A very Hairy situation!
September 7th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

Isabel flattered me, little ole Vesper, by asking me to participate in the HOW TO week.

She also asked me to change her cat litter out while they’re on vacation. I wasn’t so flattered.

There is one thing that I feel like I can do pretty well and love to teach others to do and that is knitting. Considering that is WAY to involved to try and teach in a single blog, I decided to give some hair do how to’s instead. The do’s I’ve included would be appropriate for semi formal occasions or just looking nice on a date or looking nice to go to the ballet, etc.
The first thing to decide when doing your own hair is whether or not you want it curly and for how long. If you are dealing with super stick straight fine hair like I have to, you may have to take into consideration more factors such as humidity and wind. The general rule of thumb on curly hair is if you want it to stick for longer, or in my case at all, dirty hair curls and styles better. “Dirty” can mean just putting styling product in your hair, or washing your hair late in the day before your event and not washing it the day of. Usually what I use when I’m curling my hair is Paul Mitchell Extra Body Sculpting Foam and then a very generous helping of hairspray, my favorite right now is Garnier Fructis Style Pure Fix Spray in strong. For all the do’s below, I didn’t have enough of my hairspray so I picked up some “Big Sexy Hair” Firm Volumizing Hairspray.
INSIDE OUT BUN

This is a great do if you are in a rush and don’t have time to curl your hair! Great for medium to long lengths of hair. If you have long enough hair to put in a high pony tail with about 4 inches of tail you can do this!
Stuff needed:

Bobby Pins(small)

Pony Tail elastic (covered so it doesn’t damage your hair)

Hair Spray

Bun decorations

1. Part hair in front and pull hair into high pony tail. You may need to keep out the front sections and pin them back later so you can keep the part. Don’t like the part? Just pull it straight back but be sure its sleek and smooth!

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2. Part the tail into 4 sections: a top, right side, bottom, and left side. Starting with the top section, roll the hair away from the middle of the pony tail toward the scalp. If you want it to be a smaller bun, roll it tighter. A bigger bun? Roll it bigger. When you get to the scalp, take a bobby pin and pin it on one side of the roll. Then take another one and pin it to the other side of the curl.

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3. Repeat step 2 for all other sections.
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****Don’t forget to pin back the front sections!!! You can add their little tails in with the two side rolls.

4. When done pinning all sections, bun should look continuous, not like 4 sections. You may need to pin some of the ends of the rolls together so it looks more continuous.

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5. Smooth hair and spray. If you want to decorate the bun a little bit you could but a sparkly necklace around the base or flowers or whatever (think baby’s breath like Liz wore in P and P for the big ball at Bingly’s)

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Voila! Fancy hair in no time flat!

I’m goin out tonight hair!

This can be done sans curly or curly. So it can be more elagent (with curls) or more casual(with out curls). Good for any length that can be pulled back half way and flipped a bit (so a longer short cut to long hair). On the model, her hair was a bit too dirty to curl so I just left it straight.

Stuff needed:

1 or 2 pony tail holders (smaller if you can find them)

a couple of bobby pins (whatever size)

Hairspray

1. part hair and keep these front sections out

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2. Behind these sections, gather hair half back and put into a half pony tail. On the last twist around, don’t pull the hair all the way through the pony tail holder.

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3. Take the right front section of hair and twist it so it is twisting under and back. Using a bobby pin, pin this in place for a second while you do the other side.

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4. Repeat step 3 with the left side.

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5. Taking the second pony tail holder, take both twisted front sections and pony tail them onto the already exsisting half up ponytailed hair. If this is too confusing, pin them better into place with a couple more bobby pins but make sure the pins aren’t showing and that the ends of the hair are pointing up.

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6. At this point, all your hair that is half up is ’spraying’ forward on the crown of your head. Look in the mirror and arrange it better so it’s cute looking (you’ll know when you see it). When it gets there it may be a good idea to bobby pin the little half pony tail ‘butt” into place.

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7. Spray hair and smooth bottom half of hair. You are ready to par-tay!

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Optional: If you wanted to be more dressy by curling, curl your hair FIRST (with curlers or curling iron) and then do this hair style.

PS: HOW DO I USE CURLERS?

I had a good friend that liked me to do her hair and liked it to be curled with curlers, but had no idea how to use curlers herself. If this describes you, this is covered in this next section. As long as your hair is long enough to wrap around the curler atleast once, you can use curlers (be warned though, the shorter the hair, the bigger “big” hair it turns out with curlers). They are also great b/c they give your hair a lot of body and style in a short amount of time.

Stuff Needed:

Set of curlers with varying sizes of curlers

extra bobby pins in case any of the curler pins are missing

hairspray *

*disclaimer on hairspray: if you have short hair (ie shoulder length or shorter) or naturally wavy or mousse infused hair you will probably NOT need to spray any hairspray at all, even if the directions say so. I needed to on my model b/c she has straight stick hair that is VERY long and no mousse or body. If you find yourself in the same predicament, don’t be afraid, hairspray is your friend.

1. It helps if you use mousse before you dry your hair to help give you that extra oomph of body (for us body challenged hair people). If you don’t use mousse its ok. Hairspray is your friend.

2. Take your most front and middle section of hair and a middle sized curler. Spray the roots of your hair with hairspray, and then, starting from the ends of your hair, roll your hair down with the curler toward your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

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3. Repeat step 2 with the section of hair directly behind this section, except make it a tiny bit bigger and use a large size curler.

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4. Next, on the right side, take the top half of that section of hair and, after spraying some hairspray underneath at the roots, take a large curler and roll the hair under from the ends until the curler reaches your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

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5. Repeat step 4 for the section of hair right underneath, except use a medium size curler.

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6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the left side.

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7. Now you still have a ton of hair in the back to curl up right? Starting with that middle mohawk line, take a large curler, grab an appropriate size section of hair right behind the last curler, spray the roots and curl and pin. Then go on the left side and then the right side of this curler and, also using large size curlers, repeat.
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8. The next layer down in the mohawk line, take a medium size curler and an appropriate size section of hair, spray the roots, and curl and pin. Do the same on either side of this curler, although by this time, you may only have small size curlers left. No problem, just make sure that the section of hair isn’t too thick for these tiny but powerful curlers.

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9. For the remainder of your hair, divide into small sections for the small curlers, don’t forget to spray the roots, and curl and pin.

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10. I’ve been told that the curlers only need to sit as long as it takes to brush your teeth. Usually, if I’m using them on myself, I’ll do my make up and then take out. 5 min is probably PLENTY OF TIME.

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11. Remove curlers. Flip your head upside down and shake out. VOILA! Curly awesome hair!!! (Don’t forget to spray with hairspray to help keep the curls!)

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12. Want to do something with it? You can either do the above style i mentioned, or you can just twist little sections back and pin with bobby pins.

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Thanks to my hair models: Ooster, Grasshopper, and Beastie!!
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3 Comments

  1. Laurel
    said,

    September 7, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Ooh, I’m definitely bookmarking this page. I’m an idiot about hair, so I need the help. Thanks, Vesper!

  2. Christar
    said,

    September 7, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    Looks great! I used to do all my friends up~do’s in high school. Now if their younger siblings need any help, I have some new ones to add! :)

  3. SJ
    said,

    September 7, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    What great hair styling how-to’s! Thanks for the new ideas.