How To: Party Ponytail Hair Tutorial, Bridal Ponytail Hairstyle #Bridalstyles

Hello my name is Megan Lorson and today I'm going to show you how I like to create my beautiful volumous ponytail style. So I'm going to show you all the products I'm using, how I layer them in the hair, and how I put everything up into the ponytail. So let's get started. So the first thing I always like to do when starting a style is to just brush through the hair, make sure it's free of tangles. That way we have a really good starting point and we're not fighting with tangles and frizz as we move through the style. And I'm going to be, I'm using my wet and dry brush by Kayla. I do have this linked on my Amazon storefront as well as my LTK page. So if you guys want to check out this brush. I love these detangling brushes, the wet to dry brushes. They're just really good brushes for detangling the hair when I'm creating bridal hairstyles. Once I have the hair nice and combed through, I'm going to be using some of my Kenra Luxe Shine Oil. I typically always like to start with putting an oil in the hair just to start nourishing and moisturizing the hairs. And this starts to bring out some of that shine in the hair. And this is always also going to help to fight frizz throughout the day because when hair lacks moisture, that's when it starts to frizz. So we want to be building products into the hair as we create our bridal hairstyles so that it helps to fight the frizz all day. So once I've got my oil worked through the hair really good, I'm going to go ahead and section her hair off. Just going to section the front sides off. And we're going to start working on this back section right here. So I'm going to take about... you don't want your section too thick because you want the heat to be able to penetrate through and curl the hair. And if the section is too thick, it's not going to hold the curl all day. So the heat penetration is really key to having lasting curls that last all day. So once we've got our first section here, we're going to prep this first section. And I'm going to be using a little bit of my Air Smoothing Cream. This is just a really lightweight cream. Again, this helps with moisture and it's also going to help those little frizzy pieces stick together and smooth the hair. I'm going to run it underneath on the sides where they have those really short frizzy pieces and especially down through the middle to ends of the hair. And then you can take your brush or comb and just comb all of that through. And then I'm going to layer in a little bit of hairspray. So I'm going to be using my Air Flexible Hold Air Spray. And I'm just going to give it a couple of light sprays going down the hair. And then immediately after, I just like to comb the hair down. If they are somebody who doesn't have a lot of texture in their hair, if their hair is super sleek and fine, I like to take some texture, my Texture Air Spray, and just spray a little bit of texture spray in there. This is going to really help to hold that curl to hold in their hair. I'm just going to comb through that. And then I'm going to be using my Hot Tools Curl Bar 1-inch Curling Iron. This is also linked in my Amazon storefront. I love using this a lot because it comes with three or four other different sizes. So it's very convenient to travel with because I have all the sizes. All right, so we're going to start by curling the hair on this side. And everything on this side is going to be curled into the middle. And I'm doing a twist wrap. So I'm twisting. Every time I come around, I'm twisting my thumb. So we get that really pretty wave and curl pattern. And then I'm just going to hold it on there for a few seconds. That way the heat really has time to penetrate through. Again, this is really key for creating those long-lasting curls. If the heat doesn't get all the way through the curl, you might have a pretty curl to begin with, but it's not something that's going to last and hold all day. So once I've held it on there long enough, I like to just hold the curl in my hand for a minute and just kind of bounce it to let it cool off for a second and then release it. And if you guys can see the curl pattern, this is the type of curl pattern that you want to get with that twist wrap technique. Now when I move into the center of the hair curling, then I'm going to flip-flop my curls back and forth. So the outer ones always are going to come in towards the middle. Same with this side. These curls are always going to go in towards this way. And then when we work in the middle curls, I'm going to flip-flop the middle ones back and forth. That way we get lots of like texture and movement in the curls. And I'm just going to hold that on there to let the heat penetrate all the way through. And just another little tip, don't be afraid to use too much product when creating your bridal hairstyles. So as you can see, I layered in quite a few products. We didn't overdo it. So start with less, work in more as you go. But you can see I definitely layered in quite a few products. And the key and the thing that really helps too to distribute those products evenly throughout the hair is brushing them through. That way they evenly get through the hair and work like they're supposed to. All right, and then this next one we're going to curl the other way. And I'm not going to really worry about pulling out the curls yet. I did tug on these two just to kind of show you the wave pattern of what it looks like. But I'll show you what I like to do and why after I release this curl. I'm just going to hold on a few more seconds. And then we're going to release it. I like to just let it bounce and cool for just a second and then release it. But I'm just going to let it be. I'm not going to tug on the curl. I'm not going to try to pull it apart and fan it out. I'm just going to let it set and cool just like this. And then we'll go back through towards the end of the style and manipulate and start to tug on the curls and fan them out like we want. I'm going to split this section in half. I'm going to go ahead and do this curl the other way. And again I'm wrapping it around and twisting. Every time it comes back around I'm twisting the hair with my thumb so my thumb ends up pointing straight up. And that's how you get that beautiful wave pattern that you see here. We're going to hold it. Let the heat penetrate all the way through. And then I'm going to show you the next step for what products I use next and how we continue to move up the hair. We're going to release this one. Let it just cool off in your hand for just a second and then just let it fall. And then this last section right here is the one closest to the end and we're going to again we're going to have this curl inwards like away from the face. And I'm doing that twisting wrap curl technique. We really want the overall look of this to be kind of textured and not the glam wave ponytail. So if we did the glam wave ponytail you would have the curls going all in the same direction. So this one we're keeping it more textured and volumous and flowy by alternating the curls. Okay so that once that is released we're going to go ahead and spray a little bit more flexible hold hairspray. This is the hairspray and there's some frizzy pieces up here so I'm going to go ahead and just get those kind of calmed down through this top section. I'm going to spray a light very light layer on the ends and then I'm going to go ahead and layer in a little bit of my texture hairspray. Once we do that we're ready to move on to the next section and we're going to go ahead and take about the same size section the same thickness and just make sure that section is nice and even. And then we're going to just clip this up out of the way so it's not in our way while we're curling and then we're going to start to layer on some products. What I like to do is just lightly take that top layer that we just let down not combing through the curls we just did. This is important but I'm just kind of smoothing out that hair getting it to lay flat. I'm going to go in with some more smoothing cream just a little bit so I'm taking about that much and then I'm running it through my hands first. This is important because you don't want to just go in with the product and have a huge amount stick to one section so run your hands and then you just want to very very carefully just evenly distribute it through that section. And then I'm going to go ahead and pick up that section that I just brought down and it's very important that we don't mess up these curls and do a lot to comb through and we're just going to kind of let them rest there for now. But I've got this whole section in my hand and I'm just working that smoothing cream through the hair. Take my brush and just quickly comb it through. We're going to take a little bit more flexible hold air spray and just smooth down those little frizzy pieces and get a nice even layer all the way from the top to the ends. I'm going to take my comb and just help seal those little frizzy pieces down and then we're going to spray a little bit of texture spray. Again this just gives it some more grip and some more hold and then we're ready to go back in and curl. So we're going to start over here on this side again and the important thing too is to make sure that each section you pick up that it's nice and smooth. If you need to take your comb and comb through it you don't want any tangles or knots especially if their hair is longer. There could be some knots in it so make sure it's nice and smooth before you start curling because if you curl and it's not free of tangles and there's some frizz in there you don't want to iron in that frizz into the hair with the iron. So make sure it's nice and smooth before you wrap it around the curling wand. All right I've just finished curling this section so I'm going to show you again how I layer the products in. I'm going to be using the Flexible Hold Air Spray which is the hair spray and just go ahead and work out some of that frizz now. We're not combing out the curls yet and then just do a light spray of that air spray and then again I like to go in with a little bit of texture spray. This is just going to help build volume in the hair as we work up in layers. All right after we've finished this section we're going to again take our Flexible Hold Air Spray and just lightly spray that down the hair. I love this hairspray also because it just adds the prettiest shine into my bridal hairstyles. Actually the whole entire line adds just such a like beautiful shine to the hair even the texture spray. Every single one of the products even though it's like texture sprays they all just add such a beautiful shine. They do what they say which is one of the reasons I do use a lot of the Air products. Also I do want to point out on this top section as we get closer to the top I did start the curl pattern a little bit higher up on the head so you can start to see there's some texture in this top area right here. Now when we have about I'm going to turn her this way a little bit so you can see how much hair we have up here. This is about the point where I like to start creating the volume in the crown area. So what I'm going to do is just very carefully lay this hair on top of our curls. I'm going to grab my pink pewter comb and I'm going to be using some of the Design Me Puff Me Texture Powder. So I'm going to take the end of my comb and we're just going to start sectioning and I'm actually going to go ahead and use that to bring some of this front hair back. So I'm going to have her tilt her head back. So I'll show you we're going to start bringing about that much hair back and teasing it. I'm going to take my pink pewter comb and start sectioning the hair off. I'm going to comb it straight up first. Make sure there's no frizz. Make sure the hair is all going in the same direction. Once I have it combed straight up, I'm going to pump in some Puff Me Powder and we're just going to do a little bit of a tease at the root. I typically like to tease between 12 and 13 times. That's really going to lock in the tease. Anything less than that, the tease will just start to fall out of the hair. Also in combination with a texture powder, it really helps to lock that tease in. I'm going to continue to take a section. Make sure it's the whole size of that section. Comb it straight up and I'm going to pump a little bit more of that texture powder in there what I like to do is take my fork comb and just smooth out any frizz that might be on top. Then I like to use... we're going to go ahead and pull the hair up into the ponytail. I like to use these hair bungees. They have a hook on each end and I typically just get these off of Amazon. These are also linked in my Amazon storefront if you want to check them out as well. They usually come in a pack with multiple different colors. I'm just going to be using this brown one on her but I love using these for a lot of my ponytail hairstyles. So what I'm going to do is just gather up her hair in my hands and I've kind of got it in like a u-shape and I'm just going to lightly start like combing it up with my hands like in that u-shape and just kind of smoothing it out with my hands and bringing it up to the height that I want it to. So I want it to be kind of centered so it gets that perky voluminous look and I'm just going to bring my hands together as we go up and I'm not worried about this being super smooth. I actually want it to have some texture so I'm going to also use my fork comb to just smooth out some frizz near this area. I'm going to pinch and pull a little bit of this up and then I'm going to make sure it's centered. I'm going to make sure her front pieces are out and I want it to kind of swoop around the ear a little bit so I'm going to pull that out a little bit and once I have it pretty much how I want it what I'm going to do is I'm going to hook this bungee underneath the ponytail and one other little tip if you're working on someone with finer hair maybe they don't have a ton of hair and you really need something for this to hook onto she doesn't have that issue because she's got that really coarse thick hair so this bungee is just going to lock right in you can also another little tip trick hack is on this bottom layer you can tease on top of it when you are working on your very bottom section and that'll just give it extra grip and something to hold on to so I'm going to just hook it on the underneath part of her hair the underneath part of that ponytail and then I'm going to stretch it around and I'm going to keep tension on it with my left hand and then with my right hand I'm going to bring it around one more time her hair's super thick so it's only going to go around that like two times and I'm going to get it to hook right into that first hook sometimes that's not going to be able to happen because their hair is too thick but if you can get the two hooks to hook together that is definitely ideal if not if it can just hook into like teasing or something that's going to just hold it and keep it nice and secure okay so once we have that bungee wrapped around the hair I like to just go through and pinch and pull usually the bungee is going to keep it nice and tight which is why I like it but I still have a little bit of wiggle room to pull out some pieces so around the ear I like to make sure the swoop is how I like it take my fork comb smooth out any frizz and then I just like to walk around the style and make sure that the volume is even everywhere if I want more volume back here you can take your fork comb and just kind of pull up on this hair a little bit to give it some more volume I'm going to pull it out a little bit more down here you can pull it up a little bit in the front okay and then what I'm going to do is just spray that top a little bit so you don't have any frizz and then I'm going to take my fork comb I love taking this end of the comb to really comb out the curls so I'm just taking it on the ends and really making sure that those curls are more thinned out now what I'm going to do is take my pink pewter comb and we're going to start teasing so I'm going to start on this top section and I'm going to take a little bit of my puff me texture powder and pump some in right at that base area taking it straight up and just going to tease just at that base and then I like to take one of these clips and just very gently and carefully clip it right up top we're going to take another section down lift the hair straight up I'm going to pump a little bit more texture powder in and just tease at that root area and go ahead and just very carefully clip that in with that section we're going to continue lift the hair up pump a little bit more texture powder and I am keeping it straight up it's not here it's straight up this way that way we really get maximum volume let me go ahead and clip that up and take another section and I'm going to pump a little bit more and we're just going to very lightly tease that I'm going to go ahead and grab another clip because her hair is so thick and so heavy we're going to just very carefully place another one there and I just want to work on these curls a little bit as I work my way back up so I'm going to now go in for a little bit of soothing cream any type of cream paste will work for this just the key is we want to eliminate more frizz we want to really define those curls and we just want to really add a lot of shine so I don't know if you guys can tell like how much that just really defined those curls and put less frizz into it all right we're going to take our very next section down we're just going to work our way up in sections section by section I'm going to take that fork and and just make sure that these curls are combed out I'm going to take a little bit more of the air smoothing cream I'm just using a little bit working it in my hands and then just going through those curls and especially on those ends where they want to get a little bit frizzier we're just I'm going to go ahead and spread a little bit of hairspray here at the root area just to keep that volume in I'm going to take our next section down let's see okay and then I'm going to start taming and smoothing some of this frizz around the T's area you want to keep that very neat and clean especially on the sides you don't want to see that so we're going to just smooth that out and then I'm going to just kind of hold that and then comb through the ends and again if you held the heat on your curls long enough and your curls have set and cool you do not have to worry about them falling out as you're combing through them and manipulating them and working through the hair they will stay I promise you okay so you can just see how shiny and defined these curls are getting all right and then we're going to bring our next section down and again I'm going to take my fork comb and just work on smoothing the top layer out from where we teased it I'm going to take a little bit of hairspray and just perk it up so it holds in place I'm going to hold the cheese and just comb through the ends okay and grab a little bit more smoothing cream run it through my hands and we're just going to add some shine to find those curls and then we're going to take our very last section down and take that fork comb and just smooth out frizz on the edges and just on the outer layer you guys can just see how much volume that now has just with teasing it I'm going to hold that up and comb through the ends and then we're going to take a little bit more smoothing cream and just define and smooth these curls and at this point if you would like to redefine any curls you can definitely go back in touch up curls you can make curls go in a different direction if you feel like you don't love how they're laying or looking I'm going to take a little bit of hairspray just around this our hairline right here make sure it's nice and smooth and doesn't get frizzy I'm going to take a little bit of hairspray just on this top part right here I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to spray the rest of the ends of the hair and then if the hair got flattened at all from the clip you can just lift that back up just touch that back up and then lastly what I like to do is just come underneath the hair and grab a decent sized little piece of hair to wrap around the ponytail just to hide it so you want to make sure that this piece is smooth from roots to ends and then I'm just going to take it and I like to turn it this way a little bit just like to wrap it around to hide that hair bungee and you just continue to wrap it around until the strand runs out and then when we get to the very end I just like to take a bobby pin a small one I like to use the smaller ones either a two inch or even the ones that are smaller than two inch and what I like to do is open up the bobby pin and stick the hair in between it and then wrap it around and put it down in between the bobby pin so it wraps and then it gets stuck in between so it's super secure it's not coming off and then what I like to do wrap it a couple more times to shorten it and then I just like to stick it up under the ponytail and it'll keep all of that hair right up in there all right here is the completed look I hope you guys love this tutorial and you learned a lot if you do try this style out be sure to tag me on instagram at megan.lorson