(holiday music)
- [Narrator] It's holiday party time
which means that it's time to learn
some new hairstyles that you can rock at whatever
event you have coming up.
These are specifically for my short and medium
hair length followers, but obviously
those of you with longer hair can do these as well.
Let's get started.
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For the curls in this video, I used my flat iron curl trick
that I showed you guys a few videos back.
I will link it in case you want to check it out
because it totally works on
short or medium hair as well.
For the braid you'll want a clear elastic
and some kind of hair clip.
I'm gonna start by sectioning my hair,
I'm going to part it diagonally across the back of my head,
and then clip the hair that I don't want in the braid
out of the way.
Then you can start braiding by grabbing a section of hair
right next to your part in your hairline,
and I'm doing a Dutch braid back all the way across my head
until I reach then end of my hair.
You can do this with a French braid as well, if you prefer.
Once you can't add in anymore hair, just braid whatever hair
you have left normally and then secure it with an elastic.
Now just grab two bobby pins and that little tiny braid
at the end, and sweep that underneath the rest of your hair
that we have clipped up.
Then you can just use those bobby pins
to pin it in place and let the rest of your hair
fall over the braid and magically hide the end of it.
Now you can make this hairstyle a little bit more glamorous
by running your fingers through
with some shine enhancing product.
You can even brush your hair through if you need to
and you'll see that it gives you this really sleek,
beautiful, kind of retro look to the hairstyle.
If you want it to look a little more tousled, you could use
some texturizing spray and really shake your curls around
and really enhance how tousled they are.
And that gives it a little bit of a more Bohemian,
effortless vibe.
Whichever one you prefer, go with that.
I love that this hairstyle has so many options for you guys.
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And now onto this easy half up style.
Start off by grabbing a hair elastic and a bobby pin
to hold everything in place while we bring this together.
Overall we're going to make four twists.
The first one is right next to your part,
a couple inches back from your hairline,
twist all the way down and then grab a tiny piece of hair
at the end and scrunch it back up,
and then bring it back down and you'll notice it's a lot
looser and more tousled-looking.
Just go ahead and sweep that back and
hold it in place with your bobby pin.
Now take another section of hair from that side and twist it
back away from your face, scrunch it, loosen it up,
and put it in place to hold it.
Now repeat the same thing on the other side.
When you do this third twist, go ahead and pin it
in the back together with our first two,
so you have all three together,
and then do your final fourth twist.
Then you can remove the bobby pin
and bring all four together and then secure them
with that clear elastic.
Now grab a bunch more bobby pins.
We're gonna make three loops with your hair.
So start with a section of hair right underneath your
elastic, you can include the hair from the elastic.
Loop it into kind of a doughnut shape
and then pin that in place.
Then do the same thing on each side of that first loop.
Once you've done that, I'm actually going to use my fingers
and I'm going to really massage it and make sure
that it gets loose and tousled so it looks kind of like
a small messy bun.
And that's it, this hairstyle is actually really easy to do
and I like that it's very tousled and very easy to wear.
And finally we have this braided updo.
You're gonna start by grabbing a hair clip,
and then you're gonna part your hair in the back.
You're gonna do it slightly off center so that you have
one side with more hair, and one side with less hair.
Go ahead and clip up the one with less hair.
And now with the side of your hair that you left down,
you can grab a section of hair at the top right
next to your part and begin French braiding.
I'm gonna follow the line of my hair around my head
so that it makes this nice little rounded shape until
you get to the back where it kind of meets the other section
that we sectioned off.
Once you've French braided all the hair that you can,
if you have any little hairs that are left over just
braid them normally and then secure them with an elastic.
Now grab another clear elastic 'cause we're going to do the
same thing on the other side.
Just grab that section next to your part, braid down
following the line of your hair, and once you've
French braided everything you can, just braid the little
hairs that are left and secure it with an elastic.
And now you can pull and massage each braid to make it
a little bigger and more tousled.
Just be careful with short hair to not go
too aggressively or else you might end up accidentally
pulling out some fly aways.
Now you just have to take care of the ends.
You're just gonna grab one of the little tiny braids
on one side and tuck it underneath the bigger French braid
and pin that in place.
Then do the same thing on the other side,
grab that little braid, tuck it under, and pin it in place,
making sure that those braids really bump up against
one another so it looks like a continuous braid.
Then just do one final check-over, if you have any little
areas that a sagging or doing something weird,
just pin them where they're supposed to be and that is it.
Now even if you have a kind of shorter
or more medium hair you can still do a braided updo
and it's lovely, it's easy to wear,
you can either take it very classic or a little
more bohemian, totally up to you.
And that's it for these hairstyles.
I hope that you guys enjoyed them and if you try them out,
obviously send me pictures.
Be sure to check back next week for another hair tutorial
and if you want to check out some more holiday hairstyles
for shorter or medium hair, check out the one that I did
last year.
And that's it for today, I'll see you guys in my next video.
Mwah!
Bye.