While this haircut is often easier to maintain than long locks, you may be searching for creative ideas on how to style a bob. The right style will turn heads and bring out your best features. Use these five jaw-dropping bob hairstyles as inspiration for your next look.
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Bob With Blunt Bangs
If you're searching for new ways on how to style a bob, try this simple bob with blunt bangs. This look is great for highlighting facial features like eyes and cheekbones. If you don't already have straight hair, use a straightener and straighten the edges inward to frame your face.
Make sure you use a heat protectant spray beforehand. A great one to try is Redken Hot Sets 22 Thermal Setting Mist, $17. Depending on your hair type, you may run into problems with volume after straightening. This product will help you to avoid much loss of volume while simultaneously protecting your precious locks.
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Bob With Thick Headband
Use a thick headband of your choosing as a quick way to switch up your normal bob look. Aim for a thick soft headband that holds but is not too constraining.
Voluminous Bob With Waves
Worn by the gorgeous Reese Witherspoon, this stunning take on how to style a bob draws from the stylebook of women in the '50s. Surprisingly, this look can be achieved without any heat styling products. Simply use your favorite set of heatless rollers, roll them up in wet hair and let them dry. When you take out the rollers, you'll have a bob with crazy volume.
Finish the look with a hairspray customized for curly hair, like Be Curly Curl Enhancing Spray, $22, by Aveda.
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Bob With Braided Front
Another creative idea for how to style a bob is braiding a front section of hair and pinning it off to the side. This look is elegant and simple. It can easily be achieved in under one minute. To tame any flyaways and make the hair look neater, try applying John Frieda Miraculous Recovery Serum, $8.99, to your wet or dry hair beforehand.
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Bob With Center Part
With the right hairstyle and styling products, a center part is the perfect way to mix up your usual bob style if your usual part is at the side. Take a dividing comb and divide the hair from front to back evenly, starting in the middle of your forehead. Mane Depot Professional Sectioning Comb, $2.99, is a great tool to use if you're going to be mixing up your part often.
The same tool may also be used to backcomb the hair to create more volume at your crown. Set the look with a trusted hairspray. For this, a great product to try is Tresemme Beauty-Full Volume Flexible Finish Hair Spray, $4.98.
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