Yesterday I went to see the lovely hair stylist and creative Beauty Director for head&shoulders Peter Lux, who was doing a demonstration on how to do classic, vintage hair styles as part of head&shoulders 50th anniversary.

We did two styles – 40s Victory Rolls (as seen above) and a style reminiscent of Audrey Hepburns bun updo in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

What made it even more fun was that we had hairdresser’s dummie heads so we could join in and learn each do step by step. Now, I’m pretty good at Victory Rolls so there wasn’t much new there, but I really loved Peter’s guide to doing the Hepburn updo. Head&shoulders have also done a video demo of Peter styling it, and as most of my pictures from yesterday aren’t very good, here are some film stills.

How to do an Audrey Hepburn bun ala Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

Step 1
Make a side parting. Then section off the front bit of your hair on both sides of the parting.

Step 2
Pull the rest of your hair into a very high pony tail. Fasten with a band. Then wrap a small strand of hair around the band to cover it.

Step 3
Backcomb your pony tail. Then, starting at the tip of your hair, roll it up and pin to your head. Make sure you fan out the sides.

Step 4
Now take the front bits of hair and pull them back on each side of your head. Pin the ends just under your bun.

And voila!

Our dummie looked like this:

It was really easy and took less than 10 minutes. I can’t wait to try this on myself!

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