hi everyone it's elizabeth the team
epicreads and i have a really fun diy
project for you today this is front
lines by michael grant you guys probably
know him from his best-selling gone
series but front lines is actually
really different this is a reimagining
of world war ii picture this before
america gets involved in the war a law
is passed that actually lets young women
fight alongside men so this book follows
three girls and all of the difficulty
struggles and tensions they faced on the
front lines fighting in the army and so
for today's episode we're going to be
doing a 1940s hairstyle that combines
some of the fun looks from girls in the
1940s but also with a practical
headscarf as a tribute to rosie the
riveter and to these really badass girls
so before we get started today i want to
introduce you all to julie who is
another member of team epic reads and
she's going to be my hair model today
you just need a couple of things to get
this awesome 1940s look some hairspray
of course
a simple styling comb
some bobby pins
a curling iron
and a square head scarf it can be silk
it can be a bandana it can be any color
or design that you want and lastly some
red lipstick to finish off your look so
we have just a few simple steps today to
get this awesome 1940s look first you're
going to start with your styling comb
and you're just going to section off the
front piece of your hair
so i'm going to go along julie's part
and i'm just going to section off this
front piece
perfect julie will you do me a favor and
just hold this here sure great so then
what you want to do is simply tie up the
back of the hair that's not in this
front section if you want to get more of
a curl and get some more volume you can
use your curling iron to put in some
loose curls you can tease it but for
right now i want to do a little bit more
of a modern twist on this look so i'm
going to do a simple top knot
you have such pretty hair julie thanks
and it's okay if you have some bumps
because we're gonna be putting a head
scarf on to cover them up hair tie
okay so now that you have your messy top
knot ready to go we're gonna do some
simple curls on that front section of
hair so what i'm gonna do is first
section off this very top piece right
near her part
and i'm going to use my curling iron to
do a front curl i'll show you how to do
that so you want to roll the curl
forward
so i'm gonna start from the bottom down
here
and i'm simply gonna roll up
okay let that sit for a second
i'm gonna take it out be careful not to
burn your friend if you're doing this on
a friend
okay so now you're gonna do the exact
same thing with the front roll
so one of the things that i love the
most about front lines is that the girls
in the story are actually among the
first to fight alongside men and it's
really interesting because they struggle
with wanting to be bad asses on the
battlefield which they totally are but
also not giving up all the qualities
that they love about themselves so for
example one of the characters is a total
sharpshooter she's amazing
on the battlefield and in the war but
she also wants to paint her nails and
she doesn't want to have to choose
between the two and she shouldn't have
to
oh that was a pretty one
perfect so i'm just going to keep going
until the entire front section of
julie's hair is curled
okay so now that we have julie's front
section of hair curled we're going to go
on to the next step this one's going to
involve some teasing and some hairspray
so brace yourselves are you ready for
that
okay good
so first thing we're going to do is give
julie some volume so what i'm going to
do is take this front section and i'm
going to start just lightly teasing it
to the root
i'm not going to do too much because i
want you to be able to get this out
later if you don't want to be from the
1940s all day but we do definitely want
to make sure we get some of that awesome
1940s volume
and if you need some help from your
hairspray now's a good time to start
spraying that in
so next you are simply going to start
creating a circle with your fingers with
the curl so i'm going to take this whole
section
and i'm going to start rolling it
into a circle
it's okay if it's not totally smooth yet
because we're going to pin it and we're
going to use a lot of hairspray
so we're going to make it just right
i'm going to put a pin in the front if
you don't like how that looks because
you can kind of maybe see a little peek
of the bobby pin you can always take it
out later once it's secure from behind
okay great so now that i have this
adorable little circle curl on top of
julie's head i'm just gonna add a couple
more pins and hairspray okay so now
you're gonna go ahead and take your
square scarf and i'm first going to show
you how to fold it and then we're going
to fasten it to julie's head
okay so now that we have our scarf ready
to go what i'm going to do is just
simply fold this in half that i have a
triangle
perfect
and then i'm going to fold this part of
the triangle over
a little bit so that we have about the
width that we want i want this to be
kind of wide like they had it in the 40s
so i'm thinking maybe like four to six
inches wide
so you fold it over till you have your
desired width and then you fold the tip
over again
so it should look kind of like that
when you have your fold now i'm just
going to make sure that
i have that all nicely placed
okay great so now i'm going to take this
behind julie's head
and then bring it up
to the top and i'm simply going to tie
it in a knot at the top of julie's head
then i'm going to go back and make sure
that it covers the tips of her ears
because that's how they would have worn
it in the 1940s so i'm just gonna smooth
that out on the side so it's covering
the tips of her ears
and tighten it a little bit
so one thing that i like to do at this
stage is just to pin the scarf in place
so i'm going to go ahead and put a
couple of reinforcement pins in here
and if you have any flyaway hairs that
you wanted to catch as well you can pin
those back while you pin your scarf
so now with the top of the knot that you
just made you're going to go ahead and
knot that one more time
now this one i want to make this knot
really stand out so i'm going to do it
loosely and then i'm going to kind of
pull it out a little bit so that it
looks like a little
big kind of almost like a like you're
tying a bow you want that knot to be
really cute and then i'm just going to
go ahead and tuck the ends in
okay i'm going to give it one last final
spray
now there's just one final touch to this
look let's give you some awesome red
lipstick the mirror for you
if you want to go ahead and put this on
all right so check it out we have an
amazing 1940s hairstyle look on julie
she looks awesome you're like a little
badass throw through the riveter i love
it so now julie is either a 1940s pinup
girl or a warrior or a warrior
whatever she wants
so don't forget to check out front lines
and if you have any ideas for future diy
projects just leave them in the comments
below bye
you