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.