10 Easy Natural Holiday Hair Updos

All those holiday get-togethers are right around the corner. You know what you doing here, huh! Well, if not, I've got 10 easy natural holiday, updo ideas. Stay tuned: hey welcome back to naturally creative 101, I'm Gianna Marie and today I'm going to be showing you guys exactly what to do with your hair for all those great holiday parties that I'm sure you all are going to so I've taken my hair, I've washed. It as conditioned it as put oil in it and then the whole moisture treatment and even wrap them up and twist and let them down. So I'm going to be showing you how to do the very first hairstyle. This is just two flat twists back and we're going to leave that back part on there. So I've taken it from the base of my part and I'm twisting inward towards the center of my scalp, but also pulling upward almost like you're pulling just this one section up into a high ponytail and I'm gon na bobby. Pin it when I go to insert these bobby pins you're, not trying to put it over the entire twist you're gon na try and just stick it over just the side piece here then kind of down at a diagonal angle - and I always take my bobby pins And I like to create an X, it makes it so that you have to use so that you can use less Bobby codes. So you can say I'm coming from the other side and I'm crossing the two bobby pins over each other in an X formation. It really secures the hair, like I said, music, I'm going to take the other side of the same exact thing, twisting it back towards the center of my head and also going in an upward motion almost like we're going into like a half up, half down or A ponytail and as you can see, I'm not parting it I'm just taking this section right in the front and I'm just gon na spin. It spin it the same exact way: bobby, pin right towards the back going diagonally down on the inside of the twist and then also coming on the outside of the twist and crossing over that other bobby pin without going over the entire twist. Because it tends to stretch out your bobby pins and then, of course, always finger fluff, your hair, usually the best thing we start to use your paper, you comb and your partner's control, and it just also kind of changes through your hair. This is what it looks like from the back you can see. I could totally be ready to go like this. I can put a flower in it right here and black or I could take it red because this pops a little bit more there's hair place it on the side or up on the top. It'S really up to you. You can just leave it very simple. Now from here you can do one of two things. You can pull it straight back into a ponytail, and I call this like a low ponytail. So I'm going to gather all of my hair, leaving the bobby pins where they're at and just securing it one time. I'M pulling all my hair through the just the one time through the hair tie, I'm not gon na. Do it a second time it makes me lose the fullness of my hair just that one time and any imperfections or things that you see a is the soft bristle brush? It'S very soft. It'S different from a brush. I'M gon na show you later on in the video, but this just smooths out any edges, and then I can pin back anything that I feels sticking out or if I feel like there needs to be a little bit more security. Then two bobby pins on each side. I could do that as well, but here I'm just putting just the one bobby pin right there, so it smooths it all out. So this is a second hairdo that you could do from the first one. But really this is just from the first one. If you don't want to wear it down, you pull it back. I mean you could touch that back piece under. We don't want you to do from right here, so just real quickly. You can also take it up, which is, I think I said earlier, there's two ways to do this. You could pull up straight up. I tend to like to have things off the back of my neck and my ears unless I'm wearing my hair strictly down. So this is probably the way that I would do it and what I how I would go about doing my hair for this, this hairstyle this particular messed up and finger fluff. You don't eat a column, you don't need a pick very simple and it looks so right here. I'M going to show you how I made this flower from my hair. This is just a flower from the dollar store. I do catch the vine from it attach these crystals with hot glue, and what I'm going to do is because it has two layers: I'm going to take my bobby pins gon na be able to hide it behind the second layer and I'm going to slide it In between the two layers blowing as close as I can area, because that's where all of the mass is to the flower so that it's not flimsy and falling around in your hair, you just stick it in it's that simple and you've got your own hair clip Without spending any more than a buck and slide it into your hair, now, if you felt like this was at all going to come out or the bobby pin, that's vertically in your hair and it'll hold just fine, and it just gives your updo a little extra Umph, so this hairdo that I'm doing here this hairstyle this updo that I'm doing here is what I like to call my high bun and I'm just gathering all of that hair. That'S up on top and lightly folding it over over and towards the back of the hair tie. The hair tie that's holding all of my hair right now and because you have curls, ladies and your natural hair use, it use the volume using the soft bristle brush again just to smooth out any edges. I really like this brush because it keeps the shine in my hair without having to add in the extra product. It is a wave brush that men use on their hair to create waves, and it's perfect perfect for these kinds of situations, where you need a lot of shine and Sheen left in your hair, because for updos you want it to look. You know shiny, so I'm folding it all and pinching it into one location right back by the hair tie. If you can see - and I'm gon na come from one side and I'm going diagonal and I'm gon na bobby, pin on one side down towards the hair tie so that it has something to hold on to and then I'm gon na come on the other side And create that expiration again I'll, probably say this a thousand times within the video. But that's only because it took me forever to figure out how to do bobby pins without having to use 50 million of them and then losing them all over the house and vacuuming them up in my vacuum. Cleaner. You will lose way less and use way. Less bobby pins, if you use this X formation technique in your hair, so see right there, and then this is just checking to see if there's any loose ones or making the bun more uniform and I'm using a more open, bobby pin here just to stick straight Into the middle of the mass of the bun to hold any looser, shorter ones from the top layer that may be sticking out or that don't look right or you know just to make it even and uniform. It'S really up to you and how you like your bun, to look, I got away with before Bobby, and then this is what it would look like. If I just out of the flour, I mean you could wear this here too, you know an office job or any kind of interview or holiday party Thanksgiving, very simple but elegant and that's just a cool stuff with the twists on the top. So for this next one you're gon na need a hairnet, and I got that at like a flea market, some clips to hold your twists. You can use that kind of clip if you want and bobby pins of course, so I have a center part going on right now, but for this hairstyle I'm gon na need a side part so to make it a little bit easier. I just flip all of my hair to one side and then I work on party so moving it all over to where I kind of want it and then going from like the arch and my brow and using that as my guide, to give me my side. Part really gives me a full bang across my eye for any kind of side, bang that I'm trying to do with these updos. This is just placing all of your hair before you start in on the actual updo. So now I'm just gon na part it. I want a front bank like almost like. We were gon na use it as a bang itself. It does not matter how the part is done. It doesn't have to be straight you're not going to see it, so I'm just twisting it to get it out of the way, and this is what the clip is for it holds it out of the way you feel like those old school 90s clips, but they're Awesome and then there's two ways to do this. This is the first way. This is what I like to call like my side, high ponytail, so you pull all of the rest of this up to one side, you can, you know, straighten out your kitchen. If you want to, you can leave it for purposes of this video and because I'm doing up to you know I'll, probably brush it, but for the most part I mean you can really just throw your hair up and it it still looks nice and once again, With the hair time, only gon na pull it through the one time so that you really have a lot of hair to be work with, and you can feel more and more it's through that hair tie. If you only pull it through once now undoing the bank. This is going to look like it was just all clipped onto one side and that's really what you're going for. So you know someone curls kind of dried funky or whatever you might want to use your water bottle to read, wet it and spray it. It'S okay to get it wet, you know, move it around play in your hair, get really comfortable with your hair and what your hair will do and what you need to do if your hair to manipulate it. This is what I need to do with my hair. In order to get the curls to sit where I need them to sit, I have to get it wet when I'm working now, I want a bigger look, so I'm going to blow dryers head really. I just don't have a certain way. I'M going about this, I am really just focusing on the area where I want it to be bigger, and that is where I'm gon na blow dry. It avoid drying it all over the one side, so it stays on outside and then I'm going to get underneath on the other side here in just a second and just show you how I'd give it just a little bit more volume get over here. The fuller your hair becomes - and I probably spend a lot more time on this hairstyle. You know if I was going out and that but for you know the purpose of this video. So it's not a three hour long video, where I'm showing you how to get you perfect, perfect curls and we replace them. This is what you would do and if you wanted to keep messing with it, you could, and I sprayed the side just to smooth it out and brush it up a little bit. This is what it would look like and it's just a side ponytail. It looks like it's all one thing: now you could embellish it a little bit. This is just a hair net that I attached to a headband, and this is how I use it. I used the headband section in the front and the hairnet, the half of the hairnet towards the back. Now I'm going to hide all of that band underneath my hair and this hair net is like really cool, because it's got some sparkles in it on the sides and stuff in the neck, part of it. So you know you could hide up that side. If you wanted to - and it just gives it a little extra something it matches, my shirt makes the white top on my shirt so see. Now you can't even see the band part of it, because my hair is hiding it, and this here is how it looks. If you were to do this on your hair with a three to five day curl, you know you've let your curls go for three or five days. I like it better on an older curl, instead of a wash freshly washed and conditioned curl dozen. Now that I'm going to show you where you can go directly from here, so clipping the bang out of the way and letting all of this down you're going to do the flat twist again, like I showed you before, when we parted it in the center. Now we're taking it from the side and I'm going straight back towards the middle of my head, basically twisting inward and there's really no like parting or particular way of doing this. You know how to do cornrows, you're, just grabbing and kind of pulling it into a braid. It'S the same kind of thing, with flat twists you're just twisting just twist and let it be, and I'm going to take the two bobby pins again, one from the inside one on the out making that exclamation exclamation and that holds it because you're taking that top Layer, that's just it inward and that's the part that you're twisting towards the top and pinning now I'm gon na take my hairnet, this hornuts kind of an older hairnet, and so it's really stretched out now when you go and you get these hair apps from the Flea market or if you're on the East Coast, I can dope a smartass on things like that. The elastic is very tight, so you're, not gon na, have to do this next step that I'm going to have to do. But I've had this one for a very long time, so in order to make it work, so it doesn't slide off my head. I'M actually gon na wrap it around my hair fold it up under and then pin it to my hair and even on the tight ones. You probably will want to pin the top section, but because this is a very loose hair net and I've had it for a long time, I'm going to pin up the bottom half of it. So it wraps around my hair the right way and it looks nice and uniform instead of just kind of hanging off my head just fast-forward. Through this section, like I said, you may want to pin up the top portion so that it doesn't slide off and then it just gives you I like to go right back towards the twist and pin it to the twist. That gives you another little extra security. On your twist like, like I said, I only use a lot of barb bobby pins when I'm going out dancing helps hold your hair, so I'm sure you're, just gon na undo it. So the next step that you can do here is what I call is, what is called a pin curl and I love pink rose, love ten curls on straight hair. I love intros on natural hair, taking my soft bristle brush again and just kind of smoothing it out here on the front, but I will lose my volume. I don't want to pull it straight, I'm not pulling hard, even though it may look like it. I'M handling this very loosely. I'M gon na work all the way to the end and smooth it completely out on the end as well. You want to get as much of it into your hands as you can, because you're going to tuck and roll in towards itself you're rolling in on itself and you're gon na have straight back for the part, that's pulled back into your bone or pulled back into Your in this case, it's your hairnet and I'm going to pin that Center curl. The pin girl before I pull the pin girl you're gon na pin that Center curl to your hair. So you want to try and get into the very center of that swirl and go down and back towards your hair, go down and back and then once again using the X formation X technique with the bobby pins. I'M coming on the other side and going down and back and over at that other bobby pin one sides underneath the bobby pin the other sides on top and see two bobby pins holds that pink row. You would never think so, but it holds it and holds it quite well, so I could put a red flower in there. I could put a black to kind of offset the red that's going on and it's a very 40s classical look. I absolutely love this look. So here we have a curl, that's three to five days old and I have afro and it's throw it out. This is how I normally wear it and hate to go to the holiday party like this. If you wanted to, but I love this look, and I just wanted to show you how to do some updos off of a curl, that's three to five days old. So first thing I'm going to do: is I'm going to move all of my hair to one side like I showed you before, and I'm not gon na worry about the part too much on this one. I'M just gon na move it all to one side and taking that one section as if there was a part there and the same kind of twist that we did for the hair net one moving. All of my hair out of the way this is on dry hair, three to five day old hair, and this is a very quick updo that you can do, and it's cute it's just very simple, but it's cute you're going to flat twist this section. Just this front section you're not grabbing a whole bunch of hair here and you're, just gon na take it from the scalp and flat twist it up towards the rest of your hair. Now, with this one you're not doing something, that's like really technical exclamation again, you can really see that I've just brought it up so that my hair, that I'm twisting matches with that front thing. So it looks like a uniform afro. You see how it started here and I'm gon na take it from the scalp and I'm going to flat twist inward and up so there. The stuff is sticking out matches with that front bang. So it's gon na look like once side bro that took me a long time to do when really in actuality. It doesn't and the same thing you're you're, going in diagonal towards the side and back on one side on the inside and then on the back side trading that X again almost underneath the twist and when your hair is big like this, I feel like you need. Even less bobby pins, because your hair just kind of stays where you needed to stay at least with my hair, it does yeah when I move it there, that's where it stays, and if I have any issues with where it's staying or you know I had it All as a front bang before so now, I'm trying to get it to the side, just get it wet your hair likes moisture your hair likes water, it's okay to get it wet and I'm just taking an extra bobby pin in here and probably going yeah. I went across the ones that were already in there just to kind of hold the bobby pins in place that were there. I said you can get it wet and just move them where you need them to go. So I'm trying to get it all up and kind of wild on one side, so that may require a little bit of water to get it to go where I want it to go. You just got the side twist going right here and I particularly like the flower in that side twist, so I'm just gon na take this far. That'S already been pre attached to a long, bobby, pin and come in from the top. It really doesn't matter where you're pinning it out. Does this find a loose section and make the flower look right and setting it right in there trying to get your curls to sit where you want them to? This is just what it looks like from the back. I'M gon na take you to another hairstyle, so I've undone the twist. This one is going to take a ton of bobby pins and I mean like you're gon na need a package of bobby pins, but both yeah, more and more, but believe me by the time. We'Re done with this, you so get one side of your head completely wet. You want it completely wet so that you can take this brush that I'm going to show you here in a minute. It'S got stronger bristles than the brush that I had before. All the bristles are together, but the the bristles are harder and it's like a dollar or two at Walmart, it's a very cheap brush, but it works wonders and you're just going to brush just the part, that's by yourself, so that you get the feel of where You want your hair. This is all I'm doing, I'm not even I'm just putting it where I want it to go now with these bobby pins. You you're thinking of this as a sidewall hot, so you're going to do a line. So I just put one in there, so I'm gon na put the next one, I'm just holding it like. There'S no specific parts or anything I'm pushing it up and pulling it, and I want to meet that bobby, pin up to the other bobby pin and make a line with it, and you got a picture it as almost like back in the 80s. It had the banana clips, so if you had a clip or a comb that was going into that one side, you're creating that same kind of comb but with bobby pins, so you're creating one long line down the side of your head and it really doesn't matter How the bobby pins looks because your hair is going to cover these bobby pins when you're done, but just try and match them all up in one long line like as, if you had one huge bobby pin that you were able to run down the side of Your head did I totally just date myself by saying back in the 80s. Oh, I feel like. I should sing to you guys or something while you're watching this usually leave the front for last. So I can see how everything's sitting I'm going to slow this part down, because I really want you to see how you pin this next section. With this section, you have all of your bobby pins, going vertically down your head. These ones are going to go horizontally across and the bobby pins like into the fro, so one part is gon na go underneath and the ridge part is gon na go on top and that's gon na secure that bobby pin that's going vertically down your head to Your head, it's not gon na go anywhere now. They'Re gon na do the same thing with this next one that is right here and it's okay. If you catch the bobby, pin that's in front of it, but this is the one that you're taking right here and you're, going to take your bobby, pin and once again slide the flat part underneath one part of the bobby pin. So it's like you're, creating the X again going in between the two, the two openings on that bobby pin. So the flat sides going in and the rib sides going on top of the other rib side and that's just gon na hold it in there and you're going straight into your fro across the bobby pin straight in, and I really wanted to slow this part down. Because it really took me forever and a lot of tutorials that I watch it is never understood how the bobby pins go in and how how exactly you get them to stay and hold. So I I found this technique. You know just through trial and error, so see that one's going vertically across or horizontally. However, you want to look at it and the other ones gon na go the opposite direction straight into it, to hold it down and up close that looks like it's all messed up or a bumpier to the side does but you'll see. When I go to let this go, and this hairstyle is done that it's going to look flawless so there's the one that's already there and you're taking the whole thing bobby, pin and you're sliding it in between so one parts on the bottom. One parts on the top - and it's going straight into it and depending on how you know, if you're doing this on a curl, that's two to three days old, you may need more than one body pain, going right vertically or horizontally into the other bobby pin. You may need more than one because, depending on your hair texture, I mean there's a lot of different factors. You'Re gon na have to play around with your hair in your hair texture, but for mine, because this is on a recently washed and conditioned and oil to moisturize. I mean I did a oil treatment on my hair. It'S very a very loose curl and a very loose pattern. It'S not very thick right now, so I'm able to manipulate it a little bit easier than I normally would on a two to three day old curl just wanted to give you guys a close-up, so you could really see how to put those in there and you're. Just gon na go all the way down. It'S just the repeated process on each bobby pin. That'S all the way down your head, you're gon na go in that X formation again, I can't stress it enough that X, like does wonders and see, then it's all the one side and the curls that are there on the top scrunch them down, pull them up. They'Re gon na hide those bobby pins. You'Re not gon na see the bobby pins, and it's just you know it's an awesome kind of edgy hairstyle, especially for like going out to a party yeah wear this hairstyle caution because it is going to detect a lot of attention. You go dancing and flip your hair see like this huh. It ain't going nowhere with all those bobby pins, it's awesome, but it will attract a lot of attention and, like I said, I leave the front bangs for last, so I can see exactly how it's going to sit once I get it all pins and I used To sing exact techniques, one one vertically ones going where I started the front of my C - that's not gon na go anywhere like for a bang. I don't have to worry about it, alright, so this is just what it looks like from the side, and you can see like from far away how that would look almost like. It was shaved. Yes, Hey work, it out work it out, work it out posing for you gives you that nice false shave book without having you having to shave. Your head can't speak tonight. Yes, so yeah right here follow me on Instagram. You know that I, like my hair big, so if I want to make it bigger, obviously he's I'm gon na. Take it a little bit and if I wanted to either spend more time on this, I could take the blow dryer to it. But less heat is better, so just pick it and there is an awesome stuff. So now I'm taking you back to that, pin curl that we had going in the front. Let me show you what else you can get. So I'm going to separate out my hair and just grab this front portion almost like as a half-up half-down. It does not have to depart it out perfectly you just separate it and I'm gon na do a pin curl on the side like I did in the front and then we're gon na, do it towards the center of my hair and up. So it's flattening out that edge, I'm gon na roll it in these are Victorian pearls and I'm just rolling it into the center of my head and if you've ever worked with those curling rods or anything like that, it's the same kind of concept except you're doing It with your hair, because you have enough of it and that's natural - you don't have to worry about trying to put something in there. Just use your hair and you're gon na pin it from one side because it's the tunnel gon na pin one tunnel side down on the front and then you're gon na take a bobby, pin and go on the back and pin down the tunnel to your head. On the bottom and the insider-trading that X again - and they make sure they cross over you're, doing it right, it's a tunnel and you pin it to your head and at the bottom of that tunnel, it's next, your head, you're gon na, create a next one going In through the front, I'm going in through the back and it's kind of in a diagonal, so you're gon na create that X again and doing the same thing to the other side. Rolling it in reading that tunnel in the front and I'm taking a bobby pin and putting it on the back now, there's two ways: you can do this: you can take your hairnet and you can bundle up the rest of the slips and it gives you a Little bit of an accent and then you don't have to worry about doing another pink roll. If you haven't gotten down the knack for it, and it takes a little bit of practice to get pin curls down, but I'm not gon na do that today. I'M gon na take this back section and I'm going to do exactly what I did to the two sides into the front. This is gon na. Look like a very fancy updo when really it's very, very simple, so you're just pulling it straight up as if I was pulling it into a ponytail straight up and then I'm folding that all in tucking it and rolling it down, and I want to meet it Up to the other two Victorian curl server put up at the top of my head and it's the same concept hitting it on each side like a bottom to your head bottom inside and see you've got three Torian curls and then anything that's loose. I'M just kind of brushing up and smoothing it out and so see if there's a loose section here and I'm not gon na try and pin it to the Kuro, I'm going to tuck it down inside that tunnel and just pin it down, because your hair will Hide all of that I mean if there was anything that you didn't like you could take that and just tuck it and your hair will hide it all. Let'S see it's just a very cute updo and it took you really no time at all to do once. You get down those pin, curls, there's so many hairstyles you can do with them. So I could take like a red sparkly head wrap, but I'm gon na take the gold to have gold accents in my shirt and I'm gon na wrap this around my head very loosely just towards the back, the very, very back and then coming up towards that Front pink row and in front of the two side ones: it's not folding on any of the curls at all and there's gon na tie it at the back and then the two loose ends I'm going to tuck it in so tie it in a knot. Now I'm just going to tuck it within itself, so that there's one loose end of tucking it in on one side, there's the other loose end and I'm tucking it in on the other side. And then it's the same concept that we did with the hair net and anything else, you're just tucking and placing it where you want it to sit and just positioning it. If you feel like it's gon na come loose or anything, you can always take a bobby pin to it, but this just gives it an extra little. Oh, if you had a headband, you could put a headband there. I mean there's plenty of things that you could do with this, so this is just what I chose to do sue my shirt. It kind of brings it out and gives it an extra little pretty something for the holidays pose it up, for you pose it out. For you, yes, so I hope you guys enjoyed my video and there will be many more coming. Please rate comment subscribe. I love you guys. Bye,