Mia has wanted to do my hair for ages but we’ve never found any time until now! I’m super excited and I can tell that she is too. We’re going for a beehive sort of look with a strong shape that looks done while also being undone at the same time. When she grabs me after lunch and tells me that she has a client in 20 minutes, I think we’re never going to finish this! Some hairdos take a lot of time so I was feeling a little doubtful, but I needn’t have worried. This is a takes very little time, but has a big effect!
To start with, my dry hair was prepped with Bumble and bumble White Hair Powder to give it a slight grey tinge. Once this was done, Mia then started to lace my hair all over, which as she explains to me is a gentler version of backbrushing. It makes the hair look a bit airy and light and I can soon see what she means.
With my hair laced, it was then put into a French pleat at the back of my head but in a raw, not very precise way. This achieves that done-but-undone look that Mia’s after.
The top was then brushed back into the French pleat and the whole look was spritzed over with some wet lacquer – in this case, Mia used some Bumble and bumble Does It All and Bumble and bumble Holding Spray.
I love this look and think the undone-but-done (or done-but-undone?) quality stops my hair from looking too out of place – I am after all wearing a t-shirt and skirt rather than a full-on ballgown! It’s so pretty and as silly as this may sound, I feel a bit like Penelope Cruz in those Elnett ads!
