How to Get Tousled Hair: The Perfect Look for Summer

Tousled hair is a great hairstyle for summer. The tousled-hair look gives a woman that natural feeling about her, like she didn't try too hard. It fits well into summer, because it seems to represent a more carefree style that comes with summertime. Although tousled hair may look like you are all-natural and it took nothing to do, for some people tousled hair is not an easy style to achieve.

Here is how you can achieve the tousled hair look for your perfect summer style.

The first step in getting tousled hair is to wash you hair. If you try the tousled hair look with dirty hair, it may look like you just rolled out of bed instead of a carefree, sexy look. Be sure that you use a conditioner on your hair also to make your locks healthy and shiny.

One of the key steps for getting tousled hair is the blow-drying of your hair. This is a critical step in the process of getting tousled hair and is were many times the style goes wrong. Before you blow-dry your hair, you can add a hair product like an anti-frizz serum or a shine serum to help your hairstyle along. Next, tip your head over and blow-dry your hair upside down as you use your fingers to scrunch your waves into your hair. Once your hair is completely dry or almost dry all over, flip your head back over.

Next, add a flexible hold gel or mousse to your hair, again using our fingers to scrunch waves and loose curls into your hair. Be sure to not add too much product and to thoroughly work it through for the roots down to the tips of the hair. Don't play with your too much, as you may cause the tousled waves to become frizzy or undone.

If you have completely straight hair that will not get waves in it when scrunched, then you may want to use a large barrel curling iron or hot rollers to get a wave in your hair. Just be sure that you pull the curls apart with your fingers so they look like tousled waves and not actual curls.

With tousled hair, you can choose to wear it completely down around your face or you can pin part of it back. If you are going to a summer barbecue or picnic, you may want to take the top part of your hair and use small clips or bobby pins to pin it back out of your face. A cute idea for a summer hairstyle is tousled hair with a cute flower tucked behind your ear.