bit of like something in them. That kind of wants a boy haircut on them. This undercut trans cuz like so many people want to do the undercut like Rihanna did, but do you think that the undercard is easier to wear with a short haircut with to lose absolutely, and also I mean in you know when I first started undercutting hair. You know I was cutting hair and that I started doing hair in the in the mid 80s, and when we do, we would cut bobs on girls and then what we would do is we would undercut the nape of the neck so that they could wear a Ponytail, on top, because you know when you have a bob and you wear a ponytail, you can never get those bottom pieces up, they would always fall out well. So this way you kind of like it was a little surprised back there and have added coolness to it for girls with long hair. These days, we'll have all their hair long and they'll cut like this little section out. Just to let like they'll be no know that they got something cool that kind of gives them that modern, asymmetrical feel cool. Do you think that every woman with any type of hair could rock a short haircut and whatnot? Actually people use? I think that all hair styles, all hair types, all phase types - can handle a handle, a short haircut. Of course you need to put the right haircut on that face shape or with that hair type perfect. Well, I hear that ponytails are the hottest trend for spring they're, all so, let's bring in or a next spring hair trend now Jam ponytail. This is Sariah and Saria has basically what I did was sorry I'll show you I'll take it down and I put a couple of bobby pins. I love a good hair accessory in a ponytail also, but it's just basically what we did was. I gave her a rough blow-dry. This is almost like what you would do with your hair and it works great with hair, two or three or three week old, but it's great for like day old hair, and you know dirty hair. You get that memory in the hair. If you get like, you were saying about your hair, when you haven't washed it for a day or two, you get that root, lift out of it, and you get that PC that lived in kind of a feel, which is always a great like texture to have. When working with a ponytail, so this way you know basically what I've done with my hair is allowed that to be let it be, and then I just you kind of find a shape that I like don't pull too hard. I like, like the the newer ponytail kind of like you, don't have to do it over the ear you kind of like across the tops of the year, and then I like a little hype in the crown from it. It adds a little glamour. Take your ponytail holder and you can you turn sideways and I'm just doing a low one, because I think look you know. Ponytails are always right here. Barbie and everything. This is kind of a newer shape is do a low ponytail. Everyone can throw their hair in a low ponytail yank it up a little bit, pull some pieces. You get that kind of shape in there it's a great shape. Now, how do you know? Are there any directions for like with a side part? You want a low ponytail with at the top. You want a high ponytail, any little directions. Well, it's all of theirs, there's no right or wrong. This is I did a science move, bang, but look all of a sudden. The banks are falling out of interface. So I just took a bobby pin sticking it right there and curves around her face, and that way you still have a little piece of hair hanging down. You know not an amazingly glamorous ponytail that you didn't get kind of teased a little bit. Also. Another thing is, I love these ponytail holders, my friend mej. She started these ponytail holders and mej calm. I am and we her and I I said, do a bow on them, because I love bows right now, obsessed with bows, I think I'm always obsessed with those Minnie Mouse fashion. So we did these bows and it's a great accessory. You just throw it. It takes your your your day, old, hair into nighttime dresses. It up makes it playful and fun. They come in any different color and the next thing you know you have a bow, that's so pretty I actually. I love those mej hair bands because they're so soft and they don't leave a groove in my hair. Don'T leave dents in the hair, you can wear a ponytail tomorrow and it's really wear you down and we love about the ones with the bows. The part of the proceeds go to the Gay and Lesbian Center yeah, oh great, let me down so we can see, see and all of a sudden, you have a great mej does a great job. She started this company when she was 14 years old, she's paid for her own College. It'S amazing entrepreneurs, we like them. I love her. Thank you every day, so our next hair trend, big thing, that's happening for spring. You have long, hair, medium length, hair. It'S kind of this: this is my beard look which is you know, you're famous for this. You created this. Can you do Jen's hair? Everybody loves Jen's hair, in fact, like every hair. Stylist tells me that that's the hair look that most women come in and tell them that they want so show us what we can do with that hair cotton is spring well. This is Libby had pretty much blunt. She has heavy straight one length, hair and what I did today was. I just gave her some soft layers around the face and I left the bottom of her hair and kept the bluntness so that I want her to get a little bit longer kind of um. Here - and I want her because her hair is so thick that we've tried to soften the end, so I just give her some nice long layers, which I call invisible layers, because what they do is it takes the weight out of your hair without it looking like, You have this amazing long, layered shaggy haircut, because I think that the long thinned up string, your like women, want to feel like they have long hair but too long of hair just hangs down. But when you have these kind of invisible layers, there's these pieces and they they they kind of. You know they. They allow the way to come out, so you still get height and fullness from having straight hair. If you want to put some beachy waves into your hair, you can easily curl the pieces, it's not so heavy, so the hair kind of like takes on a nice like wave, you look kind of like I don't know what I'm looking at with your hair. Thank God for that yeah! Absolutely you just take a section of hair wrap it around. You know it's too heavy. You know your hair, it's harder to do so so keeping it long and long layered. I call them, like I said: mine, visible layers takes the preciousness out of the hairstyle, gives us sort of a stringier look, but without looking long, hair tends to like girls with long hair still deserve to have a haircut and to have a hairstyle. So what it does is it allows long hair to still have a hairstyle rather than just hanging long hair, because Mountaineer is amazing, it's beautiful women feel sexy. Women feel beautiful in it and - and you know, if listen Jennifer has an amazing head of hair and I think everybody can relate to Jennifer and her look she's a relatable girl. I know that that her hair she's, listen Jennifer has an amazing head of hair and Jennifer knows how to wear her hair. Her hair doesn't wear her natural textures, her natural job kind of like York. She has a natural wave to her hair. Naturally, so when we do blow it out straight, that's definitely a forced in style, but when her hair is wavy, that's more on her natural side, so anybody with any hair type can rock. This look absolutely and I think that a good blow-dry is the foundation to any good hair style. So even if you're just gon na blow dry, it you get root direction and then you can add your curl to it. Do you've any tips for how to do your own blow-dry really? Well, because I think a lot of women are just lost, I hate to do. It is start in the back of your head. I almost tripped and died cheese shop that you just did. You could only see what I'm standing on right now but start by working your hair with section so clip it up. Blow-Dried this section first section your second section and blow-dry this section and you know, do it in sections: you don't have to work with it all in one piece. You know a lot of people attack their hair at one like as a whole workout with sections and then, when you move to the front, you know you do blow-dry your side, piece, blow-dry your bank piece and then blow-dry this and then always. You want a little hype in the crown which is kind of a signature for Jen, and I we love a little like hi, the crown that's where those invisible layers really come in handy. They release the weight, so you still get some height release the way around. The front, so you get an openness, something that we think Jennifer's famous for too, with this haircut. She changes her part all the time. Sometimes it's in the center. Sometimes it's deep on the side. So how can real women like switch up their luck by changing their part? Well, why we do that is Rachel was always an off-center part Jennifer. We love what we call a babysitter hairstyle, which is, I remember, my babysitter's in the 70s always had parted down the middle long Marcia, Brady, hair, Marcia Brady by the way loved and was obsessed with Martha Brady's hair, as long as I could remember, but then for A glamorous look at deep side - part, I think, is amazing. You know, and especially you can like, create this asymmetrical. Look with it and pull it over. Have a deep side. Part like this, like for red carpet, looks it's amazing. We could undercut this section right here. You go so it's really easy to just switch up your look by simply changing the position of your part, absolutely well. What I do with this kind of a hairstyle also is using like the living proof, Prime, at the beginning of a blow-dry. This is the style extender that you and I were talking about earlier and yes, it will extend your hairstyle for a good couple of days. You go from a great blow-dry to the next day. You have that great lived-in, looking hair, that's got a little wave and then on third day you can do that. Ponytail and your hair has got that memory. You got the high. You got the fun this that you can do with the ponytail, and it's just. This is the living proof. Products to me saved my life. They were created by MIT scientists, so the product itself is amazing. Intern collaborated with hairdressers who know what they need to do to make hair do what they want to do. I found my product amazing. Well, you know, I think, it's time that we should bring in our readers questions that they tweeted to us, and this is a great segue, because one of our users tweeted and asked what made you want a partner with living proof. What made me want to partner with living proof just like what I was saying. The product came to Jen and Jen, of course was. As I said, this product came to me here, use it and immediately I got her hair wet shampooed. Her hair conditioned her hair and blow-dried it, and immediately I felt I was like this product is really good. I have been sent products every week for as long as I can remember, and I always always immediately try it. I work in a hair salon. 50 % of the time I do hair everyday. So it's not like. I need to wait a couple of days to use the product, which is usually within five minutes of the coming. My next client will be shampooed with that product and the first time I use living proof. I just started using it and every single time it worked. Janee thing so, and so I told Jen pros. Is she liked, and I liked it and it just kind of it really naturally happened? You know I never wanted to contract myself with one product because I'm such a product for I love more than one product. I liked an expensive product. I like a cheap product. The living proof is all those products amazing genom Jones Benson asked. How do I handle stubborn flyaways in the front cuz? You know everything does get those flyaways, whether you've just blow-dried or when you just roll out it down and wake up. So what do we do about those little ways? You know that's where the this product amp for me is really good, because just a little bit of am and everybody gets it the blow. Dryer gets it, you get it from color. You get broken little ends. You comb your hair to rough cuz you're in a hurry, so you break some of those little hairs is inevitable. I call I call them my little hell first, because sometimes those little hairs help hold back the heavy hair. So basically, I used itself a little bit of amps to rub it really good in my hands and just smooth it around what's nice is, I was really afraid to start using amp. When I first got out, I was like it's creamy, it's heavy. It'S gon na weigh down the hair, but what it does is it basically grabs onto the hair, and it does like you - and I were talking about earlier when it gives day old hair same day. It kind of gives that dirty hair feeling without the hair being dirty. It gives it that lived-in look same day, so you don't have to get the texture and all that volume that's gon na go with absolutely yeah. Alright great well Ashley McKay asked us on Google+. How do you get more body in the back of your hair without a big hair? Look she means specifically like how Jen Addison always had that little lift in the back, so she I think she means that that little clown that we good. How do you actually do it how's a real woman tease without making your hair all tangled? Well, you know that's where those long layers come into play like I was talking about doing those invisible layers, and that comes from a really good hair pack without cutting your layers too short, and you just do some long layers and sometimes what I'll do is I'll. Take some thinning shears and it doesn't cut a length of the hair it. I call them texture, shears and I just do a couple of like from 3 inches from the end, so you got some shorter hairs in there, which really helped create taking the weight out of the crown of the hair and then also in the blow drying process. Like I said, work in sections, what I'll do is I'll spray turn sideways for me, I'll spray, a little hairspray at the root and then blow-dry the hair spray into the root with a hot blow-dryer, which kind of creates that lift in the crown Brown brush. On that section or you use a round brush, I think that I use big round brushes amazing and what about a teasing comb? You can use a teasing comb. Absolutely what I like to do is you tease the hair a little bit and spray it and then leave it and then, after you're finished with blood right in the front, go back to that section and kind of brush the teasing out. Ah, so you're brushing it out like a couple of minutes ago, your hair spraying helps give the hair memory as well things like. I love these YS parks, big round, brushes, they're, amazing and the bigger the round brush the better because it acts like a roller. So I do that blow-dry the root hold it there, let it cool and then it falls over and you get those you've got the t's crowns fashion. Okay! Well, you don't want to get too country-western with it, not that I don't love a good country-western hair style, but you want that kind of effortless feel exactly no bomb pops we're not pumping it up. Twitter user Julie, Graebner asked us over Twitter. She said I have very fine hair. How do I get volume without loads of product? And I think a lot of women would find here or just don't know what to do, because they need a lot of product to get that lift. But then they wind up weighing down their hair and it falls flat. Absolutely you know fine hair tends to I always work like with with fine hair and what fine hair you there's a bit of myth. I remember women with fine hair were like. Oh, you just have to cut my hair really blunt, because that makes it really full don't layer. My hair, my hair is too thin to be layer which that isn't the case. It'S it's. A good haircut does really come into play, but you definitely don't want to. Like over razor the hair, you don't want to like cut it to blunt, but you don't want to do two layers. You got to find like the good place for it and I always feel that mousse is the best product for fine hair, because mousse is light. It'S full its moves. It'S light, mousse is light. It'S you know, it's foam, so just work with a little bit of mousse in the hair. It'S like you, the roots of your hair, don't use it like throughout the whole entire head, use it around your hairline. Just a little bit, that's what I like to do and blow-dry your hair accordingly, like normally, you would sometimes creams and and and build the hair up with product rather than put all the product in and because then you're just going to end up watching it. Out, of course, use full shampoo, because you know fine hair wants to be pulling this more around your roots in your crown, absolutely Nance put it in the roof. You know you want to leave your ends alone. If it's gets down there, because you like you were talking to me earlier - you like that, lift that you get from day old hair and that's what you like. You want that root and it's always comes from the root. So, conversely, Maria benign on Twitter said the opposite thing. She said: what's the best hairstyle for naturally curly hair, her hair is very curly, wavy and long, so maybe kind of like my hair. What'S the best hairstyle, I think the best haircut to get the versatility that we've been talking about with all these other styles. You know, and I always find, that girls with really thick curly hair, that you know if you end up cutting your hair too short, it just becomes this big pile of hair. In this one either looks like Roseanne Roseannadanna from the old like Saturday Night Live days, which I still kind of about hair. But you know the key to. I think it's start growing it out and seeing what your hair does. I think thick curly hair it's easier to manage as it gets longer and then what you can do is is just trim it up a little bit just on the ends to control the curls, and you know long layers again, I think, are good for everything so That you get rid of that sort of pyramid. You know you kind of to blunt on the bottom you're going to get that weight wide on the bottom. So I think, like you, you kind of have those invisible layers in your hair, as I can see, and it keeps it narrow and long. So you want to keep the bottom links as long as you can shape start by shaping it around your face. First and then, if you feel like you need to go into the back of your hair, that's a good place to go next amazing. Well, we threw out the question on Twitter. We asked people to fill in the blank. The thing I want to know most about my hair is important. I said to us how to prevent split ends. The age-old thing everybody wants to know how to prevent split ends. Lid adds we'll stop looking when you're bored and you got good light. Stop finding those split ends and splitting them, because I know people that do that. All the time kinds of people do that, like I used to sit in high school mesmerized at this girl named Laura, and I can't even remember her last name but to just sit there and split her hair for hours in school. And I was obsessed with her being like this: how long is my hair? Now I was like those three split ends, or this long. The best way to control split ends is, and here we are again about talking about split ends. You need to cut them off, because the only thing to repair split ends is cutting them product will only temporarily mask the feeling of damaged hair hair cut. What'S that, how often did you cut your hair? Like most women? It depends. You know. Split ends are created through really super hot blow: dryers, curling, irons, flat irons and that's what splits the hair. So if you could try and like cut that 50 % by consciously think about it, like kind of like maybe towel dry, your hair a little bit better and and put your body lotion on and your makeup first and then do your hair. You know because if your hair is soaking, soaking, wet and you're trying to blow dry it with a really hot blow dryer, because you're trying to get out of the house, because you woke up - let you know whatever really like be cautious of that. Your hair is fabric, it's like silk, you know it's sensitive, then you want to take care of it. It'S less likely to get split ends with shorter hair. Now that Miley has that short haircut is likely to get split ends with shorter hair. Absolutely because we're just gon na be styling at last lucky time from three years ago right. This is from this year. It'S an average of half an inch a month is what your hair grows. So you got to remember six inches of your hair. Is this is 2012? This is 2011. Here we have 2010, we cut them off, but 2009 left over a little bit amazing. Well, thank you. So much for your expertise and sharing your celebrity style know-how with us and all of our followers and thanks everybody for coming and hanging out, can't wait to do it again. Thank you glad good to see you Chris