Half Up Half Down Bridal & Bridesmaid Soft Waves/Curls Hairstyle With Braids

I'M going to show you how to create a beautiful half-up, half-down style on ghoul and, first of all, we're going to get a curl into the hair. So I'm going to section the hair first of all, we're going to be curling the hair with the tongs today, not the heated rollers, but I'm still going to get my front section here. So when we use the heated rollers, we we measure this Center panel by the width of the roller, but here now we're using the tongs. We can measure the width of this Center panel using the width of our time, so this Center panel can be a little bit wider than when we're working with heated rollers. So I've got that top section there, just using one of my longer section pins slide that in hold that in position and then we'll do our side sections and again the same as if we're using heated rollers. So just above the ear and the side. The same on both sides so section the hair and then we're going to start curling, the hair from the back. So let's get our crown section now, so you still want to be careful with your sections here and you'll find it will make your life much easier. Each section the hair properly and now, let's start at the back, so I'm going to go from kind of the tip of the ear across the back and get my first panel here ready for curling just turn. That way, slightly just make sure your section line is nice and clean and straight click, the hair away and we'll start coming down here at the bottom, a little spritz of our style and care lotion which works as a heat protector. So here we want to create a curl, but we're also going to create a little bit of lift. So I'm just going to warm up the hair a little bit, I'm going to use the vintage curl technique here, but you can do if you lift the hair up a little bit at the root. You can start to create a little bit of root, lift and let's do the vintage curl technique, but I'm not going to go all the way down to the end of the hair. We'Re going to leave the end straight, maybe just a little bit more. I'M gon na get our nice car warm up the hair a little bit. You can lift the hair up a little bit at the roots, so start to get a little bit of root, lift and we're going to do our vintage Tong technique. So a lifting the clamp I'm turning the Tong. If you're not sure how to do this technique, you can go look at our vintage curl tutorial, we're not wrapping the hair around the Tong. We are lifting the clamp and turning the Tong little lifts and little turns so again. We'Re not wrapping around and this time we're going to keep the ends out of the curl and away from the Tong. So we have on the night. The ends are nice and straight, but we've got a lovely curl in the hair by lifting the club a little a few times just to loosen the hair on the Tong and then you'll find it easier to take the tongs out and you're going to. Let that go and give that a little shake. Now we can start making the curls a little bit bigger here, but if you're, if you find your lady's hair, does hold a curl, then you'll find that this style and care lotion will do the trick. And it's just a tiny little bit just lift out those curls and we're just going to kind of all you Mize the hair a little bit. So if your lady doesn't have any extensions, but she wants her hair to look really big we're going to get a little curl in the hair and we're going to kind of pump up the hair as we work with each layer of curls. I'M going to use. Quite narrow sections here, because the toes are nice and hot. We can afford to use bigger sections than if we're working with heated rollers to warm up the hair and if you lift the hair up a little bit. It'S an angle like this and lift the hair. Here and just roll the hair a little bit along the tongs and you'll find that you get a little bit of root, lift as well as a car. So let's do our vintage curl technique here again, leaving the end straight. If you want to give it a really relaxed finish kind of effortless, look to the curl, you can mix up the curls a little bit. It doesn't have to be. They don't have to be all the same, and also if your client is going to have her hair down her hair down. You could maybe even do a few curls in different directions, so they look really relaxed, that's volumize. So what I think you might find it easier to do is to do the whole strip of hair and then loosen out the curls, so you're gon na do the whole row of curl make sure the hair is smooth with no flyaways warm up the hair. If you lift the tongs up a little bit, you get a bit of movement at the root and we're going through the vintage curl technique here, and I might even mix these curls up a little bit. So we get some different. Looking curls you'll find this vintage curl technique works really well to give a long-lasting curl, but if you're still a bit worried if their hair is kind of polka straight or maybe it's very thick and very heavy and very straight, then you can always just spray. The hair, with a little bit of salt spray, just before you start to curl you'll, find that will really help the salt spray will really help. The curl to hold could also use your setting lotion instead of the style and care lotion. If you feel you need a little bit more hold so to say, I'm using the vintage curl technique, leaving the end straight, if you're not sure how to do this technique correctly and have a look at our vintage curl tutorial in the hair prep section in this Particular instance we're leaving the end straight, let heat come through and you can hold the curl for a minute before you, let that drop just to give it a little bit of extra volume and bump to the curl. As I say, if your ladies got hair that doesn't like to hold a curl, then you could use the setting lotion or you can of course use your style and care or you could just use your own net. That would also be another if you're not sure. Maybe if it's a trial and you're not sure you think you might be changing the hair a little bit, you could always just use a little bit of our net because at least you know with the L net. That'S it brushes out very easily. So if you do need to change the hair, you can, if you find, you want to go slightly stronger curl and you can move on to your setting lotion. Just remember to warm up the hair a little bit before you put the clamp on. So you don't get a mark, a Ridge on the hair. You want to be able to feel the heat just coming through and the hair gets nice and hot you've got your curl when the hair is nice and hot. It'S ready to take the towels out. If you want, you can hold it for a second check for the heat coming through this. Is this slightly fine, a section of hair, a smaller section of hair? So I don't need to hold it on there as long just like the cool. Second, I'm going to. Let that go so we're gon na curl the side sections I'm going to put normally if we were using the heated rollers. Of course we would use the diagonal in the hair, and I have one a little bit higher up. We'Re still going to do the diagonal here, but I'm just going to split this section into two. We do the diagonals so that we don't get a visible role in the line anywhere, I'm going to use a softer the styling care lotion at the front here, because I want these curls to be flexible and to be able to kind of move. I don't want them to be too crispy I'll warm up the hair. Let'S bring these curls back away from the face. Now I've got the tongs vertical, so I can get the curl to fall in the right direction here from the front straighten any little sections. You feel you need to along the hairline it's better to do this at this stage. Warm hair up and curl so get your section of hair on the crown and you're going to put a little bit of product through the hair, just a little spritz, and then to get your little bit of height. We can still get height when we're working with the tongs, just put a little tiny touch of the osis spray, or you could use your own net just at the roots and just push that through just a little bit just so that it's not all in one Spot a tiny, tiny bit of backcombing and then we're going to use the tongs and just push the hair Falls with the Tom gently. You can hold the hair, hold the hair with your hand and just keep that little bit of heat with a little bit of tension on the hair as you over direct the hair and push it forward. The way we would when we're working with roll is, of course, where we push the roller forwards at that 45 degree angle, now we're doing that with our tongs. So if you want to get a little bit of root, lift here just push the hair phone. You could have started a little bit further back, so even on this section behind would have been good. I'Ve got a little bit of root lift here. What we could do is we've already got the curls in there. So had to be a bit careful here now, but I could just put a touch of spray on there would help, but just push the hair forwards. It'S a basis to get that lovely root, lift if you're not using heated, rollers you're, not doing a blow-dry. Just use your tongs to gently nudge, the hair for and then when it comes back, you see, we've got that beautiful, lovely root, lift and then you're ready to curl. That section I don't want to go too high cuz. I don't need to be too close to the root here and I just want to get a nice bit of curl just here on the ends. Now the ends of girls hair, I'm quite happy with. If you found you've got a little bit of kink on the hair here, once you've got your curl, let's just let that cool, you can always go over the ends with the tongs. If you want to get them really kind of straight and glossy, if you find that they're a little bit, maybe she's got some kind of dry ends. Then this will help to smooth everything out and make it all look a bit glossy or maybe, if you've used a salt spray which gives their hair very matte finish. If you go over it with the tongs and the ends, you'll find it will just keep the end straight, but it will give it and give them a little bit of a gloss as well. Actually think I'd like to curl these a little bit more just at the ends. I really want to do a lot of movement here. I would need to get some back combing in there and a little bit of spray, but I just want a little bit, but we've got our lovely soft curls, that's quite full, and now, let's just create our little our quick bridesmaids, half-up half-down style, just to get Some smoothness in there and a little bit of movement and then we'll start our creating the rest of our style so going through a lovely, half-up, half-down style. Now it doesn't matter how long or how short the hair is for this technique, because we're not actually going to be wrapping. We are going to be twisting the hair, but we're going to secure. So I'm going to pick this section of hair up with a little bit of backcombing. Then I'm going to lift it up and twist the hair so where my finger is holding the hair flat against the head and that I'm going to look at my finger and my bobby pins going to go the same angle into the hair as my finger. So your hands, even without thinking about it, your your hands, will find the most efficient way to hold the hair in position. So just open up your bobby, pin and slide that underneath your finger with a little bit of pressure against the head, and you slide that the bobby pin underneath your finger. So it's going to go in at the same angle as your finger and when you do that, the hair is really secure and the bobby pin is hidden underneath. So then, we'll get another section of hair and we're going to lift this section of hair up and over the next one. Now you can back on these little sections of hair if you want to, if you want them to be really big, you can put a little bit of your style and care lotion on one second: go I'll get off here in a minute just to make sure That they're, smooth and glossy and gorgeous and you're, going to pick the next one up, get it in your fingers, pinch it between your finger and thumb and twist, and they remember to take your thumb out, get your bobby pin. So your finger is pushing the hair. Next to the scalp and slide that bobby pin underneath your finger at the same angle that your finger is moving in there the other day I did. This style are one of my beautiful brides and she actually had really curly hair like mine, actually no a little bit less curly than mine, and if you were - and it was very short, a little short bob so because we're not wrapping the hair around it of It doesn't matter that each strand of hair is short. You can still create this lovely rolling style. So I'm going to get a bit of hair in front of here. That'S going to come up we're going to twist and create our next twist because she had natural curls. So what I did, if you were doing this and some of the de got that has natural curls, I gently misted her hair. First of all, with some with just water, so they the hair, was a little bit damp and then I created the style and then because, when you work with natural, curls has a tendency to be a little bit flyaway and a little bit fluffy. So one side created the style - I just misted it with a little bit of water again and added a little smear of cold cream just over the tops of the curls to keep any frizz at bay and then just allowed the curls to dry. Naturally. So now you can create a lovely style for long or short, hair straight or curly, and I'm going to show you a different technique. On the other side, they get our fabulous looking style. You can come back and lift your little sections up and tweak the hair. You can even pull these out a little bit if you felt you wanted to get a bit more umph and then we'll work on the other side on this side, we'll do a little twist in the hair. If you want to try doing a twist instead of little roll, you can try that so you're going to get a section of hair decide which bits of hair are going to be down. So you can get your two sections of hair, make sure they're kind of even sizes and try and make sure that your parting is hidden by the hair at the front, unless, of course, you've taken the hair right from the front. But most people want a little bit of hair down and then you've got your two sections and you cross them over. Add a little bit of hair to your bottom section and cross. Add, as you move back, you add a little bit more hair to the bottom section and crossover add a little bit of hair to the bottom section, so we're adding hair and making the curls like this, the wave, the twists or adding hair and making the twist Thicker, as we move back so add up to the bottom one, so you've got a choice. You could either do your little twist in the hair and then, of course, we can come back and pull them out a little bit. You can put a little bit of your style and care lotion on you could if you wanted to put a little bit of texturizing dust on the twists, if your lady has got particularly fine hair and then at the back, I'm going to twist that hair underneath, Where my finger is holding that hair slide, that grip in we've already got some grips under here. So if you find you've already got some grips under there as an anchor, if you already have some grips in there as an anchor, you can just pop them in weave them in the hair and go over the bobby pins. You'Ve already got there and let's pull out your twist, you like to get a little bit more definition. You can use some little pins in the hair, but I don't think we need to for the style and then once you've got a style that you're happy with you can go in and pull and tweak the style to get that lovely airy finish, and with these Styles, it is all about the finish. So take your time if you want a little bit of a stronger hold here, move on to your slightly stronger, hold hairspray and create your beautiful waves and that lovely movement in the hair you