[MUSIC CHARITY VANCE, "IT'S ALRIGHT"]
-Hey, everyone.
It's Mindy and Brooklyn from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
And today I'm going to show you a couple
ways to wear the Celtic knot.
Now, I'm sure you've seen this knot before.
It's existed for a long, long time.
And I've also seen some other people
that have pictures on Pinterest or maybe even tutorial.
But I've never had the chance to do this particular knot.
And I've really wanted to.
And since we have Saint Patrick's Day right
around the corner, what better time then now
to be inspired by our Irish roots
and do something for Saint Patrick's Day?
You notice we're wearing our green today.
Yay, Saint Patrick's Day.
Now, let's get started on the hairstyle.
OK.
To begin the Celtic knot, you need two pieces of hair
that are like the length of your hair, the full length.
So Brooklyn has some layers right in front.
So what I did was I just kind of wrapped those layers up
and brought the long piece around them--
You can see them right there.
--because I need the long pieces.
And you can use water to wet them down
or pomade or even dry wax.
But you need to have the hair pretty much slicked together,
where it's not going to have a ton of hairs just
flying out of control all over the place as you go.
Because this is a knot, they would
have a tendency to do that.
I'm using a little bit of pomade and a little bit of dry wax
today.
You can see we already have her hair curled.
OK.
So you're going to take the two pieces.
And with the one on the left, you're
going to make a loop toward the top of her head,
just like that, just a nice loop.
And with these two fingers, you're
going to take the second piece and hook them into the fingers.
Then you're going to take that end and wrap it up and over
your thumb.
And you want to be as close to this top piece as possible.
And I'll show you why.
So you're kind of holding on to the knot, the loop still.
Now, you're going to take your fingers, your pinchers,
and reach up and under that piece of hair
and grab that one.
Did you see what I did right there?
Pull it up.
That's why you wanted it laying close to the hair
to begin with.
Bring it around, over the top.
Now, reach up through the loop.
Grab that piece of hair, and pull it through.
Now, you're going to take it.
Still working with the same ends,
tuck it underneath that strand of hair
we have coming from the side.
And then to finish it off, take it back through the loop.
So we've essentially just taken the hair under that piece
to secure it, and then back through the loop.
And then you're going to go ahead and just slowly release
all of your fingers.
And voila, you have your knot.
You can just tug on the ends a little bit to tighten it up.
It does loosen as you work with a little bit, which is fine
because you want it to be soft and flow into the hair.
But if you're not liking where it's sitting,
you can always just--
OK.
Now, one trick I'm going to teach you guys
is that if you have a hard time, this piece comes out
over the loop, and sometimes it pops up a little bit funny,
particularly if you're working with curls.
So one trick is to take a flat iron
and just turn it on a lower heat, like 300, 360 even.
And just take a flat iron right there.
And just gently, for five seconds, push on it.
And it acts sort of like an iron,
kind of flattening down that little bump that happens right
there and helping it lay flatter against the head.
OK.
So let's do the second knot.
We're going to take this left strand,
wrap it up towards the head and make a loop.
Then I'm going to take the right strand
and put it in between my two fingers.
I'm going to lift that edge up and lay it over
as close as possible to the top of my hand.
Sometimes it's hard to get it to stay.
Then I'm going to take my fingers
and reach underneath that left edge.
This is why this is important.
Some doesn't want to stay there.
Reach in.
Grab that strand, and pull it up.
Then you're going to take it over the top of the loop.
Reach inside, and grab it.
Pull it through.
Then take it behind our right strand
and then back through the loop.
When you get the hang of it, it's really not hard.
It's much harder when I'm going slow and explaining it.
And then when you have that end through, go ahead and release.
And you can pull on those side pieces
to tighten it up a little bit if you want.
We want it to fall just right underneath our first knot,
so just nice and soft.
You can loosen it a little.
And then you're just going to place it
right underneath that first knot.
And there you have the double Celtic knot.
OK.
The third way to style the Celtic knot
is a little bit more grown up looking
because it's on just one side of her head.
Now, I've done it on the side where
she has the least amount of hair because she has her hair parted
going the other way.
But again, you're going to take your two pieces.
Make the loop.
Put the hair between the two fingers, the right strand.
Flip it up and over.
Reach underneath, and grab that strand, and pull it through.
Bring it up in front of the loop.
Reach through the loop, and grab that end.
Pull it through.
Now, you're going to take it around the back of the rights
strand and then back through the loop one more time.
And then just pull gently until you
have it the size and shape you want it to be.
You can manipulate it a little bit.
And then let it rest on the side of her head.
And I think this one's so pretty.
It's a little more grown up.
But it gives an otherwise just kind of boring hairstyle
just a little kapow.
On the side, when they turn their head,
it's like, surprise, that they didn't know was there.
So fun.
OK.
So let's do the spin on this side Celtic knot
so you can see it.
I love that, just a little pop!
And her curls pretty on all the other sides.
And I'll go ahead and show the pictures of the other two
styles.
And there you have it.
Now, bonus video for you guys this week
because we have done another Disney style video.
You can find it right here or in the description box below.
We did Elsa's coronation hairdo.
So make sure and go check that out.
It's beautiful as well.
And we will see you guys next week.
Have a great Saint Patrick's Day.
Bye, guys.
-Bye.
[MUSIC CHARITY VANCE, "IT'S ALRIGHT"]
-Hi, Mom.
-Hi, Babe.
-Hi, Mom.
-Hi, Brooky.
-Hi, Mom.
-Hi.
Eat your cupcake.
Is that good?
Blow me kisses.
-I need to wash my hands.