FUSS-FREE FESTIVAL CHIC – The effortless 'I wake up looking this good' festival look is always a popular one, but this season the style should also sport an even more relaxed centre parting - so one to avoid if you have a square-shaped face. Fuss-free can actually be a difficult look to pull off as in practice, for some people it isn't as easy as it looks. Long, coloured hair is the easiest to work into this style as it will hold the relaxed curl easily, which you can create using straighteners or velcro curlers on damp hair. The centre parting shouldn't be too neat and to create the 'sun-lightened' locks, choose a permanent colour shade that is just one lighter than your natural tone and apply it a few inches from the root, working it through the hair simply with your fingertips as an uneven rather than all-over application will help to pull this look off!

PRETTY PONIES – Pony tails of all varieties look set to be big this season, be it high and polished or low and loose. If you have long hair, pull your hair off the face and gather into in a high and super-straight pony to be super stylish. Unlike the festival look, this needs to be neat and polished, so day old hair is much easier to work with. Use serum or hairspray to smooth any flyaways and use some of your pony length to wrap around the band, hiding it and keeping the look neat. Mid to long hair can be worked into one of the less formal styles that were seen on the SS12 catwalks, if you wear the hair in a side parting and pull your tousled locks into a pony that starts below the nape of the neck.

RETRO-INSPIRED – Trends for Spring/Summer 2012 will span many eras but 50's inspired styles were certainly key, with chignons and barrel rolls being seen on a number of catwalks. Rich, warm colours suit these styles well so think intense copper such as Naturtint 5C Light Copper Chestnut or a vivid red like the Naturtint 6.66 Fireland. Use rollers and a barrel shaped brush to create volume, height and perfectly curled-under ends. To add just a touch of retro-glamour, make a low side-parting and then take a section of hair from around the face on the opposite side and twist into a single curl, then secure with pins.