Creative Updo Hairstyles For Long Hair With Step By Step Tutorials

So I started by looking at Sophia's features and prepping her hair with just a little bit of thickening lotion from Moroccan oil. I know I'm going to do some like creative braiding and do kind of a really edgy look. So I looked at her hairline. If you will turn this way just a little bit, so she has a really good hairline um. She was saying it's thin around here, but compared to mine and a lot of people. I see like there's really not much in here, and this is a really easy Gap to fill in. So I'm not worried about that when I'm thinking about doing a high pony or anything like that, I feel certainly the other way she has really similar - maybe slightly thinner right through here on this side. But it's not anything, I'm really concerned about. So, as I'm thinking about her features, I tend to on anyone any model I'm working with, especially if I'm the one casting them for an editorial. I think about like what my end goal is so for something really edgy. I might want someone who has like some really strong features and not someone with super soft features. If I'm doing more of like decade styling, I tend to pick someone who has like softer rounder face Sophia is actually a really versatile model, because she has a really even face shape like nothing too sharp or anything um, but she has a really strong cheekbone. She has nice full lips, she has like perfect nose and eyes and literally everything, so she actually could be one of the few models like I would cast to get away with doing like a 60s look um, if you can see in here like she could easily Do something like really bombshell that way or something really Fierce and editorial, so I'm excited to do this with her hair today, so I just prepped her hair. I always start with a directional blowout, so I prep this going in the direction that I wanted to start going um using my blow dryer. I did that off camera for your sake, because I don't want it to sound obnoxious, but basically I just put some products in wet down the areas that you need to and style it in the direction that you want the hair to go. I want to think about in an editorial like mixed textures and in photography, especially, you want to try to add, like different products, different ingredients so that you start getting like not just all one fabric to work with, so I'm going to be using the curl control. Mousse from Moroccan oil for the sides I'm going to start building in this texture, it gives me when I'm using it this way on straight hair, this kind of wet look, so just do two pumps into my hand, I'm going to rub it through it turns into Like a lotion, I'm gon na start guiding it into the hair in the direction. I want it to go. If you look this way a little bit while I do this side, so as I'm doing her sides here, I'm not doing it super clean. Yet because again, I want to start building in some texture and move into it and see how that hair is naturally laying. Sometimes I might want to keep all this like striation in here and other times. I want it super tight and like with no bumps at all, so I kind of let the hair do what it's doing and see what I'm liking and usually I'm working in a space with like a mirror in front of me, although on photo shoots, sometimes you're Working in like a forest, so you don't always have that so always step around and look at the shape. How everything's going do we have any questions so far? Okay, hello! Where are you all coming from we're in Chicago? I didn't mention that um, but all three of us kind of work all over just talking about how schedules are crazy and traveling for work, but it's such a rewarding job to be able to work on set and get to see different parts of the world. So I'm now taking this top section right behind the section that I closed off, which, if I don't drop my brush, I will show you this. So if you can put your head down a little bit, I did kind of a triangle section here, but I made it a little bit uneven um. We are doing this like interesting braid and I think interesting Pieces come from doing things differently than you normally do. So I don't need to have like a super clean part here. I did do that intentionally, so it's kind of like curved and Jagged on this side. If you look down a little bit more here, you can see that now this section here I'm going to start building my ponytail at the top of the head, so you can look up on a photo shoot if I am just doing this for photo shoot. Obviously, I'm doing this while I'm presenting um, but I generally would start with either like prepping the hair in either the most basic style, the one with the least amount of products or, if I'm doing like a really big curl set, or something like that. I would do that first and then kind of decrease the volume as I go, so that would be a wonderful thing to do with her, but because of doing this for a demonstration, I can't really go from the big curl set um and then into this look Today so I'm using a bit of elastic cording, it is white, but let me show you here, so you can get this at any craft store at Amazon. I use this always for my ponies unless I'm using like a bungee or something because you can build the Pony as high as you want and get it as tight as possible. So this area, I'm definitely smoothing to make sure I have it really tight and secure. Once I have it smooth, I'm not moving this hand if you start lifting it off the head, that's when you start getting areas that are bunching up or coming undone in the pony, so I move this part around my hand, while keeping the bottom of my hand Secure at the base taking the elastic cording and the first time I wrap it, it's going to go under this section here, so I can hold this up in my hand. If I want to making sure to keep that down, I'm wrapping it over this part is definitely easier. When you have someone to help you, but that's not always the case, whether it's you know in the salon and you're doing it for prom or you're on a photo shoot, so you just work a little bit slower and hand it off to yourself. I wrap it around at least three or four times the bigger the pony that I'm trying to do. I would do more to make sure it's secure, but this is a pretty small pony, so I don't need to do it very many times once I have that. I grab my other section. I can now release this part of the pony. It'Ll be fine and I'm going to do a doctor's knot, which means I'm going to take this. The one strand of the elastic wrap it through my Loop, I'm going to stand behind it. A little bit more so maybe you can see it on my tippy toes because I'm too short to just stand there. Okay, so wrap it twice, and then I'm going to pull it down, pull it tight and now I'll just do a regular knot at this point. For any um Pony, you're doing any excess you can cut away, but I'm actually going to keep it there, because I might be building this Pony up higher, which means I could take this elastic and start wrapping it around each other. As I go up, the hair, and that will create support and give me a good base to start braiding or adding hair onto is everything comfortable so far. I think, when you're doing an editorial shoot, especially if it's one for your portfolio, it's really important to cast a model um who's right for your shoe. If you're like, I said before, if you're doing something, that's like really pretty and soft, and you pick someone who has like a really Fierce look, it's never going to turn out the way you want, even if they have the best hair for it. Um and same thing, the other way around, like I've, been on so many shoots where they casted like like a hot model for a like, really soft, pretty thing you know and they're both really good for different reasons, um, but they don't work for the style of The shoe Nathan is a photographer. Have you run into that before? Where yeah I find that sometimes you cast something because you think they're going to be fit for something that you have in mind like the mood board um and they give too much in the face. So they're, not they don't really fit the vibe. So it's very important to you. You know it's like energy goes into it too, and unfortunately, you can't really like you know, going through an agency or whatever, unless once you like, start building a relationship with an agency. Um, I think it's so much easier. They know who you are. They know your Vibe and kind of what you're asking for when you ask for specific things, which always makes it easier, but at the beginning it can be a little bit hard to figure those things out. Oh yeah, but I feel like models. Think of that, as well like when we're at like a shoot or something, and it doesn't fit like exactly like what we we think of us to do. It'S just yeah, which has to feel like I mean it's your job and I know you all aren't professional when that happens, but it has to feel uncomfortable too. It'S like that's not who I am right like if I'm ever on a shoe. I always give like something like of me like. I have to feel like myself in order to like actually accomplish it right, important, sending mood boards and sharing your vision, because it as an artist, you see it in your head, just like with Kristen right now. She sees that what we're gon na do with her hair, but we don't know exactly, but we have somewhat of an idea because of a mood board, and I feel like that's a crucial thing, that I've learned being in this business is just trying to show a Little bit not exactly what you're seeing in your head, everyone has to be on the same page 100. The idea of a mood board too. So for anyone who doesn't know um - and if you do have questions please, please ask as we're going along with this, but a mood board is something where you show. You know, like kind of maybe your ideal model, the ideal posing the ideal hair um, the ideal wardrobe or just the overall Vibe and everyone kind of takes that a little bit differently. Some people take it really, literally, which I tend to love when you're like here's, the hair, here's the makeup and like then from there, you know it's, you know it's not going to ever be exact that, but like here's all of the the parts of it and How I want to put it together and other people like just sent more abstract like General mood, and then I think, that's where some people can get um a little frustrated with like creative interpretation, because everyone's going to see that and think of how they would create Something with it, which sometimes can be magic, especially if it's like a team you are used to working with and other times it can be kind of a nightmare. Someone did ask um. They wish that it was a little sideways, so we could see the side yeah. We can definitely can we yeah. Can we have your turn? It'S probably better. Are you too far out, should I move a bit forward? No, because I'll be I'll, be working from both sides of sorry to actually get good to see the front here. So again, I just use the curl um control mousse, I'm going to use actually quite a bit more of this. This is from Moroccan oil. I'M going to give her a lot of texture in the front. I think the sides are going to be more sleek and I want this to really be a little bit um a little bit more edgy with some volume back on. Did we get connected again? If that happens, I'm always coming back. I promise you can't get rid of me. We have Liza or Lisa, saying hey Chris Lisa hi Lisa's from Chicago too she's, a really really great artist. So I'm using some clips in the front here as soon as I put some of these on I'll. Have her look your way? I got really good separation already with her here. You can see so I'm just enhancing that as that's kind of setting into it and we're going to be doing some really like kind of crazy braids through here, when I say crazy, braids they're, actually not very intricate or anything, but the details of them like are, What'S gon na make it look like cool girl edgy? If you look towards me, so what I'm going to start doing? On the other side, I really like how, on that side, this has dried a little bit with some texture and kind of swooping up, and it fits the side of her hairline really well. So what I'm going to do is actually work with that smooth it down a bit and then I'm going to start braiding it down towards her face on this side. I'M going to come through and make this really Sleek. So I'm going to put products in to start laying this side flap. Usually, I would do this section by section with a blow dryer, as I work towards the front of the face to make it lay down really well, but again, because we're on camera, I'm not going to be using a blow dryer. I am going to be using The Mending infusion for Moroccan oil. This is one of my favorite products to use when I'm doing a Sleek look, so it's originally made for split ends. So, like men, the split ends um in between haircuts, but when you use a lot of it, it will lay down any flyaways and it has a really nice like more than natural shine, but not like sticky, Sheen kind of look. So it's a really really nice product to build in when you're doing a really Sleek look again, I'm going section by section and applying it onto the hair. If someone has a ton of flyaways, she somehow doesn't, even though she is fine blonde highlighted hair um. If someone has a lot of flyaways, I probably actually apply this with a color brush and that will start smoothing it down as I'm going, but I kind of like how I'm seeing the texture again evolve with it and then I'm smoothing it out section by section. Thank you so again, using The Mending infusion section by section as I get towards the hairline I'm also assessing like do I want to leave any of this out. Do I want to create some like interesting, curl or piece here um these a lot of times, if it's like my own, shoe my arms like crazy, Your Design, I'm doing it as I go. If it's a team, I've never worked with and we have something planned before I add anything I would always ask the photographer creative director, whoever I'm you know, whoever play on the shoot to make sure we're still on the same page. The last thing you would want to do is do all that and have them say like: why did you just do that? We didn't discuss it, we didn't plan it, so don't just go being creative when you don't have the right to do it, especially like commercial shoots and things like that. If it's something you get into a lot you, you really don't have the ability to be super. Creative on those shoots, but they're really rewarding in a completely different experience, so I am kind of liking. The idea of something that I'm gon na do around her face here can kind of see that with this light, so I'm going to do that at the very end. But I'm going to leave that out as I'm doing the rest of it. If you're, just starting out and you're trying to get into like working with editorials and photo shoots and that kind of stuff, I think I mean now - is like the easiest time, probably to do it, because you have all these platforms, you have Instagram, you have um. I don't know so many different resources. You can reach out to people and there's so many different levels of creatives out there and people are a lot more accessible in that way. So you can always plan, you know shoot with, like other people who might be newer. Can I just point out, though, like look it's for it this way, um! Sorry, look towards the wall. The like glass shine that you get with us. It'S like such a beautiful finish. You can relax. Thank you. I will never forget. My first photo shoot. It was um like nine months after I got out of school. I I did a the brand Sebastian they have. I don't, I think they still have it, but they had um, something called the what's next Awards and it was like a photo shoot competition, but you had to do like an editorial based on the theme that they picked, and so I had my friend model um And then my cousin's a photographer, but he didn't really do this type of work um and he still doesn't, but he did it for me and I was in the West Loop before if anyone's familiar with the West Loop in Chicago. It'S really nice area now, but it was really industrial many many years ago, when I did this and they had all these like industrial um buildings and like trucks coming through, and I bought these dresses from like at some cheap store and spent, probably my whole paycheck On like things that I thought I needed for it, which wasn't very much at the time, but I did it all, then I'm walking with like all my bags over to my the photo studio and I drop the dresses I look around. The dresses are like a block behind me in the middle of the street and as I'm turning around to look a semi truck drives over them, and I was like this is like a movie scene like I was so defeated. But I was like okay running back with all my bags. I couldn't they were so heavy. I was like about to drop them anyways. I was like this can't be happening um, but I ended up placing as a semi-finalist in that it was like an international competition. So yeah that um they never knew um so humble beginnings, but I just kept from there like. I built a website with like three pictures, and then I was like would reach out to people because they would always be like well where's. Your website and I just made one and slowly evolved over time and then started getting paid work and then it finally paid off, but it took a long time to get there. Should we flip another way, I think so. So this is the side of saying I like how it is kind of forming this, like upward swoop over here, and it gives some interesting detail. So I'm going to keep that when I'm doing stuff like this, I want to make sure I'm refining as I go, because if I try to fix it and everything's going in different directions, I'm going to have a hard time trying to smooth it out. I'M gon na grab some, if you don't mind and I've got my hair straight, so this is not um. This is some rock and roll extra strong hairspray. I usually as a working spray work with like the strong. I think it's a really nice working spray, but something like this I don't want to touch after. I wanted to start saying where I put it. So that's what I'm going to use anytime, I'm using an aerosol I'm working in the direction that I want the hair to go any flyaways. If I'm spraying like this one, I don't want extra, strong, hair spray to get all over my work. I just want it in the area. I want it, but even if this was like medium or something really workable, I if I'm spraying it this way, I'm going to spray that little bit of aerosol is going to spray those flyaways in the direction. I don't want. It to go so I'm always really intentional with that, would you mind maybe moving the camera a little bit closer yeah much better. Thank you. A lot of times onset, um you're not allowed to um like post pictures and stuff, especially if it's a page shoot and like for a commercial or something. But I try to still take photos um that I don't share, because it's always good to look back on. One year work, but also the lighting and compare it to the final lighting of like what the commercial looked like and you'll learn a lot about that, especially if you do hair and makeup the makeup, especially will um show up kind of differently. So it's good to have those reference points. It'S one of your most memorable shoots that you've done. Oh, that's a good question um. I did a really fun one on Monday, but I can't talk about it yet um. Hmm. I'Ve had really good luck on photo shoots. Um in video shoots for the most part, I think there's only one in my career, which was pretty early on, it was a really big shoot, but that was um stressful in a way that was like not fun that made sense. Generally. I'Ve worked with mostly really really great people um. Oh, I really. I did one with a celebrity chef and so that one was super fun because they were just feeding us like really good food. All day free food yeah. They were like everything they made they're like. Okay, here I'm like okay, so that was that was fun, but they're all they're, all really interesting in completely different ways like that again was like not so much Creative Hair. It was just kind of like her a little bit glammed up, but the experience of you know seeing them in their element is, is really fun and again the food was great. What'S one of your like favorite hairstyles to do like? Could it is it braids? Is it like just hair coloring itself, like what would you say I I love working with a lot of like hair extensions and wigs and like four shoots and stuff um, creating your own Vision, yeah. It really stretches you creatively and you have to work with it differently than you would human hair so like combining the two. The way that I I I just feel like, it's a whole different experience for me. One thing I was working on recently um. I had to sew a wig on for a stunt double and she was um. She was a gymnast, and so it had to be safe for her and so like that. That was completely new and it's a little bit nervous to be honest, that it was like. You know going to stay on and be safe, there's a lot of like liability, that's on me for it um, but it turned out good. It was, and it's again like rewarding when you do something like that. Um - and I think when you come into things like that, it is really important to be honest with production like they, and they didn't say this in like a bad way. They were just like seeing everything else and they're like oh, I didn't know so much went into that and I was like well. I can't just put a wig on you know. Like you know, for this, you know something else like a stand-in or whatever you can. Just apply, it doesn't have to be secure. You know, you're, not gluing it down or anything um, so you have to think about also, what's going to be best for that and then communicate um, which sometimes can be uncomfortable if people push back. But it's also your name on it and again when it comes to safety like that's, not something I and willing to like back down from, but they were all for it. So I didn't have a problem with that. Thankfully, okay, I'm liking this piece and I'm gon na do something with this kind of sticking out somewhere. If you look towards the camera, you can see look down a little bit. Maybe you can see it, but there's kind of a lot of um a lot of texture. Some movement in there we're gon na have some shine smoothness throughout the back. I'M going to be adding lots of hair somewhere in here. Thank you, I'm as I'm running here. I'M actually I'll have you again switch that way, because so we're not working in the salon. We have this like kind of pop-up Studio situation, so a hold on. Let me move just a bit forward, so, yes, turning chair would be good, but so I want to make sure this hair isn't in the way of the hair I'm about to put on um. I also want to point out everything I'm doing I'm taking shape into consideration, like I'm looking here, um this right now with this all super Sleek would actually work on her some people's like head shape. That would not look good at all, but something filling in this area would also be really nice. What is one Moroccan oil product that you cannot live without um? Admittedly, dry shampoo? I was gon na say the same thing, it's kind of pretty lazy when it comes to washing my own hair, but I like say my hero products from them: thickening lotion, dry, texture, spray, yeah, the dry, shampoo, personally, absolutely love and the purple shampoo. I absolutely love the Moroccan oil dress shampoo. They have two different ones, one for brunettes and one for blonde. Specifically, it's light tones and then Stark tones. Yes, so the light one once you like, put it on your hair, like if you're a blonde, specifically It'll like help um kind of like mix up like if you have like out like outgrown Roots, it kind of like hides it, which is amazing, yes for rude Touch-Up, all the time um root touch up and when you need to wash it touch up. So it's like two in one product, it's perfect for that, especially with with the ash of your hair. Now with the one for dark tones. If you do have like a warmer blonde, you can definitely use that one too, for it. It just has a like a subtle warmth to it. So it's not as ashy um. I just feel like whenever I use it. It just like boosts up my hair and it looks like I just got it freshly done, which is amazing, so I have a bunch of different hair extensions um. I have a whole table of them. I always bring a ton when I'm doing an editorial one, because I don't always know like do. I want to add this kind of texture. Her hair is a lot more dark underneath then I like saw or noticed, which actually could be fine, because I can always darken this, and I will always bring stuff with me too, to add color into it, especially synthetic hair. This um, this doesn't have like a ton of shine, although it looks like it on camera. It kind of looks dull in person, which is weird that I'm seeing that, but it does look unnatural right. This color, just all this kind of super Blonde yellowy one color. So I'll usually use some some color sprays or some eyeshadow or tentu is a makeup brand, so they have an airbrush hair color that I'll use sometimes - and it's just really nice to spray it in especially at the root. So even now this is going to be dark brown, so maybe not the ideal color. But it's okay at the roots, I'll spray kind of far away see up, because everyone's hair at the roots is generally a little bit darker. So that starts adding in some depth to the extensions, and it already is going to start looking a little bit more natural, I generally say like two shades in between. So, if it's like a medium brown, I would actually use like a lighter color. Sometimes, with this two shades up and then two Shades Darker right now, she's looking kind of like goddess Lake, which is wonderful, but definitely not what we're going for. I think I'm gon na use straighter hair. So I always bring again a bunch of colors. Some bangs see I've never seen before. Oh yeah. This is the look. We'Re done guys. This is it so obviously freestyle things um, but yeah. I always have a bunch of bangs and stuff with me. Actually, for one uh Runway shoot runway show I was um assisting someone and the one model was supposed to wear hair natural and then they changed it last minute to have it straight, and I don't think he had bangs for her because it was going to be Natural, so in a panic he's like telling me go, can you go get banged so I did and then I got stuck if anyone's familiar with Chicago. I somehow got stuck on Lower Wacker Drive, which is this tunnel That Never Ends underneath the city and you don't get service down there. So he's texting me: where are you? Are you coming back? Did you get lost? Are you okay and I was like? I have the bangs, but I was just lost. Do we have many people watching who's in Chicago? Did you always know that you wanted to be a hair stylist or like a hairdresser when you were younger? No, I always did it um for fun and on my friends and um I would like color people in elementary school with markers the brunette girls like didn't like it, because it didn't work um, but no. I I always liked it, but my high school operator can go to this program for part of the day and they had it's like a tech program and they had cosmetology there and it's like well. It takes like half up half of my day at school and I was like doing this stuff. So why not um? So that's where I started and then I loved it so yeah just kind of stuck with it. If you were to live anywhere else in the United States or even the world, where would it be London or Zurich um? I worked in London for a summer. I absolutely loved it there all the people I met like super creative. Now I was there working like fashion week and setting up this Academy, so I was already like you know, introduced to these people who were like that, but um I just made like such beautiful connections there, who I don't know if they're just really lovely people and Really inspired by the environment um, I did have really good luck with the weather, though, like the whole time was there, it ran 20 minutes one day, so I think I have a pretty skewed view of London, weather, um and then Zurich. I was only there for like a day. I was in other parts of um Switzerland, but the design aspect. There was just incredible like all of the stores you just they everything was so thoughtful and intentional. They, like the displays, were really curated and the clothes and they were like people just dancing on a gazebo like I don't know nine at night, like all these couples like young and old - and I don't know it's like this - is really cool. It sounds like Freedom like yeah just like free, and it was so safe um, which is always good, and the food was really amazing. I was not expecting that no offense, I we were in between there and Italy, and I was like this is actually I, like. The food here better than Italy um, which was amazing so yeah - I just think it's really cool um, also working in Europe. You just exposed to a lot of different cultures, like kind of all at once that we have in some areas here like when I'm working New York or Miami. I feel like there's a little bit more of that um and Chicago is a lot of diversity, but it's not as like, like you, don't just hear 10 languages around you all the time right. So I really like that aspect of it too. I'Ve never been to Europe, but I really want to go. Oh you should. I know we all should we should we should go, we should not shoot, should be there. Yes, can you apply tonight I'll? Have you looked towards the wall a little bit, so I'm pulling all this up into a ponytail in the back and I'm going to start spraying these flyaways before, as I'm smoothing it up something I noticed in Europe which the last time I was while I was There last year, but um when I worked for fashion week, I'll actually have you tilt your head back a little bit. Sorry like chin up yeah. This way a little bit more. So this is a a tip I like when I'm doing a ponytail. It actually will Buckle a lot more if their head is down it's more comfortable for you as a stylist to have them that way, but when they lift their head up you're going to get all this Buck laying back here. So it's going to be much tighter of a ponytail if you ask them to lift their chin up same with braiding when they're going backwards when you're at the bottom of the braid. Here I want to make sure that it's up in that position, so I'm taking these clips out from the side now, so I can start incorporating incorporating it into the ponytail at the top. Another thing: if you don't have I, when you're starting out it's hard to buy a bunch of hair like it, can be really costly um. I have, I don't even know how many wigs and hair pieces and everything that I've accumulated over the years. So you know I have access to that now, but when you're first starting out it can be really hard um if you're working with a photographer, you know well and you're used to. I wouldn't necessarily do this. If you're like trying to make a good impression on someone's like the first time doing it, but if you already have a relationship like let's say Nathan and I were doing shoots and I'm like Nathan, I only have this color hair with me. And let's say it's this blonde: I know I'm going to be like weaving this through. So it's not a problem, but if I want to do like a whole like super tight Pony and only add this color, he could in post as long as that's something he's comfortable with change the color of that hair. So as long as it's a conversation earlier on um, it's definitely something you can talk about. If you don't have multiple colors of hair with you, that's about the only thing I would expect them to be able to do in post, not that they might not be able to do more. I think with makeup a lot more is done, which I always try to. I kind of prefer when less is done, but you know to each their own. You can't control it all um, but with hair, it's a lot harder to edit um, but they can change the color. So that's one area, I don't mind asking them if I need to, and they would probably automatically do it without asking me to be honest, but so when it comes to editing with hair and makeup, are there things that you see that people do often that are You'Re not easy to handle um, I would say my parrot is um with like the face makeup and everything that definitely can be more manipulated um, but with hair. Definitely like I see a lot of flyaways when I'm editing and stuff like gosh, you cannot control, but I definitely think it could go into a lot to like see how you use like different hair sprays and different holes can hold things more stiff, um yeah, and I, like layering products, also so that you have like these different levels of hold. I think one that's a much more um natural, like beautiful finish, okay, we're back um. So I was saying I like to use different different products, whether I'm working on Bridal or an editorial, or you know what it is um like. Let'S say, you're working on Bridal. You want that hair to last, obviously all day, all night and they might be in like super humid weather, they might be indoor outdoor doing all sorts of things dancing I wanted to last, but I think today's styles don't look like they used to where it would Be the super, strong hair sprayed look and you can just depend on using. You know your freezing hairspray um, so you have to build that in so I like, using like the volumizing mousse from Moroccan oil that has anti-humidity and anti-static properties so like again in an extreme climate, that's like my go-to first product for layering in the hair. When I'm trying to get a long lasting hold, so I was saying I like to use like the volumizing mousse, the thickening lotion, volumizing Mist, you know, start layering those products into the hair before you even start. Relying on hairsprays then, as I'm working I'll, usually use like dry texture spray to give a little bit of grit and hold or medium hairspray and then, as I get towards the end. If I need you know the stronger extra strong hairspray in certain areas I'll do that, but I also can reliably count on my style to hold without having to use really hairspray at all, because I've already one prep the hair in the way that I wanted to Be styled and then I also provided a lot of like Foundation products as I went along another thing, I'll do um for photo shoots, but also for photography. Um I mean for like Bridal because they are going to be in photos. I use a planchette which is like the Balayage board, I'll put a bunch of products on there and then um use like either a makeup or a color brush that obviously doesn't have color on it and I'll paint it on in different areas, because that's gon na Each product is gon na, have a different like reflection of light, so by painting it on once the product is once the style is finished, you'll be able to create Dimension that might have not been there already. Sorry there we go. Are we back? Yes, we are. Oh good, so if you look this way a little bit towards the white wall, so I have the two ponies on the side. I have this section that was smoothed back this way, I'm going to use this to wrap both of these up - and I like at this point that there is a separation here. I feel tilt kind of like this so again for an editorial. I might do some weird kind of like rating separation pieces in here. It doesn't have to be like functional the way you think of your typical styling. Can everyone hear and see, and are we connected no well well enough foreign? So I'm going to disconnect these two now and I have them spaced like maybe like two inches apart, if I'm doing like just a high pony where I want it to be like have a lot of volume and length, I'm not going to separate them that far Because it's going to look weird, but I don't mind that there's a whole dial with a cut um in Sarasota Florida, um and yeah it was. It was a great opportunity, but I wasn't there at the time. So thinking of what else nothing else would have done. Others, though, are about to do more hair, so glad you asked me to do this with you. This is so fun yeah. I think great here to work with now you said you're with select in Chicago and Miami right now right, I'm with select Chicago La Miami and Atlanta. Oh that's yeah! There'S a pretty big um, like shooting Network in Atlanta right. Yes, I have not been there myself. Yet but I'm planning on going there pretty soon to meet with the agency, though I'm signed with them. I have not met them yet, which I'm excited too. I also have not been to LA, but I love to go visit there, because I feel, like that's like a great like environment, for models itself, but I also do want to go to New York all very different Vibes. Very I know that's where, like all the editorial and like everything like editorial takes place, which I love High fashion - that's what I was looking for yeah I want to go to New York Fashion Week, so much fun. I think I will be doing it next year. I did Miami swim week, assistance. I will be doing it manifestation. Yes, yes, we have a thing. Paris fashion week was oh yeah yeah, it's probably late. Some will definitely say bigger I'll, be walking. Those Runway shows Once I'm older, just watching yep. I really did not well, I think, that's yeah one thing with like Tick, Tock and Instagram and Facebook, and all these things right. It gives us access to things like, and people who aren't just directly related and invited um into that world. Even does it could just see so much behind the scenes of what really goes on, but it's crazy. How, like everywhere, is a different Market like Chicago it's commercial, um, very, like natural, like Blazer type of look bigger brands in terms of like more variety of like diversity, in terms of like there's like Target and coals and like the bigger companies and then, as you Go to like Miami it's just like swimwear and, like I could say, like a little bit more of like teen clothing. Like I know like garage takes place there there's a lot of um like video production. That happens there, which is less so, I guess casting with models. There'S some markets that will do both um, but then it would be like models without speaking Parts, because you can't have a speaking part in a commercial unless you're part of that Union and whatever um. So yeah it's really interesting how that works. So I think they do a lot more with video when it comes to just like yeah, like Talent, casting um models of like music videos. That'S one they're booked a lot for yes, okay, I'm kind of liking. How this is evolving, if you look suicide here kind of looks a little bit crazy right now, but tilt back. It will start looking really cool at some point. Um, as I start putting this texture in so in here, I'm actually going to use some dry textual spray with dry texture spray. Depending on what I'm trying to do, I might want to take it in the opposite direction, where I'm going, because I'm trying to add as much like texture as possible right so again, I'm always keeping in mind what the actual shape is. Looking like, though, so you can have like really weird kind of funky pieces, but if the shape is not doing her justice, it's not flattering on her head shape, it's not flattering with her face shape and all of that um it could be the most beautiful thing Too, and it just won't work, so if you're, if you ever notice like Bella Hadid, can pretty much wear a pony literally any place on her head like she can wear a high pony, she can wear it back here. She can wear it super low. She can wear a side part and all that, that's because she has what you look forward for a moment. So Bella has these focal points on her face. She has these eyebrows that are, you know like up snatched like that. So that's one area of the head: if you draw a line from there to here, that's where perfect pony will lay because it's a focal point, that's like really beautiful on her face. She also has these cheekbones. That'S why? If you draw that line from here to here, she can wear a pony in the middle of her head and she has this like crazy jawline. So if you draw a line from here to here, she can wear Pony there and it works. Does that work on everyone when they're looking straight ahead at you? No right like it might look fine, it might be a beautiful Pony, but it's not going to give you that same, like beautiful, taken back high pony little pony. Whatever kind of look, I love how you're examining my face and like making sure that it also like fits my face. So it could like look presentable because there have been so many like issues like where I've had like even makeup artists, where they don't. They have like one view. Yes, they have one View and they stick with it. Instead of trying to change it up and see how it could look with specifically my face um and what looks best for me, it you have to be flexible as much as you can have a plan and you should have a plan. You would also have to be able to, but you need to tweak it in a way adjust and, like I said I I've seen her in person like, I know her, yet I still didn't realize how dark her hair is underneath here, you know like I never Like fully, you know, fully examined her hair, which I could have that's my fault, but I didn't um, but it's completely fine, so you have to be prepared for those kind of unexpected things to happen too. So I'm liking, where this is going this way and actually gon na Loop it through the middle of the back of this like button situation, I have going on this way in the comments I'll post, the um, some of the images that were like really rough images Of just the um, like images I was inspired by that I sent to both of them that I was like this kind of like the vibe. I want to do um they're all very different, but when you look at them together, you're like I get it right, would you say so they all had some braids some like pieces, kind of like sticking out in Cool Shapes, um and again. Those pictures like are static when you have a live model, they'll be moving and you hopefully have more than one picture that you end up as a like results with. So you want it to look good from every side every angle and that's where shape really comes into play with that too. Okay, I'm good with this. So far, I'm gon na actually have you turn around the other way. Now I can't figure out how to best view this. Oh he's a little forward. It'S that piece. I know I want down and kind of over that I'm gon na start braiding through the front of here. Will you look towards the white cape in the back? I also made this zigzag parting on the side, so that will be could be an interesting feature or I could end up hiding it at the end. It will depend on whatever I'm feeling like as it's happening, so you get like give yourself. Those areas in that um comes with experience to know like shape and Direction and how things are kind of evolving, like I'm, not they're, not scary. To me, like, I know where I'm going so that enough anyways um, but I also have these points where it's like freedom to change up the look a little bit. I also think, if you like what we're saying, if you're too strict with your plan and the hair, is just doing something completely different. You almost like miss out on these moments of like really magical things happening creatively because you're blocking, like whatever you're inspired by in that very moment and what the hair is doing. So I really want these pieces to stay so I'm going to actually start the braid up here and then just add this in looser on the side as I come along for anyone just joining we're doing an editorial look um. I also use um some extensions earlier. Some color stuff, so if you see that on my hands, that's what that's from just clipping this out of the way. I also want to point out like an editorial look, does not have to be difficult. It just has to be taking something like even taking something super simple and just making like one detail a little bit different like I could have just done. We look at the camera, really quick. I could have just done these pieces in the front and left her hair like down or added a few like weird bends in the hair and thank you, and that could be already a look and generally like if I'm doing that, I'd be like okay, let's shoot This and then move on to the next look next outfit, that kind of thing um, but because we're doing this as a presentation, I'm not stopping and I'm just gon na keep letting it evolve. It'S important too, for editorials, adding like drama into the hair. Yes and as Nathan was saying earlier. Sometimes the like personality and like energy doesn't always fit what it is. So we also have the ability to kind of tone them down that way. Right like if someone has like major major dramatic energy um, I don't mean dramatic, as in like a bad, where you're like fussy kind of dramatic but just like yeah, like theater drama kind of person, right and they're gon na show up and like bring this kind Of over-the-top energy, I might not want to put them in over the top look right because they're already, like you, said with their expressions their body language. All of that going to do it, and sometimes it will like that will be the perfect person to do an over the top look for so anytime. You can cast someone you have worked with, or you know it's always good, because you know how they work and how they pose, and you know some people might be like really um self-conscious about one side. I'Ve had that, like one side of their face and they're like. Oh, that's not like, I like looking this way more or whatever um, and that can be really bad. If you're trying to do a hair shoot where maybe you already just did the whole style. That'S supposed to go that way right, so a professional model generally like even if they do feel that way, won't act upon it that way, um, but when you're hiring like or just working with someone who's, like, naturally pretty and taking that in um, you might run Into more of that, so do you see how adding that in here, I'm leaving the shape how it is, while the braid's gon na start coming towards the face anytime, I'm braiding where my hands go is where the braid is going to go. So I want to make sure I'm always generally my body I'm going to do this for a quick. Second is right behind the braid, but because I'm on camera and don't want to show you that angle of me too much I'm standing aside, but my hands are always going in this direction because that's the way I want the brain to lay. Are you still comfortable? Yes, it's also important to ask your models: how they're doing um doesn't matter if they're paid or not either way. I think they always deserve respect and one like, even if it's just for selfish reasons, which I don't think it should be, but even if it is like them being comfortable, is just gon na make them show up better for you on set. So it's a win-win situation. Take care of them totally agree with you, like the respect that you give like. If the respect you give me, I will give you respect as well, and then we work as a team together yeah, it's it's for all of us right and we all want our day to go as smooth as possible, have the best like energy and everything and Are you like when I'm working at a fashion week? You know I've actually never run into this, but I've been around it where I've seen it or had other people experience where, like the model, can be kind of um, more cold or snippy about something? And I try to come from a place where, like I totally understand why they might have been doing like seven shows that day they might not have had any food that day and everyone just kind of like pushing them around like okay. So here go do this? Do that and like kind of forgetting that they're human so anytime, that you can acknowledge like that, they're a person and just offer water or like ask if they're comfortable, I think they will appreciate that and again give that respect back to you that you might have Had a long day too and you're older reconnecting just trying to do the job, do we have any questions? Sorry, I strapped him in here I'm now liking with this braid. Here, if you'll look towards the white okay, I like how this piece - I just clipped it out of the way, but I think really smoothing this out here and going in this direction. I'M liking how that's looking and giving me this cool contrast with their color right here. So I'm going to keep that I'm going to smooth out some of this area and kind of shape it a little bit better and then I'm going to start taking out. You can actually face the front again, so we're almost at our finishing pieces for anyone watching what is one product that you guys cannot live without in terms of hair, who doesn't oh hi she's in New York. Right now, I just missed her tried to line up. Okay, so I just wrapped this piece if you'll turn to your right around here, so that is covering up some of this elastic. I wasn't sure if I wanted to cover the elastic or not because it could be a cool um future we keep, but I do like this sorry thank you. When I was just finishing school, I was so afraid to cut men's hair and because I was worried like if they sneezed or if I tripped, I was always afraid of tripping um, I'm like really clumsy but somehow, like the 10 years. I'Ve been doing hair that hasn't happened yet um, but that it would be like your trip and you just take their whole hair off right. So there's like no coming back from that um yeah. Luckily that hasn't happened and it would actually be really hard to happen. My natural instinct, when that is when someone does like move or something is always to like pull away, which thankfully, is good because a cut or burn or anything someone. I also always try to ask the stylist um what they'll be wearing, so you can try to have that figured out before they're fully done with clothes and um, I mean with their hair, and you have something really intricate and don't know if you're gon na end Up smashing it while they're putting getting their hair together, um or getting dressed, but I am the Wardrobe Cyrus today too, and we haven't figured that out yet. So I have only all three of us are: yes, we all brought like 10 bags of I don't know. Yet we'll see, but it will be well, that's the best always being prepared with everything. That'S so excited, there's so many pieces. I have that I've like been wanting to shoot and I just haven't. I have this addiction where I just collect things and then selling them. I came with six packs like I was just reusing, my clothes and I leaving my my place today. You couldn't even tell that, like I took anything from him like this is a problem. So, when you're casting models, what do you look for the most? Could it be like hair or is it like, since, like obviously there's different like hairstyles and whatnot, do you look for like specifically like long hair for one um for one shoe or like what? What exactly do you look for when I first started in like having?