Simple & Quick Textured Low Bun by Stephanie Brinkerhoff | Kenra Professional

Hey everyone, I'm Stephanie Brinkerhoff with Hair and Makeup by Steph, and today I'm going to be walking you through a quick 15 minute wedding updo. This is a really good updo to have under your belt in those times when you're in a rush and you need to cut corners. It's also really good for bridesmaids. So let's go ahead and get started. So her hair has already been curled and prepped at the roots. If you want a more in-depth tutorial on prep work, you can refer to my video Updo 101 on Kenra Professionals' YouTube page. So since her hair is already prepped, we're just gonna go ahead and jump right into the updo. The first thing I'm going to do is section out the hair from the ears forward and set that aside for later, as well as the crown section. So the majority of the hair I'm going to be using to create my buns. The next step is getting everything in the back in a low ponytail. So you're going to want to position this in the center back and you want it to be low enough that it's gonna sit nicely on her neck. So it's about an inch up from her hairline. Okay, once I have that secure, I'm going to soften these sides a little bit just by pulling on them to give her a little bit of volume and also to help make it look more organic. So when you're doing your sectioning, you wanna make sure that you don't leave out too much hair in the sides or here in the crown because you're going to use the bulk of this to create your bun and then your crown and your sides are going to wrap across for detailing. So if you leave out too much hair up here, it's going to be too overwhelming when it comes time to work with it. All right, now I'm ready to work on my bun. What I want to do is create some really good texture and grit through this ponytail. So I'm going to go in with the Perfect Medium Spray 13 and liberally apply this all throughout the ponytail. So I'm sort of scrunching it in and then I'm also going to comb my fingers through it to help tame the frizz. And then before I get this wrapped up, I'm also going to spread it out a little bit, make it nice and airy and go in with the Volume Spray 25 to help give it more grit. So in order to get this ponytail up, I'm going to work with it in halves. So I'm going to work with the top half first and then the bottom half. It's just going to be easier to approach it this way. So I'm going to get this twisted and then I'm pulling on some of these sections to soften them a little bit. And then I'm just going to wrap this up around the top part of my elastic. Then I'll go ahead and bobby pin that in place. And now I can move on to the last portion of this ponytail. So I'm going to loosely twist again and then get that wrapped underneath and around. Before I move on, I'm just going to detail this a little bit, make it a little bit bigger and make sure everything is balanced. I'm doing touch-ups slightly with the Volume Spray 25. Once that is looking balanced, I'm ready to let down my crown section and incorporate that. So I'm going to brush this out to help control my frizz. And I'm going to do this entire section in one piece. So we'll get this loosely twisted. You want to make sure you're not twisting too high. You want to twist low so that it connects with your updo. So my twist is sitting right on top of my updo here. And then I'm just going to deconstruct this a little bit, give it some volume. And I'm sort of wrapping the hair over to the side and holding it here while I get this pinned in place. Then I'm just going to continue this twist, wrapping underneath and pinning along the sides. And then these ends will get tucked underneath and pinned on the opposite side. Now all we have to do is incorporate the sides. So I'm going to get this side back, leaving out only the hair that I want to frame for face. And I'm going to add more of my Perfect Medium Spray 13. I'm sort of spreading this out in my hands and combing my fingers through this to make it look like it was softly draped back. And then I'm just going to twist this across the back, get that slightly deconstructed and pinned in place. And then the ends will twist and tuck on the opposite side. Now I just have to repeat the same thing on the opposite side. Before I finish, what I'm going to do is just detail, deconstruct this a little bit more to make it a little bit wispier and messier. There you have it, a quick textured low bun. Thanks so much for watching, guys.