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The Foiled Celebrity Look without the Foil

(Snowcap Streak)

This "do" is catching on and as celebrity trends repeat themselves time and time again, it still and always has looked fantastically "out there" yet still subtle enough for the office and the beauty of it is that most people can pull it off. This works with any face shape or cut for the exception of the bald Britney Spears look from the almost forgotten past.

Many times, after your previous hair color has faded and your roots have started to grow in, you consider a complete color change, a touch up or going completely bald and decisions can be daunting. After all, whatever your choice, you're going to be stuck with it for a while.

I call this my snowcap streak. By the way, I'm not a hair dresser; this is just what I do for my wife and anybody can do it. My wife tells me it's my feminine side coming out; yawn!

We are using one color here to get a two color look. If your hair is honey blond, auburn or brunette, this works great. The idea here is to create the look as if someone had thrown a snowball and beaned you on the crown of your head. Snow white strands of hair flow from the top of your head, gradually streaking its way down to the ends or tips of your hair, without using foil. This gives you that bold stark snowy blond top that blends its way down with your other hair color in subtle streaks. This really takes care of that reoccurring root problem that women always seem to have because maintenance is so easy. You just do the top roots again. Sorry, I guess the root problem applies to some of you guys too.

Hair dressers and salons charge so much because doing a great job takes time and of course, time is money and you get to pay for it. Apparently, using foils are again the latest way to get the streaked effects but my way takes only an hour instead of the typical two to three hours when you're sitting in the chitty chatters hair chair of gossip. This is fool proof; again, anyone can do this and you'll save a lot of money.

You can also reverse this technique if your hair is blond by using a darker hair color instead of the snowball white look you can have that mud ball "splat" on top of a lighter color. Both looks are stunning.

Go ahead and be brave; buy the bleaching kit off the shelf and give this a try instead of paying a hundred to two hundred dollars or more. It's been said that J. Lo (Jennifer Lopez) has paid upwards of ten thousand dollars for her personal hairdresser to come into her home for her

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