- Hey everyone, Kayley, your friendly neighborhood
hairstylist here, and today we are recreating
Jonathan Van Ness's waves from Queer Eye.
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- First things first, I love the show,
it makes me so happy on so many levels.
I'm from the South so it just like extra resonates with me
and I love Jonathan and his hair.
The waves that he does through a lot of the series
just spoke to my heart, and I felt like
I had to do a tutorial on it.
So I know that a lot of you guys
are probably my regular viewers,
but I'm also kind of hoping that there's
some like amazing men out there that have seen
his great hair and want to know how to do it too.
So if that's you, if you're a little bit more of a beginner,
I'm gonna go into some extra detail today
and really break it down so you can go from like
knowing nothing about a curling iron
to being able to do these waves, and I just,
I think that'll be great for everybody.
Whether you're a pro or not, we always need a refresh, yes?
Yes, and at the end I'm gonna rapid fire through a couple
other hair styles that Jonathan did throughout the series
just because they're quick, they're easy, they're fast,
anybody can do it, looked great on him, and will look great
on any of you, whoever you are, that's watching this video.
So let's get into it.
Okay, and here we are at fully at step one with wet hair.
I wanted to talk a little bit about just some stuff
you put in your hair while it's wet because its gonna help
with the shine, and I also wanted to talk about how to dry
your hair depending on your hair type, before we try
to create these amazing, gorgeous, fierce waves.
First off, I love a leave in treatment product,
whether it's a leave in conditioner, or a leave in oil.
I'd say leave in conditioner for those of you guys
with finer hair or less frizz prone hair, and an oil
for those of you guys who have thicker hair
or it's more course or more frizzy, the oil is going
to help weigh things down a little bit better,
so it's just a little happier.
So my day to day is a leave in conditioner.
Today I'm using the Briogeo one because I've been using
that Living Proof one so much, I needed to change.
Just a couple spritzes, and you're good.
For an oil, I love the Ouai oil,
and I know Jonathan loves his Ouai.
If you pay attention to the products that he like
leaves in people's houses and stuff, lots of Ouai.
Once you've got your treatment product in,
I would also recommend a blow dry spray of some kind
because it adds shine and it makes your hair dry faster
whether you're going to air dry it, or use a blow dryer.
So I have two favorites, I have the Kenra blow dry mist,
and the Kristin Ess blow dry mist.
These are both very good, they both act very similarly
but this one is significantly less expensive,
so I'm gonna use it today.
Now if your hair is naturally straight like mine,
you can get away with air drying it from here,
it's totally fine, or you can use one of my other
blow dry routines that I put up on my channel,
I will link it above and in the description box,
but if you have wavier or curlier hair,
I'm gonna give you guys a couple tips to just
easily straighten your hair out a little bit.
It doesn't have to be like pin-straight, but just to kind of
fight the natural wave pattern a little bit,
so we can put in our new wave pattern once the hair's dry.
So one of the first things you can do is go through
with a normal or vented brush, and your hair dryer,
and just through, and that's gonna help to moderately
straighten your hair, but also really get the air
through it so it helps to really get
to that dryer point a little quicker.
Then, when you're ready for some smoothing,
like you've got about 20% more drying to do,
you pull out a bore bristle brush,
does not have to be an expensive Mason Pearson
designer bore bristle brush, it can just be something
really simple like this.
This is from the Wet Brush, it's called the Shine Brush.
It's really easy, you just brush through,
and the bore bristles are gonna help to smooth
your cuticle layer of your hair, but also it creates
a little bit of tension, so it can help to kinda pull
your hair straight a little bit without having to do
all that wrist turning that you normally have to do
with a round brush.
So I'm gonna go through and do that and get my hair
nice and straight and shiny,
and then I'll show you how to wave it.
And there we go, nice dry super shiny hair.
She's giving me shine, she's giving me softness,
she's giving me silk, and I'm loving it.
So for this, I'm gonna be using a 1 1/4 inch
curling iron, this one is from T3.
Now this one has a clip, which I would recommend
for this style of wave, though you can use a wand
if you want to, and I'll show you how to do that
once I get to the other side of my head.
So you would expect that his waves start like up here,
like near the root, no, it's actually very straight
until right about ear height, and then you start getting
a little bit of a wave right towards the end.
And then they're not so much of a loose wave,
they are a little bit more of a defined kind of curl wave,
and the way to get that is by holding your iron straight
up and down like you're holding a torch or something.
You're going to be holding it completely vertically
as you do the curling.
Okay, I prepped you, let me show you
how that looks on the hair.
I'm actually gonna start back here 'cause we're gonna
do some special stuff right around the face.
And you want to pick up a section that feels like it's
about as thick as two or three straws, okay?
Once you have that, you're going to clip your iron
straight up and down onto the hair and twist it around.
And again, you want this to start
about the height of your ear.
Then once that hair is hot, and it does not take long,
you're just gonna slide the iron out,
and then twist it back up, and then like two seconds,
and slide it out and twist it back up.
And then a couple more seconds, and you're just going to
let go, so I'm opening up the clip,
and sliding the iron out, and wallah.
Now curls actually set when the hair cools down,
so you don't want to touch it right now while it's hot,
unless you want the curl to fall out a little bit.
It's just like paintin', like don't touch it
until it's totally dry, or in this case, totally cool.
So let's go through that one more time.
You're gonna pick up your section, clip your iron on,
and then immediately twist it up.
Then slide it out and twist it back up.
And when I'm sliding it out, I'm putting a little pressure
on the handle so it opens up the clip,
and that makes it easier to slide.
And sometimes if you want more control, you can grab
the end hairs because that just kinda helps everything
to jostle around a little bit less, so if you're having
trouble controlling the iron, that can help.
And then we take it out, and we don't touch it.
Another thing you can do if you're feeling like you have
trouble controlling the iron, is to hold it on top
where the stop is, only if there's something to protect
you from the heat up here, 'cause that can give you
a little more control as you're going through
and learning how to do this.
And if you've never used a curling iron before,
I recommend practicing this with the iron cool a few times.
That way you get the practice of like that twisting method
and all of that without any danger.
Now if the twist and slide is a little bit too advanced,
or a little too scary, the old school way to do it,
just clip your hair on the ends and roll it up
like a sleeping bag, still keeping it straight up and down
like a torch, like the Statue of Liberty over here,
with a curling iron.
It is a lot easier, but if you want to impress people
with the technique slash be more gentle to your ends,
see if you can learn how to do the twist and slide.
If not, no shame in this method.
Now we're gonna do the hair that's at the front.
I think Jonathan gets a little fancy, the hair comes forward
right here on both sides, which is really cute
and very chic, love, and then it goes back
and does its same vertical curl.
So to create that, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take
this iron and I'm gonna bring it and the hair forward.
So forward like so, curling slightly as I go.
Then I'm gonna take the iron out, and I'm gonna start
curling the hair right at the height of about my eye,
in that same vertical way we did everything else.
So at this point we are done curling the hair,
but we are not done styling it, 'cause this is not
what we're going for.
What you're gonna do is just take your fingers
and gently rake them through your hair, and as you do that,
it helps to break up those ringlets, so then it turns
into a pretty kinda curl wave.
And now, other side.
All right, so for this side, let's talk about how to use it
if you just have a curling wand, which means you don't
have a clip, just got a wand.
So the important part here is gonna be to keep the hair
flat on the iron as you're wrapping it around.
So you wanna hold the iron straight up and down,
and as you're wrapping the hair around,
make sure you're never twisting it, but that it's laying
flat on the iron all the way around as it's heating up.
And then you let it off, and let it cool
just like everything else.
So again, you're just gonna pick up your piece of hair,
and you're going to hold your iron straight up and down,
whether that's right side up or upside down,
and you're gonna wrap the hair around making sure
that you never twist the hair as you're wrapping it around.
And you hold it 'til the hair warms up,
and you let it off, and we just keep going.
So question, which of the fab five
do you think you are most like?
I feel like I'm either Antoni or Bobby,
and I really can't decide which.
Antoni, in that he is definitely the most quiet and reserved
of the group, and I am a more quiet reserved person,
but I'm also very goofy, which I feel is more Bobby,
and he also strikes me as like a more
introverted member of the group.
He and I have similar upbringings, I just,
I feel a big kinship with Bobs too, so I really don't know,
but I think I'm one of those.
Which one are you?
Lemme know in the comments.
All right, so then for the front, if you don't have a clip
on your curling iron, it's a little harder to do this,
but it is possible.
You're just going to take your curling iron underneath
and you're gonna slide it down the hair as you hold
the hair forward over your forehead, almost like you're
trying to style bangs on your forehead.
And then, you go back to holding your iron
straight up and down, and wrapping the hair around,
making sure to wrap it around at the height of your eyebrow,
but keeping it an appropriate distance from your face,
otherwise you're gonna end up burying yourself which I did
like this morning, right here, not the best.
Also did this, but this was paella,
this was not a curling iron for once.
So we're gonna rake our fingers through,
pull this piece back behind, like a piece that's right
over your ear, so it kinda does this little sweep away.
I feel like my hair is not as thick as Jonathan's
and like Jonathan honey, do you have a weave in?
Like I'm just curious because that hair is so luxurious,
I just want to know.
I'm gonna put in some of the Kritin Ess Style Defining
Shine Pomade and Edge Control pomade.
I'm just gonna use the tiniest amount of this
'cause it is kinda like a gel and she really means this
for like slicking your hair back, but you can take
the tiniest bit on your fingers and use it to just like
gently define specific curls.
And Jonathon hon, if you see this, like we would all love
a tutorial direct from you honey, like on your Insta maybe.
It would be so great, I would be so down,
I'd at least watch it 10 times.
And then I'm gonna grab a little bit of hair spray,
and to go back to Jonathan's fave,
we're gonna use some Ouai soft control hair spray.
Just doing a light mist and then I'm holding it up
while the hair spray dries to help it look
a little bit more curled and defined.
You can tell the difference in the two sides.
Mmm, who gave us permission ?
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So those are our Jonathan Van Ness waves.
I love them, they're so pretty and shiny and minimal,
but also like hello I'm here and I look great.
I'm here for it, I love it.
Time to start our little rapid fire hair tutorial sess',
on some other hair styles he's worn in the series.
We're gonna start with a cute little half up-do.
The first thing you're gonna do is put the top bit
of your hair into a ponytail on top of your head.
I've seen him do it two ways, you can either
take your fingers right next to each ear and slide
them to meet together on the top.
He always has it kinda disheveled so it's totally fine
to do this with your fingers
instead of a brush if you want to.
And then you can do the bun, and you can end up
with this shape which is gonna be super flattering
on certain face types, but for me and possibly for some
of you out here, there's another way he does it
that's just a little but more flattering.
And that's to take the hair from each side of the temple,
bring it straight back to where you want your ponytail
to sit, and secure it with an elastic.
Now you might be wondering which one is right for you,
I say try both and whichever one makes you
do a little smile and twirl, is the right one.
So once you put your ponytail in, you're gonna twist
the hair and then you're going to wrap in into a bun,
and basically you do that by wrapping the hair around
the ponytail holder, just a bunch of times.
And the way that Jonathan I think does it,
is just to keep wrapping it and letting it get tall
like this, and then pinning it in place at the bottom.
And if you don't know how to use bobby pins,
I have a whole video on that, which I will link above,
and in the description box.
And there you go.
I really like how he wears the buns like super high
instead of being low to the head, they're kinda like,
I don't even know, like a cupcake shape,
but I kinda love it.
Now full disclosure, this next one he does
with straight hair, but we're just gonna make it work.
Starting with a center part, you can either use a comb,
or a bore bristle brush like we used for blow drying,
and you're going to use that to slick
the hair back into a low ponytail.
So we're going in with that hair spray.
If you're hair is a little bit more unruly,
you could always use some of this Kristin Ess Shine Pomade
and kind of like put that over the hair
before combing it back, it will be very very slick,
but it will be also very very slick, it won't go anywhere.
And there you go, that's Jonathan's quick sleek ponytail.
This could definitely be a good second or third day option
if you're not washing your hair every day.
You could go for that sleek look
that your hair is already giving you
and it just kinda make everything look like
it's on purpose, it makes it look super chic and super easy.
And the last hair style I want to do for Jonathan
is just to add on to this.
So we've already done these steps, I'm then going to braid
this ponytail and secure it at the end with a smaller,
but still dark, elastic.
In the episode he was wearing this hair style with,
he was also wearing like this khaki green situation going on
so I feel like I'm really channeling Jonathan right now.
With summer, this is also a really great hair style
for like the pool or the beach, especially if you have
like a more like chic stream-lined swimsuit.
The whole look could be very cool
and keep your hair very, very safe.
And that's it for our Queer Eye inspired video.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it,
remember here on Kayley and Melissa, we are all about
beauty tools, not beauty rules.
None of this is something that you have to do,
because your hair has to look a certain way, no.
These are tools to help you figure out how to style
your hair in the way that you want to, for you,
to make you happy when you look in the mirror.
So I hope that you got that from this video today,
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So that's it for today, I will see you guys on my next one.
Muah, bye.
♪ Things just keep gettin' better. ♪
There's one piece that doesn't want to behave.
Honey darlin', let's take you to church
and get you behaving right.
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