Technical File: Buns

Buns

For our first practical session for hair, we were show three different types of buns and how to do them. For the first one, the modern bun, I sectioned the hair in half and tied the top half into a ponytail. I then used a pin tail comb to section part of the ponytail at the top and slightly backcombed it before rolling the hair into a curl and pinning it on each side with a Kirby grip. I then repeated this on each side and at the bottom to created four separate curls. I then used fine pins between each curl to pull them all together close to the scalp to create a bun shape. This was my favourite bun to do out of all three because I personally felt that the end result looked the best out of all of them because it had the most volume.

Another bun we did was the twist-in bun. For this I put the hair in a ponytail (although it can be done without a hair tie for a softer look) and twisted the hair round itself. I then used one Kirby grip to hold it in place. We learned that the nest way to secure the hair was to grab the hair with the pin and then turn and pull the pin towards us.

We also learned how to create a plait bun. This was very similar to the twist-in bun but was done by putting the hair into a plait first. This was probably my least favourite to do as I felt that there was not enough hair to work with to have enough volume for the bun.