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Summary: In order to tease or back-comb hair, a hair stylist needs a fine-toothed comb and patience to get rid of knots. Use back-combing techniques for personal style or costuming with help from a hair and makeup artist in this free video on hair care.
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For many years, women have sought the perfect hairstyle. That elusive blend of volume, smoothness and style has created frustration in many women who seek to express their personalities and creativity through their locks. In fact, hairstyles often represent cultural, social and ethnic identity for many individuals and can also represent social status. While hair density, texture and length are all factors in a person's hairstyle, fashion trends tend to play the largest role in women's hairstyles. In this free video series, a freelance hair and makeup artist provides advice for back-combing, or teasing hair. Discover how to use a fine-toothed comb and patience to tease hair and get out all of the knots that can be created. Learn how to back-comb bangs and pin them up to duplicate a popular style. With these hair care tips, teasing hair has never been easier.
"Hi this is Teri and in this segment we're going to do how to backcomb hair. Now another term for backcombing is also teasing. Now what we're going to do is, you're going to start with a fine tooth comb; so any fine tooth comb will work. And what I'm going to do, I'm not going to tease or backcomb her entire hair; that takes a while and it also creates a lot of knots. You're going to have to remember that when you backcomb hair afterwards it's going to take a little bit of gentle care to get some of those backcomb knots out. So we're just going to do her bangs; and I'm going to show you just a little style where you can backcomb the front of your hair and pin it up, it's very popular right now. So I'm going to take her shorter pieces that kind of work as her bangs right now, I'm going to hold them straight up, and all I'm going to do is take the comb and comb backwards; hence the term backcombing. And I don't do it too heavily so it creates knots, but just so that it creates volume. This is very big in the 80's people use to do their whole hair like this. Alright and you also if you have very fine hair, she doesn't , but if you do you'll want to use some spray as well. See we're getting this 80's thing here, this is good for costumes and stuff too. So now that it's backcombed what I'm going to do, I'm going to gather it and just pin it up like this. Just creating volume in the front of her hair. Just take two bobby pins and criss cross them. And we have a really nice backcombed bang look; here we are."
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