3 Simple & Modern Updo Hair Styles | Beauty Over 40

Hi, ladies, it's Erin and welcome back to my channel for those of you who are new to my channel hi welcome. I do upload two new videos every week every Wednesday and Friday morning, so I hope you will hit that subscribe button. So you get the notifications and you don't miss out on any new videos today, I'm so excited to share with you some easy hairstyles that are really fun really interesting, really different, and I think they're very simple to do. I was contacted recently by living proof. They wanted to team up with me on this project. I couldn't have been more excited, I'm a huge fan of living proof. I'Ve been using their products for over a year since my Texas, hair stylist, recommended it to me and what I love about their products is that they have a multi-purpose product or a multi-use or multi-function product, and I think that's really important for us busy. Ladies, you know we're juggling a thousand things and we don't have time to like monkey around with multiple products. So it's good when it's more of an all-in-one versus having to grab a bunch of different things, and I think their products are really awesome in the sense that they work. They really work. So I'm going to show you three hairstyles using living proof, products, styling products and I'll show you which ones I'm using as I go, and this video is sponsored so again very proud and excited to share this with you all. The first step is to make sure I use some product in my hair, so that styling, my hair, is a little bit easier. I do have fine hair, which can be difficult to style if I don't put some sort of product in it. So the first one I want to add to my hair is the prime style extender, and what this product does is actually extend. The life of your blowout or your curls basically extend the life of your hair, make it look less greasy longer and it's really the busy woman's perfect hair product, and then I'm also going to use the DVD multitasking and you can use it in different ways. Use it to D frizz the ends, if you want to just put a tiny bit like a pea-sized amount on your ends. So if you use it in your damp hair, then that's more of a styling product. You can use it to make your hair. Look a little bit more PC if you use it on your dry hair and you can just put a little bit in on the ends and it will actually just make it look a little PC or a little more texturized. I'M going to use it as a styling cream, since I'm about to style my hair, so a little bit goes a long way put that in smells so good. Okay, now that I've rushed out my hair and the products in my hair, I'm going to blow-dry my hair and use a round brush. Now my hair is dry, so I'm gon na start with hairstyle number one, which is a faux bob. This one is really fun. I think it's a great way to experiment if you're thinking about it Bob or a love but you're, not really sure or if you have long hair or longer hair like me, and you just want to do something a little bit different. I think it has a more glam retro feel to it. I think it can be really sexy and really modern and sophisticated. So let's get started. Okay. The first thing you do for the faux bob. Is you section off most of the top of your hair, so you're only leaving like a little bit at the bottom? Don'T worry so much about how straight the line is just grab it with your hands to keep this top part off the bottom part. I'M just gon na put it in a hair tie. Okay. Now I'm going to take this bottom part and I'm going to put it in a little button, just keep twisting it and twisting it and I try to keep it real flat when I'm twisting, then I'm gon na put the hair tie around the tiny bun. Now, here's where you could use a bobby pin if you wanted to this bun kind of sticks out a little bit, so you could take a bobby pin and make sure that bun stays flat to the head like that. Okay, now I'm gon na take out the top part of my and you can decide if you want to part your hair in the middle or you want to part it on the side. Whatever feels nice for you, I'm gon na part mine in the middle. Now I'm just gon na take some bobby pins, take kind of a section of this hair and just fold it under, and then I'm pinning it to this section at the bottom, with the bun. Okay. So there's one and then I'm going to take another big section here. So that's just with two bobby pins. You really don't need more than that, but you could add a couple more if you felt more comfortable and then you can also kind of take some of these pieces out just tiny pieces. If you want it to be a little piece here and you could curl the front if you wanted to and then of course you can put a little hairspray just so it holds. But again I think with this look like the Messier and the piece ear. Almost the better okay for this next look, we're gon na do some serious, teasing. Okay, we take the top section of our hair. We comb it out and then what we're gon na do is we're. Gon na tease, tease, tease, tease, tease, tease, tease I'm using this big old hair brush, but you can use a comb or a pick or whatever you want. I think a comb would work probably a little better than the hair brush, but I always just use a brush because it's what I have handy and it's easy enough. I'M then going to take each side and tease the sides all right, and I think this is perfect, ready to go. Okay, now we're gon na take this puppy and we're gon na settle her down a little bit just kind of brush it out a little bit smooth it just taking that top layer, and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to twist it into a Bun I wrap my ponytail around the bun okay, once you have that first little bun you're just gon na check the top to make sure it's nice and smooth and what I can do is add a little more of the TBD multitasking styler. I'M gon na. Take the rest of the hair comb it out and I'm gon na make another little bun at the bottom, so I'm creating basically two knots. This is what I mean by edgy elegant. I think it's edgy. I think knots are edgy, but the top part makes it look very regal and elegant okay. So let me show you from the side, from the front from the side for hairstyle number three you're going to need some more hair ties, so I would say about four or five hair ties should do it. So since my crown is already teased, I don't really need to tease it, but if you were starting from scratch, I would go ahead and grab that top section again and tease it tease, it tease it. So you get a little bit of a pouf at the top, because I think that little volume at the top looks so awesome it just it just makes such a difference, then that really slicked back hair. I like the little pouf at the top so also makes you look a little taller if you're a shortie like me, okay, so now I'm just going to pull it all the way back, but I'm gon na be really careful to smooth it all out. So you see how my top is all wonky. I just got to fix that a little bit now, I'm going to put my hair tie in see it. Did it really did flatten the pouf a little bit, so what I'm gon na do is go back and just pull out a little bit of that, so I can regain the height. So I'm going to go back and use a little bit of this on the top just to get rid of those flyaways, the TVD multitasking styler. That'S a pretty good pouf, I'm pretty happy with that. It'S not egregiously high, but it's high enough to create a little volume, and I think the pouf, especially right at the top in the middle, also creates a little bit of edge to the look. So this is actually a hairstyle I used to do in middle school. So we're going way back so with my ponytail taking sections of about two inches, I'm just gon na put a hair tie in and then I'm gon na put another hair tie in how I finish off. This look is I'm going to take each piece and just pull out hair like this. Take this and pull out here take this and pull out hair, so it creates these little cool shapes. I think those are all attainable hairstyles. I think they are all unique hairstyles. I think they're all very modern, I think they're all very sexy and edgy and fun they're all really easy to do and they're all really fast to do, which is really important to me because again, I'm busy, I don't have a lot of extra time. You guys are busy, you don't have a lot of extra time. So if we're gon na do something, even if it's for a special occasion, it has to be a hairstyle that is quick and simple. Okay, so let me know if you have any questions at all. Just comment below I'll put links to all the living proof products below. 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