Easy Updos: It's all about the Foundation

For a simple Updo (as with any hairstyle you wish to keep for more than 2 hours), the most important part is the beginning, in which you will build a foundation for the hairstyle. Your steps are going to look like this:

1. Tease
2. Spray
3. Tease
4. Spray

And then comes the climax of this post's narrative:

5. Tease
6. Spray
7. Tease
8. Spray
9. Smooth


You get the picture.

Look like any other advice I've offered? (I see you nodding your head...) Very good! That's because ALL hairdos require a small repertoire of basic techniques that will help you obtain a limitless range of results (seriously).

By teasing and spraying (and smoothing!), you will create a hair-network for your bobby-pins to grab onto. You essentially create little hooks-and-eyes within the coif itself, allowing fewer bobby pins to do the job.

You can test my assertion by teasing your hair like crazy, and then simply putting it into a ponytail. You'll notice that your hair stays put with fewer twists of the hair-tie than usual. Or, if you're a clip-girl, you'll see that a claw that once slipped right out of your hair will hold firmly in place after a good teasing.

For the ultimate easy Updo (and a darn cute one, at that...), tie your hair up into a basic ponytail, and separate a tiny strand (about one half-inch in diameter) from its mass. Wrap this strand around your ponytail (teasing the strand itself will help it remain firm), and then use one or two bobby pins underneath the ponytail to keep the strand in place.

Voila!

Explaining other Updos via prose would really be a headache for all involved, which is why I'll now plug my phantom videos that have been made, but not yet posted. I'm hoping to put these up in just under a month. That said, I am fairly confident that anyone who teases, sprays, and smooths, will be able to do something with bobby pins or clips that she was previously unable to do!

Stay tuned for the video, and keep the questions coming!



Cheers!