"Shiny, healthy hair is the best style ever," says Fowler. "It makes you look younger and is always in style." Jessica Alba shows how pretty and sexy shiny hair can be. No matter your cut or style, this is a goal worth striving for.
Here are a few tips than can help boost your shine: Avoid anything that dries out your hair, like too much coloring and heat styling, and shampooing too frequently. When you do wash your hair, rinse your conditioner with cool water to seal your hair cuticle (this will make your hair lay flatter, which also helps more light bounce off it for extra shine). If you do blow dry, finish with a blast of cool air, which also seals the hair's cuticle. You can also try a clear hair glaze like Paul Mitchell Gloss Drops, $20, for extra sheen.
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Your 30s can be weird. You've grown out of those wild, try anything, up all night times of your 20s (you have, right?), but you're not quite ready to sit at home with a PBS special and a mug of chamomile tea. What you're really after is something in the middle — a fun evening with friends with a dash of adventure, but without the mysterious "bar bruises" and a wicked hangover.
It's the same thing with your hair. In your 30s you need a hairstyle you can still have some fun with, but you can't get away with some of the, uh, experimental styles you had in your 20s.
Rest assured that you don't need to chop off all your hair into a "sensible" cut the moment the clock strikes midnight on your 30th birthday. Instead, try one of the fun, chic, and easy-to-wear hairstyles in this roundup and follow the advice we got from Mika Fowler, a stylist at the Gavert Atelier Salon in Beverly Hills, Calif. As long as you also steer clear of the major hair mistakes Fowler filled us in on as well, it'll be smooth sailing until your next milestone birthday. And don't worry, we have hair dos and don'ts for your 40s too.
