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- This bun is bananas, B-A, okay sorry.
I have discovered the Banana Bun.
This thing blew up on Instagram and Pinterest,
and I love it because you can use it on damp hair,
you can use it on like second day hair,
you can use it for a formal event.
It's quick, it's easy, and it gives you all kinds
of like Kristin Ess-style hair perfection.
So I think you guys are gonna love this.
I'm gonna talk you through it,
how to break it down, and then how to dress it up.
Hope you guys enjoy it.
Let's get into it.
Let's start with how to wear it casually.
Now my hair is obviously like, done right now.
This will work on damp hair, but if you're doing
damp hair and you have any kind of wave in your hair
I recommend using some wave spray.
This is the Ouai Wave Spray.
I'm just gonna spritz a little.
(bottle spraying)
This is just to kind of like, make disheveled
hair look like it's on purpose.
Oh and it smells so good.
And now we move on to the technique.
So you're going to gather all of your hair together
at the middle of your head like you're making
a middle pony tail.
Then twist it a couple times to the left.
From here you have this nice twist going on,
but I want it a little looser.
So I'm just going to pull a little bit.
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Now I'm going to pin in place using jumbo bobby pins.
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I recommend the jumbo bobby pins
because they can hold so much more hair,
and we're not using a hair band to hold all this up.
So I think it's a lot better if you use these guys.
You can find them at any drugstore,
or Target or anything like that.
So now we've got this twist going on.
Take a second to look in the mirror
and make sure you like how it looks from the front
before we put any more pins in.
And now, we make the bun.
For the bun, you can just twist super loosely
and again wrap super loosely.
I'm kind of making a little doughnut shape
against my head like so.
I'm gonna pin that in place.
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And there you go.
If you have ends, you can either leave them down
or you can kind of take them around and pin them as well.
I like ends, so...
That is the finished casual version.
I think this is all kinds of sweater weather awesomeness,
but it's also really gonna look great
if your hair is still a little damp.
It will make it look purposeful and chic.
Now I'm looking a little more fancy
cause I'm gonna show you guys how to dress it up
if you want to take the same technique
and take it for a like a night out.
So first things first, volume.
I'm just gonna tease around the top
of my head for some extra va-voom.
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Once it looks nice and crazy, you can just smooth it down.
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A little extra lift is gonna help.
Start by pulling your hair up into a high ponytail.
Then we're going to twist to the left a couple times,
so that we have our nice little twist.
Again I'm gonna loosen it up.
Use some jumbo bobby pins to hold it in place.
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If if feels wobbly at all, just keep criss-crossing
your bobby pins inside the twist
until it feels nice and secure.
Now we make the bun.
I'm gonna make kind of like a row of doughnuts
right here with the bun, so that it can create
that kinda faux French twist effect.
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Now obviously we have these ends.
I'm gonna try one more doughnut with these.
Hopefully that will get...
Yep, there we go.
You have your nice little doughnut,
and the ends are nicely hidden.
Mostly.
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If you feel this being a little crazy, and it's
not quite long enough to make it to the other side,
you can take the ends and just tuck them inside.
Pin it all the way.
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There you go!
This is the more formal version of the Banana Bun.
I like that it looks kinda like a French twist
without being the work of a French twist.
I like that you can wear it more polished,
or you could texturize it and make it
kinda like Serena van der Woodsen.
I just think there's a lotta things you could do with it.
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That is the Banana Bun.
I hope you guys enjoy it, and try it out.
It's so much fun, and it's such a great like,
okay I have to run outta the house,
and I want to look like I care about my life hairstyle.
Cause it looks like you put in effort,
but it took you like two seconds.
I hope you guys try it out.
Hope you love it.
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I'll see you then.
Mwah.
Bye!
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