- Prongy, outy, flyaways, yay!
Said no one ever.
If you struggle with man bun flyaways and you're
looking for a way to get rid of them,
you are watching the right video, and I want you
to keep watching.
Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel.
My name's Thomas, if you're brand new here
and I make style and hair related videos every single week.
Welcome to episode two of my monthly man bun series.
In my first video, or my first episode, I covered ten
different types of man buns, you'll be able to find
that up in the cards.
And, essentially, what this is, it's just like a
monthly check-in for all of us man bun growers
or man bun wearers to come in and check-in about
our man buns and give each other tips.
So if that's your kinda thing, make sure you hit that
subscribe button and come back every single month.
Actually, I post every Monday so subscribe and see me
every Monday, OK?
But the main topic of today is, of course, taming
our flyaways 'cause I know it's a bet peeve of a lot
of people who have man buns and today I'm gonna show you
my quick method of doing it.
And you're probably also wondering what the f(silenced)k
is on my face, right?
If any of you did, these are just eye patches.
They're actually like my new favourite thing.
Because I work on the internet a lot and I'm always
looking at a screen, I need something to help soothe
my eyes down.
I've been using these Zeatar ones, they're cruelty-free,
they're vegan and they're also medical grade, so they're
kind of like made of the same thing as, like, they
make fake arteries and fake skin, and yeah, they just
fit really nice on the face, they don't slip off
like the Korean ones, and they're really, really good.
I've actually noticed a difference since starting
to use them so.
And they talk about all the ingredients that are in them
and why they're good for you so they've got like
aloe vera for hydrating, bit of ginger for brightening skin
and they also contain magnesium ascorbyl phosphate,
which is great for boosting skin collagens.
So, yeah, they're just a really thorough product,
and I find, ever since I've been using them, they've
been working really well.
And not only that, they're easy to apply, too.
You just chuck them in the fridge for ten minutes
before you put them on, then you grab them out,
rip them off, and then they've got like these sleeves
on either side, you just whack them on your face, and then
kaboom, you wait 15 minutes.
Speaking of which, it's about my 15 minute mark right now,
that I've had these on, so I'm gonna rip them off,
and then we're gonna talk about man bun flyaways.
And then like after you take them off, you just kinda like
dab the rest of the solution in and
you get on wit' yo' life.
Okay, enough, now we're on to man bun flyaways.
So, what do I do for these?
I actually, look, I'm very simple about this,
all I need is a heat protector, obviously, because I'm
gonna be using a heating iron to get these, like, in action.
And, I also need some kind of product, so I always
recommend a strong hold product.
I've got three of my favourite here.
I've got my BluMaan Cavalier Clay, I've got my Hybrid cream,
and I've also got Claymation.
You don't have to use any of these, these are like
19.50 to 20 dollars online if you wanna buy them.
But if you wanna use a supermarket brand, just make sure
you get a hard hold, don't get something that's flimsy,
like a paste because it'll just let them prong out even more
and certainly, the number one thing is do not use a gel.
People that have been following me for a couple of years now
will know that I hate gel, and if you use gel on your
flyaways it pretty much just stiffens them and makes them
prick out even more, which is definitely not what you want,
so avoid gel at all costs.
Hate gel.
So yeah, I just need a heat protector, I need a strong hold
product, I'm going to be using Cavalier Clay today,
and a heating iron.
What we're gonna do is, we're actually gonna spray
our heat protector on, this Sebastian Trilliant one
is, like, my favourite, it smells so good I could
wear it as perfume, it's actually the best.
But what I'm gonna do is spray this over the top here.
Because I'm in a rush, I don't wanna be straightening all
my hair, but what I wanna do is kinda flatten these out
and kind of neaten up the look because, I just cannot
go out looking like this, right, and these aren't really
that long to go back into the bun, so that's why
we're doing it this way.
OK, so we've added our heat protector, our hair straightener
is on, which is great, and the next thing I wanted to tell
you was, if you're going out straight away after doing this,
make sure you're already wearing the shirt that you're
going out in because if you're wearing a different shirt,
and then you take it off, guess what, all your man bun
flyaways just prong back out and you have to do the whole
process over again so, make sure you're wearing the shirt
you want to go out in which, today, this is my one
and there we go.
If you're wearing a button-up, make sure you do it with
no shirt on, and.
So, and the first thing you wanna do, we wanna,
instead of taking all of our hair out, I know it seems
natural to, if I'm gonna be straightening my hair I should
take it all out and do it properly, but no, we're
in a rush today.
So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna fuzz my hair up
and I just want the flyaways to expose themselves so I know
exactly what to grab and what to straighten and
get moving forward.
So, what I'll do is like this, bring them all out to play
all the uglies, come on, show yourself.
And we've got it like this, and then what I'll do is
because I've already put my heat protector in
I'll just go ahead and straighten all these bad boys.
What you wanna remember as well, is try your best
to get them straightened in just one go, because these
hairs are really, really tender, you don't want them
to break off because they're actually quite important
in the hair cycle.
So, if you watched my hair fall video the other day,
we learnt that each hair that you've got is in
a different cycle.
So, the hairs that are falling out in the shower,
they're really long and they've reached the end
of their cycle and as they fall out, new ones are growing.
So, cos you've always got new hair growing, that's what
these flyaways are, they're the shorter hairs,
it's not particularly because they're broken,
and you actually need them, so if you pull them all out
or cut them off, then you're actually doing yourself
a disservice and, yeah, you've gotta look after them
just as much as your normal hair.
I know we hate them, and I know them pronging out,
oh my god, I feel ya, I hate it too.
But, without these, all of our hair fall would end up
being a bald head and I don't want that.
Already looking much better.
I think I'm just gonna go for like a half-neat,
high man bun as well, I think that's the look I'm gonna
be rocking tonight.
Alrighty, boom, we've straightened all of our flyaways,
and we're already looking a tonne better.
Now, the thing is as well is, you can't completely
get rid of flyaways obviously, because of those short hairs.
Depending on how short they are, if they're
really, really short, they are just gonna stick up.
But, for the longer ones, I've got a lot of long ones,
that's what the product's supposed to help with
so, yeah, if you're looking for a solution to completely
get rid of them, I don't think that's gonna be possible
but you can definitely do stuff to reduce them.
So now that I've straightened all of these flyaways out,
I'm actually gonna take my hair out now and just quickly
do a very brief run over in the front sections here.
Because, this on top bit is usually where they all act up
and I'll just quickly run my straightener through there.
So much hair since I got my full man bun as well, so crazy.
But the cool thing about the man bun as well is
you can literally do something as quick as this and it still
looks really sick.
OK, there we go.
See how much smoother it's already looking.
Like, that is boss.
So, from here we're obviously grab our product, so today,
I told you that I'm gonna be using the
BluMaan Cavalier Clay.
Literally, you don't need that much of this as well
cos it's quite thick, hard held product, and if you use
too much your hair can look a little bit greasy.
So to avoid that, you just use a little bit.
That's all I really need to tame mine down.
Place it on your palm.
Do these ones, rub it together.
The harder you rub the clay together and heat it up,
the easier it is to apply and then when it cools down,
it goes back into hard mode so.
Once you've got it heated up, you quickly apply it to
all of your flyaways, like this.
Yeah, looking way better.
Once you've got it evenly applied, you just start
making your bun.
Now, your bun can like take a couple of attempts,
depends on how fussed you are with it.
I'm just more concerned about getting the flyaways down,
and getting out that door.
And then kaboom, so now I've got my bun up.
I'll also do, cos it's a messy one as well, sometimes
the ends look a little bit frazzled, what I'll do is
I'll just chuck a couple of bobby pins in it
to weight me down.
I still need a couple in the back because I've got
a couple of short hairs behind there, pop them in like that.
I really don't mind the look of a bobby pin, though,
it's actually all cool.
And then what I'll do is, with these loose bits on
the man bun, I'll twist them around it and just
chuck them in.
You always wanna double check your bun in the mirror as well
I always have this double mirror to just see how the shape
is going on it.
Yep, I'm actually really happy with this one.
See how much neater it's looking now compared to what
I started this video, lets actually have a look at
the before and afters, I think that'd be great.
So, before, we had all of those prongy-outs.
They were all messed up, uncontrollable, dry, frizzy,
horrible, disgusting.
And now, just after doing this, we can see a
massive difference.
If you have a really close look at these tiny little ones
up here, if you get like microscopic close, you can see
all those little ones poking out, but those are the ones
that you literally just can't get rid of, because those
are the regenerating hairs that you actually need, OK?
Never gonna be possible to get rid of them, but it is
easy to tidy your hair up and that's all you need to know.
And guys, that is how I tame my man bun flyaways,
especially when I'm in a rush, OK?
I really hope you enjoyed this video, I hope you got
something out of it.
Please let me know in the comment section below if you
have any more man bun tips for me on controlling flyaways.
I'm sure everybody wants to know about it.
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and that's about it.
That's episode two.
Also, if you have an idea for what you wanna see for
man buns and you wanna see it on this series, make sure
you pop that in the comment section below as well
because I'd interested to hear about it, and I will
see you next week for another video, OK?
Catch you later.
Goodbye.
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