An Easy Little Trick to Looking All Cute Post-Shower

Most days, looking especially attractive right after you hop out of the shower isn't a top priority on the life to-do list. (It ranks somewhere down the list, somewhere between "#4: Must brush teeth every day" and "#267: Set the DVR to record the Halloween episode of My So-Called Life to have on hand at all times.). But sometimes making sure you look all cute post-scrub down becomes pretty darn important, like when...

...you're hanging out with a certain gentleman friend and you feel the need to keep your pre-shower cuteness levels up. (C'mon, you've been there--admit it.) Not sure about you, but I generally look like either a drowned rat or a summer camp kid emerging from the lake when I bust out of the bathroom doors, thanks to my long, stringy wet hair and un-moisturized face. Not exactly a flirty look, if you catch my drift.

At this weekend's Lanvin show, models wore damp ponies and dewy skin down the runway--not a beauty look I'd want to take outside the bathroom or bedroom, but I thought it was cute enough to wear when padding around in a robe at home.

Of course smearing on some moisturizer is step one, but the real trick of it all is about taming wet hair a little bit--something that's way easy to do, and works on short or long hair. The Redken hair team just brushed then combed the models' damp and tangled hair (the combing helps prevent those big hair ridges that sometimes pop up when brushing) then they used the combo to gently pull back the hair into a low pony--the look-cute secret is to not have a part in the hair. (Even if you have a shorter 'do, you can still work this no-part look, too.)

A hairstyle with loose hair and a part in the hair says "I'm in the salon, getting my hair cut in five minutes" while gently pulled-back, no-part look says "My middle name is chic," don't you think? Check it: