B003YL4KS0 EBOK (38 page)
Authors: Lorraine Massey,Michele Bender
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Loosen some tendrils in the front to frame the face.
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You can embellish this updo by adding things like crystals and semiprecious stones (with loops on them so you can thread the ribbon through) intertwined through the hair.
This is a fun and funky adaptation of the popular faux-hawk look, without the commitment.
Wed-Locks and Up-Dos: The Curl-Hawk (0:45)
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Take a wide section of curls on the middle top of your head (from the forehead to the crown) and separate it out. Tie the hair at the back with a ponytail holder, wrap a strand of hair around the ponytail holder, and secure with a bobby pin. Gather the curls on top together loosely.
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Spritz the remaining hair on both sides with spray gel, wetting it enough to make it look sleek when it’s gathered at the back of the neck.
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Twist it upward to the crown, and anchor it with bobby pins. If your top hair is short, let it go free and shake it at the roots to make it bigger. The two textures of the smooth hair at the sides and the curly hair up top can be as classy or wild as you like.
. . . and know where to go. This “do” can be tressed down or tressed up by adding a hair adornment such as intertwined necklaces.
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With your fingers, loosely part the hair from the crown to just behind the ear on each side of your head.
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Gather the rest of your hair between the parted sections into a high ponytail and tie with holder. Wrap a piece of hair around the holder to hide it, and secure with a bobby pin.
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Take 1- to 2-inch–wide pieces of hair or individual defined curl sections and twist them back toward the ponytail and anchor with bobby pins. Twist separate sections of the remaining tendrils back in a random pattern around the central ponytail and anchor. Use a mirror to see the placement of your twists from the side and back. (Really thick hair may need two pins per twist.)
Adornments such as brooches and odd earrings can add sparkle to the do.
Some variations on this updo:
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Braid one or more sections of tendrils instead of twisting.
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Loop and weave one section under another one that is already anchored.
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With wavy, s’wavy, and very long hair, take loose sections of the ponytail, spritz with spray gel, and lightly wrap them around your finger like a pin curl. Secure them with bobby pins. You can vary the size of these curls, making some small coils (by wrapping hair around one or two fingers) and others thicker (by wrapping around three or four fingers).
CURL CONFESSIONEllen Warren
Chicago Tribune
columnist and senior correspondentAs a tiny girl, my very first memories are of my hair—dry, frizzy, horrid. I wanted a long swishing ponytail. I got a pathetic puff ball. In middle school, the solution I settled on was a $1 military salvage store sailor’s cap. With the brim pulled down, it became my trademark as I abandoned hope and just did the best I could to cover up my natural Brillo. At sixteen, I saved enough from my summer job to buy a wig made of human hair. It was not as straight (or as long) as the kind of hair I envied and it cost $250, a huge amount for a kid making only a few bucks an hour. But I lived in that wig, especially at the beach where salt air was toxic to a curly girl who wanted to sling her hair around like the women in the shampoo commercials. Wearing my wig as my high-school girlfriends and I walked the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk in Delaware, trolling for cute guys, I felt almost normal.
Ellen Warren’s column caricature
In college, the discovery of inexpensive ($30) synthetic wigs was a breakthrough and a salvation. I bought several and had them professionally cut by a really good stylist. It was uncomfortable (and lumpy) to shove my thick, curly hair under a very tight wig, but that was a small price to pay for straight hair.
One memorable hair event transpired in a Maine lobster restaurant, where I was eating with some reporter friends after a day of covering President George H. W. Bush at his summer retreat in Kennebunkport. Joking around, one of the newsmen snatched the baseball cap off my head—and found himself also holding my “hair.” I’d had a fake ponytail sewn onto the cap. The look on his face was priceless.
Fast-forward a decade, and I was working at the
Chicago Tribune
. I spotted a copy of
Curly Girl
at the office and paged through it. I told a colleague that I’d be the hair model if she decided to write about the author. She took me up on it, and when Lorraine came to Chicago, my curls got her personal attention.From that experience, I knew that I needed to go to New York and have her work the full treatment on my horrible hair. After just one appointment, I felt that I had some control over the situation—something I’d never felt before. It changed my life.
