Celeb Trend: Side-Swept Hair

I love side-swept hair — at least the glamorous kind like the styles pictured above. I’m less into the whole Peaches Geldof, l just woke up with gum in my hair lopsided look. Though I have to say that every time I don’t do a middle part it takes me a good half-hour to not feel like my hair is off-balance, because I’m so used to having the same amount of hair on each side of my head! Does that happen to anyone else!? Side-swept hair is one of the few looks that work for ladies with and without bangs — as the women pictured above prove. For tips on this look I spoke with Redken Session Stylist Noah Hatton and he was kind enough to give us a step-by-step guide! Jump for tips! 

1. Apply Redken Guts 10 Volume Spray Foam to wet hair from the roots to midshaft for volume, and then spray Redken Fabricate 03 Heat-Active Texturizer from the mid-shaft to ends for texture.
2. Turn head upside down and rough blow dry until hair is almost completely dry.
3. Make a deep side part on either side of the head that you prefer.
4. Using a boar bristle brush, blow dry hair away from part directing around the head to create the base for the side sweep. Make sure when you are blow drying to keep the blow dryer on top/above the sections so that the hair remains flat and smooth at the top.
5. Spray Redken Iron Silk 07 Ultra Straightening Spray on 1 inch sections and wrap each section around a 1 ½ inch curling iron.
6. Using a flat brush, lightly brush and father hair around the base of the head to create the “sweep” around the head, and if you’d like, use a few hair pins right behind the ear to keep the sweep in place.
7. Finish with Redken Workforce 09 Flexible Volumizing Spray for a light, movable hold.