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- Hey everyone, Kayley here.
Today I am doing a Blake Lively ponytail.
And in honor of this very throwback situation,
I brought out a green sheet.
Because when I started my channel,
Gossip Girl was just starting
and like 50% of my tutorials were Blake Lively hairstyles.
And at the time, I filmed on a green sheet background.
So, I brought out the green sheet as an homage
to all of you who are still watching me.
I know you green sheeters are out there,
so I wanted to bring that back around.
First this, I'm gonna show you guys obviously
how to do the hairstyle the way she wore it.
And I'm gonna show you guys a faster easier version
that you could wear every day if you like the messy,
tousled ponytail, but you don't wanna spend, you know,
20 minutes on it, you want that five minute tutorial.
I got you.
So let's get started.
As a hair stylist, when I look at this pony tail,
the first thing I see is texture.
All of really what contributes to the volume
of the ponytail and the hair,
is what they did before they even put the hair up.
So we're gonna go over that really quickly.
You kinda get two hair tutorials in one today.
I'm gonna be using the Living Proof T.B.D.
for my heat protectant.
It's from my box, which is available at Sephora.
I will link that video if you did not see it.
For some like, texture and heat protectant basically.
It's pretty easy.
You just section your hair into two or three sections
and curl the hair going the same direction with your wand.
What you're gonna do is after you wrap the hair
around the wand and then you take it off,
you're gonna give it a quick little tug
and that basically kind of opens up the wave,
loosens up the wave, and gives it that fluffy look
without a ton of extra work.
If your hair doesn't curl easily,
you can leave it in a ringlet to cool
and then just, boop, on the end once it's cool
and you'll still get the same effect.
Now for step two, we texturize.
And, basically this is what you can skip to
if you don't feel like curling your hair.
Totally valid to just, boop, over to texturizing it.
You can use a textuizing spray,
which is my weapon of choice.
But also a sea salt spray
or something like the Living Proof T.B.D.
would be really good for this as well.
I'm gonna use the Kristin Ess Working Texture Spray.
This stuff is one of my favorites.
It adds texture and hold which is super important.
And you can see I'm also like
pulling my hair apart as I spray it.
It just kinda helps the hair to pfft out a little bit.
And now I'm living in a cloud of texturizing spray.
I wanna add a touch more definition.
So I'm gonna use the Kenra Texturizing Taffy.
And this, you just use a tiny bit
and like run it through and scrunch.
The part's kinda funny, but this is generally
that fluffy mermaid wave.
And now, we ponytail.
For this, we're gonna work in sections.
We're gonna work from the back
and then slowly take back sections
as we move forward towards the hairline.
First things first, you're gonna separate your hair
from right here at the end of where you're part would be
to all the way down behind your ears.
And that's all gonna go into a ponytail.
So we're gonna be working with a mohawk section
and then sections over our ears.
So I'm gonna start by putting up that mohawk section.
Now we're gonna hit each of these sections twice.
So you're gonna go top, right, left,
and then top, right, left.
So on the top first we're just going to section
it in half and take the back half back first.
Twist the hair over the bobby pin once,
and push the hair up for a tiny bit of volume
and pin it in place.
You don't need a ton of volume.
Just enough to look like you washed your hair.
And now we go to the right section.
Take the back half back first, and you're going to twist it
and pin it over the section we just pinned.
And now we do the same thing on the left side.
And then for this sections we're gonna take most of it back
except for the stuff around the very front of the hair line.
Sweep this back, while keeping the texture
as much as you can and pin it in place
over our previous twists.
Just gonna part this so I can see.
Hello.
And now for the right side.
We're also gonna leave out
just the pieces in front on this side.
Sweep it back, twist it, pin it.
And same thing on the left, just let those hair bits down.
And sweep it back, twist it, and pin it.
Now comes the fun part.
We're just going to sweep these back randomly
and pin them in place.
It's something that Rod Ortega,
her hair stylist, loves to do.
If you wanna follow how Blake did it,
basically everything gets kind of pulled in little pieces
and it all gets pulled up to kind of the top section.
And you kind of like pull random pieces together,
you twist random pieces, and pin it as you go.
It's very much up to you and your eye.
The goal here is really just to create
as many layers as you can.
So like, pin in different areas,
overlap things as much as you want to.
That'll bring more interest to the hairstyle
and it will make it look more complex.
And at this point, you'll probably have some ends
in the back that look less than perfect.
What you're gonna do is twist them and lay them
right next to the very last twist that we did
so it looks like it all just flows together.
Voila!
Magic.
The only thing I'm missing is some volume
in kind of the top area of the ponytail.
I'm assuming that this was probably teased at the root
and then kind of smoothed over to get it bigger.
I just, I don't have the best luck with teasing ponytails.
I don't know what it is.
I do have a lot of luck with the little tiny,
like claw clips that you put into the base of the ponytail
to make it fluffier and more perky.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
And that is the finished ponytail.
I actually, really like this.
It's been a while since I've really felt,
like a ponytail look, and I'm into it.
Okay, for that easy one, you're basically still gonna
leave out hair, but we're gonna pull more of it
back into the ponytail.
So basically everything in front of your ears
is gonna stay in the front.
Everything else goes in a ponytail.
And when you make this pony tail, make it messy.
Because we're not doing all those other sections back.
Okay, so I'm gonna just kind of rough it up with my fingers.
Now we're gonna take the top back first.
So just pull back whatever you wanna pull back.
Let a tendril free if you want to.
I love my tendrils.
And again, we wanna kep this texture.
So don't go like, ehh!
Cause that, that defeats the purpose.
Just, vrrtt.
Scuttle it up.
And in the back, give it a little twist, pin it in place.
Alright, and now I'm gonna go to the right.
Sweep it back, twist, and pin.
Another thing you can do, (laughs)
another thing you can do to make it interesting,
is like rough up the twist with your fingers like this.
10 secs, just blululu,
and it gives it a little bit more of that texturized look.
I'm assuming if you like this hairstyle, you like that.
So, prr it up.
And then, you can apply little clippies
or tease if you want to.
And voila!
It's super similar, but it's so much easier.
And obviously it relies a lot on texture.
So I would just say, if you're not gonna curl your hair
or whatever, or maybe if you're working
with second day curl, just like throw a ton
of texturizing product in there
to get that like, "Oh, I'm doing this on purpose" look.
You're good to go.
So there you go, that is my Blake Lively ponytail tutorial.
I love both versions.
And I love that it really can be like
a great formal hairstyle, or a great like thing
to mix into your everyday, like weekly routine.
It's awesome, so I hope you guys love it.
Hope you try it out.
I think I'm gonna wear the formal version
for my sister's rehearsal dinner for her wedding next week.
Actually it's gonna be this week when this video goes up.
Oh ... I cannot believe she's getting married.
I am so old.
We filmed a sister Q&A slash get ready with me
for her bridal portraits, which is going up next Wednesday.
Obviously, had to wait until after the wedding to post that.
So if you guys wanna see that, that's gonna be then.
I will be back on Wednesday with a last minute
hair costume idea for Halloween
and then my Saturday video is all kinds of ridiculous.
I hope you guys enjoy it.
But that's it for today, I will see you in my next one.
Muah!
Bye.
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