I Did Safiya Nygaard’S Wedding Hair - Kayley Melissa

Hey everyone kaley your friendly neighborhood hairstylist here and today we're talking all about sophia nygaard's wedding hair, including the console that i did with her in la let's get into it. So you guys might not be aware. I have done a few videos with sophia on her channel. Basically, when she did her decade series, i helped her transform her hair into each different decade from the 50s through the 80s. It was so much fun if you haven't watched those videos or subscribe to sophia nightguard fix that now so earlier this year i got a very exciting text message from sophia asking me to do her wedding hair and i have never been so excited for a text In my entire life, it's been so much fun getting to do videos with her. I respect her and admire her, so much so being a part of her wedding day. Amazing so exciting, and i was out in la in september - and we decided to do a little hair trial together and try out all the different hairstyles that we'd been sending to each other back and forth. I decided to film it for you guys and the reason you haven't seen it until now is because i didn't want to give anything away, and i also thought it would be cool to show you guys how i did it. So i'm going to be recreating the hairstyles on myself. I'Ve got a lot of questions about it, a lot of people that want to wear their hair down or half up when they're getting married, and i thought let's talk through it and the pros and cons and how to do it and all the stuff. So we have a lot of ground to cover in this video. I am super duper excited about it. I am so grateful again to staff for filming with me and letting me part of the big day and uh. I think you guys are gon na love it. I do wan na tell you that we have a side camera angle for the trial footage, because we used two camera angles and i lost one of them, but it's still you get the whole idea. You still get to get the whole process. It'S fine! I just wanted to shout out: that's what's going on there: okay, okay, let's get into it. So our actual consultation started months before the actual trial. We were sending pictures back and forth. We were talking and texting and because all the images that we were sending back and forth were kind of following the same vein, i thought i had a really good idea of what seth wanted going into it, but obviously i wanted to hear her thoughts. I definitely want to have my hair, partly down okay. How do you picture it? Looking in the front, i don't know: okay, that's where i come in we've got whimsy we've got effortless. I know you've been growing your hair out because you know you have the wedding. Coming up yeah, would you want to add in some links with extensions? Would you want to play around with that? I think that we could and should to keep from actually recreating the 60s look that we did a couple years ago. I put her extensions in and cut them to length and then curled them before we got started, and then it was time for our first hairstyle now sophia and i had been scouring the internet for the perfect circlet. I cannot express to you how many we sent back and forth to each other. So once everything was curled, we had a few to try on here's option number one: we've got it as kind of a tear up. Oh wow. I really like this weirdly. This tier is growing on me yeah. I think i like it because it's not very high this one could be worth me keeping around. Oh something like that. That'S cute. I think i like the other way more though i think so too, but you can take a look see what you think. Oh i like this one. This is like the plop. I was looking for a flop, this one's actually really cute kaylee. All right. I enjoy this one, a lot yay, i'm so glad, but after trying out our two favorites of the actual pile of headbands that was in front of us, i'm not kidding, i decided to show her kind of my own diy idea, putting together some elements that i Really liked, i think i would actually construct these together into an actual headband if you liked how this looked instead of doing it as like hairpins, so you would take them off and put them on a headband yeah. Oh, you know how to do that. All my years of jewelry making in my room by myself, kaylee, i didn't know you could do that. Okay lee you shouldn't, have told me that oh no, i contain multitudes yo. Shall i look yeah. Take a look. Oh, i'm excited i'm stuck to my chair, but i'm excited ooh kaylee. These are good-looking stars. These are really good-looking stars. This is like totally the vibe yeah. What words were you using when you were looking at the pinterest board? Earlier? Oh yeah, it's like all of those things. It'S like a little whimsical, victorian steampunk forest yeah yeah. I i think that the antique gold finish does a lot for it. I think so too. I actually like the matte gold on this headband too. I'M interested oh, my gosh. I could have too much fun with this. Are we saying i'm making you a headpiece um i mean. Are you saying that you're going to make me happy girl? I will do it really. If this is the pick i'll, do it for sure i'm going to say a soft? Yes, i think this is this yeah. I think this could be the one i would be so honored to have made like not only your hairstyle but your hair. No, i think that this looks really good. I think this is totally the vibe yeah. So does that mean we're saying yes to the stars? I'M saying yes to the stars, and that was the first hairstyle that we planned to try that day. Just a quick, little wave and headband moment the next one we wanted to try was a celestial hairstyle that was kind of half up half down. So then, the next thing that we talked about was possibly doing like a little bit. Half up in the sense that, like some was up not in the sense that, like half of it, was up yeah, maybe adding in bling in another way, maybe doing like more little pins or doing a circlet or anything like that. That sounds like a great idea. Yeah i like the ones that you had shown me where there was just like kind of like almost like a cascade yeah of pins. In the back. I thought that was cool, yeah yeah. Let'S do it. I mean i'm also just really excited about these pins. So i'm really excited for you also. I mean i got them on amazon kind of the last minute because i was like. I just want one more star thing and they yeah they're great. They are great, so you're going to heat them up, they're, going to come off and they're going to do some kind of like asmr video for you around this you're going to just weld them. I haven't done a lot of soldering but yeah either that or i'm gon na use. My e6000, oh hey, what's an e6000 uh easy xl is a kind of glue. Oh, i didn't go too tenderly. We could do more tendrils. If you want, you can always do more tendrils. Is there a cap on the tendril? I don't think so. Kaylee seems down for tendrils, so oh yeah, all right! Oh i like this. I like this a lot kaylee. It is similar to the other one yeah right, because it's like sort of wavy and long and yeah yeah kind of like mermaidy ish and these pieces can still come forward and we can still have stuff in the back. If you want - or you can leave it all back just depending on yeah the vibe, i really like the some pieces are back, but it's definitely not a full half yeah. I think that's a cool look. I think that the tendrils could work really well yeah, yeah. All right, let me show you what the back looks like. I took some pictures for you. I think it keeps the waves and it parties more in the front. Yeah, there's like a it's like a little more a little more styled yeah, but i also really like the first one too. So it's not necessarily saying that that one's out of the running right. Well, let me show you what the back looks like. Oh, it looks pretty cool honestly. I think that these, like things you bought off amazon, are a huge winner because they look great in both scenarios. I'M stunned yeah. They look really cool in both scenarios. It'S weird because i really like it, but i also am sort of attached to like my original vision of like the kind of like crowny type thing yeah, but i also really like it. Well, maybe there's a mix we could think about where i pull some pieces back, but you still have a crown in the front. Is that possible yeah, absolutely cool, i'm interested, so we tried a quick little half up with a headpiece to see how that would go. A second option has been born. This is it's pretty. It'S pretty cool, guys, hey. I was just telling kaley. I think this is growing on me for real all right. We'Re just going to take this one. That'S already yes need and all that stick it in also like this, i think, actually, of the two hairstyles sort of like uh, disregarding the accessories for this moment. I think i like this one, okay with it like sort of a little bit back yeah. I think this could be a winner. I think it was really cool yeah, but i do like, when a bride wears um her hair down to have some of it up, because otherwise you're gon na be doing this. So much like trying to get hair out of your face, get hair back into your face yeah, and so this kind of like puts the key players where they need to be and lets everything else do whatever. I know you mean i'd, be like this or like yeah, pushing it back a lot yeah yeah yeah. This is cool. I like this a lot okay and you can also picture it with like these guys. Instead, if you wanted to i'm weirdly torn between a sort of crown situation or the sort of like cascade of of pins in the back, i think i was envisioning something more like this, where it had like more of like a circlet or a crown situation, but Maybe the reason i haven't found like the one after looking for one for so long, is because it wasn't the right thing. Oh, you know what i'm saying yeah, that's almost what's drawing me towards the other one, because i'm like. Oh, this feels cool and good yeah. What i mean versus like the circle, i've been like trying to hammer it out right right, i mean yes, i've been trying to put a square through a circular hole. Oh yeah, maybe here's the thought, though, yeah. What if one is for the reception and one is for the ceremony? Oh that's interesting, that's intriguing! Actually that is intriguing. I'M i'm interested by that we could do both. We could do it all. We could order thousands of these pins off of amazon and just throw them at us. I'M intrigued, i don't know what to say or a treat. I like a treat yeah all right. Do you think that this one looks from the back with the crown on? Do you think it looks good? It does look good, so it can be whatever you want it to be. So i just did two little twists on this one. Oh cute yeah, so it's not it's not a lot. It could be more tousled. I could put a parade in it. It'S me. I know you want to do that. Yeah, i'm trying really hard, i feel torn. I don't know it's okay to have like lots of thoughts. Okay, i have lots of thoughts and feelings and also like you're, going to try your dress on again you're, going to do some fittings and then you'll be able to think about it. When you have the dress on that'll, like you'll, have more clarity, you've got some flexibility, we'll keep thinking on it for sure, we'll keep thinking, yeah, we'll figure it out cool. And after all of that, i had actually managed to throw sophia a little bit because we went in thinking. This is the thing we'll do a couple other hairstyles for the video's sake. But this is the thing and then we ended up with three really good options that she really really liked. So i went home to north carolina and gave her some time to think about it checked in a couple weeks later, and then i got the news. We had picked our hairstyles, so what's if he ended up picking, probably know by now, if you've seen any of her videos were number one, the waves and crown, and then she did end up going for the reception hairstyle change, which i was very excited about. In my mind, i was gon na give her like a morticia adams change, but this one was even more perfect for her actual wedding day, but to show you guys how it came together. We'Re gon na start with the ceremony hairstyle, actually a little behind the scenes story from me. The hairstyle actually started the day before i got the hair extensions from sophia because uh they were not in great shape. Literally. What happened after the 60s video was filmed in december 2017. Is i came home, took the extensions out, put them on that thing and zipped them up and that's what happened. This is the first time they've been out of the bag in a while yeah. I had loaded these up with product to make them look like hippie, hair and then sophia had gotten home from the shoot that day put them back on their hanger in their bag and left them there for two years now. Here'S the deal, the company that she got these from, sadly not around anymore, but the hair is really really good, so i knew it would be fine, but it needed an emergency spa treatment. So the day before i used clarifying shampoo, i did a deep conditioning treatment. I did another round of conditioner. I used a leave-in conditioner, i blow-dried them. I curled them. They looked amazing and i clipped them up to cool left them till the next day, so that they would be just set in their curls ready to go ready to stay in place. That was the day before the wedding. On the day of the actual wedding, we were ready to use them. So, on the wedding day i arrived to the hotel room and staff was in the shower getting ready. I set up my stuff, she sat down and we started by drying her hair now sophia kind of similarly to me has hair. That is finer. Straighter does not like to hold a curl also we needed it to hold the curl all day long. So i started building the hold in while the hair was wet, and i did that first, with the bumble and bubble thickening full form, soft mousse, it builds gravity. Defying styles you can fluff must and touch. Basically, i wanted something that was going to help with volume and help with hold, so we just put a really nice golf ball-ish size amount. I don't play golf is that right here fingertips to apply really focusing around the ears up, because, like the ears down, they don't really matter so much next to keep the holes going, but also to add smoothness and shine and luster. I went with the caristas la and crayo blow dry. You guys know that. I love this. I feel like i've used it in a lot of videos. I at least know that i've tried to say la and croy ab a lot of times. It'S just like a nice little serum, and that goes through the mid links to ends, and then sophia's hair is naturally really shiny. So i didn't feel the need to add any more shine enhancing products. At this point, i just went in with my round brush and my blow dryer and the goal for everything from the ears up was to blow it out and forward so that we got as much volume as possible because we needed her natural hair to match the Volume of the extensions we were going to be adding in next - oh, my god, my hands, my wrists, my arms, also my volume. I am ready to speak to a manager once volume and fluff was achieved. We were ready to move on to the hair extensions and i applied them the same way that i did in my short hair extensions video which you can check out. If you want to see, even though sophia's hair isn't necessarily in a bob, it's only a few inches longer than mine. Currently, so i want it to follow the same way so that it looked as natural as possible. A couple things i did that were unique for sophia's hairstyle were juan to use my vloom to add some texture to the roots and then add in some texturizing spray back comb it and then apply the hair extensions that way they were locked in. I didn't want her losing one single clip throughout the day. The next thing that i did was to spray the hair with 1 800 hold me. It'S a light hold hairspray that also provides heat protection, so it was both our heat protectant, our shine and our super holds. And finally, i curled each weft as i applied them that way, each piece of hair and each piece of extension were perfectly curled together. Obviously, the hair extensions had already been curled, but doing that extra little bit both helped to enhance the curl on those extensions and meld the two together. As far as the curl method, everything was curled away from the face, and i just wrapped it all around the iron leaving out a little bit of ends. Then i would duck the iron slide it out and slide it over the ends, while slightly curling the iron. That way, we had a looser end that still had a little bit of a curl to it, rather than a fully straight like beachy beachy end wow, my hair looks big. It is full of secrets. The next step is the all-important brush out because we're not leaving it in ringlets for staff. I used my fingers for myself, i'm using the tangle, teaser ultimate finisher, and then it's just time for finessing. So any areas where the hair, extensions and the real hair aren't perfectly melded. I went back and re-curled and then i used some orbe dry, texturizing spray to add texture and the tiniest bit of kenra, hair taffy to add some definition and hold, and that was sophia's kind of wavy base for our two hairstyles. So, behind the scenes, fun fact is that we started a little bit late on her hair, and so i wanted to save as much time as possible and that's one of the reasons why i did the curls as i put the hair extensions in. But i did find that it helped a lot to make sure like every little piece was curled. The short pieces were curled in with the long pieces. It actually ended up being a really good way to do it, and now onto the crown, i ended up making two crowns for sophia, because i was really terrified that i was gon na spend a lot of time on one and she was gon na hate it. So i spent a lot of time on two doubled, my odds of success, one of them. I did in the same style as the headband that she tried on back in la and really liked, but i did it with the antique stars rather than the shiny gold ones of that headband. The second one i made just according to my own design, eye and uh. That was the one she picked, which makes me personally very proud now i've got to say sophia was very intrigued. By the way i was going to make these crowns so you're going to heat them up, they're going to come off you're going to just weld them. I haven't done a lot of soldering but yeah either that or i'm going to use my e6000. So i figured i would talk a little bit about how i made the crowns. I was going to film it, but i was feeling so much pressure. I physically could not so when i macgyvered kind of my own headband idea in the trial run with sophia. She really liked the matte gold headband. I started by searching the internet for a matte gold headband to use, as my base could not be found on the internet. So i decided that i would sacrifice the little double band gold headband that she had tried on by splitting it into two and using it as the base of two different crowns. Don'T worry even though that one is discontinued. I went on poshmark, i found a replacement. I'M okay now and then i started with these bobby pins that i purchased on amazon. These were going to be the starbursts that we used, but obviously they had to come off the bobby pins. So i just heated it up a little soldering tool and took it off a bunch of times so that i had enough stars and then to adhere the stars to the headband i either soldered or epoxied them based on the material they were made of some of Them really did not want to solder and that's how the crowns came together and i still have the rejected crown here. So that's what i'm going to be using to show you guys the final hairstyle fun fact. I was terrified that either a bobby pin, or one of the crowns i had made, would break over the course of the day, which is why i had super glue in my bag, which we eventually used to glue tyler's shoe back together. I'M glad it was helpful and i'm glad i did not cause the emergency one other thing about this is that i decided not to put a comb on the back of the crown like a little hook for it to go in, because when i was doing the Trial run, i was having so much trouble getting hair pieces to go into her hair while she had all the extension clips in so i figured they would hold it in place, just fine and they did, and it was a lot easier to put it in. Just a fun little note in case you end up doing a similar hairstyle. I ended up loving this hairstyle for the ceremony between, like the beautiful deep waves and the headpiece it all just was the perfect amount of statement, but at the same time went with everything else not gon na lie. I feel a little sacrilegious wearing her hairstyle right now, but uh oh gosh. I feel really beautiful and then moving on to the reception hairstyle. Now, when sophia said that we had five minutes to do this hairstyle, we had five minutes and we made it happen, and i'm gon na show you how that went down. I should note that my hair is parted on the opposite side of sofia's, so my shallow side is on the right of my head. Her shallow side was on the left glad we cleared that up on one side, the shallow side, with less hair. I picked up a section of hair and did a little bit of teasing on the back to kind of help to net the hair together, make it a little bit more moldable, swept it back, pinned it in place and then on the other side, decide with more Hair, i did the same thing, but i twisted it just once to give a little bit more dimension, not so much to give a whole lot of twist. I also made sure to loose a couple of tendrils around the face because after sofia's kpop video, she learned that she really liked tendrils and she wanted to incorporate that into the wedding. Look to secure everything i just pinned up and into the twist to make sure those bobby pins were hidden, and now i get to add all the sparkly things i went in with these starburst bobby pins and one little moon pin, which i pinned into the twist. So that it kind of like framed everything made it all flow made it cute, and these are literally just from amazon i've used about four packs in her hair. These are the same stars that were part of her headpiece, so i loved the continuity between those things, but that it was still its own hairstyle and i also just loved how these sparkly pens looked against her dark hair like a mix of the sparkles and the Fact that they were stars made, it look like an actual constellation on her head constellation, but make it bridal. Am i right? Am i right? I did it. I was proud of it. I loved it now uh be kind to me, because i can't see the back of my head. I'M gon na do the best that i can, but mostly you just place these mostly sporadically with just a little bit of guidance. So i'm just kind of like following the shape of the hair. Okay, you get the idea, i'm gon na go finish the rest off camera, where i can see what i'm doing, and that was how we accomplished our very quick costume change. Now this hairstyle was particularly good for sophia, because when we did her trial she really likes the idea of having some hair up and out of the face. I really like, like the some pieces, are back, but it's definitely not a full half yeah. I think that's a cool look just overall, it's nice, because you get the whole illusion and feeling of having your hair down while the important pieces have been swept back, so the need to mess with them is greatly diminished, and that does make just receptions weddings everything Much easier and you'll notice that my version of this hairstyle is a little bit more spread out than i did on sophia on her wedding day. I just think this is one of those hairstyles that never comes together the same way twice, and that is the beauty of it. You always just do it based on what you're feeling in that moment and how everything's looking and you can do it with as many pins as you want. You know like 3 20, a million c, whatever, maybe not a million c, and that was how sophia's hair came together from inception to trial. To reality, i loved the whole process and her wedding was one of the most beautiful weddings i've ever been to i laughed. I cried, it moved me and i have not stopped saying how happy i was to be able to be a part of their day again. I think that they are just an amazing couple: they're amazing people. They are talented beyond belief and anytime. I get to just be in their orbit is a good time, so thank you, staff and tyler for having me be part of your day, and thank you guys for watching. I hope that you got some good ideas. Maybe if you have a formal event coming up, maybe if you're planning for a wedding or you just want to see like what figuring out a hairstyle is like, because i always kind of have to talk brides through it. Whenever i do wedding hair, because you know you start out with an idea and it evolves - and sometimes it evolves from the trial to the ceremony and that's totally fine, all i need to know is what to bring that day and i can do whatever and that's True for most hair stylists, so stay open, keep creating it'll, be totally fine and it'll be totally fun. 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Thank you for spending time with me and i'll see you in my next video when you realize, in the middle of filming that you're not sure that you shaved your armpits recently over the moon through the moon into the stars. I feel like cinderella.