Easy Knot Bun (Chignon)

Hey guys! Today I want to share with you this really quick and easy sleek low knotted bun. I like to call this my city chic bun. As some of you may know, I moved from the suburbs to downtown in the city. So every single day I see these really powerful and elegant women and it just inspired me to create a more sleek and put together look for you guys. Now this hairstyle will work best if your hair is just past your shoulders or medium length. But I will show you how to add extensions so you can recreate this look if your hair is on the shorter side. So let's go ahead and get started. So for today's hairstyle I am going to be using hair extensions to show you guys how you can recreate it if your hair is on the shorter side. Now if you don't have hair extensions and you're looking to recreate this hairstyle, I could not recommend Luxie Hair anymore. I absolutely love their hair extensions, I've used them for years. This particular set is over a year old and it's still super thick and shiny and soft. I'm super jealous because I wish my real hair felt like this. But I get a ton of questions about which color I wear so this is the ash blonde color and I wear the 220 gram set. It's the thickest set that they offer so it just really blends nicely with my hair and just makes it look even more voluminous. First to prep my hair I'm going to take a light hold gel. I love this one from Herbal Essences because it gives you that hold without the crunch. I'm using a quarter size amount and just running this down all of my hair. Now this hairstyle can also be done on wet hair which is amazing. I would just go ahead and add a little bit of mousse first. Next step, using a soft bristle brush or a comb, you just want to smooth down all of your hair. Sadly when I move I misplace my comb or else I'd be using that but a soft bristle brush will work just as great. Once it's nice and smooth, create a tight ponytail where you want your bun to be. I place mine right at the nape of my neck. I love this because you could also pair this hairstyle with a hat. I pulled out the sides a bit to cover my ears and then pulled out small pieces in front of my ears just to frame my face. I find that it gives it more of a, I just threw my hair up and it looked like this appearance. Now if you're using extensions, take two three clip wefts and you just want to clip one onto the other right below where the clips are. Once they're clipped together it should look similar to this. So take that top weft and make sure that all of the clips are open and you just want to begin clipping it around your ponytail as close to your hair elastic as you possibly can. I like using the three clip weft because I feel it fits perfectly around a ponytail. Now to create our knotted bun. So grab the base of your ponytail and try to keep it nice and smooth. And you want to wrap it up and around your index finger using your other fingers to keep it nice and tight and wrap it a full 360 degrees. So a full circle. Once you've wrapped it, see my index finger, I'm going to also slide my thumb in the middle so that I can pinch my ends and pull them through the center of my bun. So all that I've done is I just tied a knot with my hair and tried to keep it as tight as possible. So you want to keep your bun pressed against your head and then tuck your ends underneath the bun until they're hidden. Once they're tucked I like to secure them first with some bobby pins just to ensure that they don't poke out. Continue bobby pinning around the perimeter of your bun. What I like to do is take a bobby pin, hook some hair from the outside of the bun and then slide the bobby pin underneath my bun towards the center. I keep repeating this until my bun is secure and definitely not going anywhere. So there we have it you guys. That's how easy it is to recreate this low knotted city chic bun. I really hope that you guys loved this more sleek put together look. I know I often do like messy effortless hairstyles but ever since I moved to the city like I'm just feeling a shift in my style. I feel still like chic and stylish with my hair like this. I often wear my hair down, it's like my security blanket but I seriously feel super powerful with this hairstyle. If you did enjoy this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up, comment down below, please let me know what you thought. And if you do end up recreating this hairstyle don't forget to share it with me on social media. But thank you again you guys for watching. I've missed you all so so much. Thanks for being so understanding and I'll talk to you guys in my next video. Bye.