Estella's Hair

Equipment:

-Tail comb

-Hair clips

-Hair elastics

-Hair pins

-Curling wand

-Blur fabric roses

Step by step:

1. Draw a line with the tail comb from the front of the ear to the front of the other ear and this is your front section. 

2. Put in a middle parting using your tail comb in the front section and then clip the two front sections out of the way for now, using hair clips.

3. Take another section, about an inch in depth, following the straight line of the front section, put a middle parting in it and then clip both sections up. 

4. Take a section in a semi-cirlcle shape from behind the front sections and put it in a ponytail with an elastic. This sections starts from about 3 inches up on each side.

5. Split the ponytail into four and loop each section under to make a bun shape, securing them with hair pins.

6. Curl the rest of the hair in small sections to make very defined curls. 

7. The big section of curled hair needs to be split into four, roughly equal, sections, so keep this in mind when you are taking each section.

8. Take the first section, split it roughly in half and twist both sides upwards from the root.
9. Secure both sides together and to the head, just under the bun with hair pins, making sure the sides are even.

10. Take another section below this, twist both halves and pin them in the middle of the head with hair pins. Make sure that this section seamlessly joins with the section above and that all the body is running down the centre of the back of the head and that the sides are flat.
11. Repeat these steps with the section below.

12. With the bottom section, do the same steps, but only pin up the sides of the section and leave the middle part hanging down to give the look some length.

13. Pin the middle section of curls up, but position them lower down so that it adds some length to the look.
13. Curl the small section behind the front sections with your curling wand.

14. Twist each of these curls back into the bun to hide the obvious bun shape. 

15. Curl the two front sections with your curling wand, making sure to curl them in small sections. Curl some of them forwards and some back to give add more texture.

16. Split the two halves into three sections and twist each section backwards towards the bun. On each side the curls need to be twisting away from the centre.

17. Secure these twists into the bun with some hair pins, making sure that some of the end curls are still loose.

 

18. I secured some blue fabric roses onto some hair pins with some thread and pinned them along the front of the hair, where the twists had been pinned into the bun.

I am so happy with how the hair turned out. I think the twists in the hair into the back add a fun detail and add some body to the hair. I knew that the bun at the back would be a different colour to the surrounding curls so I made sure that the bun was neat and I it look really effective. I really like that there is a focus point of the curls. I love that the curls are a different colour to the front of the hair because it adds a lot of texture and different tones to the hair style. I need to make sure that I curl the hair right to the ends so that the curls are continuous. I am really happy with how the dark blue fabric roses and the lighter hair contrast against each other as it makes them really stand out.