Hi and welcome back to Hair With Holly.
What we're going to be doing today is a French Pleat or a French Twist.
Great for formal occasions and really great for weddings too.
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Ok, so first things first we're going to section off the hair.
So for this one we're going to work with quite a deep side parting.
Just like we have here using in and around the eye to give us a guide.
If you have a side fringe or bangs it's a good idea to clip them out of the way.
Since we're working with longer hair here, we're going to pull it over the face like
so for a softer look.
Clip away the section you're going to be using as your fringe.
Now we're going to get to work on sectioning the rest of the hair.
You are just going to section all the way around from ear to ear.
We're going to pull this bottom section out of the way.
Just about half of your head downwards and we're going to leave that to one side while
we concentrate on the top bit.
For this bit here, this is going to form a kind of bump up on the top and then we're
going to work these two pieces of hair in together to form the French Pleat.
Take away a section in between your fringe and the back of the hair.
We're just going to wrap that up because that's going to cover our knots.
So section it off all the way from ear to ear and we're going to pin that in place.
This hair here is going to be the basis of our bump of all our volume.
Depending on how big you want to go, backcomb it, work it in around about halfway down the
hair shaft.
As you can see, it just stands up like that.
Lovely!
Gives a bit of lift.
And we're going to work our way down the hair.
Once you are happy with the volume you have, you're just going to take these sections back
down again.
Let them all fall down.
Then we are going to pin into place our bump here.
You can go as high, or maybe as margin as you like.
Then using some curvy grips, just pin the bump into place.
Once you've got your bump in place, this is going to anchor the style and give us a great
guide point to work off of when you start to really lift this hair.
Just working through the lengths of this hair, working upwards as you go.
Not necessarily to make volume, just to give it a bit of a grip.
Because we're working with quite a lot of hair, what I'm going to do is pin this section
across just to anchor it.
Just take in half of this section and pin it back just over to the side and slide in
place.
When you are happy that it is secure, give it a quick spritz with some hair spray.
Working upwards, I'm going to roll the hair, nice and tight until you start to get that
nice sausage shape.
Then if you have a lot of surface hair as we have here tuck it back into that gap.
All the way in there and then cross over until you get quite like a french pleat.
Like a little pastry.
Just pin in place securing the pleat to the back of the head.
Once you're happy with the shape we're going to work on getting this hair back over the
rest of the bump.
Take down the front section you've had on hold and then just start to brush it back
towards the back of the head.
So, once you're happy that the fresh hair covers the bump that you made, we're going
to pin it back into the French Pleat where the pleat meets the bump.
And now for the remainder of the hair, we have our existing pleat here, for this hair
we're just going to roll it up, nice and smooth.
Just keep molding the pleat until it joins up with the bottom one and then pin into place.
What we are going to do here with this hair is just have it coming over the forehead,
kind of draping over one eye and then we're going to pull it back into the style.
It is nice to give this area a bit of a back comb as well just to make it easier to handle
and it kind of keeps the hair up off your face as well.
If you have longer bangs what we're going to do is pull it back to the area where it
joined up and use a clip the same colour as your hair and then we're going to wrap the
rest of the hair in under here so you don't have to see it.
And then if you have any little hairs that are a bit loose, just slick them back with
a bit of hair spray.
There you have it, the finished French pleat.
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