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If we haven't met before, my name is Amelia.
In today's video,
we are gonna be talking about claw clips,
and I'm gonna be showing you a few different ways
to style your hair with them.
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If like me, you grew up in the nineties,
or if you were just old enough to be doing your hair
in that decade, then claw clips will be nothing new to you.
This is an accessory that I used in my hair
all through that decade and I personally love that it's back
and it's cool to be using them again.
So we have a few different ones that we're gonna
be talking about today.
So the two bigger ones are from Mermade Hair,
and these are more on the bargain end of the spectrum,
they're really well-priced and these are conveniently called
the nineties claw clip.
And then we have one that's more on the bougie end
of the spectrum and that is this beautiful tortoise shell
hair clip ouch! Don't break the bougie one.
And we have this really beautiful tortoise shell
hair clip from Balmain and this one is
a little bit more petite.
So let's talk a little bit about some hair prep.
If your hair is like mine and it's more on the fine side,
then you might like to put a little bit of texture into it.
So that's why I started out with hair that is
freshly washed and I've added a little bit of a wave to it.
And then I'm also gonna be using this
dry texture spray from Oribe any dry texture spray we'll do,
I just like to give my hair a little bit more movement
and then also use a product that's gonna give it some grit
so that my hair clip can actually cling onto my hair.
If your hair is too clean,
it might be too slippery and it may fall out of the clip.
But it all just depends really on how thick your hair is
or what the texture is like.
If you have a natural curl to your hair,
then a claw clip will just be so easy to use.
And there's really also no rules on whether your hair
should be straight, curly, wavy, coily whatever.
Personally, I just prefer for my hair to have a little bit
of a wave to it.
So let's get stuck into the style.
So the first one we are gonna do is a really easy
half up half down style,
and I'm gonna be using this really beautiful
Balmain tortoise shell clip.
So what you wanna do is basically split your hair
either right in half,
along your skull or,
just wherever you kinda wanna add that lift.
So for me,
I'm gonna go back where the arch of my brow is,
and then I'm just going to twist my hair.
Take the clip and then just clip it.
And then I'm going to just take some bits.
In the front and then just bring them down
so that it's framing, my face.
So that's the half up, half down look.
That's why I like to give my hair a little bit of texture
and have it be wavy when I do this because,
I don't have to worry that I haven't gathered
enough hair and it's like not even
and it's not like super clean looking at the back
because the thing is it's just meant to look
a little bit undone.
So it's really nice and kind of like a carefree
sort of look, which I really like.
So that is the first style.
Now we're gonna go into, an up do, with the clip.
So we're gonna go for one of the bigger ones
and that is the nineties claw clip in clear
from Mermade hair.
So for this style, your hair can be straight,
it can be wavy, whatever you like.
I love using larger clip in doing a style like this
if my hair is a little bit dirty,
and I wanna give myself kind of like that sleek look,
but also have it be a little bit kind of undone.
So my hair is kind of parted in the middle,
so I'm going to take it,
and then just tuck it behind my ears
I might leave a couple of little tendrils out,
totally up to you.
And you can either use a hair tie to secure your hair
at the back,
or you can just twist it and then clip it
like I'm gonna do now.
So then I'm gonna take the little pony, twist it a bit,
and then I'm gonna take the claw clip,
and then just secure it.
And that is the up do,
with the large clip.
So if you're a bit of a perfectionist and you want your hair
to be kind of like more sleeked back,
then you can take some hairspray and a toothbrush,
take the toothbrush and spritz some hairspray on it
and then use that to kind of tame any fly-aways in the hair.
I like to do that.
Or if you just want it to be a little bit undone,
then you can just leave it how I have.
If you have longer hair,
then what might happen is your hair
will kind of pop out over the top
and it might look like a little bit of a ponytail,
which is quite cute and I've seen that hairstyle done
I actually used to wear my hair that way
when my hair was longer.
So the third style that we are going to do with the pink
nineties claw clip from Mermade hair,
is very similar to the second style.
So it is a ponytail up do kind of look,
but we are going to be, tucking the pony,
my non-existent pony, into the clip
so that it's not spouting like a little fountain
from the back.
And then this next style it's gonna be
where we gather the hair a little bit higher on the head
and we're gonna be tucking the pony into the clip.
So I'm going to turn around and show you how to do that,
with my nonexistent ponytail so bear with me.
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I know it was very similar to the second one,
but if you have longer hair
then you will notice more of a difference
in how the hair actually sits in the clip.
If you have short hair and you wanna wear it this way,
and you also want the bits of the back that fallout
to sit up and just not be in the way,
then you can use a product like a hair gel, hair spray,
wax, anything that's gonna give you some hold,
pop that in the hair and then get some bobby pins
and then just pin the hair back.
And that way you will get more of that sleek up to
that you're looking for.
But that's it I hope you guys enjoyed that video
and seeing a few different ways to style your hair
using some claw clips,
I will see you in another video soon, bye.
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