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Get a Fantastic Hairstyle For Your Type—Even if You Don’t Color It

Yes, color can be optional. Let's show you what you can do instead!

You’ve made up your mind. You don’t want to color your hair.

But in Dressing Your Truth, there are three features that make your hair true to your Type (color, cut, and style). (00:39) So the question is: how do you get a fantastic hairstyle without that first step?

Expert Stylist Nicole is going to tell you! With pictures and descriptive keywords, she’ll give you all the tips and tools you’ll need to take to your next hair appointment. It’s simpler than you think!

Pictures Nicole shows in this video (1:15) :

(1:26) Type 1:

(3:16) Type 2:

(4:45) Type 3:

(6:44) Type 4:

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12 Comments

  1. Thank you Nicole! That really helped me so much! I actually love the t3 gray hair you showed. I really was not going to even think of doing it but it’s a consideration for later with that style since my hair is pretty close to it. Again, thank you amazing Nicole!

  2. Some women love their silver. That’s why I’m going gray. I’ve been looking forward to it. 🙂 Thank you, Nicole, for an excellent presentation!

  3. Nicole, You are a great teacher. Inspiring. I am a 4/1. Love my hair straight but I have wavy, frizzy, heavy hair. I have tried to do the curl advice but my hair always looks and feels best straight. After having brain surgery I have been too exhausted to straighten and blow out like I used to. So unlike me to look this unkept on most days. Wish I had an answer. I always prided myself on my hair, but these days I am embarrassed. Gray is coming in and don’t mind it, but wish my overall look could be satisfying and easier.

    1. Heather, a tool that might aid you in achieving a blown out style, but with less effort is to use some velcro rollers. You could roll the top sections and leave the bottom. Use a little Root Boost and then put Hair Repair through the midshaft to ends. This will help with the smoothness and frizziness. You could blow dry everything upside down to get the added volume with the heat, then quickly roll 2-3 rollers through the top. I would also be sure to have a good haircut that gives you enough movement through the layers:) This will keep your secondary 1 happy and also keep the style manageable. I wish you the very best in this transitionary phase:) Love ya!

      1. Awe. Thank you, Nicole. I know you are such a busy gal. This brought me a smile. I will definitely try it out. Yes, I agree that my really prominent and happy S1 will appreciate that advice for sure. Good point on the layers too and the flip over of head. Thank you again. Hugs!!!

      2. Nicole, I finall took your advice with the haircut and the layers for movement with the rootboost type product. I have been drying it differently too to make the process easier. Still haven’t dyed it yet and not a priority these days (yet), but I am so happy with how cute it came out and it brings me joy….I really love the T1 in me and it makes me happy, even tho I am a T4 lol. Glad I got to add those touches to me hair. Thank you. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2bd55b9e557eec9f478de468fef476c2896701f8a1c6589519d91856a6c180a6.jpg

  4. Hi Nicole, thank you for these great videos! One question – I think you said somewhere else that our natural colour is the best one, but here you’re obviously saying someone’s natural colour can be wrong for their type.

    I’m a 1/4 with mouse-brown hair and I’m getting way in my secondary about this – I want to do whatever’s right, if I can just understand clearly what that is! If my hair is the wrong colour I want to make it right, not just compensate for its wrongness!! Etc etc…

    So may I ask what you’d suggest – blond highlights in the front? It’s really short. Thank you!

    1. Hello! I hope that’s not the way it came across:) Because whether you choose to color or not, will be a decision that will be correct for you. You can color your hair or not and still have both be true to type. So, your first step: 1. Choose whether you desire to color your hair: your decision will probably take into consideration the following: upkeep, time at the salon, money, re-growth. If you choose to color, then yes, blonde highlights in the front would be marvelous for a T1/4:) If you choose not to color, then there are other ways of making sure your hair is true to type…as discussed in the video:) Don’t overthink this:) You are amazing!

  5. The type 3 gray style link does not work for me…….all of the other links seem to work. maybe this needs to be updated. Thank you.

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