Use hair as an excuse to come to California and party at our friend's wedding? Yes please! I'm not going to lie though, I was a little nervous going into this one. Kara was too far away to do a run through, and I had never ever done an updo on someone with as crazy curly hair as hers. I would never let her have her big day looking anything less than gorgeous, so I was determined to get that mane of hers managed, without making her look like a completely different person.
Here is what Kara's natural hair texture looks like
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| BEFORE |
In order to keep it looking like her natural hair but make the curls bigger and more formal looking, I took small sections of her clean, dry hair and wrapped it around a 1 inch iron piece by piece. This process takes more time, but in the end Kara still looked like herself with her awesome crazy curly texture. We just polished it off. Had I gone through and smoothed out all of her hair, it's just not Kara any more and her hair also has a tendency to frizz back out later anyway. Some of the ends I had to clip into the curling iron to get them uniform with the rest.
Once everything was curled and set, I started pinning, I did not comb through any of the curls. Pinning takes a lot of practice and I will some day get a tutorial up on here with some tips and tricks. I pulled Kara's hair off to one side and kept it relaxed, we also added a clip behind the ear.
Of course, the most important thing is that the bride is happy. Kara was so easy-going and happy she was getting married that I probably could have put her hair in a pony tail and she wouldn't have cared. The second most important thing: That you can party all night and your hair stays beautiful!
Mission Accomplished :)
Bride: Kara, Photography by: Mle Jayne Photography
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