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- Hey everyone Kaylee here
and today we're creating some hairstyles
from the TV show Victoria
because season two is coming out soon
and I'm so excited.
I watched season one in a day,
literally all of it in one day,
it was so good.
The show itself is similar to The Crown
or Downtown Abbey if you like those shows,
you'll definitely like this one.
But I just love it's like watching
a historical fiction drama about a strong amazing female
who ran England.
I highly recommend the show,
that being said let's get into the video.
I'm gonna start with this hairstyle
which Victoria wears very early in the season
and is very pivotal to her early moments as a Queen.
First I want to match Victoria's amazing long luscious hair
so I'm gonna be adding in these extensions
and I'm starting by doing a u-shaped section
in the crown of my head with a four piece weft.
And then just under that I'm gonna use a three piece weft
in that same u-shaped section.
Now in the front my hair is not long enough
to do this style on its own
so I'm using two piece extensions on either side of my head.
And I am ready to go.
And now we section.
This hairstyle relies on a very clean center part
and then you part the hair from your part
to the middle of your ear
on either side of the head.
And once you've done that
everything in the back is pulled up into a high ponytail
and secured with an elastic.
And now we can braid,
I'm starting with this bore-bristle brush
to smooth the hair in front
and I'm brushing everything very very smoothly
into place right in front of my ear
and then I'm going to start braiding everything
all the way down.
And at the end I'm securing it
with a bobby pin just because that's really fast
and gently pulling on the braid
just to let it breathe,
but you're not trying to deconstruct it
or overly voluminize it,
just get a little bit more life in it.
Now repeat this same thing on the other side,
gonna hit pause on the front
and move to the back.
You're gonna split that ponytail in half
and then braid the top half.
Once you've braided that all the way down,
you can secure it and then pull it apart just a little bit
before wrapping that braid into a bun.
Now braid the remaining hair from the ponytail
all the way down and secure it with a bobby pin.
Then wrap it around the base of the bun that we just made,
making sure that it is standing up on one end
so that you clearly see the braid
as it forms around the bun.
And now we pull back the front braids,
you can pull the first braid back
so that it forms an arch just under your ear
and then follows the line of the hair up to the bun.
And pin it in place.
Now repeat on the other side
making sure that you exactly mirror the angle
and position of the first braid.
If you have any braided ends remaining
you can wrap them around the bun and pin them in place.
And now for the final touches,
I noticed that a lot of the characters
wear hairnets in the show.
So I'm going to put a hairnet around the bun
to hold any loose ends in place
and then I'm adding some small jeweled combs
to the base of the braids
where they met the bun.
I noticed that this is something
Victoria does a lot with flowers or jewels
and so obviously I wanted to replicate that.
And that's it for this hairstyle,
apparently this was in vogue with the French
at the time, it was a very stylish hairstyle.
And it did make me feel rather regal wearing it,
like much more than I expected too.
Now moving on to this bun that Victoria's wearing
more toward the end of season one.
I started with my extensions in the same place
in the front
and then in the back I added a two piece weft
toward the top of my head
and then a three piece weft toward the middle of my head
and I was ready to go.
Start with a center part and side sections,
just like we did in the previous hairstyle
and then for the hair in the back,
sweep up half of it into a half updo
and secure it with an elastic.
Now just braid that half-up ponytail
and wrap it into a bun.
Now in the front,
very smoothly sweep back one of your front sections
so that it covers most of your ear
and then grab half of the hair in the back.
With that hair we're going to create
a four strand braid.
So you're going to split your hair
into four sections.
And then you're going to go,
over under, under over,
starting on the left,
you go over one section
and then under the section next to that,
then you switch over to the right side
and you're going to go under
and then over.
And then you repeat that again
on the other side.
Over under
and then on your right side,
under over.
I have more detailed videos on this
if you need that
or you could do a normal braid instead,
but I did notice that there are a lot of
four and five strand braids in the show
and so I wanted to incorporate that.
And repeat the same thing on the other side,
making sure to very cleaning sweep back that front section
before you start your braid.
To finish everything off,
grab your left braid
and wrap it around the bun,
making sure that it's sitting
so that you can really see all four strands of the braid
and pin in place.
Now do the same thing on the other side
and make sure to tuck those ends under
if you need so that nothing is sticking out.
And finally I'm going to finish by wrapping
a rhinestone necklace around the bun
and pinning that in place.
This hairstyle was inspired by one
that actually had a crown around it,
but I thought that the rhinestones
kind of gave it a very similar look.
And I finished this off with a crown,
partially just 'cause I just really wanted to wear a crown,
but I thought it brought this whole hairstyle together.
It is beautiful, it is true to the time,
but it's also something that I think
if you kind of loosed it up,
could definitely be wearable today.
So that's it,
those are some Victorian era hairstyles,
I hoped you guys enjoyed
seeing how they came together
and learning how to do them.
Don't forget season two
is coming out soon
and the promo is down below.
And you really should check it out
because I love this show
and I need people to know that it exists.
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and I will see you guys in my next one.
(blows kiss)
Bye.
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