4 Easy Prom and Wedding Hairstyles!
Here are 4 easy prom and wedding hairstyles! These easy and simple hair styles for prom or wedding are great for girls with both long hair and short hair. Also, if you’re a wedding guest, a bridesmaid, or just have a formal occasion coming up, this prom/ bridal hair tutorial is for you! Let me know in the comments below which hairstyle was your favorite!
- Hey, everyone.
Kayley, your friendly
neighborhood hair stylist here
and today we’re doing some
prom/wedding hairstyles.
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Now, I almost didn’t even film this video
but this was requested so much
I decided to go ahead and do it
and this is meant to be a
whole bunch of very easy
DIYable hairstyles whether
you’re attending a wedding
or you’re a bridesmaid
or you’re going to prom
or any other number of things
that are coming up in the coming months.
Because it can totally be high stakes
to do your own hair for an event,
I wanted to make sure these
are really easy to follow
and will look pretty and
I feel like I nailed it.
I hope you guys agree
and I’m really excited to
show you the hairstyles.
So let’s get into it.
To start this hairstyle,
we’re gonna curl the hair.
I’m gonna prep my hair
with the OUAI Memory Mist.
This is heat protecting
but also helps your hair to
remember the style a lot better
and I do find that my
curls last better with it.
I did a whole review video
if you wanna see that.
Next, we’re going to section the hair
so that we can go pieces of hair at a time
and get every single
piece curled really well.
My gosh, am I ready for prom
in the early 2000s, late 90s?
I think so. To curl the
hair, what I’m going to do
is grab my one inch
Kristin Ess curling iron
and I’m going to start curling
the hair away from my face.
I’m going to clamp it onto the hair
and twist it up right at the root
then slide it out a little bit,
twist it back up till
I get back to the root,
slide it out, twist it back and so forth
until you have just
two inches left of hair
that hasn’t been curled
then you’re going to turn your iron
to completely face your
head and start pulling away
and as you do that,
the hair is going to unravel
from the curling iron
and you’re gonna be left
with just those ends clamped
and to finish them off,
you’re just going to drag
the iron over the end
and from that you get
a nice pretty deep wave
with a little bit more
of a loose modern end
but if you ever find that
it looks too straight,
you can go back in quickly
with your curling iron
and just twist it a little bit
and that will get you a
little bit more of a bend.
Now, if you have a curling wand,
the technique is a little bit different
but it’s still doable.
You’re going to take your hair
and wrap it around the wand
until it’s mostly heated up.
For me, that’s about five seconds.
I’m going to put the ends on the iron
for one to two seconds.
That’s going to kind of
curl them a little bit
but not as much as the rest of the hair
then you let everything off
and you have a very similar effect
to what we have with the clip
and if you ever find
that the curl at the end
is still too tight,
you can run your iron over it very quickly
and that will loosen it up
and make it a little bit more modern
and those are the two sides.
They don’t look exactly the same
but you get a kind of similar effect.
So whichever tool you have,
grab that and use that
to create these curls.
So now I’m gonna drop down the
next section and keep going.
Now, when I say to leave
the ends straighter
because it’s more modern,
I don’t mean leave four inches
of perfectly straight hair
at the end of the curls.
That’s not the look we’re going for.
All I’m really trying to do
is to keep us from going to
full ringlet all the way down.
The ringlet look is not as
modern, it’s not as cute
and so we wanna avoid that.
So the ways that I avoid that
are mostly just to put
less heat on the curls
as I’m going through
and make sure that they’re
not getting the same treatment
as the top of my hair is.
So those are two methods that you can use
to keep from getting the ringlet effect
all the way down your hair.
Also, pro tip, leaving the ends looser
makes your hair look longer.
And next section.
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And now you’re gonna let
down the last section,
find your part and curl those pieces.
My advice around your face
is to keep the curls a little looser.
I find that looks a little
cooler and more modern.
Just my personal opinion but
everything else, curl away.
And we’re done.
Now, for most of these curls,
I did not touch them after
they came off the curling iron
so they would have a
chance to cool in place
and therefore set much better.
If you want more information on that,
I will link it in the I cards above
but now I’m gonna take my fingers
and run them through to break up the curls
because we don’t wanna
leave it in a ringlet form
and now these curls are in.
I already feel like they are so beautiful.
You could obviously just rock this.
I’m gonna add in some star accessories
because I’ve been loving them lately.
I’m going to take back
little pieces of hair
and pin them in place
with the star bobby pins
and once I’ve done that,
I’m gonna just add in
some extra ones for decoration
and my tip for making sure
that the bobby pin part
of this doesn’t show
is to put it in sideways
and then turn it upright
right at the last second.
That way, the mouth of the bobby pin
doesn’t skip up and over
the top of your hair.
It hides much more easily.
And that’s the finished hairstyle.
So essentially it’s just curling your hair
and adding in some accessories.
I think it’s really beautiful.
It will look good from every single angle
and it really doesn’t matter
if you’re good at hair or not.
You just curl stuff and
put the accessories in.
And now we’re gonna
move on to a half updo.
Now, I’ve been doing a little bit of hair
for weddings of friends and family
and I get this twisted half
updo requested all the time.
So I figured let’s show
you guys how to do it.
First things first, I’m going
to lightly tease sections
of the crown of my head to get
a little bit of extra volume
and then smooth over the top.
Now I’m going to make the twist
by taking a section of hair
from the front of my head,
splitting it into two
and wrapping the sections
away from my face
then every time I wrap the hair,
I’m going to pick up a new piece of hair,
put it into one of the
sections and then twist,
pick up a new piece of hair,
add it into one of the sections and twist
and continue doing that
until you reach the back of your head
then you’re gonna twist
just a couple more times
and hold your place with
a clip or a bobby pin
and now I’m gonna go back through that
and I’m going to bobby pin into the twist
until there’s a line of bobby
pins going through the twist.
This does two things.
First, it makes it stay
really really well.
Secondly, it’s gonna let you
pull the hair apart better
and get a fluffier twist without
a whole lot of extra work.
I’m going in and pulling
very gently on the twist
to open it up and make
it look a little fluffier
and a little more dramatic
then we’re gonna repeat the
same thing on the other side
taking the sections, wrapping them around
and feeding in hair as we go
and of course add in the
bobby pins and pull it apart
then I’m going to take one of the twists
and pin it against my head
with the bobby pin horizontal
so that it can be hidden easily
then I take the other twist
and pin it over top of that one
and that’s the hairstyle.
So this one is really easy to do
and it can be really
pretty at the same time
plus it works for a whole lot
of different hair lengths.
Now I think it’s time to
move on to a very pretty
and easy updo.
So to get started,
you’re going to separate your hair in half
and clip the top half out of the way.
For the bottom half of the hair,
you actually just need
a bend in your hair.
So if you don’t have waves yet,
do a quick lazy curl just enough
to get a bend in your hair
and then put it in a ponytail
and then you can let the top down
and this is where you put your energy
into curling your hair.
You want lots of little pieces
because we’re gonna sweep it
back and when we sweep it back,
they’re gonna loosen up a little bit.
So make it a little bit ringlety.
That’s the only time you’re
ever gonna hear me say that
and then you’re going to sweep it back.
You can have a part
when you do that or not,
totally up to you,
and you’re gonna keep it super duper loose
and then secure it with an elastic
on top of the elastic we already have
and then you can go in with
your thumb and your index finger
and loosen it up even more to
get more texture and volume.
This is actually a really
pretty textured ponytail
if you wanted to go that route
but let’s finish out the updo.
You’re going to braid the remaining hair
and once you get to the end of it,
grab a teeny tiny section at the bottom
and slide the rest of your hair up.
That’s gonna make the braid
super compact and bubbly
and then you’re going
to wrap that into a bun
and pin it in place.
From here, if you want,
you can pull apart and texturize again
but I would say go slowly just in case
and once I did that, I added
in some more star bobby pins
because I love them.
You could add in any kind
of thing that you want,
whatever goes with your
dress or just leave it plain.
Whatever you like.
And that’s the finished hairstyle.
It’s basically a braided bun
with some pro tips thrown in
to make it event appropriate
but it’s still easy and still
completely doable on your own
which is exactly what we’re going for.
Let’s finish off with a
seriously upgraded ponytail.
Anybody can curl their hair
and put it up into a ponytail
and it will look good but if
you wanna go from DIY ponytail
to snatched, here’s what you’re gonna do.
Oh and also, there’s a lot of tips, okay?
Don’t go oh, this is too hard
and click out of the video.
Just go okay, I’m only
gonna do two of them
instead of all of them.
You don’t have to do all a million tricks
that I’m gonna show you, okay?
Okay, let’s go.
First things first, do
your ponytail in two steps.
You all know this is
a favorite tip of mine
but it will change your life.
So I’m going to section my hair diagonally
from my ears up to just
about an inch or two
in front of where I
want the ponytail to sit
and I’m going to clip the
top half out of the way
and now I’m gonna get a little fancy.
I’m gonna add in this
Barefoot Blonde pony up piece.
This is basically a chunk
of hair on a seamless base
so it’s very, very thin,
almost undetectable
underneath your ponytail.
This is about as thick
as my ponytail is anyway
so it basically doubles
the size of my ponytail
and it’s 20 something inches long
so if your hair is shorter
than that, it adds length
and I’m just gonna clip that in
right on the part that I made
when I sectioned the hair
and now we continue on with the tutorial.
You’re going to brush up the hair
that is left down into your high ponytail
getting it as smooth as you can.
I recommend first going
in with a normal brush
to get all the pieces that you can.
Next, go in with a comb
or a boar bristle brush
to finesse everything and make
sure that every piece of hair
is going up and where it’s supposed to be
and you have no weird bumps.
I like doing the ponytail
in two steps like this
because it helps to
disperse the weight better,
it helps make sure it’s
not sagging in the back
and it’s a lot more manageable
so you have a better chance
of getting all the hair
really sleeked into place.
For my next trick, you’ve
heard of baking your makeup.
Have you heard of baking your hairspray?
That sounds really scary.
I promise it’s not.
Okay, what we’re gonna do, get
the ponytail out of the way.
You’re gonna take some firm hold hairspray
and you’re gonna spray all over the back
using your hand to sweep up baby hairs
to make sure they are where
they’re supposed to be
and then you grab your hair dryer
and you heat up the hairspray.
Essentially, this just
activates it a little bit more,
softens it and then when
you take the heat away,
it cools into place and
it’s going to stay there.
Do you think pop stars
just don’t have baby hairs?
Girl, they do but they’ve
been baked into place.
Do as they do.
And now we’re gonna let down the top
and brush it back, comb it back
and secure it in place
around the first ponytail.
For the baby hairs on top,
guess what we’re gonna do?
Yes, girl, we’re gonna
hit it with hairspray
and then hit that hairspray
with the hair dryer.
From here, you can touch up
your curls if you need to.
For me, I’m liking the way they look
so I’m just gonna go ahead
and wrap some hair around
the base of my ponytail.
I’m gonna take a section of hair
and then I’m gonna use
my hairspray trick again
to set it in place.
I’m sure you wanna know
if baking your hairspray
is bad for your hair.
It’s not like putting a flat iron
or a curling iron on top
of hairspray by any means.
It’s just a little warmer
than your body temperature.
It’s just warming it up
slightly and letting it cool
which activates the hairspray
more than it can on its own.
So really the bigger concern
isn’t so much using heat
as it is getting that activated hairspray
back out of your hair successfully.
So to do that, I recommend
using a detangling brush
and a gentle touch.
You don’t wanna rip through your hair
’cause that could cause extra breakage
and I recommend shampooing
very thoroughly,
maybe shampooing twice to
get the extra hairspray out
and as long as you do that,
I think it’s totally fine.
I don’t think it’s an
extra strain on your hair
more than using hairspray is on its own.
Another celebrity secret
that I utilize all the time
is shadowing your root
which basically means
using either a brow powder
or an actually designated hair powder
to fill in any sparse
areas in your hairline.
I actually already have some of that in.
I’m gonna add just a little bit more
so you guys can see
what I’m talking about.
I feel like it frames my face really well
so it’s something I
particularly like doing
but obviously it’s not something
you actually have to do
for your hair.
So from here, you can actually be done
but I kinda wanna see
if I can get my ponytail more voluminous.
Let’s try it.
If you want some more volume and lift
which might look extreme in this ponytail
but if you’re dealing with less hair
than I have in right
now, could be helpful.
You can hold your ponytail fully up
and then backcomb all
the way from tip to root
with the brush in kind of
this big paddling motion.
I’ve seen Justine Marjan do that
and she is the queen of
giving Khloe Kardashian
the biggest ponytails ever
so I’m like if it’s good enough for her,
it is good enough for me.
Oh yes.
It comes together finally
once you smooth over the top
and you can see that you have
all the volume in the world.
If you do have finer hair,
this can be a lifesaver
in creating a bigger, fluffier ponytail
and there is your
snatched ponytail option.
Now, you could follow these
steps with straight hair
for a sleek look.
You could do classic waves
for a more classic look
but I personally am loving
the volume and texture.
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I hope that you guys enjoyed it
and I’ll see you in my next one.
Muah.
Bye.
Thank you, next.
Thank you, next.
Thank you, next.
I don’t wanna take it out.
I just wanna live like this
forever ’cause I’d miss you babe
and I don’t wanna miss a thing.
Ah.
Are you kidding me?
I’m not holding it up,
it’s doing that on its own.
What the actual?
Well, I and my hair have
recovered, praise be.
Peace out, cub scouts.