Good
afternoon!
How are
you? I just finished a small yoga session that it was meant to take
the stress away and I must say that I really enjoy this moments and
that they help me focus and be more calmed with my inner self. I
follow Yoga with Adriene’s tutorials; she has a lot of different
yoga videos with different lengths and topics and she has a very
calmed and nice voice that is very easy and pleasing to exercise
with.
Now
let’s jump into today’s topic. Today I’d like to talk to you
about hair care and how to do a basic ballet bun for everyday class.
I’ve
always been blessed with a nice, thick and strong hair but due to the
use of several abrasive hair products such as hairspray, gel and too
many bobby pins, my hair started to lose its natural shape and
strength.
There
was a time when in third year of conservatoire I started losing a lot
of hair when brushing it. I must say that in that time my teacher was
quite obsessed with very neat and perfect buns, so everyday I was
spraying and pulling my hair very tightly to have this beautiful buns
she was asking for. The problem with that is that although they
looked gorgeous, my hair, or any other hair actually, can’t handle
daily damage like that and I went to visit a dermatologist who told
me that I could use a specific shampoo and liquid that I would apply
every night to prevent hair loss and encourage its growth.
This is how I used to do my buns every single day.
This two products were the ones
I was using during the hairloss treatment
After
about six or seven months of using this treatment, although it worked
quite well, I saw that the hair loss stopped but my hair was quite
damaged with split ends and dry, sad hair. And I decided to make a
big change: cutting it all off!
I know,
crazy, right? A dancer with short hair! What will you do without a
bun?
Well, I
was careful enough to make a fake bun out of my natural hair that I
still keep it with me because I know that I’ll probably cut it
short again sometime. Also, I really wanted to go very short inspired
by Natalia Osipova at the time and I’ll never regret it.
This was the look I was trying to get
In here it had already grown a bit
It was
the best time for my hair and it grew up so healthy and nice that I
would do it again without a doubt. Actually, maintenance was the
easiest as I could wash it without worrying about hairdryers and wake
up in the morning and just walk out the door without any extensive
brushing, well, that was a blast.
Anyway,
I decided to let it grow again cutting it maybe once a year to
refresh the ends and it arrived a moment when I decided to dye my
hair. I was a bit bored of my plain dark brown hair and I thought
that changing it up would be great. And I decided to go red. I did
that last year as one of my birthday presents and I was (and I am) in
love with the change.
I couldn't be more in love with it!
From
the very beginning, my hairdresser used very good quality products
without any kind of abrasives, alcohols or silicons that could damage
my hair. Because I did henna treatments before (specially in summer
time) she was a bit scared that the dye would react badly (usually
fresh henna treatments and dye make your hair turn green, which is
not always pleasing) so she tried a small section first and it worked
perfectly. She’s a great hairdresser because with just one picture
from Pinterest she got the perfect color and the perfect look in the
end. I was completely in love.
Now I
just keep the color with a conditioner that she gave me from Revlon
that has my exact color dye and this past Christmas she recommended
me an additional conditioner from a vegan brand called Actyva from
Kemon that oh man, that is an extremely good quality product. Using
less than a two cents coin quantity of product you cover your full
hair and in about three times of use you can see a difference in your
hair: it becomes shinier, fuller and healthier.
The color conditioner
The conditioner I alternate with the colored one
I also
decided to use natural shampoos as I know that the renowned brands
usually have tons of alcohols and silicons that makes you feel like
it actually cleaned your hair but actually it just took out the
superficial dirt and left you with a full layer of silicons that make
your hair shine for about a day. Natural shampoos, at least for me,
make my hair grow healthier and they clean it better and the best of
all, I don’t need to use as much product! So it actually ends up
being cheaper than a famous branded shampoo!
This is the shampoo I'm currently using
and it works very very well!
And
here is where the bun comes in. Deciding to keep care of my hair
obliged me in a way to be very careful with which bun style was I
going to make every single day and I decided to go with the natural
shape my hair has.
I have
a natural side part so I just use that partition to mark how I’m
bringing my hair into a pony tail. I usually remark well the line
with a fine comb just to make it a bit more neat. When my hair is
very clean and rebel I use a tiny bit of water to brush my hair back
and make it a bit more clean looking.
Once I
have my hair in a low pony tail I start twisting my whole pony tail
making it look like a roll. The tighter, the better, but I don’t
over do it to much, just enough so that I feel it’s going to hold
it’s shape once I pin it, more or less.
Once
it’s rolled I place the roll right around where my hair tie lays
forming a rounded shape and hiding the ends underneath this doughnut
shaped bun.
I then
start pining. Some of my friends use only eight pins but I don’t
have a certain number of pins that I use. It depends on how clean and
how rebel my hair decides to be.
Once
it’s all pined I use some flat pins to keep the sides under control
and keep the hair out of my face.
That’s
it! Easiest bun and it saves you from an emergency anywhere at any
time. Classic, simple and yet elegant. If you have very fine hair I
might recommend to use a hair net but I personally don’t really use
it unless it’s a performance or an exam time.
Tutorial pics by @frances_vanderhoven
I
really hope you enjoyed today’s post and I’m thinking on doing
different hairstyles in the future. Tell me down below which ones
would you like to see next!
I hope
you all have a lovely day and I’ll see you tomorrow!
Love,
Muriel
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