Video How-To: Figure 8 Updo

This bun is fairly easy, once you get the knack. I tried to go slowly so that you can follow along. I hope it's helpful to some of you.

Remember, if your hair is too short or too thick to do this bun right now, you can always do a Figure 8 Half-Up, or do two or three Figure 8 Buns in a vertical row.



Thanks to all who left comments and sent emails. I can never tell you how much I appreciate them. I will respond as soon as possible.

'Til tomorrow. Much love to all, and extra hugs to anyone feeling lost today.
xo

Video How-To: Gibson Tuck

The Gibson Tuck is a great protective updo, but it gets harder to do the using the usual instructions after hair gets much longer than shoulder length. This video gives step by step instructions on how to do the Gibson Tuck for longer hair.  



I hope that this video is of help to some of you.

'Til tomorrow, my friends.  Love to all.

Video Hairstyle How-To: Southern Tease

This is a variation that I came up with to make the Southern Tease or Southern Pleat hairstyle work for me. The methods used in the other instructions I'd seen just didn't work on my fine and slippery hair. It's a really good protective updo, and it's very easy to do.

While I've slowed down my motions for the video, the style usually takes me about 30 to 40 seconds and actually works out better than when I do it quickly than it turned out in the video.

I hope you like it.



Love to all.  'Til tomorrow, friends.

Video Hairstyle How-To: Wrapped Hairstick Bun Updo

This style works for hair shorter than mine and hair much longer than mine. If your hair is longer, you may need a longer hair stick, and also you will make more wraps around the bun, before completely inserting the hair stick.

It's a versatile hairstyle.  You can leave the ends sticking out as I did, or you can pin them neatly into place.

I hope you like it.

Video How-To: Using Hair Sticks In An Updo

It was only a few years ago that I learned how to put hair sticks in an updo to actually hold the bun, not just as adornments. For many years I thought that when a woman in a movie took her hair down by removing just one stick that it was a movie trick.  I was delighted to finally learn how to use them properly, and hair sticks are now among my very favourite accessories.

I know that I am not alone in needing help learning just how to make hair sticks work, so I made this video.

It could also be titled, "How To Make A Cinnamon Bun Updo", as that's the hairstyle I'm using to demonstrate the hair sticks with.

I'm using Mei Fa Hairstyx in Viola for this updo.  They were my very first pair of "good" hair sticks.

Yes, I know that the bun ended up a bit off centre, but I hope that for those of you who are new to longer hair, this video is helpful.






If anyone can tell me why this video is not centred on my blog page the way my last one was, I'd be most appreciative of any help you can give me. :)

Sending out love to all who read this.  'Til tomorrow, my friends.

Video Hairstyle How-To: French Twist

Today I'm posting my first hairstyle tutorial video.  I decided to do a French Twist, because my hair has just about grown out of it, so it was now or never.

As you'll see, it's a very quick and easy updo, and it is suitable for hair that is shoulder length hair to about where my length is now.  There is a different technique that I use when my hair is longer.

The French Twist is an excellent protective updo, and is a good everyday style, or it can be dressed up for evening. In this video I'm using a France Luxe French Twist Comb in black.

I hope that I can improve my video technique in the future, but I think this was okay for a first effort.