The Faux Bob

Faux bobs can be varied in many ways. You may look good wearing your hair with middle, side or no part. The bob looks great with loosely piled up hair, curls or waves. You may like to show the silken flow of your straight hair and add fringes. There are occasions for glamorous and undone bobs. Bobs can be personalized and varied to accommodate the consistency of your hair, your taste, and the need for quick but attractive styling.

Women with high foreheads and narrow faces look most appealing if they add fringes or allow the front hair to fall asymmetrically across the forehead.

Teased hair to gives a faux bob ample volume. You may like this faux bob version if your hair is thin.

A few strands of longer hair are allowed to frame the face in this version of the faux bob. The hair over her forehead casually falls to the sides and gently covers the sides of the face. This faux bob can make round faces appear slimmer.

1. If your hair is straight and you rather like to style your faux bob with waves or curls you may want to do the following: Add heat protectant to your towel-dry hair before using a curling iron or rollers to create waves or curls. Dependent on the thickness of the rollers or the curling iron, the waves or curls will be small or large. Mixing large and small waves and curls creates a particularly lively look.

Apply styling mousse to your still moist hair to create the straight high-volume faux bob. Then dry your hair. Use a tail comb to tease your hair near the roots strand by strand. Then pull your hair in place or shape the ends using a comb. If teasing does not provide sufficient volume you may want to use volumizing powder where it is needed.

2. Loosely gather your hair into a low ponytail and secure it with a scrunchy. Then pull this scrunchy down toward the end of the ponytail until you can loop the hair under at chin level. This gives the faux bob plenty of volume.

3. Secure the looped hair with hair pins and apply hairspray for secure hold.