Easy To Do Prom Updos

For prom, coming in second to a gorgeous dress is an elegant hairstyle to match. For most girls, detailed styling and countless hours are spent in the salon to achieve that star-quality hairstyle. Fortunately, if you are on a budget or running short on time, there are plenty of prom worthy updos that can be achieved with minimal effort from home.

Hairline Roll Style

This style creates soft rolls, keeping the hair well away from your face. It's perfect if you are planning to flaunt fabulous accessories like a necklace or earrings, or if you are wearing a top that's designed daringly with straps and a jeweled neckline.

To accomplish this style, start by brushing your hair to detangle it and make it silky. Then, add a good styling cream to hold your hair in place. With a rat-tail comb, make a deep side part and pick up a one-half to one-inch strand of hair that is closest to your hairline. Twist the strand clockwise into a tight roll and secure it with a hair roll clip. Do the same with hair on the other side of the part, clipping it in the same manner.

Pull these two twisted sections underneath your hair and band them with a hair bungee. Choose one that is the same color as your hair. To keep the twisted ends secure, use bobby pins. Use fancy pins encrusted with jewels and sparkles on top of the rolls. The rest of the hair is arranged in a silky bun at the back.

Simple Chignon

A chignon is an extremely graceful hair style that is popular at proms. It is also extremely easy to create. Shampoo your hair and condition it well. Follow this up with blow drying. Gather all the hair into a pony tail, and holding it at the base, twist the hair of the ponytail into a tight spiral. After this, coil the twisted spiral into a bun, and secure it with hairpins. You can even apply some gel to keep all the loose hair in place. A variation of this style is known as the Criss-cross Back where the ponytail is divided into three or four sections. Each section is then twisted into a bun in a criss-cross shape.

Sleek Ponytail

Celebrities like Eva Mendes, Hillary Duff and Christina Aguilera have popularized the ponytail and taken it beyond the boring hair style it was, making it look glamorous and gorgeous. You can experiment with these ponytails further, and wear them as high or as low as you want.

After you have brushed your hair and applied a styling cream, pull your hair back into a tight hairline. Secure it with a hair bungee. You can use a bungee that has a similar color to your hair, or go for a bright and sparkly one. You can even add some light curls to your ponytail with a curling iron.

As a variation, you can decorate your ponytail with elastics that are encrusted with jewels or even layer your entire ponytail with jeweled bands from top to bottom, at regular intervals of 2 to 4 inches. For more dazzle, wrap your hair with beaded strands or satin in colors matching your gown. Undoubtedly, with such a high glam quotient, people will find it hard to tear their eyes away from you.

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