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Missy Elliott contrasts eye-popping gear with a short-layered look in dark brown with cinnamon and reddish undertones. Celebrity stylist Marcia Samuel, of LaVar Hair Design in New York City, used cellophane deposits in her hair -- they're less damaging-and also uses Semi-color No Permanent Washes by Sebastian and Sebastian Hair Colourshines. What's her secret to beautiful tresses? "Hair should be healthy enough [to color]," says Samuel. Most people's hair cannot handle permanent color with a relaxer. To give your hair the all-star treatment, Samuel recommends Aveda Pure-Fume Brilliant Anti-Humectant Pomade.

You know the real deal about curls, right? Everybody craves them, but nobody can control them. On sitcoms and in movies, girls with curls are charmingly disheveled or uniformly perfect. In real life, of course, curls can be frustratingly absent, distressingly wayward or just plain clumped together. Katya Ozeryan, a hairdresser from Moscow who works at Salon Santa Cruz in New York City, shares her secrets for getting great curls. If nature didn't give you the bounce you want, technology can. Ozeryan uses hot rollers to give straight-haired locks some oomph. The larger the roller, the looser the curl. So for tight spirals, get the smallest rollers; for loose curls, choose mid-size rollers; and for large waves, go with big rollers. Divide dry, clean hair into sections — one or two around the face, two behind the ears and about three in the back of the head. Apply hairspray to each section and, using a hot roller, roll it up and set it with a hairpin. Let the curls set while the he ...