- Hey everyone, Kayley, your friendly neighborhood
hairstylist here, and today we're doing
some wearable braids inspired by Game of Thrones.
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It's not secret at this point
that I'm kind of a Game of Thrones fan,
and I did my Daenarys evolution video,
I did my Sansa evolution video,
and as I was doing the Sansa one, I was like,
you know, you would only have to change this slightly
to be a really great summer hairstyle.
And thus, this video was born. (laughs)
Today we're gonna simplify, we're gonna make this accessible
for everyone, whether your hair is finer or shorter
or whatever-er than the Game of Thrones ladies
with the long luscious hair.
And you know, whether you watch the show,
and however you felt about the ending,
the hairstyles are great, and we can enjoy them
forevermore, so let's just go ahead and get into it.
Let's get started with this half-updo
inspired by Cersei, Catelyn, and Sansa.
Quick FYI, you can do these hairstyles on any hair texture.
I have mine curled with a one inch curling iron,
nothing special, just wrapped it around,
and now I'm ready to go.
So the first thing you're gonna do is take a section
on each side of your part, and braid it to the end,
and secure it with a bobby pin.
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And now you can go ahead and fluff up the braids
a little bit, however big you want to get them.
I'm just gonna do like a medium amount.
Now that these braids are done, you're going to pull them
to the back and secure it with an elastic.
If your braids are pretty short like mine,
you can pick up a little bit of extra hair
to give the elastic something to hold onto,
that way if you're working with just little ends,
you've got a little bit more to help you out.
Now with this hairstyle, you have the option
to put it in a bun or a not.
If you're gonna put it in the bun,
you're done with that first braid.
If you're not going to,
I would wrap some hair around the elastic.
I'm going to put this little Topsy Tail/hair beader
up and through the elastic,
grab a little bit of hair around the elastic,
put it through the mouth of the hair beader
and pull it back through, and you're done.
It's the easiest way to wrap hair around an elastic.
Linked below.
And there you go, first braid down.
Now you're gonna take a large section on either side,
the exact size is up to you.
You're gonna twist both sides and then bring them back
into a hair elastic, also including the ponytail
from our first braids, and let down some baby hairs.
And finally, if you want to, wrap that with some hair.
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And now that we're here, you could stop
and this is a really pretty hairstyle on its own.
If your hair is too short to make the bun,
you could definitely stop here
and have a great beachy hairstyle.
But if you wanna do the bun, here's how.
You're gonna grab the ponytail that we have,
and if you need to, a little bit more hair,
twist it loosely, and then grab a little piece
at the end of the hair and scrunch it back up.
And wrap that scrunched hair into the shape
of a bun and pin it in place.
Side note, if you are gonna do the bun,
you don't have to wrap the hair around the elastics
as you're doing the first part of this hairstyle.
And that is the hairstyle.
We see Sansa, Catelyn, and Cersei wear this
at different times during the story,
so I thought it would be a fun one to adapt.
It's also really pretty and easy to do and wear,
so I think it could be a good go-to for summer,
whether your hair is long or short,
whether you do it with or without a bun, it's super cute.
And now we're onto the Margaery Tyrell inspired half-updo.
Now you all super loved this character,
so I was definitely gonna do something inspired by her.
I do recommend that you start out with curled hair,
and then if your hair is fine, I recommend putting
some texturizing spray into it 'cause that will help it
to really pop in the twist a lot more.
That being said, hairstyle time.
I'm doing mine with my normal side part, but Margaery
has a center part, so you can do that if you want.
I'm gonna start off by making a rope braid on each side
of my part, all the way down the hair, and then
securing it with a bobby pin to hold it in place.
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Notice that these are just to my shoulders,
so if you have a bob, you should be fine with this step.
And I'm just gonna take these to the back
and pin them in place, one over the other.
But if you don't like bobby pins
you could also use a hair elastic.
And now for the next step you're gonna section
all the hair in front of your ears.
And with these we're gonna create
the twists that go under the rope braid.
So you're gonna take a hairbrush
and brush back one side, so that it's nicely flowin' back
and under that braid.
Then you're gonna twist it a couple of times,
and grab a little tiny piece of hair at the end,
push the rest of the twist up,
and then loosen it a little bit.
Basically, that helps to fluff up the twist,
make it a little bit more voluminous.
Then you can manipulate it around a little bit
if you need, and once it's where you like,
go ahead and pin it underneath the rope braid.
And then if you're looking back at the front
and you see that there's a gap between your twist
and your rope braid,
you can kind of pick this up
and put a pin in there as well to hold that in place.
And then if you want any little baby hairs
around your face, you can just kinda free those.
And now we do the other side.
This one you're doing it the exact same way
but you're going to put it over the bobby pin
that we just put in,
and then bobby pin up and into the twist
to hide the very last one.
Basically, every layer that we've been putting over
should be hiding bobby pins as we go.
You just wanna make sure for this last one
you're sticking it into the twist
so then you can't see it at all.
And there's our Margaery Tyrell inspired half updo.
This has the same kind of shape that she did,
but it's a lot simpler, and you know,
you don't need a mountain of hair to be able to do it.
I think this could definitely go for weddings
or I could even see it just being a chill,
every day hairstyle.
So it's pretty much good for anything.
And now moving on to some Sansa Stark inspired braids.
You know when I said there was a Sansa Stark hairstyle
that inspired this whole video?
This is the one.
Okay, first things first,
you're going to start with a center part
and then you're going to section off the hair
from the temples up on each side
and clip everything else out of the way.
Now the only hair that's left out
is the hair that we're braiding
which makes everything much easier.
Our next step is to do a Dutch braid
on each side of the part, braiding all the way back
until you've incorporated all the hair that you left down
and then finish off the hair with a normal braid.
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And now you're just going to pull apart each braid
to voluminize it a little bit.
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And now that the braids are done you can take the clips out.
We're gonna finish off the hair style
just like Sansa did.
We're going to wrap the braids around each other
and then secure it with an elastic.
And I recommend pinning at the top
where the braids cross for the first time,
to make sure everything stays criss-crossed nicely.
And for the final touch I'm going to add in a hair clip
on the end of the braid.
It's definitely good to have an elastic in there
especially if your hair is a little sparse
'cause it gives the clip something to hold onto.
And those are Sansa Stark's braids.
They're very similar to the original
but I really like it pulled apart and with the clip added.
It's just extra beachy
and it's pretty easy to do,
so it's a good one.
And now onto this Daenerys inspired braid
from the only early hairstyle of hers
that I didn't do in my last video.
For this hairstyle I'm gonna start
with a lace braid on each side,
going towards the back.
Then braid a couple inches normally
and secure it with a bobby pin.
Now I'm gonna go through and fluff this up
a little bit.
And now repeat the same thing on the other side.
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And now I'm going to differ from the original hairstyle.
I'm just gonna bring these two braids together
and secure them with an elastic.
We have one more set of braids
but if you have shorter hair
this might be a good place to stop.
Now that you have your first set of braids in,
let's move on to the second set of braids.
First you're gonna split your hair in half
and then on one side you're gonna start doing
a Dutch braid that follows
right along the nape of your neck.
And you wanna start that right behind your ear
because that just makes things a lot easier.
Then braid the rest of your hair normally
and secure it with a bobby pin.
Now we're gonna repeat the same thing
on the other side.
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And now if you want to you can pull
these two braids apart.
The final step is to bring these two braids together.
So you're gonna secure the end of both braids together
with an elastic and then go in with bobby pins
and attach them throughout the braid.
You don't have to do a lot, just enough
to where the braid's not separated.
'Cause you don't want that.
And you're done!
I do love this for any time,
it is, you know, made for the elements,
one in particular, no spoilers.
It's a good hairstyle, just in general
for looking cute every day or extra cute by the pool.
And finally we have this hairstyle that is loosely inspired
by King's Landing.
So for this hairstyle we're gonna create
a Dutch rope braid
which sounds complicated but is not, mostly.
You're gonna start by splitting your hair in half
and then we're gonna braid one side at a time.
To make a Dutch rope braid
you're gonna start by taking a section right up
next to your part and your hairline
and split it in two.
Then you twist each section in one direction,
and wrap it in the other.
For this hairstyle you're going to twist it
away from your face and then wrap it toward your face.
Once you got that started you're going to add in hair
but you're only adding in hair to the section that's right
next to your face.
This one is always chillin'.
You're basically gonna take a section of hair diagonally
from your part to your hairline
and that goes into the front section of the rope braid.
Twist it away from the face
and then wrap towards.
And then you just continue doing that.
You're gonna pick up your section diagonally,
put it with the front piece of hair,
twist and wrap.
Then once your sections get a little bigger
you might need to pick them up in two steps
so I'm gonna take out my diagonal from the back
and put it with the front section
and then I'm gonna pick up my diagonal from the front.
So it's that same diagonal parting,
it's just doing it in two sets
rather than trying to hold a whole lot of hair at once
'cause that gets complicated.
Now we're gonna take a quick detour
for a short hair modification.
Once you've got your Dutch braid to behind your ear
go ahead and braid the rest normally
and secure it with an elastic,
and by normally I mean rope braid it normally.
If you want to you can do a little massage
on the braid to kind of fluff it apart
and then you repeat this on the other side
and that is it for the short hair version of this hairstyle.
This will look cute on short or long hair
especially if you don't wanna Dutch braid the entire thing
but I wanted to give you an option
if you don't have a whole lot of endage to work with.
And now back to the long hair version.
Basically you keep Dutch rope braiding
until all of the hair is incorporated
and then you rope braid the end normally.
And once you've got all that done
you can go in and massage to pull apart the braid
if you want to.
Also if the braid is kind of departing from your head
in any weird way, you can pin it down.
This time it worked out for me
but I've had times before
where I had like a bump here
or it being too loose here.
It's really normal, just go in with a bobby pin
and stick it back to your head.
And now you just repeat the same thing
on the other side.
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So there's our King's Landing inspired hairstyle.
I was originally just going to do
rope braided pigtails for it
and then I was like wait
why just do rope braided pigtails
when you can do a Dutch rope braid?
Also I like that it has volume up here at the crown
to somewhat mimic the volume that there are
in King's Landing hairstyles
without goin' all the way there.
And there you go, those are our Game of Thrones
inspired hairstyles.
I hope that you guys like it.
I think they're so great.
I will fully be wearing these for summer.
Especially this one for the pool.
I think so useful.
You know whatever you think about Game of Thrones
the hairstyles were pretty cool
so I really like being able to translate them
into real life and to things that I can wear
and enjoy and have that like little nod
to a series that I at least super loved.
That being said, I am probably done
with the Game of Thrones content
until Halloween.
Hit me up with whatever hairstyles you wanna see around then
because, you know, I'll be doin' it.
But for now I wanna move on with the hair evolution series
but do it for different fandoms,
different movies, TV shows,
pop culture figures,
anything like that.
So if you have any requests leave them in the comments.
I definitely need inspiration for who to do next
and obviously your requests will take me a long way
in that direction.
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