How to video

I wanted to do a wave demonstration on video so it makes a little more sense. I broke it up into separate videos so you don't have to watch them all if you just want help with one thing.

These first videos show how to start, part and wave the hair with your carbon combs...

The next one shows what products I use to style the hair...
These next two show how to do the up do that Brooklyn has in the picture in the last post I did...

This is the style all finished...

BALLET UPDO

With all the dance recitals that should be coming up soon I thought I would give a little instruction on how to do a little ballerinas hair.

(please forgive the blurry pictures, I have an energetic little girl)

The tools you will need are- tiny elastic bands (the thicker the hair the thicker the elastic band you should use or if its really thick hair just use two or three elastics together for a stronger hold), comb, bobby pins (use the same color as the hair), one or two types of hair product such as, gel, mouse, hairspray, wax etc. I used this curl force by Redken, it wets down the hair, adds texture and has great hold, everything I need it to do in one bottle!
First comb or brush out the hair.
then you want to part the hair on either side or if you don't want it parted just pull it all straight back. spray or massage in your hair product (you might need to add water to get everything smooth.

part the hair from one ear to the other ear.
then using your comb smooth and tighten the hair back into a half ponytail like this. You can place it higher or lower depending on your preference.
Then add your product and maybe some water to the bottom section of hair and comb it up into another ponytail as close as you can to the first ponytail.
now what you want to do is take one section of the top ponytail, smooth it out and wrap it around your thumb. make sure your section of hair isn't to large or the bobby pin wont hold it very well.
Direct a bobby pin in at the base of the curl to secure it. Make sure the bobby pin is as tight against the head as you can.
Notice how there is still hair sticking out because the hair is so long, don't worry we will fix that later. Do the same thing all around the first pony tail until it looks like this...
There should be four or five barrel curls fastened with a bobby pin with the ends poking out.
Now do the same thing to the bottom pony tail. In this picture I am holding up the hair just to show how big I have my sections.

if you look close you can see how I am pushing the bobby pin in, make sure its flat with the head.

so now you just need to decide if you want the little hairs sticking out or if you want a polished look then you will have to use a few more bobby pins and tuck them under. In this case I tucked them under and made a few more barrel curls with the left over hair pieces.If you don't want it this fancy or big you can also just do one ponytail instead of the two. If you do that just smooth all the hair back into one elastic band.

HOLIDAY UP DO

I know I haven't posted anything for a while so I decided to do a post for the holidays. There are lots of fun party's to attend this time of year so I thought I would teach a quick and easy up do. This really should be pretty easy don't worry about getting it perfect. Be creative and add your own personal touch!

The outcome may look completely different depending on the length and thickness of your hair.

Tools: Comb, hairspray, bobby pins and some gloss serum or styling creme would be helpful if you have some.

First you want to start off by parting the hair. Make it a pretty dramatic diagonal part on on side of your hair.

Then what you want to do is backcomb the heck out of it. Start at the crown area and continue around the top of the head and then down your head so that the whole thing is BIG.

This is what it should like like after backcombing. If you need tips on backcombing check the post on round brushing and styling your hair and it should help.

After back combing take your comb and smooth out the very top of the hair so that it looks nice and neat.

This is what it should look like at this point.

Then you will want to take the entire front section of your hair (your bangs) and clip or bobby pin them away and we will get to those later.

Then bring up your first section. You want to pull up the hair from the crown of your head and part of the sides. Pull it back like your going to put it in a loose ponytail and comb it out so that it is smooth.

Then you will take that section and start to twist it, then turn the ends underneath the twist almost like you are going to make a knot.

get a bobby pin and stick it into the hair making sure it stays in place. Sometime two bobby pins are needed.

Then bring the another section of hair right underneath the one you just twisted up. smooth it out with a comb just like before. It helps to use the styling creme to smooth all the hairs back.

Once again, start to twist and turn the hair under itself.

Place the twisted knot under the other knot and a little to the right. Fasten with bobby pins.

continue to add more knots in this same way until all your hair is up. I usually like to alternate were I put the knots, first one on the right then one on the left, but be creative and do whatever you want!

When all the hair is up then take the front section of hair and smooth it back and secure it with a bobby pin.

I usually try to hide the bobby pin with the hair in the back.

Hopefully my directions made sense. let me know if you have any questions.

You can also do this up do with shorter hair you just might not be able to make the knot. Just twist it up and secure it the twist with a bobby pin. Then spike out the hairs a little bit with styling creme.

You can also try just doing it half up. leaving some of your hair down and curling it might be cute. If you want to do this just do two or three of the twisty knots and style the rest of your hair however you want. Good luck and happy holidays!!