| With prom season right around the corner, you | | | | line. Twisting slightly and loosely, pull the sections |
| are no doubt already thinking about how you | | | | up and back toward the top of the crown and pin |
| want to wear your hair for the special night. While | | | | into place. Continue around the entire perimeter of |
| many of your friends may end up spending a | | | | the head until all of the hair is pinned up. If the |
| fortune getting their hair done at a salon, you can | | | | curls on the crown look a bit funky, rearrange |
| easily do your hair at home and achieve stunning | | | | them to where you would like them and pin into |
| results. The key is in the details. | | | | place. You can also leave tendrils of soft hair falling |
| When creating updos at home, one of the | | | | around the face and neck of this updo to create |
| hardest things to do is craft perfect twists and | | | | a wispy effect. Spray to hold. |
| dramatic effects. But you can have equally | | | | Fun and Modern Updo |
| stunning results by taking a few shortcuts. Here | | | | This updo is extremely easy to create. Start |
| are a couple of ideas that you can do yourself at | | | | again dry hair. First, create a dramatic design |
| home. | | | | parting in the front and top of the head. You can |
| Loose, Romantic Updo | | | | do a zigzag parting or an angled parting, really any |
| Remember Kate Winslet's hair in the Titanic? This | | | | parting that adds interest. Sleek the rest of the |
| classic, romantic updo is very simple to pull off at | | | | hair down and back to the nape of the neck in a |
| home. All you need is a medium sized curling iron, | | | | temporary ponytail. Holding the ponytail in your |
| some bobby pins and super-hold finishing spray. | | | | fist, twist up until the end of the hair are pointing |
| To begin, start with dry hair. Give your hair a | | | | up and over the crown leaving only about 1" of |
| once over with the hairspray and start to curl | | | | hair to play with. Hold with a clip and fan the ends |
| your hair in ringlets. You can do this by taking | | | | out with some pomade or styling wax. Spray to |
| ½" sections starting in the nape while pinning | | | | finish. |
| the rest of the hair up. After completing each | | | | You see, it's not that hard. And when your friends |
| section, pull down another ½" parting and curl | | | | all show up with cookie-cutter hairdos and less |
| until the whole head is covered in Shirley Temple | | | | money in their pockets, you can smile with the |
| ringlets. (Don't worry; it's not going to stay like | | | | knowledge that you not only have an individual |
| that.) | | | | updo but that you also have more money to |
| Next, pull hair in 1" sections from around the hair | | | | burn. |