Hairstyle Tips for Brides: Help Your Hairstylist Create an Epic Look

As your big day approaches, rest assured you are not alone in trying to find the perfect hairdo. You can help your hairstylist create an epic look that will make you the most beautiful, blushing bride. The key is to work together to test different styles ahead of time, and then to ensure you pamper your hair during the weeks leading to your wedding day. Here's a few helpful tips on how you can do just that!

Find the right look

The type of wedding you are planning will influence the hair style that works best:

• If your wedding will be a rigidly formal affair complete with elegant dresses and black ties, a no-nonsence elegant updo is ideal, perhaps with extensions for big curls.

• If your wedding will be a casual affair, artistic braids, twists, curled updos with freely flowing extensions to add length are great.

You can bring ideas to your stylist, or ask them for their creative touch on what vague idea you have in mind.

How to guarantee a stunning look by using hair extensions

Get that extra volume and length for an amazing look with hair extensions. Extensions are a wonderful way to expand the hair style options you have for your wedding. Some women, with shorter hair, might be confined to a handful of potential wedding styles or looks.

But extensions come in all shapes and sizes, so you can add the crucial extra centimetres you need to pull your hair together in a fabulous updo of curls, or add a lot of extra length so a big, flowing arrangement complete with flowers from your bouquet will trail down the length of your wedding dress.

Temporary extensions can be clipped into place while you test different styles in advance, and then more securely weaved into place when your hair is prepped on the big day.

How to prep the perfect look in advance

It is important that you and your hairstylist are on the same page. This is not something you want to find out the day of your wedding. To that end, it is important to have a trial, where you test out your look in advance. When you arrive, bring pictures or inspirations for the final look you want.

Chances are, you have a few ideas in mind. So, make multiple appointments with your stylist a week or two apart from one another and test each tentative idea out. Have pictures taken during the trial to see if you really like the look of the hair with your dress/colour scheme/hair styles for your bridesmaids.

Plan for the big day

Weather is going to play a big role in how your hair is done.

• If you are planning an outside wedding, or at the very least outside photos, it might be windy.

• If you have to travel between the church and the hall for your reception, that can do a number on the hair style you choose.

To that end, once you find the right hair style, and the perfect extensions, consider an arrangement where your hair dresser meets you at the hall or the church so that you can have your hair done for the formal pictures, and touched up for the reception photos. Regardless, your hair as the bride should be done last, so that you appear the freshest when you head down the aisle and stand for photos.

How to prep your hair in the days leading up to your big day

Make appointments ahead of time with local hair stylists well in advance. If, for example, you want a hair cut and maybe even a colour change for your big day, arrange the final change at least one week before the wedding. Be smart about the colour you choose. Just because something is in style at the time doesn’t mean it is a reflection on you as a person. Go with a colour, highlights, or lowlights that really embody who you are. Save the drastic rainbow color hair for another day.

Subtle highlights, by comparison, make for added dimension to your hair, perfect for photos. And when your photographer shows you the perfect couples picture with the sun glinting perfectly off the honey blonde tones, you will be grateful you made the subdued yet effective choice.

Make sure to maintain the health of your hair. Regularly trim your hair in the months leading to your wedding day so that you encourage healthy ends. Avoid too much heat in the weeks prior too. Don’t over do it with the hair dryer or straightener, leave your curling iron in the cabinet for a while. You want your hair to be product free until the wedding. Remember that the healthier your hair on the big day, the easier it will be for the stylist to give you the most epic look.