1920'S Finger Wave Updo!
- Posted on 20 October, 2015
- Curly Hairstyles
- By Anonymous
Here's an easy way to learn how to finger wave with a curling iron + get a great 1920s hairstyle for your Halloween costume!
A lot of you requested Downton Abbey Hairstyles and flapper hairstyles. This hair tutorial is perfect for both! It's totally reminiscent of the 1920s and 1930s. You would have seen this on movie starlets in silent films and at lavish parties like those in the Great Gatsby (hopefully without the dying in the pool bit...). I think it's perfect for your Halloween costume this year!
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1940's Starlet Waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYPFBW...
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Hey everyone kelly here with this beautiful finger waves, updo a lot of you requesting hairstyles from the 1920s for things like Downton, Abbey or flapper costumes, and I wanted to show you how I did this. It'S beautiful it's a little technical, but I just love this up too, and I think you will too so. Let'S get started we're gon na start by hiding half the hair so that you don't have to finger wave all of your hair and the way we're gon na do that is first, I'm making a side part and then you're going to make kind of a circle Around your part, about 3 inches out just make a circle around it and then clip that hair up we're gon na use that for finger waving later, but the rest of the hair we're just going to put in two pigtails and that way we can have it Completely out of the way you don't have to deal with it, and this will eventually become the bun at the end of the hairstyle. So it makes it a lot easier than it could have been, and then I'm just gon na put some quick little curls into the hair. This way, the hair all kind of flows together at the end of the hairstyle, because everything else is gon na be curls. You don't want to leave these straight, but I'm just gon na pop in some really quick curls. These all have to be perfect or anything just get them a little bit wavy or curly and you're good to go. And now, let's talk about setting the curls, because this is the most important part of the whole hairstyle, I'm going to be using my nume octa wand and it has eight interchangeable attachments, but I'm going to use the 13 millimeter attachment. This is actually the size that they used in the 1920s, so it's super accurate, but it also makes beautiful tight, consistent curls, which is perfect for finger waving. If you want to go a little bit looser, you could also use the three-quarter inch attachment. This was used closer to the 1930s for a looser finger wave. So if you want something that looks a little bit more modern, you could use the three quarter inch attachment and now that you've picked your barrel, you can go ahead and let your hair down and we're gon na start by curling, the top half of the hair, That we have so I'm gon na go ahead and separate that around my part and because we're curling the top half I'm going to actually clip the bottom half so that it doesn't get in the way. Because you know hair likes to kind of like hang on and get in the way when you really don't want it to so. Using these little clips is going to make everything a lot cleaner. Then I'm going to use the pumice you'll hot-off-the-press pray for some extra hold and heat protection, and now we can start curling. So I'm going to take a small section of hair about the width of my finger and take a good look at this section, because you want every single section after it to look exactly the same. Then pull the hair straight up and grab your iron. We'Re going to curl counterclockwise, which is toward our base on this side. My left side of the part you're gon na wrap the hair around keeping it flat on the barrel of the entire time. Then, once the hair is thoroughly heated up, you can go ahead and take the iron out and we're going to scrunch the curl up and pin it in place to cool. You want to get that extra a little bit of set because we're going to be brushing these curls a lot and now you're gon na do the same thing over and over and over yet, and you want to make these curls identical because the more alike these Curls are the better wave you get in the more consistent way you get, so you need to take the same size sections every time and you need to curl it the same way every time. This iron is a really good pick for this hairstyle because it has consistent and steady heat. So you know that you're getting the exact amount of heat on every single curl, which again makes it even more uniform. Now that we're to the back of the part, I want you to pretend, like it's sunbeams radiating from the Sun, so you're just gon na kind of radiate around the back of the part as you work on the back of your hair and then you'll find yourself On the other side of your part, now we're still curling counterclockwise and on the first side of your part, that meant that you were curling it toward your face. But now you're going to be curling away from your face because you're curling the exact same way all the way around. Now. If that sounds super confusing, and I totally just lost you - don't worry just curl one side of your part going toward your face on one side going away from your face. That'S all you need to know just do that, so I'm gon na keep curling until all the hair from this top section is done and pins up and now you're going to do the exact same thing on the second half of your hair, so you're gon na Add in your heat, protectant and then curl counterclockwise, pinning it up all the way around again. You want to make this the exact same kind of curl that you already did. It might seem like a lot, but we're really only curling the top section of your hair, and this is the most important part of the hairstyle. So it's worth taking the time on so now that everything is pinned up. You got ta, let it cool that is very important. If you don't, let it cool all the work you put into this point not worth it so once everything is totally cool, then you can take all the bobby pins out and let these curls down and you can see we have some curls. I mean if you wanted to know how to do Shirley Temple curls there you go and now we're ready to move on to making the first wave now. The first thing you need to do is break up these curls, so use your fingers to go through them and break them up a little bit. You might notice they kind of poof up a little bit. That'S totally normal you're gon na use your hair brush to kind of brush through and smooth everything back down now, it's time to start shaping the curls so because the curl went away from your face, you're going to brush away from your face, and you can see That that wave shows right up and that comes from having a really good set. So I'm gon na brush all that out and get it nice and smooth. But then I'm gon na take a comb and just direct it a little bit more just to get it perfect and then I'm going to use some little pin curl clips to hold all of that in place. You can use any kind of clip you have. That is flat and that will hold it in place so that we can keep doing the rest of the waves without disturbing it. Now I'm gon na do the same thing on the other side, just breaking it up and brushing it through, but on this side we curled toward the face so you're going to brush the hair toward the face. Until you see the wave pop up, I use my comb to brush the hair forward and then you can see this little wave kind of starting right around my finger and I just went ahead and clips to keep that in place. I actually ended up moving the clips to be underneath my finger later anyway, for the back. All you have to do is brush your hair straight back and let whatever wave happen happen that way. You don't have to stress about it too much, but if you do see a nice wave popping up as you brush through just go ahead and push up and add some clips and again, if you don't see it too much like don't stress about the back, just Brush it and let the waves be what they are, because the back doesn't matter that much then I realized that I needed to pin the bottom of the wave on the front, so I just combed everything to make sure that it was nice and smooth. You can see that I kind of pinned the top of the wave, but I didn't pin the bottom so once everything was nice and smooth, I went ahead and pushed up, and then I pinned everything in place to keep it there and that's it for our first Wave and we're only making two, so you are doing great you're halfway there and now we're onto that second wave. So I'm gon na go back to that first side of our hair and we're gon na brush away from the face again and I'm basically just gon na go through and just kind of finesse this so that it's a little bit more polished. But as I brush through you're gon na see that wave pop up - and that's really the key to making this as easy as possible, is letting the hair show you where the wave is so just brush. Until you see the wave and then clip the hair in place there, if you don't see it simply by brushing try brushing the hair down and then pushing up that will usually show you where the wave is and then just hold your comb or brush in place. And pin underneath it, and that should help you be able to find the wave a lot more quickly and easily. This site is a good example of that I was having a hard time fighting the wave. So what I did was just to brush my comb through until I pushed up and then I could find the wave really easily, because I was right there over my comb. So I put the comb against my head and clip everything in place underneath the comb, but then once I let it away, I actually had this funny bubbling effect. If you get a bubbling effect like that, all you have to do is push in on it, and you can see that there's that nice little wave that forms right when I did that that happened. Just because I missed one of the ways that I should have cuts before, but this was a nice easy way of finding it without stressing me out and that's actually it for the second wave. So now I'm going to make the knots in the back. The first thing that we have to do is to kind of smooth out everything that we have left after we made the waves, it might look a little hairy and out of place, but once you go through it with your brush, everything should smooth nicely. If you need, you can add a little bit of smoothing serum into your ends, just to help with that, and then what we're gon na do is sweep this hair back and over the pigtail on the side that we're working on then just go ahead and pin It in place right there so that it's all ready to go into our little knots, so we are literally going to tie and knot with our hair. So I'm going to loop, it around my hand so that it makes a little donut shape and then I'm just going to pull the end through that loop. So, like your standard basic knot, this was actually a really popular thing to do in the 1920s, and you can really see it when you look back at their hairstyles. So then you're just going to take this knot and you're gon na place it right. On top of the holder from your pigtail and then you're, just gon na pin it in place and once you're done with that we're ready to move on to the second side. On this side, you're gon na do the exact same thing: you're just going to smooth everything with your brush, sweep it over your pigtail and then pin it in place. The new points make a knot the same way as before and you're just going to loop. It around and pull the ends through that loop. If your ends are extra long like mine are, you can actually kind of tuck them around behind the knot that way, they're not going to show up, and then you just have to kind of push this one up. Really close to the first one, so it looks like it's all one, big, bun or shenyang, and pin it in place once that is done. You have finished and I was really excited about that. I'M going to add in some straw, hold hairspray to make sure everything stays and also then add in a little bit of shine spray just to enhance the shine and the hairstyle once you've got all that in. You can go ahead and carefully start taking the clips out, and this will be the last step in our hairstyle. This hairstyle just takes me back. It makes me so happy because it really does imbibe the 1920s and the glamour and the style of the era. It makes me so so happy and I hope you guys like it too, if you're interested in the iron I used today, you can use code, let's make it up to get it for a hundred and twenty eight dollars, plus a free serum or you can use Code, love Kayleigh to get any one for $ 39 plus free shipping. I hope that you guys love this hairstyle. Send me pictures if you try it out and I'll see you in my next video bye,
Comments
NikkieTutorials: Nobody has ever made it look so easy! ♡
Maite Soto: You should do hair tutorials for all decades! Vintage/retro fashion, that's where it's at (except for the 80s- those were dark times)
Veronika Sládečková: Me at the beginning of video: „Yay imma make this hairstyle, I love the 20s” Me with two hairpins and one iron during the video: ️️
Emilee White: This is one of my favorite eras for hair and beauty!! I love how flappers redefined what it was to be a lady.
IrishRose.: Subscribing! I'm a little obsessed with Downton Abbey lately and I've been looking to find a hairstyle like the ones worn by the Crawley sisters in the show. This is spot on! It's actually pretty hard to find a good, understandable tutorial for 20s waves on here, especially for an updo. My hair is just passed my shoulders so I'll have to see how achievable this is for me. But your instructions here are so clear and your technique is great! Greetings fron Ireland! <3
Mallory Clark: I love the 1920s! Such elegance and class. You did a great job with this hairstyle! Definitely one of my favorites you've done :)
SaraZwink: This will be perfect for my bff's wedding - she wants the bridal party to do vintage updos like this! I'm so glad I found you <3
Mini Dream: This is so beautiful!!! Hopefully I'll be able to recreate this!! It looks hard but I'm gonna do it!! I needed a tutorial on how to do finger waves with the help of a curling iron.
Mandy Miller: You did such a good job! I’m considering this look for my wedding
Cat 91: Beautiful! The most concise easy to follow tutorial I've watched xx❤️
Jhordyne: finger wave curls are actually used with gel &combing the hair into this design. i went through school and had to do this the old fashioned way so this is the easy way
TA L.: Gorgeous!!!!!! Love this look. Great tutorial! XO
songbird377: This is perfect! I was looking for a Downton Abbey hair tutorial and they're aren't very many! Please make more
Hair with Martha: This is so gorgeous!
Maitressenoir: Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial! I have the company xmess party coming up with a 20's theme and this helps a lot. Better when it's a diy rather than a stylist doing a model.
Crystal R: THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! I would love to see this on your short wigs!
Kelsey Baker: Such an awesome tutorial! Really well done!
Ministry of Magic: That is SUCH a good tutorial for the 20'sl! I wanna do that for Halloween. Thank you so much :)
Bec McDermott: Such a beautiful hairstyle! Thanks Kayley! Can't wait to give it a go myself :)
Katy Rose: I love this! You always do such a good job of explaining things so it's easy to follow along.
amynicole: You are seriously the HAIR QUEEN!!
missamy1226: Excellent tutorial!!!! Thank you for making this so easy to replicate! Great info!!!!
zeppypaige: Absolutely gorgeous!!! As always
Sandy Allred: This is amazing! I've been looking for something like this with a curling iron for long hair! Thank you! I hope I have a chance to try it out soon!
Elisabeth N: I followed this for nye going into 2020 and it was fabulous, thank you so much!
M M: LOVE THIS!!! You make it look SOOO easy! :)
Samuela: this look is absolutely amazing! love it! <3
cutex24: absolutely love it, always wanted to know how to do that!
zanet: OMG I've been looking for tutorial like this for ages but none of those out there was so detailed like yours! Epic work! Thank you so much, I'll rock it at ball! <3
Chloe Lee: You did an amazing job for this look! Your channel is so cool and I love watching your videos
Magdalena Lewandowska: This is insanely beautiful. I love it, always wondered how it’s done :)
Emily Strauss: Thank you so much this was super helpful and I loved doing this on my sister for her play coming up
Viv: Thanks Kayley! Your tutorials are super clear. Looks so easy, I suppose practice makes perfect :)
Anna Kate: This literally looks so amazing!! Love you Kayley!
Barbara Öllerer: Gorgeous! Thank you so much, this is everything I was hoping for and even more!
JarofArts: I've always loved those waves and wanted to see how they're done. Thank you for uploading this video <3
Amanda Doverspike: So thorough, cant wait to try! Thank you!!
Nicola Milan: Great tutorial thank you! I've watched other videos that make this hairstyle seem so impossible to do but now I'm keen to give it another go. Thanks! :)
Sydney Tay: I loooooooooooooove the 20's and especially the finger waves!!! Great tutorial as usual, keep it up! x
Cat: By far the best flapper hair tutorial I've ever watched. Great work!!
Sadie Holt: This is the easiest and well explained tutorial on finger waves I have seen on youtube! Thanks :) can't wait to try
Know The Way: Thank You! I was able to make a very good vintage hair do for my work banquet this evening. Really appreciate the tutorial!
Taeryn N: Loved this video! I would love to see more hairstyles like this from the past- a series perhaps?? :D
Jenna Smith: this is so much easier than what I learned in hair school.. thank you!
ashara: brilliant, thank you!! I've tried this the 'old fashioned' way a million times, trying to get the waves in on wet hair and it's never worked for me, very excited to try this!!
maddz 2014: Used this tutorial on a friend for a party and it turned out great. Thank you so much!!
Ali Giavanni: Obsessed with this hairstyle! You come up with the BEST styles! <3
Trish Kaminski: I love your tutorials!! I actually went on a binge a few years ago, trying to find the perfect style for my wedding (I even tagged you in it on instagram and you responded - color me starstruck!). Unfortunately we had some setbacks and on the day of the wedding I couldn't actually use one of your styles. :( But I HAVE used one of your styles for every fancy party I've been to in the past few years! Thank you for making it look (and go) so easy!!
Patience Martens: This Is super pretty thanks Kayley! I am alway's on the lookout for vintage hairstyles! : )
Katherine Brenner: I love Downton Abbey! My mom and I are only on season three but we are catching up! Loved this tutorial :)
Caroline G: I saw 1920's Finger Wave Updo and thought immediately of Downton Abbey! I loved those episodes where they would get dressed up and do their hair. You did a great job mimicking it.
Eu Sei: You look absolutely lovely! I am thinking of using this look for my book signings, as I plan to wear 1920s style clothes. (The book is Finding Cristina, by Emilia Rosa.) Thank you for sharing!
catt021: Gorgeous! Could you do some 1950s hair dos too? I've been trying to put together an Agent Carter look (from Marvel comics)
Cindy H.: been following you for years and i literally squealed when i saw you on buzzfeed! ^^ i would love to see more hair tutorials from the late 30s-50s era! just fell completley in love with the ones on buzz! ^^ though major kudos points if you can take the challenge to make them with hats! pillboxes, turbans etc! ;) keep up the awesome work girl!! look forward to your videos everytime! though doing mine can be a challenge because they're extra long ^^
savannah tipton: This is truly the best long hair tutorial for fingerwaves, wet or dry set, I have found on YouTube. Thank you, Sweetheart!
thebest_twin: Love this tutorial. I want to do finger waves for my wedding, but wear it all down. guess I better start practicing!
Hina Khodiyara: Beautiful. Great tutorial :)
Helena Brown: love love love!! I'm hopefully getting the octowand for Christmas and when I do I'll definitely try this out!! your hair is so beautiful Kayley:)
middleC17: I have about a 4 inch section of hair from my face to the side of my head that has finger waves naturally, and that's great and all but sometimes it's really hard to control when it gets to the length that it flips away from my head instead of curling in (my hair is pretty short). Great tutorial!
j t: Lovely! Very well presented, too. Thank you.
Jody Hakala: I watched three times. I used Nairobi setting lotion foaming setting lotion $16 but worth it!! Because gel sets and flakes like dandruff, this is great explanation and excellent footage!!.
Nina Inge: this hairstyle is so gorgeous! it reminds me of downton abbey! xxx
Emily Eidemiller: This is gorgeous, you did a fabulous job :D could you possibly do a red riding hood inspired hairstyle? Thanks :)
Liyas Stories: Thank you so much for also showing when it wasn't perfect yet, this helped a lot when I looked at my own mess and knew: It's okay! :D
Kylie Jackson: I'm so glad I came across this!!! I've been plan in a flapper costume for months. More like hoping it turns out last minute so thank you... ☺️
Xavier Visage: Fabulous tutorial! ♡
Tiffany Mueller: Kayley! Love your toutorials! Could you possibly do a few toutorials for late victorian era styles? Preferably ones for fine hair. Hope you can! Thanks!
Maria Sol Soto Chasvin: AMAZING tutorial
Moda Nailed It: I need to do hairstyles like this one for my daughter's high school play which takes place in the 30's. Thank you so much. Not sure how I will adjust this to be show friendly (faaaaast) but it's a fantastic tutorial. Thank you.
Cheshire Cat: I love this hairstyle, so elegant.
Sophie Alvarez: Im going to be a dead flapper for halloween so this is perfect! thank you x
Jayden: Beautiful ❣ I'm planning to do this style when I get married this coming fall. We want a 1920s vib.im loving this style. I can't wait to try it. I'm going to try this weekend
lilacinsd: Great tutorial, I did mine without heat, quick tip for learning the major parts, set it to 1,25 or 1,5 the normal speed :) I've seen other versions where the form the waves with the fingers, and what I like about this version is that the waves have more volume
CreativelyReACTive: that looks WAAAY easier than the way i learned in hair school!! i learned the more traditional way on a already very short haired manneqiun, with the same smoothing but using my fingers a lot- your way is HEAPS easier just by watching!!! xx
Caro Schreiber: thank you so much!! This hairstyle looks so beautiful<3<3 ! I love it! <3
New Road: Beautiful !!! I love the 1920's
Arin Rohrbach: Your talent with hair is just unmatched! I don't know anyone who can do such variety and create such beauty every single time.
Adria Preppyhippy: This is so pretty! Great video! Thanks!
Candice Quintanilla: this is amazing! i love this tutorial and that discount is so good! thank you so much!
SoyPolii: Simply gorgeous!!
KMarie93: So gorgeous :) I was wondering if maybe you could do a tutorial on Jessica Chastain's hair from Crimson Peak? She had some really intricate updo's that would be perfect for Halloween.
Lon: Very comprehensive and an excellent result at the end, well done! Greetings from Australia :)
deena 87: Just perfect ❤ love it !!
Vicki Chase: I love the music you chose for this video! Such a fun hairstyle, I've always wanted to learn how to do finger waves.
Isabel Duran: This is amazing can't wait to try this
Polyweird: So lovely! I may have to try this when I've got enough free time :-)
Alice Righi: that's exactly what I needed. I am a jazz singer and I usually go for this kind of look for concerts and stuff. I usually end up doing the front part only since it takes me so long (I have extremely long hair), but taking off the bottom part in ponytails is going to make a HUGE difference in my "singing" routine :) thanks!
Jodene Antonson: My great grandmother wore her hair like this. She had snow white hair that looked soft and satiny. She passed away in the 1970s and her hair was still in luscious finger waves.
Julie Kozlowski: Good Job!! When I was in Beauty School we had to learn to do finger waves but with gel and our fingers and let me tell you it was not easy to get the ridge for the finger wave. This is a much easier way and it looks awesome! Well Done!!!!
Deva1510: Looks amazing, Kayley! How long did this hairstyle take you? I'm trying to figure out how much time to allot for it
Stacey Verburgt: You couldn't have made it any clearer to follow. You have found your calling!! Thank you so much for this!
Beauty By BeeZee: WOW, this looks amazing!
Amy: Very pretty.. nicely done! I sweated so hard over having to do finger waves from scratch in hair school!! LOL..
Jona: Kayley you are so good at hair! I wish I was as good as you! how do you come up with hair styles?? anyways great hairstyle as always!
rurusiddi: Wow thank you so much I got a flapper party coming up! And don't know how I'd achieve the hair so thanks!
Dianaa: thank you so much. I'm planning to dress up as the 1920's for Halloween and I needed a hairstyle. loved it.
Ania: Yes!!! Finally!!! Thank you for this! It's so difficult to find good 20's hair!
carlahc: Very nice done and explained, thank you!
teenz2983 -: Great job Kayley! Such a complex style!
Someone.: WOW you're a godess! So talented with hairstyles, I could never recreate this on me lol Love you! You are beautiful!! ♥♥