Space Buns / Bunches Hair Tutorial | Shonagh Scott

Hey everybody welcome back to my Channel today, I'm going to be showing you how to achieve the 90s space buns or bunches as I like to call them. I have very long hair and sometimes it's hard for people to achieve it. So I thought, it'd be a great tutorial to share with you, plus lots of you have requested it so you're going to need a tail comb just so that you can part your hair you're going to need a Kirby grip of some sort. I, like these ones or you can opt for the traditional bobby pins you'll, also need some hair elastics. I like to use these clear ones, make sure you get nice ones that are very stretchy, especially if you have thick hair and then some additional elements. If you have very fine hair, you might want to use some dry shampoo for grip, or you can use the living proof. Dry volume, texture spray. I prefer to do this when my hair needs a wash, because it adds more grip. It holds better and it just gives me another day where I don't have to necessarily wash my hair. So I'm going in with a very small amount of dry shampoo, just at the roots, it not only will help hold the style, but it just means it doesn't look greasy and then, in the mid lengths the hair, I'm applying little bit of that living proof. Dry. Texture spray so take in our tail comb I like to do mine on a side parting, and I create a zigzag part in on a diagonal to the center of the crown, and I like to do this because it gives it a really nice pattern. A nice shape - and it also adds some texture to the hair, because we're going to add a little bit of a fun element to this look, I'm also doing a zigzag parting. All the way down the center of the back of the head to the nape of the neck, I like to do deep waves, but you can do smaller ones. It'S completely up to you, I'm going to briefly wrap this side away, because this side is slightly thinner than the opposite side, because this side is on the diagonal, so we have less hair to work with. So I always like to start with the thicker side. First, it's easier for us to make this thinner side look bigger than it will be to try and make the thicker side look smaller, so just wrap this in a low bun, pin it out of the way so that it doesn't get in the way of the Side that we're working with so this is a fun element that I like to add to my space buns I like to do a French plait or a French braid on the top half of the thicker section going backwards. You don't have to you, can just pull them straight back. You don't have to do a braid, but I feel like this adds to the look so take a small triangle at the front separate this into three individual sections. You might want to spray a little bit of the texture spray or the dry shampoo, to give it grip so that it makes it easier for you to weave then create a regular three strand French braid working backwards in a diagonal. So you're aiming to finish this braid towards the left side of your crown. It'S actually the right side on me, but the left side looking at the screen so remember when you are creating a French braid you're, always picking up here to add to the braid itself, and you can also do this with a Dutch braid that looks equally as Beautiful it means it's almost like the French braid is inside out, so that you actually see each of the sections sitting on top of the braid. As I mentioned, this does add texture and the way that this adds texture to the look is because I like to pull up the sections that are along the zigzag part in this adds kind of, like a little Dimension, almost like what my mum used to refer To as Sharkies, you would want to brush your Sharkies out, but we're adding Sharkies in then. The reason they're called Sharkies is because it's the little bits of hair that stick up like a shark fin and my mum would brush those smooth. But as you can see, we're adding those in because when you turn around you can see it has really lovely texture to this style, so just continue braiding backwards, and then this is going to be the last bit. We pick up it's kind of in line with the temple, pull that one up, and then you want to stop adding hair in instead just continue to create the braid backwards a little bit so that it keeps it tight. While you pull the rest of the hair up, you don't want that to become baggy, so hold that in one hand, and then, with your other hand, just very softly. Pull that upwards to meet your other hand, so that you are creating a ponytail and it doesn't need to be neat at this stage because we're going to take a brush. My favorite is the Denman tangle teaser start at the back and brush it up to meet your hand, so it becomes nice and tight and we do this to get rid of any Sharkies at the back. Then we're going to take one of our clear hair elastics and you want to tie your ponytail off. So it's nice and tight when you Loop that elastic over keep your dominant hand on the actual base of your ponytail, because you don't want this to become baggy. For example, here on the second wind round, you pull the ponytail through with your dominant hand, and you hold the elastic with the opposite one. If you do that, when you first Loop it through, it will become baggy, pull your ponytail, so it pulls the elastic as close to the root as possible. These are no snag. Elastics buy those specifically so that they don't ruin your hair. Then you just want to tweak your braid. You can pull it out a little bit again, don't pull too hard because you don't want it to become too baggy, but just manipulate, so you've got some shape going on at the root. Now we can take down our slightly smaller side and we're not going to braid this one. Instead, we are going to use our brush just to give the back a nice comb. So there's no Sharkies pull it up nice and tight, but you want to make sure it's in balance with the opposite side that you've already done then again take a clear elastic band with your dominant hand, keep hold of the base of your ponytail and use your Free hand to Loop the elastic, as well as pull the hair through once you've twisted that elastic. You know it's then skinny in place. You can be a bit quicker with your tie enough. I normally like to tie mine three times and then once again just give them a little tug and make sure they're nice, and even so, this is what it looks like from behind with our zigzag part in you can use a tiny amount of hairspray. If you have any flyaways use your comb to flatten them and now once again we're going to start with our fuller side, because this Paddy towel is slightly thicker, it's barely visible, but it is definitely thicker if you've got quite fine, hair or slippy hair or it's Freshly washed apply a bit more of the dry volume, texture spray to the lymphs start to twist the hair and, as you start to twist, it pull at the lengths to create some texture. This is where we want a few more Sharkies poking out, because this is what's going to create the shape to our space buns. If you just wrapped it very smooth, it wouldn't look like typical, messy buns. When you have long hair, the very last sort of five inches you just want to wrap around at the very base of your BUN and just tuck. It inwards we're not going to use this to create the shape instead, we're just going to use this to wrap it around and hide underneath our bun before you start really tugging at it to create shape, use one of your bobby pins, your Kirby grips, whatever kind Of grip you've got to secure it in place, apply a couple of these in a few different strategic areas to secure it in place and then you'll be able to start pulling it very gently. Now don't worry if, like me, you have layers in your hair and you get bits that are spiking at the top. These are actually really really cute. You can backcome these in a little while just to give them a little fluffy finish, and I feel like this really adds to the space buns I like to call them bunches. I never called them space buns, but I call them bunches grown up. I think they're universally known as space buns for this next one. I am twisting it behind my head, because I want to rotate it in the opposite direction to the first bun. They don't ever come out symmetrical if you rotate them exactly the same way. Now, as this ponytail is thinner, you want to make more of a thing of this one. So all the way down the length of this one, I've pulled out little Sharkies and then I'm wrapping it and pulling them out at the same time, because I need to make it as voluminous as the first one. If you just wrapped this. In the same way, you did with the first one it would be smaller. So that's why I said at the very beginning you can make the smaller one bigger, but it's harder to make the bigger one smaller, because there's more hair before you pin it in place. Just make sure you've kind of pulled it out around the same volume as the first band that we've created once you're happy secure it with a few pins in a few different places. I usually like to do one at the front and one at the back. That way, you're able to pull it in without it going baggy. Now, as we do have some small bits sticking out at the middle, you also want to make sure you have some sticking out in the middle of this one. So just use your hands to pull at the finer strands so that you've got some little flyaways in the center, because you want your fluffiness to be even as well now. You'Ll just see me tweaking at different areas that by no means even yet, but they will be by the time I finished. The nice thing is, if, like this area, that's sticking out too much, you can just push it back in with a little pin so that it's also secured, but it looks a bit thinner. I can also see that I've brushed this area a lot tighter than the opposite side, because the other side we've got a braid, so it doesn't sit quite as flush to the scalp as this side. So now that the buns are secure, we can actually pull up these areas and pull down small tendrils to make it look a little bit more lived in then, as you start to become a little bit more happy with it apply a couple more pins. I think I normally have in around five or six in each bun and that completely keeps them in all day until I remove them. Sometimes even the elastics have snapped on the inside when I take out the buns, but they've stayed in place because of the grips. So I'm back combing some of those tiny flyaways at the top and spraying a little bit of the dry texture spray in them. And then securing a little pin in the middle and there's basically how I achieve my 90s bunches or space buns. This is one of my go-to looks when I'm in Disney. It'S also a favor of mine when your hair needs a wash. So I hope you love it if you've got any questions, leave them in the comment section below and I'll do my best to get back to you. Please give this hair tutorial a thumbs up. 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