From Erdem to Valentino to Emerson, halo braids keep showing up on the runways season after season, and the red carpet has followed: Keira Knightly, Scarlett Johansson, Ashley Olsen and Elle Fanning have all embraced halo braids.
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See how to do the halo braid with our holiday hair tutorial »īraid enthusiasts, this one’s for you! The halo braid (otherwise known as a milkmaid braid or braided updo) takes practice but is beyond impressive once it’s mastered. So now we know, and says Northwood, "once you've got the knack of the headband it really does open up a whole world of wearing it down, or wearing it tousled."īraided hair at Giles, spring/summer 2014.Hair and makeup by Margot Keith. In fact, once fixed, Northwood then goes back into the up-do to mess it up again, "shoving in pins just anywhere as it where," he explains, but making a feature of a just a few grips with his newīe haphazard and shove pins in anywhere to fix the do.įix and pin DIY style, without a mirror for a more dishevelled finish. A good tip with this, is don't do it looking into a mirror," adds Northwood. Panic not if you don't get an immaculate finish, it's meant to be messy, and it's meant to be dishevelled "I think it should be. With the third section, roll it up using your fingers and pin it into place. With the braided side, do the same thing and grip. Take the first, middle section, and wrap it and roll it around and pin it into place. READ - 10 Best: spring/summer 2014 hair trendsĭivide the loose lengths at the back into three sections. , sprayed liberally to give the same effect of turning your hair into a 'pin cushion' so that the pins stay in place when you're gripping and fixing the do.īackcomb your hair, or use the easy option - Redken's Quick Tease But it's tricky to backcomb your hair DIY style admits Northwood, so he suggests Northwood then sets his mind to working the look into an up do, which starts first by backcombing the lengths.
READ - The Knowledge: how to get great grey hair Then grip the plait at the nape of the neck underneath. "When you get to the bottom there's not much hair, so I tend to just backcomb the hair to keep it in place a bit," says Northwood. Then loosely plait the length of the loose plait right down until the end of the hair. Start French plaiting the hair down one side of the head.įrench plait the hair to the head until you get to just behind the ear. ) start plaiting on one side of the crown only.įor the plait, split the hair into three and take the outside section into the middle "and as we go along we're going to take a little bit more hair from the scalp," explains Northwood. On dried hair, after massaging a little glossing serum into mid-lengths and ends of hair to help define the braid and fight the frizz (Northwood opting for So how to take the look from runway to real life? Northwood, an ambassador for Pureology, thinks the easy option is to create a braided hairband that you wear down, or turn into a "bit of an up-do." WATCH - Beauty School: How to master a side sweep with George Northwood I think they can be incorporated into lots of different types of look, for all different ages and types of women." As Northwood says, "plaits don't just have to be for young girls at festivals.
Because as shown by the backstage stylists at the Alberta Ferretti, Giles, Carven and Antonio Beradi spring/summer 2014 shows, where models walked down the runway with braids in all guises, the plait is is back, and it's more grown up than ever. And thankfully this time around we can make it work whatever our style, whatever our age - for long gone are the days when a braid was for the under-18s only. And it's about time we made the braid work for us, because this season it's big news.
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