Hello! Boy was I stressed when I was filming this for the first time, so all of the parts
where I have more hair were filmed in panic mode so now you have me to come and patch
in all the details that I forgot about. [intro music]
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Welcome back to part two in my veiling series I guess. Today I’m gonna show you how to tie a veil with the help of past me and
this- this me. I am gonna show you how to tie a veil with longer hair, and sub in with
some shorter hair bits because the shorter hair bits don’t really change how I wear
my veil. If you haven’t seen part 1 of why I veil and why people veil and veiling in
general, definitely go and check that out, and if you’re here to learn how exactly to do it,
this is the video for you, so let’s just jump straight into it shall we? Take it away
past me… How do I put all of my hair into a veil or into a headscarf? Uh well this is
my hair, it’s in a bun uh, it’s nothing fancy. It’s one of those buns where you
make a ponytail and on the last pull through the elastic you just don’t pull it all the
way through. What I used to do is I used to make a full ponytail and then twist it and
then keep twisting it until it like shrank itself down, and it would sit roughly about
there. But I get tension headaches a lot more than I used to so I don’t do that anymore,
and it’s a lot of effort. My arms get tired, disability life. So I take- I have like a
big BIG scarf, so I just kind of put it on my head like this, nothing super fancy, um,
to me it doesn’t matter if you can see this little bit of hair or not, sometimes it just
doesn’t stay on my head or if I pull it too far down my eyebrows look like that. So
I’m gonna go for about right there. The one that I usually do if I’m just veiling
for a quick ritual is I just, I get my two ends and then I just tie them in a loose kind
of knot. I have a special scarf that I usually use for this specific headscarf tying, um
and it looks like that, and there’s hair sticking out of it. This is not usually the
scarf that I do this style with, I have like a nice little chiffony net thing, it’s a
lot thinner, I think when you stretch it out it’s about that big. This is this big, so
there’s a lot and it doesn’t really work that well, but here is one of the ways that
I do it. It’s got all of my hair in the back as you can see, um, and I can either
put it over my ears or under my ears depending on whether I’m wearing hearing aids that
day. It’s the easiest quickest one. You can also twist the ends to make it a bit easier
to tie I just didn’t do that. So another one that I do is I can just throw it over
like that, it doesn’t have to be super fancy, that works as a covering, uh it kinda depends
why you want to cover your hair and what the weather is and what the wind is and what you’re
gonna be doing with it. Like this is just a quick way to do it for if I’m feeling
the immediate need to cover my head, this is usually what I go for because you can do
it with most scarves if they’ve got any length to it. Real quick, once again it’s
over the head, and then you take this one and you pull it around the side and then you
can twist this way. This is also the worst scarf to be doing this with but whatever.
So you twist, twist twist twist twist twist. You can secure the end of this with like a
hair tie or a bobby pin or um a hijab pin if that is something that you are used to,
if you have on you. Uh, and then you just bring it in a loop, hand through the loop,
grab the tail, pull! With all your might! And then push up with this hand. [grunts]
Like that. That was not easy. But we’ve got a nice knot, head is covered, that is
not going anywhere. Uh but there is also all of this length which is why I don’t really
do it with this scarf, but again I’m not at home, so there’s that one. Um, I’m
sure there are more but those are like my go-to with this shape of scarf. Close enough.
I’ll untie that later. So I mentioned- or maybe I didn’t that I don’t normally veil
in this scarf. Which is true because it’s just long and there’s a lot of it. I veil
in this one, which is the chiffony netty one and as you can see it’s not as big and it’s
not as bulky so it’s literally just this- this length. Um, which makes it much easier
to just pop over my head like so… It takes a little bit more flattening now that my hair
stands upright, and then we just tie it there and tie it in a knot. There’s no like…
There’s no extra material that’s getting in the way of the knot, so I can just very
simply tie a veil like that, and then tiny little flap here which just gets tucked in
underneath. Just wherever it fits, it doesn’t matter, it’s not- it doesn’t make it look
any better at the back. Something that I also forgot to mention was wrapping the tails around
your head. Um, some people don’t like this, it can be a fire risk and there are many-
you know it’s personal choice, it can be for aesthetic reasons as well and this doesn’t
fit what you’re going for, so you can just bring it up. Doesn’t have to be any particular
length, um, and then I just tuck it underneath the knot there. And then just pull this one
over the top as well, and then you can just tuck this one either under the front, under
the side, or in the little wrapped bits. Like so. Uh, with it being netting it does kind
of stick a little bit better um, with something like this there’s probably the need for
pins um, depending on your hair I suppose. And something I completely forgot to mention
in um, when I was filming the first time, is if you do have a scarf that is WIDE, just
fold it in half. Fold it in half. And that does exactly the same job like having a thinner
scarf. So I can just easily- very easily tie the knot in the back, not have to fight with
it too much, and I’ve got many layers on. Which brings me on to my next point of if
you are going to braid the ends, you can have more than one headscarf on to give you more
tails, uh, you can wrap one inside so let me just restart this one because it’s also
not even. Let’s get this one back out. You can have one tail which I’m gonna bring
around here because that’s my dominant side, and keep one wrapped, and then you can, when
the scarves are working in your favour, that’s about half, pull that one over like so, tie
a knot in it, you’ve got your two tails- tug, tug tug, bring that round the side, and
now I have three of them and you can actually turn I into a proper plait like so. And then
if you want to be extra fancy you can wrap that over the top when it’s long enough-
I haven’t succeeded in getting it all even, uh, but yeah that can be a thing. If you still
have a bun in the back you can pull it further back- I don’t know if you can see it, you
can just wrap it around the bun at the back if length is a problem. There you go, that
would be where a bun is in theory. Tucking things in is your friend. So the next one
that I have- and I haven’t done these ties in a while so it might not work, but I have
this lovely scarf with all the cats on it that I’m gonna use, so I’m going to fold
it into a triangle. And then whip. And just sort of lay it on top of my head, badly, like
this, grab these two, uh oh goodness, and I’m gonna start to tie a knot in the back,
I’m gonna turn around hold on, you might not be able to see any of this- grabbing the
corners, crossing them over, tying a knot, there’s the tail end, and then the triangle
up here which I’m gonna push in underneath and then tighten the knot and then double
knot it. Ta-da! It is not the best if you are aiming to cover all of your hair, um,
this might not be the one, if you pick a bigger scarf it might also help you but it kind of,
that’s what it looks like. Sometimes if you’ve got like a really nice tight bun
unlike mine then you won’t have as many flyaways, and you’ve got these cute little
things down here. And it’s not really going anywhere but it squeaking on my glasses and
it’s covering my ears so hearing aids might be questionable. If you’ve got a large square
scarf, um, you can fold it exactly in half- if you don’t have a large square scarf like
I’ve spent the last 4 minutes figuring out I don’t have, you can fold like a small
triangle into the top and kind of hope for the best. So that’s gonna be the bottom
side that’s gonna be the side that touches my hair. This big triangle is going to point
onto my forehead- we can do this. I’m gonna hold it in my mouth- they didn’t tell me
to do that but I’m going to anyway. And then lay this on top of my head, cross these
over, and tie around the back of my head. Oh my god I’m so sorry that you had to witness
it like that, so this is not graceful, it looks a bit better with like a plain scarf,
and then you can just lift this bit up and tuck it in where they crossed over. There
we go. That’s what that looks like. Uh, it’s a bit lightweight, they kind of give
you a little bit of volume, it’s kept all of my hair in- there’s the knot, there’s
the hair, there’s some space in the top- I’ve never done it with this scarf before
so that was a struggle and a half. It’s secure, it’s not going anywhere. You can
tuck it behind your ears but the way I’ve tied it I’m not going to. It’s not going
anywhere really in day to day life but you can just pull it off. You can just fold it
in half, not do anything fancy, simple bandana style, and just you know, under there, or
just around the back. Um in that first tie with this that I showed you where I pushed
the flap down the back you don’t have to do that you can just tie it like this and
have like a long trailing bit, you know queen Elizabeth style like this. Woot. You know,
simple. It depends- it does depend on what you’re wearing the scarf for and the purposes
of the scarf, um, but yeah. That is how I wear a veil, wear a pagan veil with my hair…
and that’s how I just sort of get it all in there and hope for the best. There are
other pagan creators out there that talk about veiling and they wear different styles of
headscarf to me, uh, that’s just personal preference. The other type of veiling that
I forgot to mention because I didn’t have it on hand because I wasn’t in my house
is a snood! Snoods are very very easy to veil with so you just wrap it over there, cross
it over the front, and then lift. And there we have a covered head and it should go over
the back. If you’re covering for modesty reasons or hair covering reasons you might
want to just pin it in the back or have um, I don’t know what they’re called but like
a under cap or another scarf underneath, but this is just super simple and super cosy.
Because it’s knitted so this is like a winter going outside kind of veil which I enjoy a
lot. So I hope that this has been helpful to you in some way or another. Let me know
if you try any of them out and how you find them. Don’t forget to like this video, drop
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