Traditional Chinese Inspired Hairstyles For Hanfu! Chinese Princess Looks
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HELLO!!!! i am so excited to finally share my first traditional chinese inspired hairstyle tutorial! the first is a cute and youthful updo, the second is a moon goddess inspired hairstyle, and the last is a more casual and romantic half updo. these hairstyles look deceivingly complicated because they’re actually very easy to do! and by finishing up with chinese style hair pins, clips and ribbons, these looks match perfectly with any hanfu!
originally i came up with 6 hairstyles for this video, but my sweatiness and double carpal tunnel were screaming at me to stop filming. seriously, wearing a long ass wig and long ass hanfu was the worst thing ever, i even slipped and fell like twice lol ✌ but i will owe you guys the remaining 3 hairstyles for next time!! i think i discovered a secret hidden talent for designing traditional chinese hairstyles and i’m ready to ride this train until i die ✨
i hope everyone has a great mid autumn festival and enjoys watching the moon! white lotus seed paste mooncake is my favorite and i’ll be eating plenty hehe thank you for watching and see you again next time! ✨
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Mei Yan
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Hello everyone. So today i have a video that i am really really excited for today. I'M sharing with you guys three hairstyles that i created inspired off of ancient chinese fashion and this video is in celebration for the mid autumn festival, which is happening october 1st, and it's also known as the moon festival. And although they look really complicated. I think it is very easily summed down into some very simple techniques, so i am really really excited to share this with you guys, and i hope you guys enjoy okay. So, let's get started and first you guys will notice that i have long black hair and please don't judge me for the wacky hairline. I literally did this video so last minute. I just grabbed this, like random, cheapy, ass wig from my closet, and i tried my best to make it work. So for my first hairstyle, the inspiration is a very youthful young girl and they would wear things like cute little ribbons tied in their hair and a lot of buns and loopies. So this hairstyle is going to be very youthful and very cute. So, first off i'm separating about two inches of hair from my front and i'm just going to leave this down and then i'm splitting my hair straight down the back in half i'm taking the top half of my hair and i'm tying this off into a high Ponytail, i think this is like the worst thing that i've ever tried to do like for a hairstyle video, which is to try to like tie a bunch of ponytails in a cheap wig, because, like all my wefts were sticking out. But i think i did like a pretty decent job at hiding it later on, but yeah. I know it's like really cringy to watch, i'm simply doing a three-strand braid until i reach to the bottom, and then i'm tying it off with an elastic and with a lot of these ancient chinese inspired hairstyles that i've been seeing. I find that the techniques are extremely simple. I don't really see anyone do anything more than just simple three-strand braids, so i feel like anyone can learn how to do these they're, actually very simple and then so from here on out. I am taking this long-ass braid and i'm coiling it around itself to create a little bun, making sure to tuck the ends completely under the bun so that it's hidden and with these looped buns. I always say this, but it's really easy to make sure these stay securely in place. You just need to insert four bobby pins in each four directions and it will be super secure. Then i'm going to repeat this on the other side, and this is what we're left with so far. I think that this is already an insanely cute hairstyle, but i am going to continue onwards by splitting the rest of my hair in the back straight down the center, and then i am braiding each half into another three strand braid and tying it off with an Elastic then taking each braid, i am going to form a little loopy and i am going to pin this directly in the center of my head with some extra bobby pins for a super secure hold. Then, for my front little pieces, i am taking some very thin. Silky pink ribbons, and i'm pinning this underneath the first section of my hair and for me it was really easy because i just pinned it into the wig cap, but for people who are using their real hair. You just want to pin this in an inconspicuous place where you can't see the bobby pin, then i'm incorporating each tail of the ribbon into a regular three strand braid and i'm braiding this all the way to the bottom and then tying it off with an elastic. Then again, i'm taking these braids and i'm looping them again and pinning them in the center of my head with some crossed bobby pins, and this gives a double looped effect that makes this hairstyle just like so ridiculously cute and then to accessorize. I'M using these double butterfly pins and i am simply just like stabbing them into the bun and they actually have a really super secure hold. So you guys might be asking me, but may what does it look like in the back? Doesn'T it look all messy and ugly? Yes, you are correct. So from the back, i have like a [ __, ] bobby pins, so i'm taking an embroidered silk ribbon and i'm tying this into a bow and i'm just going to insert it over that mess that we've created to hide all the bobby pins and all of Our crossed braids - and this is what this hairstyle looks like again. This is a very youthful looking hairstyle again you have the double buns and the loopies and the braided ribbon, which gives it a very youthful appearance and what i'm wearing today is called hon fu and there's a lot of different types of han clothing, but the specific Style that i'm wearing today is called chai, hong yukuan and recently on things like doyam, which is chinese tik tok. You can see this resurgence of traditional chinese clothing in street style and it's just been so amazing to see - and i'm freaking here for it. Okay, so segwaying into our next hairstyle. My inspiration for this one is definitely more of a moon goddess. Look. I took a lot of inspiration from moon goddesses themselves because they have like these very intricate half updos with all these accessories. It'S actually really easy because i'm leaving all the braided parts that we created for our first hairstyle, so taking one of the braided top pigtails. I'M folding this into three and i'm laying it across the top of my head to create these little like bunny-ish looking ears and then i'm adding a crap ton of bobby pins to secure this in place seriously like at any given moment. There'S probably like 50 bobby pins in my wig throughout this entire video and then taking the second braided pigtail. I am creating another looped bun in the center and i am again bobby pinning with four bobby pins in each direction. To keep this in place. Then taking my braided loops, i am pulling it up and i am pushing it underneath one of the little looped braided ears and i am pinning that in place and then i'm leaving the rest of my hair down for a more mature goddess, look and then to Accessorize, i'm using a pretty large barrette to pin in the center to hide all of the bobby pins and then i'm taking smaller floral clips to pin on the sides to hide the bobby pins underneath my little loopies. And that is it for this hairstyle. And this is the most ridiculous hairstyle that i've ever done in my life, i was, i was really living for this one. I'M just really really happy with how this turned out. I feel like this is all of like my ancient chinese princess dramas like coming to life. If there's one thing that i regret about this hairstyle, it's that i should have taken out the ribbons that were braided in the front pieces because i felt like it was a little bit too youthful for this look. Since i was trying to go for a more mature look, so that is the only thing that i'll say if anyone wants to like recreate this, so i'm toning it down from like the ridiculous goddess inspired hairstyle and we are going to take a more casual route And i wanted it to be really simple so that we can actually wear this in real life with our real hair. So with my hair flat, i am going to do the most ridiculous thing that i've ever done, which is to tie half of my hair up into a high pigtail and to have all of my wefts sticking out. But i think i did like a pretty okay job at like getting them back down afterwards. You want to create a little hole in the center of each pigtail, and then you want to pull the ponytail through this hole so that the ponytail is laying flat facing frontwards, and when i was learning how to do these types of hairstyles. I found that this was a very interesting technique because we do these little loopies in modern day hairstyles, but we have the ponytail facing outwards. But for this one we're facing it forwards because we're going to use that ponytail later and i'm kind of just like lightly pulling the hair to give it more shape. And then afterwards, i went in with some bobby pins to push it into a nicer looking shape. Then, with the ponytail that is, flipped frontwards, i'm going to braid this into a three strand, braid, and then i'm securing this off with an elastic then taking these two braids, i'm joining them in the back with an elastic and then i'm pulling the rest of my Hair over the braid so that the braid rests underneath my hair for a sort of like reverse crown effect, then to dress things up and to hide the elastic. I'M taking my thin pink ribbon and i'm just bobby pinning this in the front to hide the elastic, and that is it for this last hairstyle. This is again a more simple approach to a chinese inspired hairstyle. I know the first two were like kind of high maintenance and everything, so i wanted the last one to be just a little bit more approachable for anyone who wants to try these, i feel like i did like a pretty decent ish job with this crappy wig, But hopefully, if anyone is going to be trying this with like their own real hair, hopefully it looks like a little nicer neater, a little less messy, and that is it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed again. I had a really really fun time. Creating this video - and i just hope to continue to create chinese inspired hairstyle videos in the future, because i just really love this like era of fashion, and it's just so inspirational to me as always. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you for supporting me here on my channel and also on patreon. If you are a patron, and i will see you guys again next time, you
Comments
Mei Yan: tell me why i thought the last part was so damn hilarious and why i was losing my mind while i was editing it LMAO. happy mid autumn festival!!
KatZwei_: Imagine when she gets a daughter- her daughter would have the best hair styles i swear
hello: I’m Hispanic, but I deeply love and respect Chinese culture and traditions. Would it be bad of me to wear this?
zoenotzoey: i love these
spinning_ jenny: I wish she would do my hair
why not: hi mei, could you show us some 中秋 hairstyles for thin or short hair please? loved this video, the hairstyles are so pretty..
R: "Cheap wig" Literally a beautiful wig that looks like real hair
Vivi L: Watching Chinese dramas, I always thought their hairstyles were so beautiful but they look so intricate it's intimidating to try to recreate. Would love to see more of these tutorials! Really love this video idea
Freaktiful Whispers: Loved the third. Now that the weather is cooler and I'm starting to wear my hair down, I'm totally trying the third one. Thanks for sharing this video <3 (Now I wanna read about Chinese folkore and fashion)
어느아샤날 one asha day: i love the mid-autumn festival and i've always really found hanfu fashion and especially hairstyles rly beautiful !! i love how you talked about the differences that made each of them more mature or youthful!!
soybeanpudding: My fave Chinese princess I’m so excited to eat fancy moon cakes!!
Fvck: Girl you read my mind. Yesterday I was just watching some Hanfu Douyin compilations on YouTube and thought "man, this hairstyles are awesome wish I could do them" and you just popped up with a tutorial. Still can't do it because I suck at everything related to my hair but I'm happy that someone is spreading some Chinese culture here on YouTube. 谢谢你！
vannessa j: anyone else having throwback vibes from her first hanfu get ready with me?? ♀️♀️ i remember that was the video that made me absolutely fall in love with mei, and it’s honestly so amazing to see her have grown so much from then. LOVED all of these hairstyles and will have to give them a try! thank you for all of your hard work creating these
Vanessa: I adore when you embrace your Chinese roots, I’m here for more videos like this one!
matchaismyjoy: I would love to see more Chinese inspired videos ! and also an explanation of how you tied that big ribbon into a super pretty bow, you kind of showed it but I guess my mind is to slow to understand it without explanations haha
Star Hill: These styles are all so gorgeous!!! Chinese culture is so beautiful ♥️
3minutesofmusic: OMG YES MEI !!! ✨✨ I'm so grateful you did this tutorial -- I'm also a huge fan of the hanfu movement and using traditional chinese fashion in modern, everyday ways. I've always found that these hairstyles have always been a bit intimidating to try out - but thank you for breaking them down in such approachable ways!! Super excited to continue this journey with you to feeling like a princess (!!) & to see more content like this!!
楊稀世: I never imagined you would do these. I really love the hairstyles, perfect for moon festival. Thank you so much
Julia Trinh: you need to do more videos like these, i love traditional chinese clothing omg esp hanfus <3
Livvy: Couple of seconds in and wow these are so cute!
days with ev: *wishing I could pull these hairstyles off without looking like i'm 10 years old* small youtuber here
Rikuya: These are gorgeous! I would love to see more of these, I recently started wearing hanfu and could use some inspiration for hairstyles ♥
Tiffany T: Love this video!! You really fell on the floor for us
notovli: I showed my mom this and she actually did the 3rd hairstyle!! I really loved how my mom did it, thank you for coming up with these ideas!
ThereNoMoney: Thank you so much for making this video!! You don’t know how much it means to me, as a Chinese person, to see my culture being represented and appreciated ❤️❤️❤️❤️
サミちゃん: I'm going to try the last one for sure~ All of the hair styles look so stunning ✨
Linnea Lindberg: That's AMAZING!✨✨PLEASE do more of traditional Chinese inspired hairstyles Mei.
fly high roro: " and please don't judge me for having a wacky hairline " me with the McDonald's sign as a hairline:
Strifey: Oh gosh! I finally found the perfect tutorial to help with my Jiang Yanli cosplay from Mo Dao Zu Shi! Instantly subscribing to you! Thank you soooooo much for the help!
em: omfg this is so cute !! the amount of effort u constantly put in these hairstyles is so amazing ✨
Nicole Aymans: I'm totally obsessed with the Chinese suits from Love Nikki and seeing this type of hairstyles in real life is amazing! They are so gorgeous, you really look like a Moon Godess omg I love this so much!!
Rohan Luu: Mei is so hard on herself >_< Working with long hair can be so difficult but the hairstyles turned out awesome and I love how clearly she explained everything! Would love to see more hanfu related content! They're just so beautiful and soft-looking D':
unit333: omg i loooove this, i've always admired these traditional chinese hairstyles growing up! and always wondered how to go about doing it!
小茜同学Akane-san: I like this video so much! I love hanfu but have trouble thinking about what hairstyle to go with it. The part at the end I can definetly relate to; once I also wore this Tang Dynasty based hanfu (skirt starts from the chest) and it kept falling off like crazy!
alex lóng: ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS please do more i've wanted to incorporate these kinds of hairstyles but my hair is really short, its basically a pixie cut so i can't do that much haha but you look so beautiful xx
The Miranda Diaries: you look so beautiful! thank you for sharing your culture for us to appreciate ♡
W.ElderiUsiha H: HI Mei, happy mid-autumn festival!! The way you pronounce Chinese is so cute!!! I am wondering which dialect you speak as your mother tongue?
idcareanymore: i tried the last one and it's now one of my favourite go to hairstyles! thanks mei <3
RenX50: I like how shes says that its cringey but I dont think that at all ! The hairstyles look so good on her ^^
Foxy35: cool, I'm watching on 1st october as an artist I love to watch hair tutorials to understand how hair works in complicated hairstyles and help me build the shape better, and I feel so inspired to draw a character with one of these or similar hairstyles now!
Pola Sus: Aw you look so pretty, almost like a Moon Princess ✨Amazing hairstyles, love those videos. This gave me inspiration for my art block thank youuuu
FarewelI: OMG, these Chinese hairstyles are so beautiful! ABSOLUTELY in love with them
kat nyan: Aaaaah how beautiful!! Your hair videos never fail to be amazing
a hotpocket: that wig literally looks SO pretty on you Mei
Linda Thao: I absolutely love this so much, Mei!
Sofía Segura Cárdenas: Soooo pretty!! the reason i started to let my hair grow was because of the chinise dramas lmao! Hanfu styles are such a dream!
ooodette: The first and third are so lovely!! I want to try these
GLOOM59: Me and my mom love your tutorials I want to try them all
instant_: She has such calming videos I love watching these
ᴍɪʟᴋ ꜱᴛʀᴀᴡʙᴇʀʀʏ: OMG I LOVE THIS!! PLEASE DO MORE HAIRSTYLES TUTORIALS !
Angel: I want to do this but my hair is short! But I’ll just enjoy seeing you do it and appreciate the culture here haha
Luana Mattos: I had to immediately try the last one after I finished the video and it looks so cute!!!
Grace Lum: omg omg YES I've always wanted to see more of these types of videos too~~ ive been on chinese tik tok and whenver I see girls in hanfu it makes me wanna wear one too eventhough im chinese I dont think ive ever gotten a chanve to try wearing one idk if you put links to where you've gotten your hanfus but ill check! thanks for sharing with us!
IDK P.: Mei Yan! I love your channel so much. I've been following you it's been some months, and i think you are so sweet and beautiful. Keep it up please! Thank you for doing three strand braids this time. Kisses from Brazil
Yume: All hairstyles are beautiful, and you look cute and made an amazing job :3 ^^
paula!!: I absolute adore this sort of Chinese fashion.
M. H: Omg i just clicked but you already look so heavenly
Lin Thunder: Wooww Mei, these are absolutely beautiful I wish everyone a happy moon festival!
Sydney Ross: You really sound so comfortable in this video ~ like you did in some of your really old video this was so fun to watch! Great video! Thank you!!
rania: These look so beautiful
Nicole Ashlee: I love this so much lowkey want to try them out for Chinese New Year lol wish me luck
Christine Hansen: I just finished watching this movie "Over The Moon" and got impressed by the hairstyles so... I went to Youtube and searched "complicated Chinese hairstyles" and got a video about hairstyles that you could wear to the same event as the one that was being celebrated in the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Dang: All of these hair styles are so pretty!!!!
arii: i am IN LOVE with these hairstyles sadly i cut my hair really short, guess i have to wait for it to grow again.
Shaheen: This deserves so much more attention
May N: Amazing! Thankful for these hairstyles. Excited to try them out with my hanfus
Julian C.: THIS IS SO HELPFUL (your voice is so relaxing to listen to! <3)
Audrey Yu: omg im new here, like recently subscribed in the past month and idk why i just assumed you spoke mandarin, so when you spoke cantonese my mouth dropped thank you for the tutorials and other hairstyles! they are so pretty and make things som much easier!
petite sarah: The colors in this video are so cute! ♥️
Kaitlyn Tan: Anyone else notice shes NATURALLY amazing at this? It's way harder when you actually try it... I wish she was my personal hair stylist- come do my hair queen
Rose Temporel: Those hairstyles are simply amazing and definitely gonna inspire some of my god ish drawings!
Glowincess: I loved your makeup, as well as the hairstyles
salted fish: Would love to see more Chinese inspired videos either its makeup hairstyle or fashion. Esp fashion like how to incorporate traditional elements in everyday fashion
Soojiniverse: These hairstyles are so pretty just like you. As you are very pretty it suits you very well. Happy mid autumn festival to you too~!. I wish if you could do hairstyles for short hair.
Lucile Cap: Every hairstyles are so beautiful My curly hair couldnever tho...
iânes maia: I can't wait for my hair to grow so that I can make these beeeautiful hairstyles hope it's good on my curly hair :)
Franco: OMG! love this. more hanfu vids please~~~
cathy lu: stunning, im amazed! id love to see another video of this, if you have even more ideas
melody f: mei if u have any short wigs could you do a short hairstyles tutorial? i love how creative and cute all your hairstyles are
Ruth Dusswald: Wow, it's so beautiful, I love your hairstyles
David T: Love this look!!
Je suis un pomme: I tried doing. These hair styles with short hair .... And it actually came out pretty good Just a little shorter then the original
rene bae: love them all please do think abt putting more videos like this one !
Leolie: This is just pure gorgeous!
Onekittycat: These are soooooo gorgeous!!!!!!!
Tiffany Swan: I love your hairstyle vids so much
ci310: We need more videos like these pls
[] Ruvente_sooyaaa []: Mei: I feel like I did a pretty decent-ish job with this crappy wig Me: WHAT DO YOU MEAN "decent"? You did an amazing job!
Blu. woo: Hey guys! I’m filipino and I really respect Chinese culture and I really love these hairstyles. Do you think it’ll be ok to wear to like to relatives home or in public?
Toshi x: aww im happy for the chinese people who get to wear this, those hairstyles are so cute♥
Balaram Magar: The Hanfu is so pretty!
NoOxx: Love the hairstyles
Anna: Tradition Chinese hairstyles are so beautiful
ranalia: I wonder how it would be like being this beautiful❤
Fernanda Piña: omg these are so nice!! and you look so pretty!!!
stellieare: I doubt that ur gonna see my comment, but if do I wanna say this is so helpful , I’m making a school project in China fashion and hairstyles is one of my sub topics! This hair tutorial is so helpful tysm!
fluto san: I'd love to see more of these qvq please do some for short hair if possible
Pelin Özge: omg why did I not see this video before?? I was literally just about to ask you to do a similar Chinese inspired hair tutorial
trish: these are so pretty! i wish she could do my hair lol
mazzż mazzż: they look so pretty