The Washington School Of Ballet Hair Bun Technique For Long Hair

Hi, I'm Donna, glover school manager at the Washington School of Ballet and Washington School of Ballet. We, like our students to look nice and neat part of that is having a nice neat bun. So I'm here today to help you do the perfect button way. We do it at the Washington School of Ballet. This is Payton Payton. How old are you you're, eight years old, and what what level are you in in ballet joining one? A great and Payton has lovely long hair and we're gon na use her today, because it would be really easy to show you the basics. So the first thing you want to do is brush the hair up nice and neat like this. We, like our bun right here at the back of the crown so that when they do exercises, the back of the head is on the floor, but also when they sit up with these beautiful tall backs and the lovely necks it accentuates the line of their back. So, as you pull the hair up, you want to make it nice and smooth like this grab it firmly. If you have the elastic on your wrist like this, it's really easy to just pull it over pull the hair up like this keep tension on it. Keep the hair together and you want to get the elastic as tight as possible if the elastic is really tight, your bun will be a big success because you'll be able to get the pins to securely sit in it also try to as you're putting it on Make sure that it's staying Center in the head? We don't like a lopsided button. Alright. Now this is the easy part. Everybody gets this far they twist and twist and twist, and you start going around. Payton'S got a lot of hair. So, what's going to happen, is we're going to have to show you what to do with that excess hair keep twisting it around? If you see an irregularity starting to form just kind of stop and go back over it and we come under and you bring the excess hair underneath everybody gets about this far, but sometimes they take this excess hair and they tie it around so tight that it Sits up off the head and starts to resemble a doorknob which is not ideal. So here's my little secret that I do. I put my hand flat on the back of the bun and I give it about a quarter to a half of a twist and what you're doing is you're opening the bun up from the center just like that and it's lovely. So what we're going to do, then, is we're going to take this hair that we've taken from the center and we're actually going to pull it over the hair. That'S around the elastic. I prefer to use hair pins now. The difference is this: is a hair pin. This is a bobby pin bobby pins spring back out of a tight bun, so we like to use the hair, pin and there's a couple of different ones that you can use, make sure that you get the ones that are a little bit stronger, because what you Want to do is you want to take this hair on the top, pull it over the hair, that's going around the elastic and then flatten it down and push it in if you could connect into that elastic, it's not going anywhere. This is another type of hair. Pin that is super strong and it's great for super thick hair, because what you can do is you can do the same thing. You can pull it. You can go down in and go all the way across. Payton doesn't really need it, but I'll just put one in here, so you can see how easy it is to get it in so girls that have super thick hair, really curly hair, sometimes that's the best. I think for Payton right now. All I need to do is take these pins and work my way all the way around, as girls get a little older and they're doing pirouettes. More often, they want to make sure that these hair pins are really secure so that they don't leave them all over. The studio floor, I think it's a little slippy. So again, I'm coming all the way around. I can feel it going into the elastic come around the back now now around here in the back. Sometimes, what you'll see wherever you've twisted you'll see a part that it kind of comes together, so there again, you can take this top part here, pull it down really far all the way in get my hand out of the way, so you can see - and it Completely covers that so one more over here and you don't even need a hairnet me, then you can kind of mold it a little bit. Look at that! That'S just lovely! So I'm kind of a perfectionist - and I see that there's a little irregularity right here and that sort of bothers me - probably just me, so I can take that still with these nice hair pins and push that in so what we have now look at lovely Payton. She has a beautiful profile. Her butt is sitting nice and tight to her head and she's ready for class nice job Payton