- Hey everyone Kayley here.
Your friendly neighborhood hairstylist here.
And today we're recreating Jasmine Saunders hair
from the Met Gala.
This hair was stunning and as soon as it walked the carpet
you guys started requesting it on Twitter,
which I was really excited about
because it was all kinds of Renaissance,
Rapunzel, Barbie realness.
I was into it.
So I immediately wanted to recreate it.
But I thought it would be cool for this video,
if I didn't just show you guys how to do,
you know this red carpet hairstyle,
but also some ways that you could translate that
into everyday.
So I'm gonna be giving you guys a few
everyday hairstyles inspired by the red carpet style,
so that you guys could actually put it into use immediately.
But before we get into any of that,
let's give a massive shout out to the hairstylist
that created this work of actual art.
It is Renda Attia and her assistant Lee.
They killed it, like moment of applause for them.
We always talk about the celebrities that wear the styles,
but we need to talk about the hairstylists that create them,
because they are actual geniuses.
But I think that is it for the intro.
Let's get into the hairstyle.
Thus far, I have curled my hair very loosely
with a one-inch curling iron.
And I've put in some hair extensions
just to fill in all this hair,
because we have to bring those sections back
into the braid and we needed more hair than I have, so.
The first thing we're gonna do is clip back
the front of the hair to make that it's making
the correct shape.
She kinda has this center part and the hair comes down
to just below the jaw.
So we're just gonna go ahead and shape the hair that way
and clip it in place,
so you don't have to worry about it again.
And now we're gonna separate off the hair
that goes into our ribbon-wrapped section.
There are nine of those in total.
We have three velvet ribbon sections on each side,
one pearl section on each side and then a nice little rogue
gold-wrapped section
that I'm gonna do kind of in the middle.
The sections for the ribbon are a little
on the smaller side, whereas the sections for the pearls
are gonna be a little bit bigger.
And the pearl sections are gonna be on either side
of the nape of your neck.
Okay so now we get to add in the ribbon.
And the way we're gonna do that is to do a little half knot
around the elastic, as tight as you can.
And then wrap the ribbon around
and secure it with an elastic as tight as you can.
And then go back in with a bobby pin,
and bobby pin the knot up at the top.
The reason I'm taking all the precautions
is because I have been playing around with this,
just practicing it, and it's very easy for the ribbon
to come unraveled and very frustrating to fix
on yourself if that happens.
So I just wanna get it all done right the first time.
So I've gotten started with the dusty rose
and then I'm gonna go in with red and burgundy,
alternating on either side.
Then do the pearls, and finish off with a gold section.
Now it's all in.
I'm starting to get the vibes.
I'm starting to see it coming together.
And now we get to start pinning
and then we get to start braiding.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is pin the dusty rose
sections over each other.
These kind of come and frame the crown of the head,
so we wanna make sure that everything's lookin' good there.
Then you're gonna keep crossing sections over
and pinning them as you go.
It's gonna look like you're creating a braid as you go,
but it gives you a little bit more control of the sections
that you take and the way that they look.
But then once you've crossed pretty much everything over,
you get to split it into three sections
and braid the rest normally,
which is going to feel so triumphant at this point.
And when you get to the end, you can secure it
with an elastic.
And now I'm wrapping this up with some gold metallic cord.
I couldn't find the exact color that they used,
but I was just excited to find anything close.
Alright and at the end I'm just gonna tie a little
half knot and let the end of the cord hang down.
And now for the flowers.
I'm so excited for flowers.
For the flowers I'm using mix of real spring roses,
faux spring roses and then a couple ribbon rosettes
that I picked up at a craft store.
And that's the finished look.
I feel like a princess.
I feel beautiful.
I wanna twirl and dance and sing to animals.
I love it.
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It is now the next day and we're gonna talk about
some ways to take elements from the Met Gala hairstyle
and make it for everyday.
So the first hairstyle we're gonna do
focuses on using red ribbon, because red has been
a really big color over the past year, year and a half.
And I think wearing it in your hair can be super cool,
especially if you're wearing a really neutral outfit.
So you're gonna get started by putting all your hair
into a low ponytail.
And then we're gonna take about six inches of ribbon,
you're going to tie a half knot around the elastic.
Wrap it a couple times 'til you've got to the end
of the ribbon and then bobby pin that in place.
And you could totally stop here.
This is a really cute hairstyle.
I feel a little bit cool with it,
especially with the pop of red on there.
And I like using a ribbon in a different way
to kind of create a cuff, versus just like a bow,
or you know, something we've already done and seen before.
But I'm gonna keep moving on with it.
And do a braid with the pony tail, until I have about
two inches of hair left, and then I'm gonna secure
with another elastic.
And then to finish it off, I'm wrapping one more
ribbon around and bobby pinning that in place.
And there you go.
We managed to keep the braid and the red ribbon,
but it's a lot more minimal and wearable for every day,
whether it's just with a tee-shirt, or with
a summery dress, just to add a little more of a cool factor.
I think it's really, really cute.
Next I wanna take inspiration from the actual braid itself
because I thought it was so pretty.
There were a lot of pieces that we ended up crossing over
before we did our normal braid.
The thing is that's actually not hard to do
and it can be done in like five minutes or less.
So I'm gonna start with taking section of hair
from one side, giving it a couple of twists
and then pinning it on the other side.
And then repeating on the other side of my head,
so I'm making little Xs all the way down.
And definitely make sure you're pinning up
and into the twist to make it extra secure.
But if bobby pins aren't your thing you could also
do this with snap clips.
You can go in and cross the sections over,
and just hold the one on top, with the snap clip.
It will stay in place.
The next section will cover it up and you're good to go
and it makes it way, way easier.
Once you've crossed everything but the nape of your neck
over, you can go ahead and split the hair into three
and braid all the way down.
And then, once everything's in place you can
loosen things up a bit.
Make sure you like how it looks.
And that's it.
Once you've stripped down all the extra ribbons and flowers,
this braid is just a great go to hairstyle.
Another cool touch to this braid
for like a special occasion, or a really great
Instagram picture would be these gold leaves from Kitsch.
These are little spirals that you twist into your hair
and it can give you that kind of floral look
without it being, oh florals for hair.
Groundbreaking.
My final bit of inspiration, from the original hairstyle,
is wrapping sections before you braid them.
I think that can give such cool dimension to a braid.
And I've also seen a girl on Instagram,
her name is Goldie Long Locks,
and she's done a couple videos with that on Instagram
and I love it.
So you guys should follow her.
She has some great inspo.
But I thought I'd play around with right now
and just see what kind of things we can do with it.
So to keep everything matching my background
and my shirt, I'm gonna use this white thread,
but obviously you could do this with pastels,
brights, rainbows, whatever you wanna do.
I'm just gonna grab a section of hair and wrap it up.
I think I'm just gonna kinda wrap this around loosely
so it's not gonna be anything crazy.
I'm not doing friendship bracelety stuff to my hair,
or making a hair wrap by any means,
'cause that's just more work than I wanna do.
Think I'm just gonna secure this with a bobby pin.
And then I'm gonna bring everything to the back
and braid it all together.
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Now I'm going to secure it all with an elastic.
And then I purposely left some extra thread
so I could wrap it around the elastic.
And I might, 'cause I kinda have a lot of hair left,
I might just kinda take it down the end
of the hair a little bit.
I like how it looks now, so I'm gonna go ahead
and tie this in two half knots.
And that's it.
I love this hairstyle.
Like it's simple.
It's modern, but it's still got a little bit of that
Kayley Melissa braided thing to it.
Like I'm into it.
And I think with that, we are done with today's video.
I hope that you guys enjoyed seeing how to do
the original style, but also just some ways that you
could actually bring things from that into
your everyday life.
Let me know by hitting the like button
and commenting below if you would like me
to keep doing that kind of thing when I do recreations.
I feel like that makes so much more sense,
than just throwing out a hairstyle that you will
probably never actually recreate.
Anyway, that's it.
Love you guys, you're the best.
I'm gonna be back on Wednesday with another video.
So be sure to come back for that,
and I'll see you then.
Mmwa, bye.
(romantic music)
I feel pretty.
Guys.
Ha.
(Kayley giggles)
I am so happy.
I am Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
♪Tale as old as time ♪
♪Soul as old as rhyme ♪
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