The perfect night not only begins with the perfect dress, but the perfect hairstyle. Cliché updos and Shirley Temple curls are NOT what you want to remember when flipping through your photo albums years later. Make your hair picture perfect with red-carpet hairstyle tips from celebrity hairstylist Ashley Hanna from NYC’s mizu salon. If you love these hair styles like we do, becoming a cosmetologist may be a great fit for you.

Selena Gomez hair, updo

Selena Gomez
This hairstyle is amazing for girls with that natural texture, curls or waves! Begin with applying your favorite dry texturing spray to give the hair a little hold and grip! Pull the hair up with bobby pins very loosely and make sure to not clean or polish!

You can either pull into a messy bun or roll into a French twist, whatever style you desire! After securing with pins (make sure the bobby pins used match your hair color), finish by pulling out some little hairs around the hair line to give that extra text look as Selena Gomez has! Finish off with a little more dry texturing spray or superfine hairspray.

Beyonce hair, updo

Beyonce
To achieve this look start by blowing out your hair with Twisted Sista Different Strokes Serum and Blow Drying Crème at your roots. After the blow-dry, take your large barrel curling iron and take medium to small sections and begin wrapping the hair around the barrel of iron to give that beautiful soft wave. Spray superfine hairspray on each section to lock in the curls!

After curling, pick a desire part and put hair off to the side using an elastic band. Add really cute broach to give a beautiful look to the style! Then take a flat brush and being smoothing hair and finish with a light mist of hairspray and anti-humidity spray to keep fly always down and control frizz to this polished look.

Kim Kardashian hair

Kourtney Kardashian
This is an easy glamour look to achieve on your own. Start by pick up a part that best suits your look for the night! Use Twisted Sista Different Strokes Serum and smooth over desired part about mid-way down the hair. Using your flat brush and blow dryer, smooth hair until desired look is achieved.

Then, using a ½ in. to 1 in. curling iron, begin curling hair, rotating the direction of each curl you curl. Spray your choice of dry texturing spray through midshaft to ends before curling each section. After all your hair is curled, use a wide tooth comb and lightly brush through curls while misting an anti-humidity spray to control frizz.

If you don’t have a wide tooth comb, use your fingers to comb through lightly. Finish your look with a light hairspray.

As if you haven’t already noticed, there are SO many ways to apply makeup and an endless variety of techniques and makeup types you can use. Sometimes, it gets a bit overwhelming. Would you use Kim’s technique here? Do you think it’s realistic? Time-consuming? Easy? Tell us how you apply YOUR makeup!

-Kristin