I got this hair request back a couple months ago from a little gal named Sara – clear across the world from me in the Middle East — Kuwait to be exact. She sent me the following picture & wanted to know how to do it.
She described it as a “futuristic” bun – and I’d have to agree. A very interesting style indeed. From the looks of things it seems like they’ve crimped the model’s hair in the front & pulled the hair back across a bun in back. So here is our attempt at it. I did this on Bee the other day since she had the waves left from braids she’d worn up front. It gave it a bit wavier appearance but I rather liked it. I do have an old crimping iron but opted to go with the waves from braids rather than possibly frying her hair!
Start by crimping or using left over waves from braids in the front section of the hair. We had waves from ear to ear – the picture on top looks like they just had crimped hair starting at the temple.
Pull the wavy hair up and out of the way with a clip temporarily.
Take the remaining straight hair in back & make a ponytail. Make it rather high on the back of the head. (I should have made mine higher.)
To give her pony a bit of volume I ratted it just a bit.
Wrap the hair around to make a bun. Don’t make it too tight or it’ll stick too far off the head. The model picture at the beginning looked like they’d made a loopy like bun. We just did a simple wrap of the hair for this bun. Secure the bun with a few bobby pins.
Now take the wavy hair in front and pull it backwards towards the bun.
Secure the hair with a few bobby pins so that it doesn’t spread out clear across the head – you need it just coming over the top of the bun.
I even used hair pins as well for this so I could just “stick” them in & have the hair hold in place. Use a few of those as well to secure the hair on top of the bun.
Once you have the hair secured on top of the bun, bring the ends of the wavy hair completely over the bun to the underside of the bun.
I gave it a little twist to help ensure it wasn’t going to spread out all over the place and make it harder to secure.
Wrap the ends up with your finger if the hair you are working with is longer and reaches past the bottom of the bun.
Tuck the ends up underneath the bun & secure with hair pins or bobby pins.
Mist with hairspray and that’s it.
I need to invest in some blond colored hair pins!
Her darn cowlick is pretty evident on the right side (the left side in this pic)!
I didn’t have the picture with me when I did her hair so I probably should have gotten things a bit more “square” looking back around the bun, as well as a bit tighter – but as odd as this hair style is, I actually liked the end result. If the ponytail had been a bit higher, the bun might have been more “square.” Anyway, the pictures don’t do it justice! With the waves it made it look prettier & maybe not as “funky/futuristic!” Granted, it was a bit mature for Bee – but it’d look great on someone older! So there you go Sara — hope that helps a bit. 🙂 
