How To: Up Do

So you may or may not know that I am in the process of growing out my bob

Let me tell you, this has been a lonnggggg journey

and every now and again I get annoyed and chop it all off again!

well my hairdresser does!

Anyway this time I am determined to persevere and have flowing locks

but right now my hair is at that awkward in between length 

and I don't like wearing it down all the time as it's started to flick out

So I've come up with a nice little up do which can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion 

so here's how to do it 

What you will need 

A brush 

Kirbys/bobby pins whatever you wanna call them! 

Hairspray 

and one of these...

now I'm not entirely sure what these are called but the sponge part is made of the same stuff as the donuts that are everywhere right now for doing ballerina buns, and it is attached to a comb

I got this one in Primark for about £1 and they had them in brown and possibly black

How to

Now I just washed and blow dried my hair but this style would probably work better on day old hair 

as you can see my hair is still pretty short and it is really fine 

so you may have to adjust this to work with your own hair.

First you want to section off any hair that you want to leave down at the front

obviously this is optional but I always like to leave some down as I don't like my hair to look to severe

put the hair in a clip or tie it with a bobble to get it out of your way

Now you want to section the rest of your hair

take your fingers to the top of your ear 

right to the centre of the back of your head 

Do this on both sides

As if you were putting your hair in a half up half down style

Now you have two sections, the top section and the bottom section 

Now backcomb the top section to create as much volume as you like 

I like to make mine pretty much as big as possible but again this is up to you 

Once you have backcombed this section you again want to style it half up/half down and secure it with two kirby grips 

It should now look like this

you are essentially creating a beehive with the top section of your hair 

This is how it should look from the front

(minus the roots lol)

Next you want to take your little sponge/comb contraption 

and with the teeth pointing upwards push it into you hair underneath the kirbys you just put in place 

Make sure you put this in securely you don't want it slipping out halfway through your night out! 

Now you want to backcomb the bottom section of your hair 

If you have been blessed with nice thick hair you might not need to do this 

but I like to do it just to ensure you can't see the sponge underneath my hair

Now take the middle section of this hair and fold it up and over the sponge and secure it with a kirby 

Do the same with the side sections 

Now just tidy up any loose ends and any hair hanging down from underneath the sponge 

and you should end up with something that looks like this 

You can perfect it so that it is much neater than this or you can mess it up a bit for a more casual look 

now you just need to decide what to do with the front section of hair

Sometimes I put mine to the side 

Sometimes in the middle 

and don't be scared to add accessories to make it a bit different 

How cute is this for a holiday look?

Or something like this for a wedding?

It's a great hairstyle to take you from day to night as you don't have to worry about it 

Once it's done it's done and your free to enjoy yourself without worrying about bits of hair flicking the wrong way! 

I hope you enjoyed reading this post as much as I enjoyed doing it

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see more posts like this 

Jen <3 

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