The look: Whether you like to wear your style smooth or tousled, keep it modern with long layers for movement and a blunt finish for added sophistication. Use the layers to help enhance your features: start them at chin length to soften an angular jaw, or add them around your face to disguise roundness. If you have really fine hair, create the illusion of thickness with a shorter style, or add volume, not necessarily length, with the help of hair extensions, such as Great Lengths.

What you need to know: Richard Mannah, international artistic director of TONI&GUY, recommends regular trims to keep layers neat and buying moisturising products for your hair.

Essential Tool kit: Cleanse and nourish with Schwarzkopf Extra Care Total Repair 19 Shampoo and Conditioner, $6.99 each, and Kérastase Nutritive Nutridéfense, $55. And invest in a blow-drying lotion that doubles as a treatment, like L'Oréal Professionnel Texture Expert Smooth Velours Thermo Blow-dry Milk, $39.

Prices and availability correct at July 1, 2009.

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