Updo Hairstyles For Short Hair - Kayley Melissa
In today's video I am showing you guys some fun and easy updo hairstyles for short hair. I wanted these to be easy and simple updo hairstyles for my girls with short hair. These simple hairstyles for short hair are the perfect updo for wedding hairstyles, prom hairstyles, and really any reason you want an updo! I hope you enjoy these easy hairstyles - let me know in the comments below which updo hairstyle is your favorite!!
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Everyone Kayla your friendly neighborhood, hair stylist here and today we're doing some short hair updos. Perhaps I should say short and medium hair, because my hair has grown very quickly since I got it cut. Oh my goodness, I've always thought short. Hair updos seem like kind of a challenge that I wanted to take on, so today we are taking on that challenge. Not only do I want to create an updo with shorter to medium hair, I want them to be easy. I want you to be able to do them at home because goodness gracious, why else am i making tutorials? And I am very happy with how these came out so whether you are going to a wedding or your in a wedding or you're, getting married? Congratulations or you know, whatever you have coming up, these up news are definitely doable on your own or with a friend. I hope you guys enjoyed these. I enjoy putting them together. If you do don't forget to hit the like button to help support my channel and if you're new here, you can hit the subscribe button to join the breda holic family here on kaeleen Melissa. But that being said, let's get into the video my hair, so big. It'S full of secrets to prepare my hair for today's video. I curled it with the Amika chameleon curling wand in the 1 inch attachment, and before that I used the 10r a heat block spray. This is a high hold heat, protectant spray, definitely good for special occasions, and I really liked it before and up to because it helps the curls to hold as you're putting the updo in and not fall out quite as easily. But now, let's updo. Let'S start with something very easy: shall we first you're gon na separate the hair in front of your ears on either side and put everything else into a low ponytail? I'M gon na have this sitting, maybe like one and a half two inches up from the very bottom of my hairline, then we're gon na loosen it up. You'Re gon na hear a lot of that today over the elastic just to make sure everything, looks nice and texturized and full and gives you a little bit more special occasion and now we're just gon na work on pulling back these pieces. The first thing you're gon na do is split the hair on each side in half and take the back half back and secure it close to the end with an elastic then you're going to twist it over and between the cross and the hair and the elastic You'Re going to feed your ponytail and it's just gon na create this crisscross effect without bobby pins. What so nice so easy, then you're gon na do that again with the hair. That'S left down, leave any pieces out around your face. If you want this time, you're gon na twist it in the opposite direction, so that it Criss crosses differently and looks even cooler and again feed the ponytail through, and you pretty much done and from here it's really just finessing. So you can go around and kind of loosely pull out a couple pieces. If you want to texturize some more, if you have any pieces that have fallen out and you don't want them out, you can go back and pin them back in place any little tweaks like that, you probably will have to do some of those. But overall, this is pretty much the hairstyle. The last problem you might have to troubleshoot is these elastics showing on the bottom, especially if you have light-colored hair. It'S really easy to fix. I'M just gon na take a u-shaped pin like this, but you could also use a bobby pin. I'M gon na hold the very bottom layer of my ponytail against my head and pin up and into the ponytail. This both makes the ponytail look fuller and hides any little elastics hanging out underneath, and that is a very quick and easy little ponytail option that you can have if your hair needs to be up. If you want just a little something it makes it look very styled and put together, but you don't actually need a lot of skill to do it, which is key. Now, here's a quick little update. If you want to turn this from a ponytail into an updo. Take that bobby, pin out or just don't put it in and then you're going to tease the bottom lightly and secure it with an elastic on the very end of the ponytail. Now you're gon na tuck that elastic up and underneath the previous elastic and pin that in place so that you create a little shenyang. Then you'll most likely need to kind of pull the edges of it around. To finish out the shape of the up to pin that in place as well - and you are done with this little upgrade - I feel like this is definitely a good up to option. I like that, it's a mix of kind of textured and tousled a little bit more formal and I feel like it could go with a lot of different looks now. If your hair is a couple inches shorter than mine, here's the modifications I'd make. First of all, for the first step, I would leave some of the hair behind the ears out and use that, for the first section that you take back and twist, because that hair is gon na be a little longer then do as much as you can. With the hair in front of your ears and when some of that hair falls out because it will, you can just take little pieces back and pin them and it will look all tousled and cute. And then, if you want to create this, shenyang shape actually do the ponytail just a little bit higher up, because your hair is longer in the middle of your head. Just because of the way the hair is cut and then, instead of folding, it all the way up and underneath the first elastic just tuck it under to create that little tuck little roll button situation still have the same look. But you don't need as much hair to do it and now obviously we need to do some raids. First, braid, I'm gon na do is a Dutch braid. That kind of covers the first few inches right here. So we can pick up a bunch of hair and then we're gon na braid, the rest normally secure it with a bobby pin and go through and pull it apart and there we go now. I'M gon na make just a little rope, braid right behind that one. I'M twisting the pieces toward my face and wrapping them away from my face, securing it with the bobby pin at the end, I'm just gon na pull on this a little bit, get it looser. And finally, let's just do one more little braid on this side and then fluff it out now everything, but the braids is gon na, come back into a low ponytail and then you're gon na loosen it up to make it more voluminous. I'Ve got a pattern going. Okay, it works. I just want to take a minute to point out that the ponytail being able to look pretty and PC and all of that when you pull it apart, does have to do with curling the hair first, because that way, when you pull out it, you loosen it Up it already has a bend in the hair which gives it that extra texture - if you didn't do that first, your natural texture would come through in whatever way it shows up with me. It would be just kind of straight and weird, if you have maybe more natural frizz or anything like that, that would start coming into play so heat styling at first, even though it seems tedious and unnecessary, does make those extra little steps just easy and work, and That'S why I like it one thing you might encounter, especially if your hair is shorter than mine, is that big pieces might fall out because it doesn't all reach to the back you're fine. You can just pick up a piece like this leave out anything that you do want to leave out, and then you just sweep this back gently and pin it in place wherever it falls on your head, and it gives you that extra texture. So it's just extra on the hairstyle. It looks even better. If you have it, you just have to know how to work with it, and now all these braids are gon na obviously come back and get pinned in place. You actually want to pin them underneath the ponytail holder that way it all comes together when the button is done, and now we just have to make the button and basically with whatever hair you have, you can maneuver it around and pin it in place to create A pretty shape, if you need a little bit of extra help, you can always use a mini hair donut that will be perfect for short hair because you can kind of pin around and over it. Even if you don't have a lot of hair to work with, but I'm gon na show you how to work with my hair about two inches shorter than my hair. Let'S do it so I'm gon na be twisting and pinning four sections from this ponytail. The first one is on top I'm going to twist it and then I'm going to grab a tiny piece at the end and scrunch the twist back up, you're gon na see that makes it so much more voluminous gives it so much more shape. I'M pinning it like a rainbow up and over the hair elastic and now you're gon na grab another piece and do the same thing going the opposite direction. So I went to the right this time. I'M gon na go to the left twist scrunch and pin now. This is where we get a little fancy. We have basically two sections left: I'm going to leave the middle section unpinned and skip down to the bottom with that. I'M just gon na create kind of a half circle, filling out one side of the bottom of the bun pin that in place. I know with that last section of hair, you're you're just gon na twist and scrunch and fill out whatever is left of the bun and pin it in place and you're done and that's it for this braided hair sale. You guys know I had to throw in something with a braid, and I do really like this one. I think it's definitely recreate able at home. It'S pretty it's easy, I'm here for it and now wants a kind of a tousled beachy updo option we're gon na separate the hair into three tiers. So first you're gon na take the hair from kind of the crown up and we're gon na clip that out of the way, then you're gon na separate your hair from the ears up and also clip that out of the way now with the hair that we Left down we're going to bring it together in the back and create a little shenyang. This is gon na, be again about two inches up from your hairline and you create a shenyang by leaving the hair loops the last time it goes through the hair elastic. Now we let down the next year, you're gon na, take this one back and wrap it around the base of the chignon and pin it in place as you go, and now we just have the last tear, let's let it down so now with these two pieces That we have left down we're going to be criss-crossing them in the back over the top of the shenyang. So I'm gon na start with my shallow side, because I always like having the full side be the last one to like go around. So I'm going to pull this around the top of this shenyang and pin as I go, and I'm actually gon na leave the ends hanging free. I like how that looks. I like that it's a little bit more textured, but you can always tuck and pin them if you want and now just do the same thing on the other side and for this I'm back to using the u-shaped pins, I would say the bobby pins are good For structure these are good for aesthetic, so essentially, if you've already got a ponytail or a bun base that you can pen in sue, these can be really good, for you know controlling and positioning the extra little hairs and now it's time for any last little adjustments. You might find that some hairs have sprouted out of your shenyang. You can either pin those down and out of the way or just tuck them in whatever works. If you have any little baby, hair sticking out also deal with those with pins and just generally finish, things up, add some hairspray you're done and that's it for this hairstyle. I really love the texture on this one. I love that you can still give this kind of like beachy, updo vibe, even with shorter hair. It'S great! It'S cute, I'm really into it. If your hair is shorter than mine, you shouldn't need to make a lot of adjustments. You might need to position the shenyang. Just a little lower to accommodate the hair that you do have, but in general this should all comes together very similarly to mine, and there are some short hair updos for you guys, whether it's time for weddings or a holiday season. Whatever else you have going on, maybe just the fancy Tuesday - I don't know you now have enough - do that you can wear for it. Tell me in the comments below which one of these is your favorite, I'm curious to know. I would pick either this braided one or the tasseled one because, like those are the most me obviously, but I do like how all of these came together - and I hope this gives you some great ideas for whatever you have coming up, but I think that's it. 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Comments
Chapel Bell: I’m so excited that your doing short hair looks!! You’re the only hair person on YouTube that consistently creates unique beautiful and recreatable styles!
Alexander Chang: I'm a guy who likes to adapt certain styles to my own hair and I have to say that the first ponytail is absolutely amazing and I will sure as sh×t be rocking that soon!!!
Brittany G: If you want any video ideas, I have 2 (3ish). First, I'd like to see you recreate some of the Tik Tok 15-second hairstyles. I see them on Pinterest a LOT and they look easy, but they don't have much instruction. Second, I think it would be fun to see you recreate runway looks, so maybe your sister could choose a hairstyle from a bridal runway show (Carolina Herrera?), another from a classic American show (Ralph Lauren?), and one more from an avant garde designer (Alexander Wang?). Or maybe recreate styles from influencers around the world, like someone from Paris versus Tokyo street fashion, but instead of fashion, it's hairstyles. Love your videos!!!
Serena Lee: Thank you for explaining why you curl your hair first! I’ve always wondered why everyone does that, and why my hair doesn’t isn’t able to be manipulated like you see in the tutorials - now I know! Thank you for finally explaining it to me
mce1939: Love the technique you used in the first one for pulling the ponytail through the twist. Watched it like 20 times to understand the magic :)
nicolethenightowl: Oh my gosh, I am so inspired! Thanks Kaylee!! I loved them all but I loved the braided one and how you uses the twist technique for the bun!! Mind blown!! Those loose tousled buns always given me such a headache in the salon! What a creative way to get that look, especially with short hair!!
Corrina Chisholm: That first style is like black magic. I watched it 3 times and I can now recreate it! Thanks it’s so much easier than crossing and pinning
Rachel Sierchio: I just cut my hair to a little shorter than this length, and after having it long and also just knowing nothing about doing hair this video helped me out soooo much This is stuff I can actually do and ACTUALLY came out looking so good. Thank you thank you thank you !!!!
Natuurtherapie Esra Tjemkes: I was succesfull at recreating the 2nd hairstyle with my medium long hair. Feeling great! Loving it! Thanks for the inspiration!
Lorena Vasconcellos: For my girls with short-mid length thick and wavy to curly hair: I adapted the 1st hairstyle cuz I knew there was noooo way I could feed my pony through that loop! I just crossed the pieces, threw my head and pony forwards, and tied them underneath the pony. It worked!
Dabo Honey: You just saved me as a bridesmaid. I did the first two hairstyles as trials tonight. Turned out amazing. Thank you for the tutorials! :D I can hardly style hair to save my life.
Gianni Lopez: R U KIDDING ME this is perfect timing!! I was planning on doing a braided bun from your short prom styles vid for my wedding but I love the updated version!! Thank youuu
hafsa: these are all so cute! i'm going to be cutting my hair short, just below my shoulders, soon and these short hair updos will be so helpful! thank u kayley!
Ann Cabras: I just cut my hair last month and I’m still struggling dealing with short hair when I’ve always had very long hair Thanks to your video I was able to easily put my hair up again! So big thanks❤️❤️
Tina M: Kayley, I've been watching your videos since you started. Thank you for all of your creative hairstyles; I've learned so much over the years! <3
Beka O'Meara: Thank you for this video. it's perfect timing. My daughter has hoco tonight and her hair is almost the exact same length as yours and we were struggling to find something to do with it. Stumbled across this video this morning and I'm pretty sure we're going to try out look #2 tonight. Thanks so much!
Kate Myers: Thank you for this tutorial!! It’s so easy to follow and my hair is the same length so it works great for me! You don’t find very many tuts for this length hair. Thank you so much!!
Amber Dawn: The first one is literally exactly what I had in mind (curled & twisted pony with no bobby pins) and this is the first video I clicked to-- Incredible <3
Linda S: Thank you so much for this!! The braided one is my favorite and I will be recreating it for the Navy Ball I'm attending in 2 weeks!
Face Of Failure: Thanks for the ideas! I could see these being super easy once you get the basics of it down. Even for me with layered short hair I can get it to look decent on my first couple tries!
Amelie Reed: Matched my hair perfectly! So easy to use for a great price!
Parties with Character: These tips are also excellent for girls with short layers in long hair (like me)! Thank you!!! I love your videos, Kayley! Where do you find your inspiration? —How do you keep coming up with new hairstyles?! So impressed.
stephanie drewett: Love the braided one! Going to practice this before a wedding next week! Very good easy to follow tutorial ❤
Yulia Kovaleva: Thank you for these! My hair finally grew long enough to do updos and I’m so excited to try these you look so glowing and beautiful!
Rebecca Blashock: Loved it! I rewatched the first one again so I could be sure I twisted it right! Thank you!!! :D
NotURBasicBagLady Jaren: Love this! Homecoming hair for my daughter! Definitely trying the braids and tussled bun
AndreaRenata Gomez: OMG Kayley!!! I'm going to a wedding in a couple months just cut my hair and I was freaking out about my hairstyle. Thank you so much for this ideas!
Indy D: I love the scrunched up twist, you've used it a few videos back as well and I've used it soooo much since. Gives so much volume, is easy and so freakin pretty
Heidi A.: My hair is 32 inches long, the only reason I’m watching this is to support Kayley ❤️
Kaitlyn Holm: I love that your hair styles look FANTASTIC but are also easy and re-creatable. You are also so good at explaining the process and what you are doing.
Seejay & Kath: All of them are my favessss!!!!! Thanks for this amazing tutorial!!!
Ashleigh Hunt: Kayley I’ve been watching you for years but that cross cross twist trick without bobby pins is the first time you’ve made my mouth drop open in SHOCK you’re a GENIUS! THANK YOU!
Savannah Riel: Just got my hair from long mermaid hair to medium pixie chopped off— I needed this video so much. Thanks Kayley
Kitty: I’m cutting my elbow length hair off to my collar bones on Wednesday. I cannot wait as I’m going to a wedding Saturday. Such great timing.
Nazanin Rizvi: my mind was blown with the first one! they all look so great, thank you!!
Sizin İçin Araştırdım: I'll be doing the second one for my wedding, thank you
Ana D: i love your hair tutorials!! i SUCK AT DOING HAIR. it takes me 10 minutes to do a simple braid. ur tutorials are the only ones i can ever actually do, and they always turn out so good!!
Emma: Kayley, thank you so much. These updos are absolutely perfect. Thank you, lots of love to you. Emma
Hannah Dare: Kayley your tutorials are always so empowering!
Nightysky: Please do fall hairstyles for short hair!! Love your videos, keep them coming!
Kate go: I have quite heavy hair so anytime I pin hair, it just falls out or loosens and creates weird bubbles. I know how the criss crossing technique works but I'm recovering from an injury so my arm is not strong enough to hold up so long. Could you do a video using exclusively elastics?
Aleta Burgess: Can you please do hairstyles that would work with a veil? I'm getting married next year. I'm having one of my girls from church do my hair, so I would love to give her some inspiration to test out! Thank you so much for your videos and the diversity of all your styles!! I love you so much and am so glad you stuck with YouTube!
tehee.: omg tysm pls keep making videos like these. i am starting to get really into hairstyles and stuff like that and to see how easy it is to do something that looks very fancy is amazing. again tysm and pls keep making more videos like these.love u girl bye!!!
Violingirl79: Lovely ideas! Going to try the braided bun for a party tomorrow night
Julie Santos: Hi Kaley,you made really beautiful hairstyles.I really loved the second one and the last one the best since I have really thin ,sleek hair,I'm looking forward in trying the last swirled bun you did,just Gorgeous!❤
lyeb93: I’m getting my degree in two weeks and I needed this SO MUCH!
Aubrey Tapia: Love, love, love all your short hair content! I cut my hair short at the beginning of summer and just got fringy bangs! Hair styles for bangs??
Reanna Garnica: My favorite is the braided one too! So pretty!
Jazman Amber: This was very helpful and very good at explaining the hairstyles!!!
Michaela Smit: I loved this video!! Can you do a similar one but with no heat? :)
Sumo Wrestler #26: Thank you for the video! Homecoming is right around the corner, so these might be good options. You really remind me of Juliet from Psych, especially when she gets her hair cut in the later seasons.
Jillian G: I have to say a huge thanks to you. I show dogs and you need to look somewhat professional and my ponytail just looks sloppier the longer the day goes on. I’ve tried hairstyle videos before and they just never work for me but these do and are easy to follow. Thank you so much it has now helped me so much.
Júlia Földesi: Oh my god! I'm so excited to try these new hairstyles. I love the most the first and the last one, because It's could work with my tinny hair as well. However, The others are cool too, and I will try it in my best friend's hair. :D
Bluezitrone: These are so pretty The first one is my favourite
Alice: I’m looking forward to trying your up do with the braids! Lovely!
Manda Lynne: This was so easy to follow. You're the sweetest.
Lyn G: I love the last updo. All these are easy and pretty
Keapix: I think I can definitely make the first one work, and the adaption. Thank you!
fleurlicious: I just cut my hair! Thank you so much ♥
Dear Honey: I looove the braided one! Also seeing you with short hair makes me want to cut mine❤️
Jordan Chavez Matzel: Your makeup in this is so gorgeous!!
Rachel Weisz: Omg you are a godsend. I cannot wait to try these out!!!! ❤️ you!!
Christianne Montoya: Very helpful for a "Mom at Prom" updo!
Dalia Bucheery: I love your energy so much! You’re like a big sister to me x ahhhh been watching you back when you were showing ya your nail polish collectionnj and when you had two channels! Letsmakeitup 1&2 keep it up girl
Nes95: Loving these hairstyles and loving you!! ❤️❤️
Eva Campbell: seriously love how many tutoritals are on youtube! Im a big fan of ZALA Hair extensions, incredible quality for the price. My hair is pretty long, but thin. I just wanted to add a tiny bit of length but mostly fullness. These do the trick perfectly. I have a different style of extensions that were a lot more expensive and honestly are just never good enough. ZALA are consistent and im so over the moon!
manderz_2: Could you do a video about what to do with fly aways and baby hairs? I have so many all around my face and I feel like they make me look like I’ve been electrocuted lol. It’s also hard to do braids that start at the front of the hair because they just want to stick out. Love your vids ❤️
Agynhez N.: all of them I like it It's easy and elegant Thank you for sharing..
teeney1441: Love, love, love all your troubleshooting tips!
Madeline Pritchett: Timestamps!! Twisted Pony - 1:01 —> into an updo - 3:34 Braided Updo - 4:55 Tousled Chignon - 8:15
Rosie Saunders: LOVE THIS HAIR Definitely recommend this hair!
Tini Ho: Love your hairstyles so much!!!
Elizabeth Ann: I love your makeup as much as your hair. Please show us your ways.
Juliana Schimmel: Perfect! Just in time for homecoming
Rebecca Wise: I love the braided updo. Now that you have shorter hair can you please make a tutorial on a crown braid?
Anna Rostagno: These hairstyles are amazing! May I ask what lipstick are you wearing in the intro of this video? It looks gorgeous!
June Javens-Wolfe: This is awesome! I love your videos!
ElanaWolf830: I'm loving the short hair tutorials! But could you do some with full bangs, please?
Tiana Alfano: YESSSSSSSS your so great!! Love you and all that you do!!
DavinaRempel: This Video comes perfect. My hairdresser cut my hair way shorter then I wanted. So I need some inspiration. Greetings from Germany ☺
Nicole Buchhold: Okay wow these are beautiful and so easy!!
Leigh Rohrbach: Trying the ponytail (maybe with the bun option) for a wedding I’m in next month! :)
M A. I.: I'm curious about something...do you have any tips for going to bed and waking up with better hair? Like braiding it or something?
Iulia M: Kayley, could you make a video on what to do with the pieces of hair that frame your face if they're growing out and start to look kind of weird? I need help lol
Isabell Tobar: Love it!!!
Lucky Sumpi: It's beautiful I love it
Michelle: The braided hairstyle
Every Haircolor: Thanks for this tutorial!
JMCrispe 1989: I love it!!!
Morgan Maples: Any chance the curly wig is coming out again any time soon?? I would love updo ideas for naturally curly girls!!
Stephanie Lynn: I’m a sucker for the braids, as per usual! Love all the styles tho!
Ca Ching: The braided one!!! Damn, what great hairstyles!!!
Eve Thorpe: Excelent I wear them for everything! And they are durable
Marcela: Thank you so much ! ❤️
Carolyn Yangas: Mind was blown by first style. That twist trick is genius
Grace Dilores: i love the one with the braid. easy instruction
Heather Allen: Love that pony tail! Love you Kayley!
Mary Eliza Beaumont: I love the third one!
Rebekka Snow: Love! Thank u for all the extra little comments and tips
SwimmerChick1821: I love your lip color. It's such a pretty pink! Do you remember what you used?