Thursday, August 27, 2009

How To: The Side Bun

It's always nice to have a go-to updo for those days - and nights - when your hair and you just aren't getting along (i.e. no matter how hard you try to brush away that cowlick, it keeps rearing its ugly hairs in the wrong direction).

Here's an easy, DIY updo that's perfect for a lunch with friends or date night with that special someone. A celeb favorite, pictured here on Tori Spelling and Scarlet Johanson, the side bun (a.k.a. chignon) is fresh, flirty and super simple to achieve. It'll take you about 7 minutes from start to finish.




Anthony Linzalone of the Pierre Michel Salon in NYC -- who has tamed the tresses Calista Flockhart Cindy Crawford & Kim Alexis -- offers these easy steps for creating the chic chignon:

1 - Start by parting dry hair to the side then securing at nape of neck into a side ponytail.

2 - Using a 1 1/2 inch curling iron, curl random pieces of the ponytail into large round curls.

3 - Lift curls and loosely secure them around the base of ponytail with bobby pins.

4 - Finish the look with a light spritz of hairspray to tame flyaways and on ponytail chignon to keep curls in place. TRY: Phyto Spray Laque Hair Spray ($18.00).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeesh - a side chignon is a lovely thing, but I wouldn't use a pic of Tori Spelling... I doubt there is anyone who'd want to recreate her 'look'.

Beauty Banter said...

I happen to think that Tori's hair looks lovely in the picture! I am also a fan of Scarlet's 'do as well.

xoxo,
Beauty Banter

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