The LOOK: Easy, Effortlessly Holiday Hair For Your Company Party

Saturday, December 07, 2013

Frank Barbosa, GoLocalWorcester Style Expert

This year, the top knot has finally caught on--off last years runways and into the Main Street media and magazine looks, You want it to look effortless and lived-in; not too pulled and dramatic.

This is definitely the 5 minute 'do' when running from the office to your party.

Here is the breakdown on how to achieve the look in 3 easy steps:

1) Turn your head upside-down and gather hair into a top ponytail. Then secure with a hair band, making sure not to pull the ponytail completely through on your last wrap of hair band,

2) Use hair pins at to form into the shape you like , then use a tail comb to lift at the hair line to soften look.

3) Lastly, spray with light hold flexible hairspray.

From Sex and the City 2 to Rachel Getting Married, from The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Bride Wars, Frank Barbosa has styled some of the biggest celebrities in film, TV, and theater. He's styled on location alongside film stylist Alan D'Angerio on the film, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, starring Jennifer Garner. He's been in the industry for 17 years, moving from hip neighborhoods in Chicago, to Boston's Newbury St, to Bellevue Avenue in Newport. He maintains that his real passion, though, is being behind a salon chair at Frank Antonio Hair and Makeup in Newport.

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25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg

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