4 Easy Prom And Wedding Hairstyles! - Kayleymelissa

Hey everyone. Kayley your friendly neighborhood, hair stylist here and today we're doing some prom/wedding hairstyles. (, calm, music ). Now I almost didn't even film this video, but this was requested so much. I decided to go ahead and do it, and this is meant to be a whole bunch of very easy DIYable hairstyles, whether you're attending a wedding or you're, a bridesmaid or you're, going to prom or any other number of things that are coming up in the coming. Months. Because it can totally be high stakes to do your own hair for an event. I wanted to make sure these are really easy to follow and will look pretty and I feel, like I nailed it.. I hope you guys agree and I'm really excited to show you the hairstyles.. So let's get into it. To start this hairstyle we're gon na curl, the hair., I'm gon na prep, my hair with the OUAI Memory Mist.. This is heat, protecting, but also helps your hair to remember the style, a lot better, and I do find that my curls last better with it.. I did a whole review video if you wan na see that. Next we're going to section the hair so that we can go pieces of hair at a time and get every single piece, curled really well.. My gosh am I ready for prom in the early 2000s late 90s. I think so. To curl the hair. What I'm going to do is grab my one inch, Kristin Ess curling iron and I'm going to start curling the hair away from my face.. I'M going to clamp it onto the hair and twist it up right at the root, then slide it out a little bit twist it back up till I get back to the root slide it out twist it back and so forth. Until you have just two inches left of hair that hasn't been curled, then you're going to turn your iron to completely face your head and start pulling away and as you do, that the hair is going to unravel from the curling iron and you're gon na be Left with just those ends clamped and to finish them off, you're just going to drag the iron over the end and from that you get a nice pretty deep wave with a little bit more of a loose modern end. But if you ever find that it looks too straight, you can go back in quickly with your curling iron and just twist it a little bit and that will get you a little bit more of a bend.. Now, if you have a curling wand, the technique is a little bit different, but it's still doable. You're going to take your hair and wrap it around the wand until it's mostly heated up.. For me, that's about five seconds., I'm going to put the ends on the iron for one to two seconds., That's going to kind of curl them a little bit, but not as much as the rest of the hair. Then you let everything off and you have a very similar effect to what we have with the clip and if you ever find that the curl at the end is still too tight, you can run your iron over it very quickly and that will loosen it up And make it a little bit more modern and those are the two sides. They don't look exactly the same, but you get a kind of similar effect.. So, whichever tool you have grab that and use that to create these curls.. So now I'm gon na drop down the next section and keep going.. Now when I say to leave the ends straighter because it's more modern, I don't mean, leave four inches of perfectly straight hair at the end of the curls.. That'S not the look! We'Re going! For.! All I'm really trying to do is to keep us from going to full ringlet all the way. Down.. The ringlet look is not as modern, it's not as cute, and so we wan na avoid that.. So the ways that I avoid that are mostly just to put less heat on the curls as I'm going through and make sure that they're not getting the same treatment as the top of my hair is.. So those are two methods that you can use to keep from getting the ringlet effect all the way down your hair., Also pro tip leaving the ends. Looser makes your hair look longer. And next section. (, calm, music, ) And now you're gon na let down the last section find your part and curl those pieces.. My advice around your face is to keep the curls a little looser.. I find that looks a little cooler and more modern., Just my personal opinion, but everything else curl away. And we're done.. Now, for most of these curls, I did not touch them after they came off the curling iron, so they would have a chance to cool in place and therefore set much better.. If you want more information on that, I will link it in the I cards above, but now I'm gon na take my fingers and run them through to break up the curls, because we don't wanna, leave it in a ringlet form, and now these curls are in.. I already feel like they are so beautiful.. You could obviously just rock this., I'm gon na add in some star accessories, because I've been loving them lately., I'm going to take back little pieces of hair and pin them in place with the star bobby pins and once I've done that I'm gon na just add In some extra ones, for decoration and my tip for making sure that the bobby pin part of this doesn't show is to put it in sideways and then turn it upright right at the last second. That way, the mouth of the bobby pin doesn't skip up, and Over the top of your hair., It hides much more easily. And that's the finished hairstyle.. So essentially it's just curling your hair and adding in some accessories.. I think it's really beautiful.. It will look good from every single angle and it really doesn't matter if you're good at hair or not. You just curl stuff and put the accessories in. And now we're gon na move on to a half updo.. Now I've been doing a little bit of hair for weddings of friends and family, and I get this twisted. Half updo requested all the time., So I figured. Let'S show you guys how to do it. First things: first, I'm going to lightly tease sections of the crown of my head to get a little bit of extra volume and then smooth over the top.. Now I'm going to make the twist by taking a section of hair from the front of my head, splitting it into two and wrapping the sections away from my face, then every time I wrap the hair, I'm going to pick up a new piece of hair. Put it into one of the sections and then twist pick up a new piece of hair. Add it into one of the sections and twist and continue doing that until you reach the back of your head, then you're gon na twist just a couple more times and hold your place with a clip or a bobby pin, and now I'm gon na go back Through that and I'm going to bobby pin into the twist until there's a line of bobby pins going through the twist., This does two things.. First, it makes it stay really really well.. Secondly, it's gon na. Let you pull the hair apart better and get a fluffier twist without a whole lot of extra work., I'm going in and pulling very gently on the twist to open it up and make it look a little fluffier and a little more dramatic. Then we're gon na repeat the same thing on the other side, taking the sections wrapping them around and feeding in hair as we go and, of course add in the bobby pins and pull it apart, then I'm going to take one of the twists and pin it Against my head with the bobby pin horizontal so that it can be hidden easily, then I take the other twist and pin it over top of that one and that's the hairstyle.. So this one is really easy to do and it can be really pretty at the same time plus it works for a whole lot of different hair lengths.. Now I think, it's time to move on to a very pretty and easy updo. So to get started. You'Re going to separate your hair in half and clip the top half out of the way. For the bottom half of the hair. You actually just need a bend in your hair.. So if you don't have waves yet do a quick lazy curl just enough to get a bend in your hair and then put it in a ponytail and then you can let the top down - and this is where you put your energy into curling, your hair.. You want lots of little pieces because we're gon na sweep it back and when we sweep it back, they're gon na loosen up a little bit. So make it a little bit ringlety.. That'S the only time you're ever gon na hear me say that and then you're going to sweep it back.. You can have a part when you do that or not totally up to you and you're gon na keep it super duper loose and then secure it with an elastic on top of the elastic we already have. And then you can go in with your thumb and your index finger and loosen it up even more to get more texture and volume.. This is actually a really pretty textured ponytail. If you wanted to go that route, but let's finish out the updo. You're going to braid the remaining hair and once you get to the end of it, grab a teeny, tiny section at the bottom and slide the rest of your hair up.. That'S gon na make the braid super compact and bubbly and then you're going to wrap that into a bun and pin it in place. From here. If you want, you can pull apart and texturize again, but I would say: go slowly just in case and once I did that I added in some more star bobby pins, because I love them.. You could add in any kind of thing that you want. Whatever goes with your dress or just leave it plain., Whatever you like. And that's the finished hairstyle., It's basically a braided bun with some pro tips thrown in to make it event appropriate, but it's still easy and still completely doable on your own, which is exactly what We'Re going for., Let's finish off with a seriously upgraded ponytail.. Anybody can curl their hair and put it up into a ponytail, and it will look good. But if you wan na go from DIY ponytail to snatched here's, what you're gon na do., Oh and also there's a lot of tips. Okay, Don't go! Oh! This is too hard and click out of the video.. Just go. Okay, I'm only gon na do two of them. Instead of all of them., You don't have to do all a million tricks that I'm gon na show you, okay, Okay, let's go.! First things! First, do your ponytail in two steps.! You all know this is a favorite tip of mine, but it will change your life.. So I'm going to section my hair diagonally from my ears up to just about an inch or two in front of where I want the ponytail to sit and I'm going to clip the top half out of the way. And now I'm gon na get a little fancy., I'm gon na add in this Barefoot Blonde pony up piece.. This is basically a chunk of hair on a seamless base, so it's very, very thin, almost undetectable, underneath your ponytail.. This is about as thick as my ponytail is anyway, so it basically doubles the size of my ponytail and it's 20, something inches long. So if your hair is shorter than that, it adds length, and I'm just gon na clip that in right on the part that I made when I sectioned the hair. And now we continue on with the tutorial. You're going to brush up the hair. That is left down into your high ponytail, getting it as smooth as you can.. I recommend first going in with a normal brush to get all the pieces that you can. Next go in with a comb or a boar bristle brush to finesse everything and make sure that every piece of hair is going up and where it's supposed to be. And you have no weird bumps., I like doing the ponytail in two steps like this, because it helps to disperse the weight better. It helps make sure it's not sagging in the back and it's a lot more manageable. So you have a better chance of getting all the hair really sleeked into place.. For my next trick, you've heard of baking your makeup. Have you heard of baking, your hairspray. That sounds really scary.. I promise it's not.. Okay, what we're gon na do get the ponytail out of the way. You're gon na take some firm, hold hairspray and you're gon na spray, all over the back, using your hand to sweep up baby hairs to make sure they are where they're supposed to be, and Then you grab your hair dryer and you heat up the hairspray.. Essentially this just activates it a little bit more softens it and then, when you take the heat away, it cools into place and it's going to stay there.. Do you think pop stars? Just don't have baby hairs Girl they do, but they've been baked into place., Do as they do. And now we're gon na let down the top and brush it back comb it back and secure it in place around the first ponytail. For the baby hairs. On top guess, what we're gon na do? Yes, girl, we're gon na hit it with hairspray and then hit that hairspray with the hair dryer. From here, you can touch up your curls. If you need to. For me, I'm liking the way they look. So I'm just gon na go ahead and wrap some hair around the base of my ponytail.. I'M gon na take a section of hair and then I'm gon na use my hairspray trick again to set it in place.. I'M sure you wan na know if baking, your hairspray is bad for your hair.. It'S not like putting a flat iron or a curling iron on top of hairspray by any means.. It'S just a little warmer than your body temperature.. It'S just warming it up slightly and letting it cool which activates the hairspray more than it can on its own.. So really the bigger concern isn't so much using heat as it is getting that activated hairspray back out of your hair successfully.. So, to do that, I recommend using a detangling brush and a gentle touch.. You don't wan na rip through your hair'cause that could cause extra breakage and I recommend shampooing very thoroughly, maybe shampooing twice to get the extra hairspray out and as long as you do that, I think it's totally fine.. I don't think it's an extra strain on your hair. More than using hairspray is on its own.. Another celebrity secret that I utilize all the time is shadowing your root, which basically means using either a brow powder or an actually designated hair powder to fill in any sparse areas in your hairline.. I actually already have some of that in., I'm gon na add just a little bit more, so you guys can see what I'm talking about.. I feel like it frames my face really. Well, so it's something I particularly like doing, but obviously it's not something you actually have to do for your hair.. So from here you can actually be done, but I kinda wan na see if I can get my ponytail more voluminous.. Let'S try it.. If you want some more volume and lift which might look extreme in this ponytail, but if you're dealing with less hair than I have in right now could be helpful., You can hold your ponytail fully up and then backcomb all the way from tip to root. With the brush in kind of this big paddling motion., I've seen Justine Marjan do that and she is the queen of giving Khloe Kardashian the biggest ponytails ever so I'm like if it's good enough for her, it is good enough for me., Oh yes., It comes together. Finally, once you smooth over the top - and you can see that you have all the volume in the world., If you do have finer hair, this can be a lifesaver in creating a bigger fluffier ponytail, and there is your snatched ponytail option.. Now you could follow these steps with straight hair for a sleek look.. You could do classic waves for a more classic look, but I personally am loving the volume and texture., So I hope that you guys enjoyed it.. 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