Hair Updos for Medium Length Hair
Updos are appropriate for any occasion, from a trip to the grocery store to keep the hair out of your eyes to a more formal event such as a wedding or prom. Many updo styles are based on classic Green and Roman art, with the hair swept up held in place with a ribbon and braides. Updos can be simple, with an unkempt look or fine classic french twist or braids.
Full Updo
- Do not wash hair when you style the updo.
- Blowdry and add extensions if you wish to increase volume.
- Layer rollers, larger for longer hair, smaller for thinner, shorter hair.
- Spray with a light touch of hairspray. Leave for 30 minutes.
- Gently remove curlers and run fingers through hair.
- Take small strands of hair, twirl your fingersthen secure to the back of your head with a bobby pin.
- Continue in a clockwise manner until the hair is secured to the back of the head. Don't worry about stragglers.
- Take stragglers, curl with a curling iron. Twirl with your fingers, then bobby pin them back.
Do Your Own French Roll or French Twist
- Brush hair back in a sweeping motion.
- Spray hair with a light touch of hair spray with hair back swept.
- Bobby pin the ends of the hair in an X.
- From the side, using your hands, roll the hair keeping the ends inside the roll.
- Using your hands, continue rolling neatly tucking hair inside the roll until you reach the back of your head.
- Bobby pin the roll in place.
- Lightly spray with hair spray.
- Accentuate with a hair pin or comb to keep in place.
Easy Pony Tail Twist Updo
- Shampoo and blow dry hair.
- Bush hair's underside and brush on top to bring out volume.
- Pull hair to the sides, constraining with your fingers until you make a pony tail in the center of the back of your head.
- Tie off with a hair rubberband.
- Twist the pony tail and wrap it around the hair band. Tuck the tail under the hair band.
- Comb back any unevenness on the crown.
- Hair spray lightly, if needed.
- Accentuate with a ribbon or hair clip on the top of the bun.