Low Chignon On Fine, Straight Hair By Stephanie Brinkerhoff | Kenra Professional

Hey everyone, I'm Stephanie Brinkerhoff, with hair and makeup by Steph, and today I'm going to be walking you through a low chignon on fine straight hair. So let's go ahead and get started when you're working with fine straight hair like this. The first thing that you want to do is create more volume and create a coarser texture, and I'm going to do that using a texture iron. So a texture iron is really good for making the hair fluffier and easier to work with. So what I'm going to do is use this from roots to ends all throughout her entire head. To help give me a better texture, so I'm just going to start off of her part and I'm going to lightly tap working my way down. So the idea with the texture iron is that you want to do enough, that it makes a difference, but not so much that you can see it by the time that you go to, pin it how tightly you're tapping is going to vary depending on their hair Types since her hair is so fine, I'm using minimal tension, so I'm not tapping very tight, but I am taking thin rows about an eighth of an inch once I'm almost finished. What I like to do is kind of go in with my hands feel the texture of the hair. If there's any pieces that are laying limp or flat, I want to make sure to grab those and add a little bit more texture, and then I can also go in with my flat iron. If there's any place where I feel like I've done the texture iron too much and I can smooth those out a little bit once I have that complete, I want to add a little bit more grit to her roots. So I'm going to go in with the kenra dry volume first three and apply that all throughout her roots. Now I'm going to comb this through the hair and work through with my fingers to blend it in a little bit more now that her hair has been prepped, we are ready to start on the crown, so I'm going to apply some of the kenra platinum, invisible Top coat I'm going to lightly mist this through the crown area. This is going to help control frizz, make everything nice and smooth without weighing the hair down I'll get this brushed in I'm going to lightly skim this top layer of the crown and get that twisted together in the center back. You want to make sure you're holding it low rather than up here, so that the crown can blend with the up to I'm, holding this loosely in my hand, and then I'm going to use my other hand to start defining some ridges and creating dimension in the Crown so I'm just softly pulling up on different sections. So, while you do this, you want to be really gentle and you want to make sure you're not holding it too tight. In your other hand, if anything starts to feel frizzy or like there's too many flyaways, you can always add more the invisible topcoat. So once I have this started, I'm going to go ahead and get the crown secured. Now that I have this, pinned I'm going to go in and define these ridges even more with my fingers, and I'm also going to set them in place with the volume spray 25. Once the crown is complete, you can go ahead and move on to the size. So I'm going to take the majority of the side section, leaving out what I want to use to frame around her face, and this is going to get twisted up and back. So I'm going to fold this up and softly twist all right! I'M just opening up this twist a little bit very gently so that I don't create any frizz and then I will add this into the center back now before I move on to the other side, I want to make this very voluminous, so I'm going to continue The process of pulling on this and defining these ridges with my fingers until it has more volume and it's looking how I want it to look now, I'm going to repeat the same thing on the opposite side, this section right here is filling a little bit frizzy. So I'm going to go in with more of my invisible top coat, get that twisted up and then deconstructed. At this point we have everything from the ears and up pinned back in the center back, except for what we're leaving out intentionally. So the only thing we have left to work with now is just the nape section in the back, so we're gon na go ahead and get started on our shinny on. I want to create some texture at her roots here for my pins to stick into and for volume, so I'm going to backcomb underneath right at the roots and work my way down the hair and then I'm going to lock that in place with the volume spray 25, so the back combing is the most condensed at the roots, and then you get a little bit lighter towards the ends. Okay and then I'm just going through and smoothing out the exterior of this I'm going to get that out of the way and then do the same thing with this underneath section. So the idea with all of this back combing is to get this piece of hair to work together as one piece instead of a bunch of different small limp pieces. So this is going to be a lot easier to work with. So now that I have my back combing done, I'm going to split this in half just right down the center, I'm going to do a little bit more back combing through the ends and then I'll get this wrapped up. So this piece is going to wrap up this way, so I want to really take my time detailing these pieces here. So I'm going to make sure this is nice and smooth get it with some product and also the flat iron alright, and before I get this, pin, I'm going to apply a little bit more of the invisible top coat. This is going to help with frizz and make everything look more polished. This piece is ready now to be pinned, so the outside of it is very smooth, but the inside is still very fluffy okay, so this is just going to get wrapped right into the center. Before I pin that I'm going to soften it a little bit, then I'll go ahead and get that pinned, and I can detail it a little bit more so now. I just have this little tail end here, I'm just going to roll that up and just hide it underneath now we can go ahead and get our second piece prepped, in the same way that we did this one out we're going to get this piece wrapped and Pinned in the same place that we pinned the previous one, we have one last piece this one I'm going to utilize instead of hiding, so I'm just going to smooth it out a little bit with the volume spray twenty-five and then I'm going to tuck this and Use it to fill in this last spot down here to finish, I'm just gon na detail these pieces around her face, probably get a couple of them pinned back and give them a little bit of curls all right that completes our low chignon on fine straight hair. What I love about this look is that it's really good for a client who does have fine hair but doesn't want something messy thanks, so much for watching guys.