I hope this is clear, taking photos of the back of my head was certainly an interesting challenge. Click on the photos to view them bigger, with the comments on flickr.
I started with slightly damp, brushed hair. My hair at the moment is this long, and as I said yesterday thin and fine. This style is very simple though and works in my hair when it’s shorter. It might work well on lots of hair lengths and types. I left my hair a little damp because it makes this easier with freshly washed hair and also when you take it out leaves nice loose curls – a bit like the Disney Snow White’s hair.
start twisting the hair inwards along the hairline
continue twisting the hair inwards, working along the hairline and incorporating hair into the twist
when you get to the centre back twist the remaining tail like this
lift up the loose half of hair and pin the twisted tail along the nape underneath it
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It’s very, very cute on you. You look lovely, like Snow White indeed. I don’t think this’d work on hair as long or thick as mine though – I can barely keep it in a bun. Maybe I’ll have to experiment with a pleat. Very good revision-avoidence activity.
xn
Yay I can’t wait to try this! Thanks for the tutorial :)
The only problem is I have long, thick hair, do you think it will work?
I have to agree with nush – it’s very cute. It makes me grateful that I have short hair… :)
I love that hairstyle! My hair’s so long, I don’t think I could do it… but I may experiment and see what happens.
Thanks for showing the snow white hairstyle!!!
Thank you!!
It’s a beautiful tutorial and thank you so much for taking the time to do it for us. My Darling Little Girl has hair very similar to your (except curly) and this is a great way to wrangle in those curls for days she wants to be exceptionally active.
xoxox,
Amy
Wow, your blog is lovely and you have some beautiful knitting. I thought my hair was too short to do anything with but maybe I’ll give this a try… you never know!
I just got my blog up and am still learning how it works, but hope to get some knitting up there one of these days. Hope you don’t mind me adding you to my blogroll!
Have a good day, don’t work too hard…
moineaur?veur
I can’t wait for my hair to grow longer so I can do that hairstyle! But what i really want to know is are you going to write up the pattern for the cabled beret? I love it and want to make one!
I know this isn’t the right place to ask but…. what does etsy mean? i must have hit a dodgy button on the old keyboard (see message above).
clarabelle
THANKYOU!
i noticed your hair over on crafster when i was admiring your snow white sweater (which is absoloutely gorgeous, by the way… you are some serious knitter!) and lo-and-behold you have instructions up here for how to roll it up like that :)
I’m really pleased i found your blog :) … lots of amazing inspirational knitting goes on here i can see!
I used to do the same style back in the 80’s and the rags! Bendy rollers were less sore, I was obsessed with pre- raphaelite painters when I was at high school and liked to create my own romantic styles in a cautious way(you don’t have to try hard to seem different in a small Scottish town). I have sensible, shortish, arty mum hair now but still hanker after tumbling red curls. Two of my little boys have lovely red hair which I grow a wee bit too long for teacher approval, you still don’t have to try hard to be different in a small scottish town!
I live under a rock so I just found your blog today via Juno. And…thank you thank you thank you. This hair tutorial may have changed my life. Okay…not actually anything as drastic as that, but I’ve had my hair in a harried-mom ponytail since the day my nearly 8-month-old was born and this gives me a much more attractive option without more work. Cause, you see, the baby doesn’t really want to wait while I style my hair. And yes, it works on thick curly hair too. I feel like a Gibson Girl.
this is awesome. my hair is your length and was wondering how i should do it for my formal. and this is perfect
Finally, a reason for me to be glad I have medium-length hair. Granted, my hair is thicker than yours so I have to twist it into a kind of bun at the very back, but it’s still very cute. Thanks so much for this!!
I love CHI hair straighteners – anybody else have any thoughts on them?
I’ve been doing a hairstyle just like this for a few months now. It all started when I saw some Olympic runner with her hair twisted like this.