- Hey everyone, Kayley, your friendly
neighborhood hairstylist here,
and today we are trying out a week of Instagram hairstyles
in real life.
What am I getting myself into?
(upbeat music)
So I let my sister go through Instagram,
and pick out five different hairstyles for me to try
for the first time ever, and do them on camera.
I'm going to be showing you
how I brought the hairstyles to life.
So there is still a tutorial element,
but I'm also figuring this out as I go.
So I've actually already done all the days,
and my goodness guys,
I am so excited for you to see this.
It is quite the journey.
There is some good new hairstyle inspo,
and some stuff that was so uncomfortable for me
I cannot even tell you.
So, all that being said, let's get into it.
(upbeat music)
All right, so day number one.
Anna Laura, what am I doing today?
- [Anna Laura] Are you excited?
- I am nervous.
(nervous laughter)
- [Anna Laura] This look is coming to you courtesy of
@whatlydialikes
- Oooh, we love her. I love her.
- [Anna Laura] Yeah.
It's going to be this braided
- Oh! double dutch up-do.
- I just bought those hair pins.
Is that why you picked this?
- [Anna Laura] Yeah.
- I'm excited.
Let's do it.
Imma need some hair.
So first I'm gonna need extensions.
I grabbed six pieces of hair.
These are the little one clip wefts,
that come in sets of hair extensions.
Theses are really helpful to stick into the base of a braid.
So I'm going to do just three on each side,
along the path of the braid.
Parting my hair in the middle.
Honestly my mood is usually directly proportional
to the amount of hair I'm wearing.
Now these are not curled the same way as my hair,
which does not matter right now, because we're braiding it.
Now that the extensions are in, we braid!
Because we know that I'm gonna be pulling this apart,
I'm going to take small sections,
and be a little bit more precise with the braid
because that gives you more links to bubble out.
Now I'm going to go through and pull apart the braid.
And hope that it's sitting at the right place on my head.
Now let's do the same thing,
on the other side.
(upbeat music)
Okay now before we do the buns,
let's just go ahead and fill in any sparse areas
with some Color Wow Root Cover Powder.
Now, how to make the buns?
What would be the easiest
and the most likely to be effective?
First thing I'm gonna do is secure the braids with elastics,
right where the dutch braid ends.
And that way we can use the resulting pony tail
to create the buns.
All right, I need to see that picture again.
Anna's coming through.
It's a chignon and--
- [Anna Laura] A wrap?
- The ends are super wrapped around,
and that's where all those whispies come from.
Aha!
Okay, here we go.
Curling iron on.
I'm just going to brush these out,
while the curling iron heats up.
So I'm just gonna stick like a quick basic curl in here,
so that when the ends are flying free they look pretty.
This is not necessary if you're replicating this at home.
This is just cause I wanna get it
kinda closer to the picture.
Now if I realized I was doing a chignon,
I would have left my hair looped on the last rotation.
Now I'm just gonna try to fake it,
and just undo one loop and only pull the hair
part of the way back through.
Actually you know what,
I have some slack on this side,
I'm just gonna loop it one more time.
And now we just wrap the rest of the hair
around the elastics maybe leaving some ends out,
and we're gonna pin that in place.
Now just repeat on the other side.
And now for the final touch,
I have theses clips from ASOS.
If they are still there, I will link them below.
They have little suns,
and little moons.
And I really really like them.
So I'm just gonna stick a couple in,
and we'll be done.
Okay Anna Laura you can come take a look.
- [Anna Laura] Oh my gosh, it's so magical.
- [Kayley] Did I do it?
- [Anna Laura] You did it!
- [Kayley] Yes?
- [Anna Laura] Yes!
- [Kayley] I succeeded?
- [Anna Laura] Challenge passed!
(both cheer)
- [Anna Laura] Oh my gosh, what do you say
we go prance around town now?
- [Kayley] Okay!
(both laugh)
(camera sounds)
- We were gonna be vlogging on all the different days
so that, you know, I wear it out and about,
but, um, I have to go to therapy,
and I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be camera-ready
after therapy, so this is our vlog footage today.
- [Anna Laura] Just frolic a little, spin.
(laughs)
I think our versions of frolic are very different.
- [Kayley] Okay, day one was not too bad.
I am hopeful for day two.
Anna Laura, what are we doing?
- [Anna Laura] So, I'm super excited for today 'cause
this is one of the most iconic hairstyles to me
- [Kayley] Oh! recently.
- [Anna Laura] I think you should take a guess.
- My top three guesses would be, like,
@hairby_chrissy, Kirsten Zellers,
Ash Petty/Amber Fillerup would be my third.
- [Anna Laura] Those are all really good guesses.
It was Kirsten Zellers, on the money.
All right, well this is it.
- Aw, hey!
All right, big ol' braids.
I can do this.
I'm gonna need some fake hair doe.
- [Anna Laura] You see that, uh, outfit corelation though?
- Oh my god.
Anna's been picking out my outfits.
I'm just, like, putting on stuff
and hoping for the best.
Okay, so for hair, if you have a set of normal extensions,
you can just put those in and do this hairstyle.
But just for ease, for me, I'm gonna use two of the
Barefoot Blonde Pony Ups.
You've got a incredibly flat, seamless base
and then a lot of hair.
So, basically, let's you stick a
chunk of hair wherever you need it.
For me, that'll be the pigtails on each side.
I really, really love these.
I use them all the time and if you feel like
that sounds like something you would use, I recommend.
Now I've got an Instagram amount of hair.
We're ready to get started.
I think she had her hair parted in the middle,
so I'll do that.
Okay, so the first section is actually like this.
And this piece comes back.
Is there anything wrong with pulling these pieces back: no.
Do I feel naked without them: yes.
The key to not losing a thousand hairs doing this hairstyle
is making sure that your sections are super duper clean.
And then, basically, every time you pull the hair through,
you use your hands to go through and check for any little
hanger-oner hairs that are trying
to jump in on the hair elastic action.
Now we voluminize.
This time, I'm taking a section
from each side and bringing it together.
So, these sections are a little bit smaller
and coming up closer.
Once again, leaving this guy out, and then taking another
two sections and securing them with an elastic.
And so, now I'm gonna go into the pull-through braid.
I'm gonna do it the way she does,
which is to split the top section,
and then take the split around the bottom section
and secure it there.
That way, the elastic ends up on the underside
and is not as clearly visible.
(upbeat music)
Okay, sissy, come fact check me.
- [Anna Laura] With pleasure!
Oh my gosh, I love it.
- Did I do it?
- [Anna Laura] Yeah, looks great.
- So, today is the bodacious braid day, huh?
- [Anna Laura] Yes.
- Well, I am feeling bodacious.
All right so, now I just do
the same thing on the other side.
- [Anna Laura] Yes, it looks great!
(upbeat music)
All right, as far as the braids go, I'm happy.
I am gonna loosen up the curls on this side,
so that the two tails can be more symmetrical.
And I think, um, one of these is curled a little tight,
so I'm gonna loosen that up.
But other than that, I think we're done.
Oh Anna Laura!
- [Anna Laura] Oh how cute are you!
I love it!
- [Kayley] Yeah?
- [Anna Laura] Yeah, it looks perfect.
(upbeat music) (camera sounds)
- This place was made for me.
- Okay, so day three, what are we doing?
- [Anna Laura] So, today we are doing a trend
I've been seeing all over Instagram.
- Okay.
- [Anna Laura] And you may have heard of it.
It's called the diamond infinity braid.
(Kayley sighs)
- Yeah, I know her.
- [Anna Laura] You don't look very excited.
- I'm very scared of that.
You want me to do that on myself?
- [Anna Laura] Do you wanna do it on me?
- Ah, yes!
- [Anna Laura] Yeah, that's fine.
- Yes! I already have hair
and makeup on today.
This is the picture of it.
I guess you already know what it is.
- Yes, yes I know this very well.
All right, well, enter camera, sissy sissy.
- Hello!
(Kayley laughs)
All right, so for this part of the video, grab a friend.
(laughs)
- [Kayley] Actually, if you guys can do this on yourself,
I want you to post a picture and I want you to tag me,
comment, like, share, I will be impressed.
- [Anna Laura] Yeah
- [Kayley] I promise that much.
So, basically, this is an infinity braid,
and then you're taking in little pieces
and adding them to the base section as you go,
so that way you get the diamond shape
because the base sections are getting
bigger and bigger and bigger.
And then, once you've reached your widest point,
you're gonna start taking little pieces out
and I put hair clips on either side of the braid
so that they could hold the hair out of the way,
otherwise, I think I'd probably lose my brain.
Then, at the end, you do a couple times normally,
and wrap the hair around, and bobby pin it.
Wow.
- [Anna Laura] Did you do it?
- [Kayley] I did macrame on your head!
Un photo.
- [Anna Laura] Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
- All right I just wanna do a little, like,
tweaking around here.
There's a whole different skillset involved
in doing, like, really intricate braids on somebody else.
- [Anna Laura] Well, you killed it girl.
- [Kayley] I killed it?
- [Anna Laura] Yes.
- I look so short.
(laughs)
It's just my little head.
Hello!
Okay, so that was a braid.
Boy, did you challenge me,
- Okay so, I'm gonna be honest, when I was, like,
thinking of these five hairstyles,
I didn't think that this was gonna be the hardest.
I guess 'cause I've seen you do infinity braids before.
Now I see, like, with the adding and then the taking it out,
like, I get it.
- Yeah, yeah.
The reason this one is difficult is that
you have to take the same size sections every time,
generally, and so, when you're behind your head,
- Right.
- And you can't see what you're doing,
- Yeah.
- It's a lot of feeling and praying and hoping.
I'm glad I did it on you instead.
- I'm glad you did it on me 'cause
now I have such cool hair.
- I'm actually very impressed with myself.
I feel a sense of accomplishment having done this braid.
(both laugh)
- [Anna Laura] Well, you're off the hook today.
I guess, now, I have to frolic around town.
- [Kayley] Yeah, let's go take this Instagram
hairstyle into the wild and photograph it.
- Yas, Instagram photo shoot, here we come.
You got out of modeling for the day, too.
(camera sounds)
There was fully a woman inside who was, like,
standing to the side of me and she goes,
to, like, look behind my head.
I was like whoa!
- [Kayley] Hairstyle thoughts, give me
your final thoughts on this thing.
- Final thoughts, I could never do it on myself,
so find someone who loves you a lot
and get them to do it for you.
- [Kayley] It me.
- But I really like it.
- [Kayley] So we give it a thumbs up?
- [Anna Laura] Thumbs up!
- [Kayley] So, welcome to day four.
I think we've mentioned this already,
Anna has been picking out my outfits for each day.
What are we doing?
I've got a crop top, I've got leggings.
This might not look really out of the ordinary to you guys
from this up, but I'm out of the ordinary.
What are we doing?
- [Anna Laura] So, this was the day I was pretty sure
was the most out of your comfort zone, but
I wanted to give the full spectrum of Instagram
- Okay. and I really
feel like going in more of a baddie direction.
- A baddie, huh?
- [Anna Laura] Do you feel like a baddie?
- No
(laughs)
What about this does not read baddie to you?
(laughs)
- [Anna Laura] So this inspiration is coming to us
from Miss Amanda Ensing.
- Oh, love her. You know her?
So she does these really cool waves
- Yeah. in her hair
and first of all, she has hair for days.
- Oh, it's like a little Kim K.
I think I need some hair.
I have these that will go down to about here.
- [Anna Laura] Yep, I think this is good.
- Okay.
- [Anna Laura] If I'm being honest,
I think you need to do a makeup update.
- I do not have a baddie amount of makeup on,
that's for sure.
Which one do I do first: hair or makeup?
- [Anna Laura] Let's go ahead and do makeup.
- Okay, well then I will B-R-B with the winged liner,
probably some lashes, and an overlined lip.
(claps)
Hey-o.
To get true, like, long, baddie hair,
ya have to have extensions.
I have this new set of extensions
from a brand that I don't get to tell you guys about yet,
but it's really good.
First things first, we have this long piece
that goes at the occipital.
Now one slightly over that.
Oh, yes, darling.
I can't remember what the instructions said about
how to place the other ones in,
so I'm gonna do it my own way.
I'm gonna put these, actually,
underneath the two that I just put in.
All right, now I just gotta put the ones up at the front.
One goes over the ear, then this guy goes over here.
Even one more.
And now, same thing on the other side.
So, obviously, we can see that parts of my hair are wavy,
but also, parts of the hair extensions
are a little straighter.
So, I say we go in and we do a quick little
curl touch-up moment.
Center part over my sunburn.
Took out the top two little pieces on each side.
I'm gonna put them back here, so that
they go into my little party pony.
And then, we're just gonna pull up a little bit of hair
'cause we don't wanna expose the tracks though.
Oh yeah, that's definitely more baddie.
Who am I?
I don't recognize me.
So you can kinda see the extensions peeking out right here.
I haven't shadowed the roots at all yet.
And instead of doing that,
I'm just moved the pieces down.
Whenever you're working with extensions,
you can think about where the full set typically sits,
and then think about, okay well I'm doing this hairstyle,
which means, like, this part of my hair is more visible,
so how can I move things around?
All right, let's do these curls.
So I'm gonna wrap the hair around the iron.
And then I want the ends to be a little straighter,
'cause that's what Amanda has going on.
Copy and paste throughout all the sections
until you're done.
I typically, honestly, when I do wear a lot of extensions
like this, I like to curl the hair off my head,
and then put it in.
Also, if you do have a huge link discrepancy
like I do today, it does help it to look more natural
if you curl all the hair together
'cause then it's all meshed together,
so the short ends are going in with the long ends
and it all makes sense.
Oh Anna Laura!
- [Anna Laura] Oh, yeah!
Oh, she bad!
What you do on the outside informs people of who you are.
That's crazy!
- And in this case, I am a baddie.
(laughs)
I can't even say baddie right.
(camera sounds) (upbeat music)
I have never wanted to hide so much.
- [Anna Laura] Get yourself a little invisibility cloak.
- Yes.
Last day, oh my goodness, has it been a journey.
I really just wanna end on a good note.
Okay, Anna Laura, what are we doing today?
- [Anna Laura] All right, so today,
we are finally doing an up-do.
- Up-do!
- [Anna Laura] So this one is coming, yet again,
by @whatlydialikes because I'm obsessed with her.
(laughs)
So, we're gonna be doing this scarf
- Oh hey! up-do situation.
- Oh, and there's a tutorial?
Do I get to follow the tutorial?
- [Anna Laura] It comes with a video.
- Okay, I'm just gonna watch a little bit of it.
Okay, I get it.
I wanna at least try.
No, take it away! - [Anna Laura] Okay, okay.
- [Anna Laura] Also, I have for you.
- I love this scarf. Isn't it beautiful?
- Yes.
I would pretend like I didn't know this scarf existed,
but I picked it out.
It's from ASOS.
It's beautiful and I love it.
Let's start with the ponytail.
You could think that I could pull off a ponytail
super duper fast, but I take a minute.
All right, I saw this part of the tutorial.
She puts the scarf underneath her elastic,
which I thought was really cool.
So, I'm gonna do that, but unlike her,
I'm gonna use Topsy-Tail to do that.
And by Topsy-Tail, I mean hair beader.
So the goal is that the scarf is sitting
behind the ponytail holder,
so it's already there in place.
You don't have to be, like, holding it in place
as you're trying to do everything else.
I just think it's easier to use one of these
to get the scarf in place.
So, I'm gonna stick this underneath the hair elastic,
against my head,
put the scarf through the little loop,
and then, pull it through.
And make sure that it's even on both sides,
and then we can continue.
And now, we're ready for the hairstyle.
Wow, I'm dizzy.
So, to do the bun, we're splitting the hair in half,
and we're going to tie it in half knots,
basically, all the way down.
I have a feeling I'm only going to get about three knots in,
and then, we're gonna wrap it into the shape of a bun,
and pin it in place.
Just take the bobby pins and start sticking them
anywhere they'll fit.
Now, I'm going to pull this apart.
There's supposed to be a scarf in this section.
Where are you?
I'm gonna stick with that.
I'm gonna pin it, and now,
we're gonna wrap the remaining scarf around the base
and tie a cute little knot.
Okay, it's not bad, but,
I'm gonna be a little risky and try it one more time.
Here's where I think I went wrong.
I think it would be better to do two knots and
be able to pull them apart and arranged,
than trying to do three and it being kind of clustered.
So, I'm gonna try it with two knots.
Yeah, this is already so much easier than it was before.
I'm also, obviously pulling it apart
before putting it in the bun.
Oh, that does, actually, look better,
just folding it in half instead of wrapping it around.
Just gonna pin the ends down, so that I can maneuver it.
Okay, did I do it?
I think it looks good.
So let's just tie this around the base and call it a day.
(funky music)
I took a look at it in the big mirror, and I realized,
there's kind of a bald spot right here, so
I'm gonna untie this, and move it back here,
so that it kinda sits here and looks pretty.
Yeah, that's a little bit more chic.
My bun is starting to look like a chia pet,
so we need hairspray.
I'm still trying out the Tresemme Micro Mist Hairsprays
to see how I feel.
This one is hold level three.
We're just gonna spray it everywhere and smooth it.
Hope that stays.
I do like that this hairspray does not feel wet or sticky.
It feels very touchable still,
even though I really gone in with it.
I wanna try this.
This is a little tip I've had floating around in my head.
Taking hairpins that are, like,
these kinda, like U-shaped pins,
and sticking them into the bun discreetly
to help hold the bun in place.
I feel like if I had, like, two or three,
this would help keep the baby hairs from flying back out.
All right, I think I'm done.
Anna had to leave, but I'm gonna go meet up with her
so we can take some after footage and she can react to this
and see if I did a good job, so I have to be my own
quality control and I think I did awesome.
(upbeat music) (camera sounds)
So, what do you think of the hair?
- [Anna Laura] I love it!
- Did I do justice to the challenge?
- [Anna Laura] It looks just like the picture.
I love it!
I want it in my hair, I love a good scarf.
Cheers!
- [Kayley] And there you go!
That has been a week of Instagram hairstyles.
How do we feel about it?
I feel like there have been some great little hairstyles
that I will continue to wear and then there were some
that were a little bit more trying, but overall,
it was really fun to do and I super enjoyed it,
so I hope you guys enjoyed watching it.
Let me know down below which one was your favorite
to see me recreate, and let me know
what other videos you would like to see in the future,
because I am in brainstorm mode.
And I need your help.
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and I'll see you in my next video.
(kiss sound)
Bye!
This is me, just in life in general.
Just like hi, hello, can someone help me?
I need something off the shelf.
She's tangled up in her mic cord.
Where are my bobby pins?
I need a compilation of me being dramatically
unprepared for the video I'm currently filming.