A hair thing.

Working internet!  I am once again connected to the world!

And with it comes a couple of posts - are you excited?  Yeah, I don't blame you.


But it's exciting for me!  Hooray - working technology!



Alright so onto the real deal here:


I was able to pull this mess of in-between length hair up and I didn't hate it!  It's fabulous that I am starting to have options when it comes to hair styles now - so once lazy Saturday I decided to pull my hair up because I had time and I was excited.

And I came up with this:

It's up!  And let me tell you how HARD it is to take a picture of the back of your head - in a mirror, with a DSLR camera.  I wouldn't suggest it - I gave up a few times.

So that would be why I don't have any actual "tutorial" pictures because - well, I could barely get the finished result let alone the steps in between.  So you'll have to use your imagination.  But honestly this hair do when up a lot easier than I imagined it would - no seriously - trust me.

First I went through and flat iron curled my hair.  Yes, this is something that takes a bit to get the hang of, but once you have it down, you can curl your whole head in about twelve minutes.

Once your head is curled, run fingers through your hair to separate the curls and take a comb and back-comb (or "rat" depending on what part of the country you're from...or era.) the back crown area of your head.  It doesn't need to be perfect, but a little volume doesn't hurt.

Then take your hair and sweep it into a messy side-pony.  It should end up right under the ear.  Once you've secured it with a hair-elastic you'll need a few bobby pins.

It doesn't have to be perfect and neat, but start taking looses strands and twist them, curl them and pin them forming a loose and twisty knot in the back.  Once you've secured the strands you want and have sufficiently covered up the elastic you used, you can take some hair spray to the knot and pat down some fly-aways.  (I always have a ton.)

The last step is to take a few random strands and make sure they're curled.  You can either leave these pieces out to begin with or do what I did, which is to wait to see which strands would stand out once the pony was up and leave them out.  I did have to re-curl them to get the right curl.  Then I loosely fastened them back again with a bobby pin - this is how you achieve the wispy curly look.

You can tell by my terminology I have a lot of expertise in the field of hair and hair styling.

Once you have everything in place, take your favorite hairspray and give your head a good once over and you're done!  Ta-da!  An up do that doesn't take very long at all.

I've since done this up do a few times and it's not once of those good-hair day, coincidence hair styles - it's gone up just as easy ever since.

There you have it.  I'll attempt to link this where it feels appropriate.


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