Pageant Hair Styles for Girls: Do Updos At Home

Friday, July 27, 2012

Do Updos At Home

Updo your hair for a sophisticated look.

You no longer need to spend money at the beauty salon to achieve a glamorous updo. By pulling your hair into an updo, you can create a sophisticated look for the office or a night on the town. Very little effort is needed to create an updo hairstyle, but it will look as if you spent hours on your hair.

Instructions

1. Prepare your hair for its updo look by shampooing and conditioning. You will need to blow-dry your hair to provide body and prevent it from falling flat. Brush your hair throughly to ensure it is tangle free.

2. Set your hair in large hot curlers. This will provide curl and body to your hair.

3. Place your hair in a hair band where you want the updo to sit. Commonly this is at the base of the neck about one inch above the hair line or at the crown of your head. The hair can be pulled into a tight pony tail or kept loose to make your hair look fuller. Thicker hair will need to use a thick hair band to secure all of the hair into place. Try to avoid brushing the hair out, as this will lessen the effects of the curlers.

4. Take about a 1/4-inch thickness of the hair at the base of the ponytail and wrap it around the band to hide the hair band. Secure this hair into place using the small bobby pins. You have just created a sophisticated ponytail, but you don't have to stop there.

5. Turn your sophisticated ponytail into a pinned curl updo or pinned twist. You will need to take the shining hair gel and lightly apply it to one-inch sections of hair. Pin the ends of each section of hair to the base of the ponytail, using the small bobby pins. Repeat this step until all of the hair has been separated into one-inch sections and pinned at the base of the ponytail. This is a pinned curl updo.

6. Turn your ponytail into a pinned twist by taking a 1/4-inch section of hair, lightly smoothing it with hair gel to prevent fly-aways and twisting the end of the hair section until it is twisted all the way from the ends of the strands to the base of the ponytail. Attach the ends into the base of the ponytail using the small bobby pins. Repeat this procedure until all of the hair has been twisted and placed into the base of the ponytail.

7. Spray your updo with hairspray to ensure it stays in place. Use the curling iron to curl ringlets into any hair around the sides of the face or neck that did not make it into the ponytail. Also be sure to give your bangs a little curl under to finish off your look. Spray your hair one more time and you will have a finished updo hairstyle.