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- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today, we are gonna show you
three of our favorite Valentine's hairstyles.
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And let's get on to the videos.
The first Valentine's hairstyle we're gonna show you
is called a Mermaid Heart hairstyle.
And if you guys haven't tried this one before,
it's really basic.
So it's great for beginners.
All you have to know how to do is flip the hair
and do two braids and you are golden.
Okay, you guys.
So this is how I started this hairstyle.
I pulled at the top part of her hair back,
I left about an inch above her ears.
You can see that I left a couple little
just soft frame, face framing pieces I pulled out.
And then in the back, I secured it with an elastic
and then wrapped it with hair.
So we're gonna take a Topsy Tail.
And if you don't have one, that's fine
'cause you can just use your hands too.
But you're basically gonna thread
the Topsy Tail upside down.
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and then we are gonna put hair through it.
And again, if you don't have this,
you just make a hole in the hair and flip it upside down.
This is just a little easier way to do it.
It hurts a little less, I feel like,
and you're gonna just flip the hair.
We flipped it basically from down towards the ceiling.
And this is why, because when you tighten it down,
what you want is that lift.
Do you see this natural?
Like how, if I just divide it in half,
it almost is just sort of naturally falling
into the arches of the heart.
And that's exactly what you want.
So at this point, you want to divide the hair
into two pieces evenly like this,
and we're gonna work with the right side first.
I'm gonna take this
and I'm gonna start a three strand braid.
Now on this braid I'm gonna do three normal stitches
before I had it add in any hair.
And that's just to get that arch of the heart
really like together.
Like if you start adding in hair it starts looking messy,
it doesn't look like a heart anymore.
So make sure you do three stitches first.
So you can do three strands.
There's one stitch, two, three.
And now I'm gonna reach over,
try and don't pull that over here.
I'm gonna grab a little piece and add it in, like this.
We're only adding into this right side.
I'm grabbing another little piece and I'm gonna add it in.
This is where the mermaid part comes in
'cause this is kind of mermaid stitching.
You can leave hair out by the ear if you want
or you can pull it back, up to you.
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Three, add a (indistinct).
Make sure you don't pick up hair behind.
And the last one, four,
and then I'm just gonna go to a normal braid.
You can keep doing the mermaid
all the way down if you want to.
I just not going to, I just like on the sides.
And finish out with a normal braid,
and then secure within elastic.
Hey, now we're gonna move to the left side
and we're basically just gonna repeat
the same step to put on this left side.
So three sections of hair for a normal braid,
do three stitches before you add in.
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And again, we're just gonna add four little sections
and then finish it off with a normal braid.
When you get down to the end of the normal braid,
you're going to combine the two ends.
So I'm gonna remove this elastic from the side
and I'm gonna secure them together instead.
So right here, I'm just eyeballing this
and making sure it looks kind of like it's even
on both sides, I'm gonna secure it.
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So this looks good to me,
but I think that the heart right here
isn't accident enough for my taste.
So what I like to do is just go back
and really give these three edges,
a nice, good little tug like this.
I don't pull it through here
because then it looks too messy.
So it's just the top stitching
where you didn't have hair adding in.
And I just feel like just tweaking that that much
really accents the heart.
And then the other thing you can do
is take a little bobby pin and just reach up and under
and pin that down to her head
to just have that heart pop a little bit more.
So I'm just taking that bobby pin and laying it right here.
And then I feel like
it just emphasizes the heart a little bit more.
And there you go.
Let's do the final spin on this heart mermaid hair.
Isn't that cute?
I love the way it turned out.
What do you think Kylie?
- I think it's cute.
- The second Valentine's hairstyle
we're gonna show you today
is called the flip ponytail updo.
This one is amazing if you're a little bit older
and you're gonna go out with your girlfriends
or you want a romantic dinner with your husband
and you want a nice like fancier updo
to wear out for Valentine's Day.
So to begin this hairstyle,
we're gonna take some heritage dry shampoo,
and we are gonna just spray it in the roots of her hair
to just refresh it.
This is day three here for you for Brooklyn.
- Yeah it is.
- So she's got some little oil in it,
but that's good because dirty hair styles
that are usually when you're trying to do updos.
- Nice texture.
- Yeah, so now we want to part the hair into three sections.
So I'm gonna go flip flipper back.
We're basically doing a side section here,
a side section ended a little bit bigger section on top.
It really doesn't need to be like perfectly straight lines.
It's almost slightly better if it's not.
I'm just trying to make sure we...
At the end, we kind of want three sections
and they need to all be roughly even.
Once you have the hair roughly divided into three sections,
I'm just simply gonna pull
this middle one out of the way for a second.
I want to anchor these left and right ones first.
I'm gonna take this right section
and just softly finger comb it back.
And if you have little flyaways like this,
I'm just gonna hit them
with a flex hold hairspray so lightly.
And I use the Heritage Flexible Hold Hairspray,
and that's gonna keep the hair
and make it so it's still workable.
And I'm gonna bring the hair down right
basically to the nape of her neck
and secure it with an elastic
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And then I'm going go back and just loosen it a little bit
'cause we don't want it to look slicked in too tight.
We want it to look full and soft and pretty.
So we have section one,
I'm gonna do this on section two.
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And again, I'm just kind of finger combing.
I'm using this flexible hold hairspray
to just kind of hit those baby hairs
and lay on a little bit flatter.
I really don't want it super slipped.
If you wanted to for even more volume,
you could tap in like this.
You could take this magic dust texturizing powder
and tap it in right here at the root.
And that's gonna even add a little more volume
and a little more grip right here.
Just depends on how much lift you want in your hairstyle.
And this just anchoring
and getting these positioned correctly
is probably the most important part of the hairstyle
which is why it's taking me a little bit longer
to just set it exactly where we want it.
And again, I'm gonna go back and loosen this.
And this is where having that texture powder really helps
because you can tug and pull
and it's gonna add a little grip to the hair
so that it floss without losing
its ability to hang in and hold into that elastic.
So this last one, this is why we did the center one last.
I'm gonna use if you'll tip your head way back.
So I don't want these lines to show at all.
So I'm gonna use this hair
to kind of fall over those part lines,
and we're gonna secure it right here in the center,
but that's gonna help hide those
so it looks like a cohesive style
instead of like three segments.
And again, I'm gonna use dry shampoo right here
to keep that oil down.
Then I'm gonna use a little root texture harder.
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So I'm just gonna finger comb this back,
secure it with an elastic right here in the center.
Try not to get this over here.
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We have our hair, we have it all sectioned,
we have the placement the way we want it.
So now you're gonna take one of these sections
and you're gonna add another elastic
and you add it down just a couple inches down.
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You're gonna make a little hole
or you can use a Topsy Tail if you have one,
either one's fine and flip it through.
So now you have kind of this little bubble.
Now here's a trick.
We're gonna take this route,
this magic does texturizing powder
and we're just gonna tap it in just over so slightly.
And then we're gonna go back and just pull those edges
and we're gonna really exaggerate this little twist.
So we just want to like make it way puffier, bigger.
All this does is it like absorbs into the hair
and it just adds a little bit of grip to the hair
so that as you're pulling like this,
it's less likely to just pull completely out
and make a big mess.
So when you get it about twice as big like this,
then you're gonna move down, grab another elastic
and repeat for the link of the hair.
Another hole, flip it through.
So you can see the difference
in the way that they look before and after.
Again, tap a little texturizing powder in
and then just pull those edges.
And there's not an exact science to this.
There's just kind of a mess with it until it looks good.
And then when you get that one where you want it,
move down a couple inches and braid it.
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So we have this one, pretty much done.
This last little one was hard to do
without the ends popping out, so I just did my best.
In the end it's gonna be all twisted and wrapped up
so you won't see it that obviously.
And then we're gonna repeat this exact same pattern
on both of these.
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Here we have the left side done.
Now we're gonna move to the middle, same sequence.
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And when you finish all four,
you have your all four in bubbles
'cause this is like the Brooklyn's hair.
Then you have your three sections.
Now, we are gonna take this one
and we're gonna cross it up and over like this
and wrap it down and under,
and then bobby pin, just bobby pins in play.
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Then you're gonna take the left one
and go up and over as well.
And bobby pin it in place,
and you can adjust these pins as needed
when we get everything set a little bit better
than we can figure out where we need all the pins
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And then on this last piece, the middle one,
we're going to just kind of take this
and fold it back and forth and tuck those ends
to create a nice little bottom finishing piece,
and then pin it all where we need everything to sit.
And when you get it pinned the way you want it,
you have this lovely, funky, cool braided twisted hairstyle.
And then you can do some things like take some clips
and add them in like this to accent it,
just to dress it up a little bit more,
or if you had pearls
that you wanted to put all the way across the back,
that would look really pretty too.
I can't decide if I want to do two there
or one on each side.
So I clipped the two burettes in one on each side,
and then it just comes
to the kind of the finishing touches
and how like, I like to have a little volume in here
and a little texture.
And then you can flip it to the front
and just tweak what you need to make it look really pretty
or pull out wispies, and you are finished.
Just hit it with some hairsprays
to help hold everything together.
And you are finished.
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The third Valentine's hairstyle
that we're gonna show you today
is called the fluffy heart braid.
Now this one is actually
a little bit more of an intermediate type of braid,
but it's honestly
one of my all time favorite Valentine's hairdos
that we've done.
Hairstyle, what I've done
is pulled her hair up into an elastic at the top.
And you can see I've left roughly an inch above each ear.
And I left some little base framing pieces down
just to soften the look too.
I'm gonna show you how to do this
not using a top detail in case you don't one.
But you basically just find a center of the elastic,
create a little hole using your fingers
and you go all the way through.
So can you see how my fingers down here?
So you just make a nice little hole
and then you're just gonna flip that hair
right through the hole.
And we're going from the bottom
up towards the ceiling on this flip.
What it gives you by doing that is this nice little lift.
Do you see how it has that little lift to it.
That's exactly what we're looking for in this hairstyle.
Once you've done that, you can take this section
and you're gonna divide off one little side piece here,
and one little side piece on the left.
Try to get them about as even as possible.
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And once you have the two little pieces
to the side like this,
then you're gonna take this middle part.
And for now just allow us to get out of the way
or you can clip it out of the way or whatever works.
So we're gonna start with this right section.
What we want to do is create a three strand braid.
So we're gonna take this one little section we have,
divide it into three strands that are even,
and then go ahead and do angles normal braid.
And I'm not doing super tight braid,
I'm not doing super loose.
I would just say it's medium.
Like I'm not doing crazy, crazy tight here.
When you get to about here, then I'm gonna go back
and I'm just gonna pull the edges.
So I'm really gonna pull.
I'm just pulling one little side edge if possible.
Let's see, all the way up.
And then as I go farther up some of these pieces down here,
I have to go back and retug, pancake them all the way up.
You can just see just going back
and making sure every piece
has a nice little pancake feel to it, like that.
And then I'm just gonna secure it with an elastic.
Hey, so we're gonna repeat on this left side too.
So divide the hair into three even strands
and then just do a regular braid.
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Then again about here,
go back and again, just grab those outside edges.
And you can see I'm only doing the outside edge.
I'm not doing inside edge of both sides.
You'll see why in about, but for now.
Now we're gonna secure that with an elastic as well
while we work on the middle for a second.
This middle, we just want really nice
and straight and smooth, but also fluffy.
So I'm gonna go back in and I'm just gonna add
a little back combing to this top part right here,
right at the base.
I'm gonna do two sections here
'cause I really want it to like puff up
and be fluffy, then I'm just gonna go back and smooth it.
So I'm gonna smooth it too
And when you feel like you have as much fluff
or tight as you want
and just kind of gather it with your fingers.,
I'm gonna take just a tiny little bit of wax spray
and spray it on there to just help with the,
she's got some flyaways because her hair is so fine.
Like this, and then I'm gonna take this piece
and add it in and this piece and add it in, like this.
And then I'm gonna take another elastic
and secure it all at the bottom.
Now I'm just gonna secure it altogether for right now,
and then I'll remove those other two elastics.
You can see this is just an easier way to do it all at once
and you can go back and just
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pull out, when you get to this point,
you need to go back and just re tug any sections
that any reason have come less fluff.
And then what I do
is just go take my fingers right at the top
and really give that a pull
'cause that's gonna give you a lot better heart shape.
Comb the ends out, and there you have
the fluffy heart hairstyle.
Okay guys, let's do the final spin.
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Such a cute heart.
You guys let me know which Valentine's hairstyle
you're gonna be using this year.
And I hope that you guys
all have an amazing Valentine's Day.
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and we'll see you guys next week, bye guys.
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