Alexa Chung - A Right Royal Wedding Hair Tutorial | Alexachung
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I'm back with my old pal George Northwood, hair stylist to the stars. This week he's giving me a right royal makeover where he recreates the messy bun that look he did for Meghan Markle on the evening of the Royal Wedding. What do you all think?
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Hi welcome back to the hair chair, Alexa Chung here, George North look behind me. So always one step behind wait just kidding so George. Today, I'm wearing my business suit. I'M ready to be quite serious. I want to look like a respectable woman, who's still quite feminine. A style icon of mine in this moment might be the one and only mega Markel, a dear friend of yours, you did, you did make a models hair. I call her royal, the Duchess Duchess of Sussex, whatever you did, Megan's hair for a wedding. The evening look yeah, the second look and my mom and sister were watching it on TV and then they text me. They said, I think I can see George Norwood at the Royal Wedding, so I texted you and you didn't reply, so I thought you definitely were there anyway. Can you please give me mega Markel's after party wedding, chignon, yes, great, we're gon na do like a version like a messy bun kind of at the back here? Yes, what we've done is you can watch our other tutorial before and how to get the tongue so we're going to give you wavy hair. So if you go look at our other video get some texture in it tongue it around the face. So you've got all the texture in the hair like this and then we're going to get some height and back combing in here. Do you think this will suit me? I think yeah we'll give it a go, give it a go. Let'S see, it's actually not something! We'Ve done yeah, it is something we've done before. Actually, I'm gon na give you some back combing in the top. Here, it's not very rock and roll the chignon. Is it we're gon na make it rock and roll mm-hmm? It'S all about the attitude yeah you're gon na own this. Oh, I love your messy bun, we're actually gon na back home all the way back to the nape mm-hmm you've, given me that funky fringe again that yeah, why do you think I'm gon na back home? All the way down to the nape, you know that it you guesses, I can do it so there's enough grip in the middle section that it remains in place. Is that right, yeah boring. I thought you were gon na, be like okay, you pretty face not even okay, so we're just going to backcomb. Basically, yes, to give you grit, because I'm thinking ahead and like where am I gon na put my grips in. Oh, I'm gon na put them in at the nape, so I better put some backcombing cuz the backcombing acts like a pincushion. So here we go the bigger the cushion the sweeter, the pushin totally. I think it makes a lot of sense for this moment. Okay and then we're gon na work all the way down to the nape. I look quite royal. Actually. This is not that I look royal but I'm wearing jeans and a blazer which is quite sort of accidentally. It looks great yeah. Maybe this is the look guys and then we're gon na also back home at the sides here and we're gon na back home. I call it directional backcombing, it's back homing in the in the way that you want the hair to go. So we want this hair to go back, so I'm gon na spray a little bit takes just spray. Your hair spray in it first always spray that before you back home and then I'm going to back home back like this, who do you think it's got the best hair of all time? That'S a really! That'S it! If gone. Isn'T it sorry? No! No! I think, like her Jame Birkins of a huge yeah, you know icon. No, I think is making more and more sense to me at this point. Is me meg, Ryan, in when hairy me, yes, hi or wise hair? Why is her? She could have had a shag yeah totally the no. Obviously I love your hair, correct answer. You live that you live to see another video. You know that Alexa hair is one of the most searched things on Pinterest yeah. So I like to think we're doing this. We'Re keeping the people of the people happy the people. Well, that's cool see. Can you see I'm back coming that back? Oh yeah, you know, okay, I'm gon na keep back coming here. Do you think I could ever get a crop? Be real with me? Actually, yes, because you're pretty! This is what I come to George for no I'm just saying that you've got quite a pretty face, so I think we'd have to be quite careful. Yeah run the ears yeah you've got, as you said, a longer face, so you want to be careful, not letting elongate your face too much, so I would maybe say, keep some hair at the size so that you wouldn't suit the short back inside. I really want to talk back in size. Well, okay, say short back insides anymore, or do they is that what boys ask for in the barber yeah if you're a barber yeah? If you go to a barber absolutely so, then we back combed it all. Can you see wow, I look terrible quickly, move it up, okay, fine! So what we're going to do in the back here is we're going to section it into three. So one two three we're going to take the first section. We all know how to do a bun. You grab your section, you twist it round and round and round, and you kind of coil it into itself and you've got a little bun there yeah and then we're gon na take grips that are the same color as your hair. You get them in brown, black and blonde. We'Ve got brown. What about ginger? You get them yeah. I don't know if you do red grip, so I would use like a brown grip. Okay, there's a huge market. There, strawberry blonde grips strawberry grips. I would just use like brown, if I'm honest, okay, fun number one you can see in there and then we're gon na take bun number two we're gon na sort of twist it right. I know that you did it in three yeah. This one do are you're making me three buns yeah, which will maybe go into, which will look like we've done this before it will look like one bun when it's done and then we twist it, and we can then leave a little bit. Some people, like it quite tight at the sides or not. I know you like a bit of width, so I'm gon na like yeah, leave that, like that the hair we should do is like Bjork circa 1990. We always creating three little Bjork things, yeah! That'S what we're doing it's? Oh so, quiet fun, number two! You can see it's very pretty okay and then we come around to this side. I'M gon na tell you right back there and then maybe this has gone a bit quite a bit more back combing in there I'm secretly yawning while my head is this direction or not so secretly? Maybe you could see that having your hair done makes you sleepy. I know it's so relaxing relaxing yeah, exactly okay, we're gon na pull that - and this is quite easy to do on yourself, because it doesn't have to be perfect. Ya can be quite in fact it should be quite messy and undone that's the whole vibe. So at school I used to do something like this, but all over my head, cuz nineties, the other thing used to do is I had a bob up to here for most of school and I used to pull two strands, always the two strand - things, bicycles, people And then two clips here I know, but not people that were really too young for it first time around, and I guess that's the same as us like. I know but referencing, the sixth. I think I'm one of these people that says oh, I did that. First time around, I never thought that way. Yeah, it does happen, isn't it lovely and so then that's all back. What that you can do. You know what this looks like not to rape, myself or anything but like if I had glass and kind of real glasses for a sec course like when they cast someone, I'm obviously of the right age to play. A scientist at this point use you in in films and they're like they've, cast a girl like this and she's like I have your order. It didn't know how no she's a scientist like the meter think megawatts we're at five point. Six there's no way we're gon na make this and you're like. Well, she doesn't know, that's a bit mean as well. Would this do so, then yeah so, and you really dog just who doesn't really know anything, I'm very nervous to be here just kidding and then you as with always then pull the boiling hot guys all the bits out you want. It looks really pretty from the back hello. How are you how they lovely to meet? You have fun with it like you can't see the back. So don't try to be perfect. So yeah, you can't see I've made you look like a fool. Do I let joy look a bit like Princess and no it's like Harry's, now about being undone and less structured and messy, and it's a really nice modern, updo we're on really two different wavelengths here. Aren'T we I really like it's very nice. Thank you. This is how I should do my hair yeah, and you could do this. Maybe I do need to move on from the like, oh and with the men here and do more like hello, I have a serious business and I worked really hard at it. Maybe you can let's go through those figures. Shall we? Why are people with glasses, clever we're not we're just pretending to be ok, everyone. Thank you. So much for watching subscribe hit. The bell. Ding-A-Ling, don't forget to comment. Your comments are so nice. So thank you. So much for writing them and George would love you to watch his YouTube channel when it launches yes, please, but for now it's goodbye from me and it's goodbye from this guy cheerio. That'S how for now little TBT for a very small section of society. Can you do that, one, how we're really cross pollinating a lot of cultural references? You you
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asoz c: george and alexa are truly the only duo that matters. tong masters back in action <3
Angela: I love how I’m Alexa and George at the same time. Literally my two last brain cells at 8 pm
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Joyce Lee: I tried this look last night for a cocktail party. Messy and undone rocked! No hot mess and fizz for me. Thank you, Alexa and George!
Donna Bowen: I really love this hairstyle and it really suits you. My youngest son wears glasses and is very clever and I never thought of the correlation until now!!
priya1992: I love the fact that you guys were on 'two different wavelengths'! Makes this funnier and more organic! Also, you looked really pretty!
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Jackie: Love you two ! Great to hear that messy hair is where it's at, suits me !! Looking forward to George's channel launching X
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Ava A: I George's take on the chignon,so adding this as an option for weekends. Thanks for the videos so fun!
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D Finite: I loved this! On you! I also am soooo grateful to Mr Northwood (is it?) for teaching how to do a messy bun. Or in this case: 3 hot cross buns! Will wear this A LOT this week.
murielita: All the hair tutorial videos have been incredibly useful and fun to watch. I've tried all the looks during this month (this one I'm trying tomorrow ), they are easy to follow and the final look is amazing. I have shorter hair than Alexa and they still work. I need more
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Debra Talbert: This is so great...went right to my mirror and did the look. It looks great.
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Kara Thomas: I adore how he calls curling hair "tonging" and Bobby pins "grips" we Americans don't make it sound as fancy
Almudena R L: I am definitely trying this. Messy hair is my thing
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A G: Initially I thought, Oh that is not for her but then the result...so stunning...I really like this classical look on you!
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Thais Mary: Please do a easy tutorial for curly hair. <3
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Brian Lee: The bun is beautiful
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Reba LadyW: We’re really cross pollinating a lot of cultural references , what a clever string of words!!
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Courtney Miller: What’s funny is whilst watching/listening to this video, I’m also simultaneously (absolutely coincidentally) scrolling through Pinterest pictures of “princess Diana jeans outfit” right as Alexa says “I do look quite royal....jeans....blazer” (!!!) YESSSS, ALEXA! DIANA VIBES!
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Danish D'Abreau: Alexa you would look incredible with a #2 guard buzz cut...do it! you are so beautiful.
黃古歌: I tried recreate this with my super long hair. It just looks like a regular messy bun
Ellie Morgan: love your videos, love your channel!
Cath Nailtheday: Love this hair do!!
your mom: Her hair is messy but I like the length and color
Ildikó Barrett: I like all the hair styles you make George. Wish you would cut my hair just once :)
Ibone: you are a tremendously funny comedian, fantastic
--: you looked beautiful alexaaa
Jasmine Surreal: She's so random and funny and he's the sensible one who laughs at her jokes. Perfect actually. Referencing How is such a blast from the 80s past, and the Two Ronnies lol. Next week Alexa styles her hair like Neil Buchanan from Art Attack and wears a very bright jumper. Please do this.
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Hélène G: Yes for the strawberry blond! <3
Ginger Cat: There's nothing that wouldn't look amazing on this woman......
Eleonore Lance: You two make me totes happy!!!
N J: It looks beautiful
Allison Miller: It suits you SO well.