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- [Kayley] Everyone, Kayley here,
and today we're gonna learn how
to do these iconic Star Wars hair styles.
I am really excited for the movie coming out,
and I thought these would be great to wear to the premier,
or to cosplay or if you just love Star Wars.
Make sure to share this with anyone in your life
who also love Star Wars.
Maybe you can wear the hairstyles together.
Let's get started with Leia's signature hairstyle.
You're gonna start by making a center part.
I use my nose as a guide
and then go straight back from that.
And then you're gonna go all to the way
to the nape of your neck
to split all of your hair in half.
Then create two high pigtails that go just above
and behind your ear,
about the height of your eyes.
You just wanna secure that with a hair elastic
and once you have the first one done,
go ahead and do the scend one as well.
Now just check and make sure that these pigtails
are even because we want the buns
to be as symmetrical as possible.
Now grab some braiding hair.
This is kanekalon hair that you can buy at Sally's
and I'm using two bundles for this,
one for each pigtail.
This is gonna give you the length and volume you need
for Leia's buns.
I'm using a bobby pin through the elastic in the middle
and then I'm just attaching that to mu pigtail.
Then I'm just gonna twist this towards my face
and then wrap it in a bun toward my face again.
And the kanekalon hair does all the work here,
you're literally just gonna have to twist your hair
into a bun and you're going to get Leia's awesome,
like cinnamon bun hairstyle.
After the first rotation I'm going to take a break
and I'm going to add in a bunch of pins
to hold this is place.
Jumbo bobby pins will be your friend here
'cause they can hold a lot of hair at once.
Then I'm going to twist the rest of the hair
and continue wrapping it into a bun.
One trick I used was to wrap the first rotation
a little bit loosely and then wrap the second rotation
a little bit more tight,
that way it looks a little bit bigger in the center
and thinner on the outside.
Then just pin everything in place,
and your first bun is complete.
And now on to the other bun.
You're just going to bobby pin
that bundle of kanekalon right
on top of your pigtail,
twist it and the wrap it into a bun,
just like we did with the first side.
Now you can do this without the kanekalon if you want,
it just won't be as voluminous but you'll still have
the same kind of bun look.
I chose the kanekalon because
I practice with every single thing
that I own and this was
the fastest, easiest, and least expensive.
So I really think it's the best option.
And kanekalon is super lightweight so you can wear
this all day long and you won't get a headache from it.
And once you have everything pinned,
this hairstyle is complete.
It should come together in less that 10 minutes
but it still looks totally iconic and true to the original
and I love it.
For Padme I chose this twisted bun from Episode II.
You're going to start again by creating a a center part
but this one isn't going to go all the way around your head,
just to the top of your head.
Then go ahead and split it in half
and than brush everything into a low, sleek ponytail.
Now for the bun I decided to use some more synthetic hair
but you could use your own hair for this if you prefer.
I'm going to use kanekalon hair again,
and I'm just using one bundle this time.
I just clipped it up to hold it in place,
and what I'm gonna do is take my wire,
this is floral wire,
but you can use any wire you want,
and measure it to eh length of the hair.
Then go ahead and cut it
and you're going to wrap the top of that wire
against a section of hair.
This is going to help hold it in place while we wrap
the hair around the wire.
And to do that all you basically have to do
is wrap it around like you're wrapping your hair
around a curling iron
and you can see that it creates these twists
like you see in Padme's hairstyle.
Once you get to the end you just have to secure it
with a hair elastic.
Once you've done that this twist is done
and you can move on and do some more.
I did six in total but this braiding hair
is actually about 24 inches long,
so that's a lot of hair.
You can actually do for or five sections instead
if you're using the braiding hair.
If you want to use your actual hair,
you can do the exact same thing with sections and wire.
You can see here that I'm using pipe cleaners,
I really don't recommend that.
My hair got super, duper tangled in these,
but you could do this with your normal hair
and any other wire.
So at this time either make your twist with your hair
or with your synthetic hair.
If you decided to use the synthetic hair,
go ahead and put your ponytail
into a really, really tight bun,
that way we can hide it with the synthetic hair later.
If you plan to use your hair,
then your ponytail turns into the twist.
So with the synthetic hair I'm actually going
to go ahead and bobby pin these onto my bun,
and then I'm going to start making the shape
of the bun.
So I'm taking one section
and I'm bending it into just random shapes.
Honestly I didn't have any rhyme or reason to this,
the only thing that I was trying to keep in mind
was that I wanted them to interlock and overlap
quite a bit,
so I kept bending things around each other.
So you can see it with my second twist,
I'm actually feeding it through the first one.
That just gives more dimension going on in this
and I think replicates the original hairstyle really well.
I also noticed in the original hairstyle
that it's got kind of this oval shape,
so instead of making lots of circles,
you kind of wanna make lots of ovals if you can.
I tried this hairstyle both with my hair
and with the kanekalon hair and I found it so mch easier
with the kanekalon hair,
like easier to make the twist.
You had more hair to work with putting it in the bun,
I just really recommend this way,
especially if you're really, really into your costume.
Another tip that I have is if you get a section bent
and then you find that it kind of falls out of place,
you can pin these in place.
So go head and use your bobby pins
to hold everything where you want it
and your bun will look great.
So just keep bending and pinning these twists,
until everything is covered and you've got
this hairstyle complete.
I think this looks so cool.
This is one of my favorite hairstyles of Padme's,
even though it's pretty simple,
and I loved recreating it.
And finally we have Rey's kind of three bun hairstyle.
So we're gonna start by making a small section
on top of your head.
Something like you would use for a poof or something,
a very small section,
pull that back and secure it with an elastic
for a little small ponytail.
Then section your hair from the top of your ears
to the crown of your head
and brush that into its own ponytail.
Then you're gonna secure that with an elastic
and when you do that,
on the very last loop of your elastic,
only pull the hair part of the way through,
that's how you make your bun,
it's actually quite simple.
If you have any little extra hairs that are sticking out,
grab them and stick them with your ends.
We're going to wrap the ends around the base of the bun.
I looked at so much footage of her hairstyle
and I am like 99.9% sure this is how she did it.
You wrap the hair around until you have no more hair left
to wrap and then you're gonna bobby pin that in place.
Then you're gonna move on and split the rest of the hair
in half and you want the second ponytail
to sit right underneath the first bun.
Secure that with an elastic.
Again on that very last loop,
only pull some of the hair through,
and then wrap your ends around the base.
This hairstyle is absolutely something you can do
if your hair is shorter than mine.
I have seven inches of hair too much for this,
so this is perfect if you have shorter hair.
Then go ahead and loosen up some hair around your face
to replicate those little baby hairs that she had kind
of flying all around,
and finally we're going to do
the same thing with one last ponytail.
You're gonna do this at the very, very bottom of your neck,
and again, just pull through a little bit of hair to create
that bun and wrap the extra hair around the base,
and bobby pin it in place.
Once your done with that the hairstyle is done.
I'm not gonna lie,
I really love this hairstyle,
and I think if you were to just do one bun
and where it looks like a half a pat down hairstyle,
it could be an everyday thing,
or like a oh, I'm looking a little bit like Star Wars
but I'm not going all the way there.
And that's it for my Star Wars Hair Tutorial.
I had such a fun time putting this together,
I hope that you guys love it.
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