- Hey everyone.
Kayley, your friendly neighborhood hairstylist here,
and today we're gonna do some hairstyles
inspired by "Folklore" and "Evermore".
Yes!
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I have become a full on Swiftie over the years
and I have not stopped listening to these two albums
since they came out, and I noticed that there were a lot
of braids and really beautiful waves
and I was getting a lot of requests to do these hairstyles,
and honestly, I couldn't say no anymore.
The coolest thing is that Taylor did her hair
for "Folklore" and it looks very similar in "Evermore",
so I like that it's so natural.
I feel like it's a great way to embrace comfy cozy
and cute and T-Swift all at the same time.
So that being said, I think it's time to jump in
to this tutorial.
But first, don't forget to hit the like button
if you are a fellow Swiftie,
and don't forget to hit the subscribe button
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Okay, that's it.
Let's get into it.
Let's start with the texture.
You can see, I have already been playing around,
trying to figure out exactly how I wanted to do this.
I think I've got the method, so let me show you.
You can follow this for short hair, long hair,
whatever, same method.
You're gonna go in sections, so I'm just gonna let down
a new section of hair,
and I'm obviously showing you with heat,
but I'm gonna talk about some heatless ways as we go.
So we're trying to recreate Taylor's natural texture,
and the way that I wanted to do that was to focus
on getting a nice tight curl up at the root
that loosens throughout the course of the hair,
and with natural hair,
obviously you're gonna have some pieces
that are a little tighter,
some pieces that are a little looser,
some pieces might curl opposite directions.
So as you do this, just think about taking
some really little sections
and some slightly larger sections.
You just get to be random as everything.
For this curl, I'm using a three quarter inch curling iron.
You can use with or without a clip.
I'm just gonna be wrapping my hair around it.
Heat protection.
So you're gonna take your section and you're gonna wrap
basically the first three times around you hair
and hold that for about three to five seconds.
Then you're gonna just hit the ends of this hair
for one or two seconds.
So wrap it, hold it for one two, let it go,
give it a little pull and it's done.
If it ever looks too perfect, you can always kinda use
your fingers like this, this little motion.
So for this next section, I'm gonna go even littler
and I'm gonna wrap, one two three, hold it,
and wrap a little bit more for the ends and let it go.
And then for long hair, it's basically the same thing,
but you might find yourself going in thirds,
because for me, this is half my hair goes on the iron first,
the second half goes on the iron last.
You might find that you're gonna do two seconds,
then wrap the middle, then wrap the very end.
Just go by that three times around rule.
Now you can obviously do this on natural hair.
We talked about having Anna Laura's natural hair
for this video, but given that we're gonna be doing
a lot of braids and stuff,
it just felt like it wasn't gonna hold together very well
for the course of the video.
But obviously, if you have natural curls and waves,
I encourage you to embrace them,
especially with these hairstyles.
We also did a video where we followed
a Desi Perkins hair tutorial last year
that would get you similar results to this,
and that one's about half heatless.
Also, if you want even more,
we did a video with the Octo-Curl,
which is completely heatless,
and got similar results to this as well.
So there are a lot of ways
to get a natural wavy textured look.
I will say, this is probably the best one
for people with hair like mine,
that it's just kinda fine and straight.
This is a really good way to coax a natural look
into your hair.
But yeah, I'm just gonna keep doing this through the hair
and I'm gonna come back to you guys for the bangs,
so I can show you how to get some T-Swift bangs if you want.
And I mean, yeah, is it a little bit excessive
to curl every single piece of your hair
to look like somebody's natural curl?
I mean, maybe.
But my hair doesn't curl like this naturally, so I gotta!
And also, I think we're all hoping for some kind
of "Folklore" festival tour, and we need to know
how to do our hair for it.
And we're gonna break these up a little bit more
in a second, so there's the curls for now.
This is very Lizzie McGuire with the curled hair
and the straight bangs.
Let's make it Taylor Swift.
So we're gonna be taking this triangle section
that we left out, you could also clip that off
if that helps you.
I literally can't see right now.
And we're gonna curl this entire section towards the left.
So we're gonna be taking little tiny pieces
and I'm gonna try the best of my ability
to put the iron in this direction
so it's perpendicular to my face,
and we're doing ringlets with this.
Just a little bit of end-age left out, the tiniest bit.
This is the part where if you have an iron with a clip,
it might be a little bit easier
'cause you could also go in with it this way.
It's a little bit easier to manipulate very short hairs
with a clip than with a wand.
This is my short side,
so I'm taking a little bit bigger sections.
While these cool, you can also look for some baby hairs
around your face, or just some little short ones
and give them a little curl,
make the whole thing look more natural,
'cause obviously if you have a natural curl pattern,
your baby hairs are gonna have a curl, and I know right now,
my girls that have actual curly wavy hair are dying
at the fact that I'm putting curls into my baby hairs.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Wow, I look nuts.
Let's finish this thing up.
Alrighty, so then you just go through with your fingers
or a brush, brush them out
and kinda bump them up a little bit,
mess around and you've got some T-Swizzle bangs.
Gonna hit them with a little bit of hairspray,
this one's from Virtue.
A little salute and push.
Then for that kind of fluffy wavy look,
I'm using the Kristin Ess dry texturizing spray.
Okay, I jumped off camera to use an iron with a clip,
so that I could really get the ends.
This is the final look, my Taylor curls.
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Let's get started with "Cardigan".
So we know that Taylor Swift did her own hair
for all of the "Folklore" album art and for "Cardigan",
so it's really cool, it's very easy.
Let's just give it a quick try.
Just gonna split your hair in half,
literally however you want, and if you wanna be fancy,
you can secure your hair in pigtails first
and then braid, but I'm just gonna pull my hair
over to a pigtail position and then braid it.
All my hours as a child
watching "Little House on the Prairie"
have prepared me for this moment.
Same thing on the other side.
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I feel like the funniest mix between Britney Spears' "Toxic"
and Taylor Swift's "Cardigan" right now.
Okay, so you're just gonna loosen this the tiniest bit,
especially if your hair's relatively shorter like mine.
Am I almost to medium category, guys?
Am I almost there?
I'm kind of excited for it.
And we just wanna be able to make the buns
a little bit bigger, a little bit more fluffy.
Now we just wrap this into a bun on each side.
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Oh my God, I feel like Taylor!
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Obviously, I went with cottage core messy.
Over here, we love.
Here's the final result.
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And now, onto the "Evermore" album.
It features a French braid and I think a lot of us know
how to do them, but I wanna give you a little bit
of tips and tricks on how to replicate
the way that Taylor did it.
So because Taylor has bangs that she's leaving down,
the braid is gonna start with the hair at the crown.
So you're gonna take it from kind of the top of your head
to just above eyebrow height back here.
If you don't have bangs, you're just going to part your hair
wherever you want to a couple of inches back
and you're gonna start behind that.
You're gonna split it into three and start braiding,
and then every time you braid,
you pick up new hair to add into the braid.
The way to replicate Taylor's look
is to take lots of little sections as you're going
because there are several links in her braid
that are bringing in new sections,
but also, you wanna make sure that you're sweeping hair
from your hairline all the way back to the braid
every single time you go, so you have that really pretty
line of hair going into the braid at each level.
Once you've gotten all your hair into the French braid,
you can braid the rest normally
and then secure it with an elastic.
Now I obviously left my bangs out as I was going,
but at the end, whether you have bangs or not,
if you want, you can loose some more little hairs
around your face.
She had quite a few pieces of hair kind of forward
and in her face.
So just really let it be whoosh.
I have a little bag right here you can see, not the cutest.
I'm just going to tuck it under the braid and pin it there.
When in doubt, pin your mistakes underneath the braid.
Okay, then as far as loosening the braid up,
it is looser than when you first put it in,
but it's not pancaked out, it's not huge and fluffy.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna take my fingers
and just go (imitates creaking sound)
between a couple of the links and that's gonna be enough,
and then I don't have much of a tail,
but for Anna Laura, she's gonna go in
and do the same thing.
I like to call it letting the braid breathe.
You just kinda pull it apart a little bit
so it's a little bit more loose,
has a little bit more room to move around.
Now I'm gonna be doing the glass box hairstyle from "Willow"
and I wanted to kinda replicate the headband.
So I have two headbands wrapped around each other right now,
one has the little flowers on it,
one is just pearls and sparkles, and I'm gonna put that on.
So that's just gonna go in like so,
and essentially it's just, you put in whatever headband
you have that's similar,
and it doesn't have to be quite so blingy.
It could also be a nice simple headband.
You could wear this day to day,
and I wanted to be the tiniest bit extra
and add in some of these flower bobby pins that I have.
The headband that she's wearing in the "Willow" music video
is from Jennifer Behr, who is one of my favorite
accessory designers, and I have some bobby pins
from the same line, so I thought I would pin some in
with some pearls around here to kinda bring it together.
Is this the easiest way to do it?
No.
Am I an overachiever and I'm gonna do it anyway?
Yes.
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- All right, now it's time for the last hairstyle.
This is from the end of the "Willow" music video.
We're gonna just take this French braid
and we're gonna turn it into a little bun at the end.
So for this bun, I'm gonna take the base of my braid
and start off by twisting it all the way around
and then wrapping it up, just like you normally would a bun.
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- For our final hairstyle,
I wanted to kind of make something inspired
by "Folklore" and "Evermore", so here's what I got.
First of all, you're gonna start
with whatever texture you want, natural is great,
and then you're gonna take a scarf or a ribbon,
this one is a vintage scarf I've had for a little while,
and you're gonna plop the center of it right on your head.
If you have bangs, they go behind the bangs.
You're gonna take a hair clip, clip that in place.
And that's it!
Ha, just kidding.
Okay, so now you're gonna take your scarf,
you're gonna pick up a piece of hair underneath it,
split that into two and then you're going to braid
these two pieces of hair and your one scarf all together.
So you wanna stop when you have both pieces of hair
on the underside of the scarf
and it's as long or almost long enough
to reach the back of your head.
Then you're gonna secure those two pieces of braid
with an elastic and pull the braid apart.
Just gonna pull at these two little braid sections
and you just want to kind of do this number
with your fingers to loosen it up and texturize it.
And then you're gonna do the same thing on the other side.
I'm gonna take the clip out now 'cause it's braided in
and secure on this side.
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So now, at this point, you're just gonna use your scarves
to finish off the hairstyle.
So you're gonna take each end of the scarf
and bring it to the back, and then in the back,
you're gonna tie it into a little knot or a bow
and the hairstyle is done.
All right, thank you for the assist, Anna Laura, on the bow.
And that is the hairstyle.
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And those are Taylor Swift's hairstyles
from "Folklore" and "Evermore".
I hope that you guys have really enjoyed this video,
it was really fun to make.
Let me know down below if you are a fellow Swiftie,
and maybe which album is your favorite, I just wanna know.
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That's it for today.
Whether you're old or new or a casual lurker,
thank you for spending time with me.
I'll see you in my next video.
Mwah, bye!
These bangs, the curls are falling
so I'm seeing less and less and less,
but I don't wanna keep curling this hair
'cause I'm trying to get it to grow.
It's such a Catch-22.
- I'm making it worse, oh no.
Don't come over here yet!
- Itchy, so itchy.
(Kayley babbling)