Effortless Hairstyles for Long Hair: Daily Looks & Styling Tips

Head out anywhere in the summers and one look you tend to see a lot around you is the bunched up look that young girls and women mostly sport to keep their long hair off their faces, and to keep it from sweating. While summers are quite difficult to manage with long hair, here are a few daily hairstyle for long hair that will work great on long hair. And come on, if you gotta be in style, sometimes, you gotta let them flow open too.

Daily Hairstyles For Long Hair

1. Side Layers:

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• Comb out your hair to remove all tangles
• Use an anti-frizz spray if you have frizzy or dry hair
• Put on some leave in hair serum to keep it manageable
• Part hair in the middle
• The sides of the hair are cut in layers till the chin
• You can have them till the shoulders as well
• Leave the rest of the hair uncut
• Curl in the bottom of the hair slightly to prevent them from looking edgy
• You can also run in some hair product to add extra shine

2. Messy Top Knot:

This is a stylized and more elegant variation of the regular bun look that most women, especially in India, are forced to wear due to the crazy weather.

• Comb out hair to remove any tangles
• Pulling all the hair together, take it towards the back, right at the crown
• Roll hair like a bun and tie up
• Keep it a bit messy to give a laid-back casual look
• Let a few strands be loose

3. Messy Updo:

• Comb out hair
• Straighten with a styling iron
• Part hair in the middle
• Bunch up hair in your hands and pull them back towards the nape
• If you have front or side bangs, leave them open
• Now taking the rest of the hair, tie it in a loose updo just above the nape
• The idea is to keep it loose yet tied

4. Chic High Pony:

The classic chic pony gets a twist with this uber cool and ultra-glam ponytail look.

• Comb out hair and remove any tangles
• Use a straightening rod to straighten out hair
• Part hair in the middle
• If you have front bangs, leave them open, but make sure they are kept in place using a styling spray
• Pull back the rest of the hair tightly at the crown
• Take it a little behind and hold up
• Using a wide and high hair fastener, tie hair into a pony
• Apply some anti-frizz spray to keep it looking slick

5. Side Swept Waves:

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• Comb hair
• If you have naturally wavy hair, use a styling serum and run fingers on damp hair
• Part hair on the side
• Fluff up your hair and create more natural waves
• With your fingers, remove any tangles
• If you have straight hair, using a styling rod, create soft beachy waves
• Pull all your hair towards one side and bring it to the front
• Let the waves rule

6. Low Loose Bun:

This is a great look, both for the office and a night-out. And perfect to create in the early morning rush as it hardly takes any time.

• Start by combing out hair nicely to remove all tangles and knots
• As this look will go best with straight hair, you can use a styling iron
• Now part hair in the middle and bring all your hair back into a low pony at the nape of your neck
• Secure it with a hair elastic
• Now take the loose hair of the pony and roll it up till the place where it’s tied
• Taking the tips of the hair, roll it around the tied section
• Secure tightly at the bottom with a hair pin
• You can also use another hair elastic to secure it tightly

7. Braided Pony Hairstyle:

This is a really interesting and different hairstyle that looks quite difficult but is actually quite simple to achieve and takes no time at all! For this look, you may or may not choose to straighten out your hair, as this will also work on hair that’s slightly wavy. But if you have very wavy hair or hair that’s curly, you may want to smoothen or straighten it out a bit.

• Comb out hair nicely to remove all knots and tangles
• Comb back hair in two cross sections
• Part hair in two sections so that’s there’s an upper part that consists of the top and medium layers of hair and a     lower part that has only the bottom parts of hair
• Bring the top part to one side of the head and tie with a hair elastic a little above the nape
• Now take the lower part and braid this, not very tight, yet not very loose
• Secure with a hair elastic
• Once done, bring it over the ponytail and roll over it
• You can secure this with an accessorized hair tie

8. Braided Bun Hairstyle:

This is another really easy hairstyle for long hair that looks extremely difficult and complicated but in reality, can be styled in just a few minutes. This look will go great for office, for formal events as well as for a glamorous do.

• Begin by combing out hair and removing all tangles and knots
• Taking hair from one side of your hair, braid tight
• Bring this to the other side of the head
• Secure both sides with a bobby pin so that it stays in place
• Take all the loose hair and pull it up, twisting it from the base as you go up
• Tie it into a messy bun at the top of your head

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