Hair Knotting

The textured hair on show at Charles Anastase’s A/W10 collection was just so cute.
It had a shape and lightness to it that looked amazing when piled high on the head, as seen on some of the models from the show.
The hair master was Lyndell Mansfield, who is one of my favourite session stylists. This hairstyle is going to be a big trend and falls under my ‘learn it now or regret it later’ category.
As a salon technique, it works just as well on a lady in her 40s or 50s, as it does on a younger woman. I demonstrated it on a recent salon teaching trends trip and the delegates loved it. You start by knotting the hair and then run irons over the top of the knots to heat it. It’s a style that you can do easily on your own hair, and the results are headturning, just follow these five easy steps:

Step one: Take sections, starting with the hair at the nape, and choose your section size. The larger the section, the looser the waves.

Step two: Divide the section into two and take the left-hand side of the hair section across to the right of the head, behind the right-hand section, then take it through the centre like a knot.

Step three: Repeat all the way to the end and secure with a band. Be careful to keep the knot and tension the same. Continue the knotting to the end of the hair.

Step four: Run the iron down each section for an equal amount of time and then let it cool.

Step five: Carefully undo, then brush thoroughly with a Mason Pearson.

I find a little extra hair glued in as a weave works really well too. But remember, practice makes perfect.