Getting a stylish up-do for the evening doesn't necessarily require a $100 trip to the salon. In fact with just one chopstick you can create a casual or sophisticated look that will have you friends asking how your hair is being held up by a chopstick.
Instructions
1. Putting your hair up with chopsticks begins with pulling the hair together at the back of the head as you would do if securing it in a pony tail. Depending on the length of your hair and how high up on your head you want it to be determines where you should gather the hair. For those with shoulder lengths hair, it’s best to tightly gather the hair in the middle of the back of the head. Those with longer locks will want to pull the hair together at the nape of the neck.
2. Once you have gathered the hair at the back of your head, place your left hand around the hair. Wrap your hand around the hair so that the palm rests against the underside of the hair and your thumb rests on the upper portion.
3. Begin twisting the hair in a counterclockwise direction toward the crown of your head. Use your right hand to help complete the twisting. Remember that you don’t want to twist the hair to the very end to be caught in the twist.
4. You are now ready to secure the twist using a chopstick. Holding the twisted hair to the back of your head with your left hand and holding the chopstick in your right, decide where you want the chopstick to go. Do you want it at a horizontal or do you want it at a 45-degree angle? For demonstrative purposes, the chopstick will be inserted into the hair at a horizontal angle.
5. Using the end of the chopstick, find a portion of hair on the right side of the head between the ear and the twist and stick the end under the hair. Depending on the thickness of your hair and how tight you want the twist to be will determine how much hair you want to use for this part. Thicker hair requires that the chopstick be threaded under a larger section.
6. After you have threaded the chopstick through the hair on the right side of the head, slide the chopstick over the twist you have created and secure the end through a piece of hair on the left side of your head.
7. Have some fun with it. Curl the pieces of hair not caught up in the twist. You can even curl the ends of the hair that is up from the twist. You can make this a quick fix for getting your hair out of your face on a hot day or a quick up-do for a night out.
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