 Now, this is one of the most requested ones that I get when I was doing bridles, bridal shows, as well as bridal parties. And I figured today would be a good chance to just show how to do that also on a shorter, finer fabric of hair and how you can pretty much make any head look like. They've got tons of hair that's down to their waist and just make it into something pretty and intricate. So I'm gonna show how to break down how to do this entire style in just a couple of minutes. So it's basically about like four or five sections. It's a lot of free form, just draping. So you can have a lot of fun with it. The front is really fun where if you have any type of a fringe, bangs or anything like that, you can really customize it. But what I like about it is the fact that you have all of these little pieces that look like they're so much busier than what they really are. And it's just one ponytail, the sides and then the top. So let's get into it. So to start off, I like to curl my mannequin. So everything is just vertically curled. And just your basic like bologna curls or sausage curls that you do with a one inch iron. Now the difference being that with the crown, I do an horizontal section and just barrel curl it. And then with the front, I switch and I do a little bit more of a vertical section. So that way it's almost like when you're doing victory rolls for a pinup look. The reason that I do that is that you can get a really nice strong S pattern and then you can really pull at the curls to give it that extra texture. I also like to clip them so that way they set and cool. Remember that little bit of height. I usually use, where is it? Palm itch will hold me tight. I like that because it's a flexible spray that, oh, wrong way. It's a flexible spray that basically I can work with and it's not gonna make the hair really tacky, hard or crispy, if you will. And it's not gonna flake either. So as I'm working with my updo, I can just work with ease. So now let's get into our style. So I always start in the back and I work my way up. Now with some clients this can be a little bit nerve wracking. So just like I said last week, I always tell people this is pretty much like a Lego. It's not gonna make sense at first, but in the end it always comes together. So what I like to do is separate just about the nape area. So just under the crown area or I guess you could say the occipital. And I just clip that up and out of the way. And then I'm gonna drop some hands. So first I like to take a ponytail holder and it can be any one of your regular elastics. And thanks Matt. There's never enough room for me to work. I'm just always knocking things down. It's just my MO. So I like to take two bobby pins, attach those. That way I'm not fighting with the hair and ruffling it up. So I make my own little bungee there. And I'm not gonna comb anything. We're just gonna lightly gather that together. And of course, depending on where you want that to be, you can shift that over to the side. You can keep it to the center, whatever you'd like to do. You can even do it up a little higher. I wanna keep mine pretty low and close to the head. So I just take my little bobby pin, slide that underneath, and then secure it with just my middle finger underneath and then wrap everything around. And then I'm just using the pad of my thumb just to hold that down and keep it in place so that I can even do this upside down. Now, when it comes to securing your obtuse, you always wanna make sure that you have something that the hair pins can hold on to. So that's one of the reasons that I always start off with some type of a ponytail. So that way I have an anchor for all of my pins. Now we're gonna drop that top section and sides back down. So as you can see, it's not really a whole lot of hair that's gonna come down. What I'm gonna do is just do a little bit of light back combing. Now you can either use your tail comb, you can use a teasing comb or something like that. It all depends on your preference. Seeing as how I'm just doing a little bit of light ruching, I'm just gonna use my tail comb. And not to mention, this is again just a little bit of padding for the pins to hold onto as well as give just a little bit of expansion to the style itself. So depending on how large you would like it to be, you can do a little bit more or a little bit less ruching in there. So now I'm just going to open up my bobby pin, slide that right through and get another one. And what I like to do is crisscross my bobby pins so that way they're a little bit more secure. Now with the bottom, you can wait until the end to do this personally. I like to fix the bun first before I do anything. Now I was saying last week how I really like to use large bobby pins just to give myself a little idea of where I want it to go before I actually commit. So what I do is I gather all of the curls together. I try to curl everything in the same direction so that when I'm doing this little piece, they have a little bit of extra ribbiting going on and that way I can go in, pull a couple of little random sections so that I can expand it. And then when I drape it around, let's go the other way actually, I can move it around and make a different shape. So just taking my large bobby pin, leaving that halfway out, so that way I can keep moving it around so if I don't like the shape, I don't have to try to find the bobby pin. I'm sorry, the hairpin. And I'm also not messing up those curls that I had pre-done. So I like how that looks. The other great thing is that seeing as how they're not secured, I can just expand it however I like. And I just wanna see a little bit more out of this side. And now I'm gonna drop those sections that are right at the crown that I have pins. And I'm gonna do the same thing with just that light ruching. I'm just gonna comb through, give just a light little back comb. And I'm just gonna work my way up the hair strand. So I don't wanna take it from the top and just bring everything down like your traditional back combing because then I'm compacting the hair a little too much and I'm losing some of that length that I'm really gonna need for draping at the bottom here and creating just that really great textured updo. So again, just lately figuring out where I want that to go. Now this top section, I'm not gonna ruch that because that's actually gonna cover up all of this lovely frizzy hair that I have created with all of my back combing. So we always wanna camouflage that work with the smoother top layer. Now for that, I use the hold me tight again. I'm giving that just a light little spray. And then I also like to use spray wax because he is how I don't have that kind of time or patience really to go through and crimp somebody's entire head. This is pretty much like my faking it so that I can have that little bit of extra grip to the hair. The great thing is that the hair doesn't separate because now it's got that little bit of extra grit from the spray wax itself. So I like where that is right now. So I'm gonna open up my bobby pin again, slide that right through this little curl right here. I usually like to look for a bend in the hair where I can just slide that in and it covers it up because then I know that my curl that I'm gonna be working with underneath is gonna hide that bobby pin. And personally, I really hate sitting there looking at anybody's hair that has a lot of visible pins. I don't care how great that updo looks. That will always be a little bit of a pet pee for me. So now I just, when I'm smoothing over to make sure that I'm covering up any of those little holes that might have opened up, I don't just go in and put the teeth of my comb in. I just go over, I slant my comb and then I just pet the teeth over the top so that way it closes everything up and it doesn't actually catch the hair underneath. So pretty much with updos, it's always about a light touch. It's probably why I'm so bad at them. I somehow doubt that. If anybody has laser focus, it's mad. Yeah, I just have really heavy hands. I'll tear it up. That's where precision updos would probably be your jam then. All right. These I love because they're a little bit more organic. They're not that serious. And not to mention, if somebody were to go a little bit crazy at the reception, get on the dance floor, start cutting it up, they don't worry about any of those little strands that have come down because it kind of adds to the style itself. And now I'm taking those ends from this top section that I just did, combing those together. And now I'm gonna add those in to the bun that I just created. And you'll hear me say draping a lot. Because again, that's where we're just figuring out where we want hair to go right before we commit with our bobby pins and hair sprays and all that. Now, of course, you always wanna check for balance. So I see that this is a little lopsided over here. So I just like to take my tail comb, slide that in, round out that section that I feel like isn't matching the other side and give that a nice balance. So you always wanna check back in, in the mirror, pretty much like when you're doing haircuts. You always wanna make sure that everything is symmetrical and you're not having one side bubbling out. Okay, now we've got that entire middle section done. So we're about halfway through already. Now I'm gonna move over to the side. And again, I just like to finger comb through the hair so that way I'm still keeping that true texture going through that I created with that one inch iron. And now, actually, let me turn over to this side. Now what I'm going to do is lightly twist. And just like I did with the ponytail down here, I wanna find all of the little curves where I wanna accentuate my texture. So I'm gonna pull that up and almost over-direct it to the middle. I like how this little blue section is just riding a little ridge right here. So I'm gonna pull that as well as this little yellow section. Now, of course, your person that you're doing your updo on is not gonna have color-coded hair, but I'm just saying yellow section, blue section. So that way you see what I'm talking about when I say I like the ridge line. So now that we've expanded that curl, we're gonna take that, drape it over the top of our bun. I like how that's looking through the side here. So I'm gonna take that large hairpin. It's looking awesome. Thanks. With all the colors. That's why I chose this one. I'm like mesmerized right now. I know, not a lot of people do updo's with fantasy hair color. And I was just like, yeah, screw it. We have it, I like it. Not to mention, I wanted to show that you can take a head of hair that is finer and shorter and still make it look like it's really, really full. So I've done updo's like this, even on bobs. And people think that it's, you know, they've got extensions or something like that, but it's just strategic placement. So maybe with shorter hair, I'm not gonna do a ponytail. I'm just gonna do like maybe a braid down the side so that the pins have something to secure to on the inside. But then I'm just gonna mold curls to make it look like the ponytail. So that's the thing that I've always loved about updo's is that you don't have to do them the same way. And just gonna take out this hairpin in the side that was securing part of it. So let me just show you what that looks like. So I'm liking how this is looking over here. Now, what I realized is I haven't done this middle section. So again, this is where not committing is a great thing. Because now I can move this out of the way. As what I'm gonna do is take this top section, drape these curls over the top, and then I'm gonna crisscross the sides over it. So again, using the hairpins where had I pinned this with a bobby pin, it would have been secure. I would have totally messed up this placement and then made a mess out of hair. So seeing as how I just used this large hairpin to secure it, it was easy to take that out. I'm gonna move that off to the side now. And now I am going to drop my curls in the front. So Danielle, just as asking, would you use hair padding to give it a fuller look maybe? Absolutely. I actually do have quite a few of them from Straight Pin Studios. They're great because they come in all different sizes and they even come in different colors. I just chose to do it this way because, well, I'm not gonna buy hair padding for every single person or say, excuse me, can you give me my hair padding back when you're done? Does, yeah, right? So it's not very sanitary. Did the Straight Pin Studios still exist? I don't even know. I am not sure, actually. We should make the Danielle styling kit. That's what we should do. I like that. Yeah, I like it too. Everything you could need in a little case. Exactly. All right, let's work on that, Danielle. See, this is why I work for this guy. He thinks the stuff that I don't. I'm like, oh, everything's already out there for you to buy. Why would I come up with anything? Well, everybody wants to know your favorite stuff, right? Let's do it. A few different size kits, the essentials. Genius, y'all, genius. Okay, so getting back to this, now I'm gonna turn the mannequin to the side so you can see what I'm doing a little bit better. So I'm taking that curl that was just like vertically barrel curls, stretching that out just like I did with the side. And then what I like to do with the front, I don't tease or back comb this section because I'm actually gonna work with the spray wax and a little bit of the Awapui spray or firm hold spray. And I'm gonna mold it that way. Carly said, can I get one of those kits by next week? I don't know about that, Carly. We work fast, but we'll see. You'll have one. Miss you, Carleton. Okay, so again, just taking that curl out, giving it a little twirl, pulling the front top piece so that way I'm not taking out all of the height because I'm gonna need that to work with at the end. So I use a lot of hair pins, as you can see. And as I said, it's just the less commitment side of it that works for me because then I can just push those right into the hairdo itself and then start securing with my bobby pins. That way I can work a little faster, a little smarter and also create the game of, hey, why don't you count how many hair pins I used and let me know the next day? I've actually had a bridesmaid tell me the next day. Dude, I partied so hard and I woke up the next day and my hair was still in place. Well, yeah, I was just like, what, how? But all right, go me. Okay, so I'm liking where all of this is. Now I'm gonna go back. So now we have laid the foundation for that center texture. This one's popping up a little bit. So I'm just going to use another hairpin. I also like to use my hairpins to do a little detail work. So when I don't like how something's looking, can't even talk, I'm just going to slide the hairpin in to the curl that I don't like and then push that down. So that way now it ties in with all the rest of the other curls and gives that balance that I was talking about. Okay, and now I'm just gonna give that a light spray with the hold me tight. I also don't really use a lot of spray as I'm working because I want that freedom to be able to move the hair without it getting stuck into one place. Also, I don't wanna getting stuck to my hands because then that creates a lot of flyaways. Plus, in the beginning of my career, I used a lot of hairspray and God knows what my lungs are like right now from breathing all of that in. Some of those Jersey proms, good Lord, like the end of the day, you could just, you could feel that your nostrils, you know, like your nose hairs were basically stuck together. Not the nicest feeling in the world. So even though these are like low VOCs and all of that, so environmentally safe, another reason that I love Paul Mitchell, I really don't wanna breathe that in. So I just don't work with a whole lot of spray. So it really is just the end of what I'm doing. We totally needed it. So Jess is saying also bungee tape is essential. Everybody's saying what needs to be in your kit, by the way. But she's saying needle and thread, that's a good one. Yes. And we should do something with needle and thread soon. Which actually when we were doing splitting hairs, there was the Lady Gaga braid from, I think it was the Grammys or something like that three years ago where, yes, I did use a needle and thread to recreate that. So Uptus are great because literally you can make a MacGyver kit. All right, so I'm aging myself with that one. Just go look it up, ask the Google. It was cool show. Ask the Google. Exactly, it was a cool show, it was great. Okay, so again, I'm just giving that a little twist right here. Finding those little areas that I really liked the separation of the curls and the texture and I'm just pulling that out a little bit more. So I like this yellow section in the front. I'm gonna give that an extra pull as well as this blue one. So that's why you just wanna give it that light twist. Hold the ends really lightly so that way you can pull without losing your grip and control over the hair. So now that I like how that looks, let me turn her so you can see that a little bit better. And now I'm just gonna drape that over the side right over the last section that I did. Now this is bubbling out just a little bit. This is where I also wish that I had my little hairpin magnet on me because then I wouldn't have to keep walking back and forth but whatever, I'm getting my steps in. Okay, so seeing as how this is sagging a little bit and I just want this to be a little bit higher, I'm just going to grab underneath this curl, lift it up with my hairpin and then just attach that to that light ruching that I had so that I can lift that section up and tighten it. Same thing, I'm just gonna go underneath and slide that right in. I think Kristen's headed to do some clients. She says thank you Daniel. Have a great day behind the chair and thanks for watching. As always, Kristen, sorry Kristen. All right, so I like how that is looking. Now I'm gonna start taking out some of these large hairpins and I'm gonna switch over to my bobby pins because now I'm ready to commit. And any of these little areas where some of the shorter curls are starting to escape a little bit, use them to your advantage. Now you can see that I don't open up my hairpins unless I actually want to secure a large section of hair. The reason that I do that is so that I'm not creating little flat points in the hairstyle itself and I'm just keeping it very light and airy looking. Now I went over this last week, but in case you weren't here, I did the disappearing bobby pin trick which is sliding in the closed end of your bobby pin or hairpin, sliding that through the hair, grabbing it when it gets to the other side and then just sliding that back through so that it secures the hair but disappears right in there. So I'm not liking this little section. So I'm just gonna take the ends of my hairpin, I'm sorry bobby pin, and slide that right in. And now just moving around some areas that I wanna see in a different side of the hair. And I'm just going to use the Awapui firmhold spray now that I like how the bottom is looking. Can you turn that towards the camera a little bit? Sure. There, look at that. Now as I'm spraying that section, I'm just going to use my large hairpin to just pull some areas, position them exactly where I want them to be. Oh, so you don't just take your hand and... No, I don't really wanna cement my hand in there because this really is like cement in a can. Yeah, that's true. So I would literally stick my hand to this hair right now. And again, this is why I love Paul Mitchell because they have so many different products for all of the different needs that you'll have. And it just, it makes your life easier. And it's almost like a conversations piece because every single time that I spray something or even the texture of like a foam or something like that that I'm using, somebody likes it, it just opens up the conversation of do I need that? And I'm like, yes, you do. So it's like, I really don't have to sell stuff, but I do. Okay, so now I just want to secure that side a little bit more and now on to the last bit. So now this is where we have a lot of fun creating that extra little texture right in the top section. Hey, again, I just gotta play with my balance because that will really boat the crap out of me if I look at that and it just doesn't look right. Okay, that's better. Now for this section, I'm gonna go back to using my tail comb. Still gonna be using my large hair pins. I'm gonna be lifting up this section, spraying lightly, just short little bursts with the spray wax, just to give it a little bit of grit and then switching over to the Aupui finishing spray, always giving that a nice little shake. And again, short little bursts. I would also use a blow dryer just to help dry that a little bit so that it doesn't collapse. When I get it expanded to where I like, just gonna use my large hair pin to stand those sections up until they dry and also to just marry them together but not close up that texture. And then sometimes you might need a little bit more for your surrounding sections, so don't be afraid to switch back and forth between your sprays. And as I said, just short little bursts. A little goes a long way because then you're not gonna have that really dull-looking sheen on that front section. And sometimes you may need to angle your pins so that way they stay, all right? So I like the height that I'm getting. Now I just wanna take these little flyaways. This is another reason that I love the spray wax is because I can get these little flyaways. I swear, cameras are like mirrors, it's the opposite side, I still can't get used to that. Yeah, it's weird. So I just take that little spray wax and the ends of my tail comb and I just pet that back into the hairstyle itself. But hopefully you guys are getting a little something out of this, cause these are all techniques that you can use for all kinds of different updoos. It doesn't have to be just this one. And for anybody that didn't tune in last week, I love updoos. It's pretty much how I started my career and I just was always playing around with my own hair as well. I didn't mention this last week, but like every day for a month, I had a different hairdo. I would just go through magazines, find something, recreate it, sit at my little chrome vanity and have a ball. So I've always been into hair. My mother used to do real estate. In the 80s and 90s, they always had some type of like get together or something. So yeah, I was helping her with her hair. And I was more than happy. And of course I had to style her entire ensemble to go with her hair. She was basically like my Barbie. And same thing with a lot of my friends when they were going out on dates. If they were going to a dance that I didn't feel like going to but I felt like styling them, I did that too. All right. So now I like where this is all going. So I'm gonna take my firm hold spray, give that the once over spray, because now we are done. I know it doesn't look like it with all these pins, but that's just to secure my style. And now I'm just going to use the Grip blow dryer here. Love this thing from Neuro. That's how electricity works. True. Yeah. Did I not do that right? There we go. Okay, so I just put it on low and I put it on cool. And then I don't go from the top down because then you're just smashing down the height that you created. So I just go from underneath. I also use my tail comb to just bring that forward to give it a little extra memory of where it's now gonna live. If I still don't like how it's looking, I just give it another spray because all of the products are heat and water activated. So that's where I'll switch from the cool setting to just like the first heat setting. Just to reactivate that product, go from underneath, hit that with a little bit of air, switch back to my cool setting. And now she's set. And I'm just gonna drop some more things because that's what I like to do. We can take out all of our hairpins and just for that final little flourish, one more little spray with the firm spray. And when it comes to updos, I always love shine. So I always use the Awapui Shine Spray and that's how I like to finish it off. So that is our finished updo on how to create a little texture and there we go. We've got a little uneven balance there. So I'm just gonna pull that and re-pin and spray. And then I promise we're done. And I do this in the salon too, by the way. You're like, okay, you're done. Actually, no, you're not. Come back. So give that a little extra expansion. Carly loves it. Adrienne loves it. Yay. All right, so that is our finished style. All right, so if you guys are gonna try this, as always, tag me. I would love to see it. And even if you're just doing a different updo than this one, tag me in that too. I wanna see everybody's interpretations and also I just wanna see you guys have fun with hair. Because even though this is like an important day that you're styling for, it's also still fun. It's just hair. But if you guys have any questions, you can always contact me on Instagram at the hands downs. I would love to talk with you guys. And next week we're gonna go over a little bit of color theory, as well as a little hair structure theory on relaxing, I'm sorry, not relaxing, but coloring relaxed hair versus coloring natural hair. So tune in, I would love to demystify that and make everybody a little bit more comfortable. And also just get my nerd on. All right. Have a great week. I'm not letting you go yet. So, Jess is asking. Okay. Have you watched Bridgerton? Of course. Okay. I mean, the first trap of the Duke, how could I not? Okay, yes, you have. The hair ups in that. Well, that's another reason that this was kind of an inspiration because I don't know if you guys remember, oh, I don't remember which episode it was, but the Duke's aunt had something kind of similar to this. I believe it was when they had like the poker scene, the ladies night out. So, yes, I love the updoos in that. Shondaland totally impressed me with that. I do look at hair anytime that I'm watching stuff. Awesome. And then Adele asked, can you use gel wax or clay? Well, I was using wax. That was the palmatule spray wax. Gels, it depends on what I'm using it for. Sometimes if I just wanna weigh down the hair a little bit, maybe on the interior, just to compact a really thick head of hair, then yes, I do use gels. Or if I'm doing, say like a wet look or something like that, and I just wanna detail some of the pieces in the front, I use gel for that. What else? Oh, foam, a really great little trick that I had learned a while back. I'm not gonna do this on our pretty little Minerva tray right here. Okay. I love this thing. We were doing fancy updoos, so I figured the fancy tray would be the nice thing to have. So I'm not gonna put this on there, but always shake up your foam, dispense it upside down, quick little burst. This is just a little bit of HydroCream whip from the Aupui line. So take the back of your comb, just slide that through that foam just a little bit. You don't wanna get like a big gob of it like that. You just want a tiny little bit, and then you can just pet that right over any little flyaway sections and lay those down without getting like any overly wetness or anything like that, like how you would get with spraying a section. You can also use the other one, Sculpting Foam. That one actually breaks down a little bit more, whereas this one you can see, it's pretty much like Cool Whip. It stays in shape. So really, really love that. Sweet. So another little tip. I think that was all the questions. Okay, yay. All right guys, thank you so much for hanging with us today, and we'll see you guys on the next one. Bye. Hello, Danielle. At the handstands. Let me put that up there. Yeah, go give her a follow, and we will see you guys next week. Bye, stay safe.