Buy different chopstick designs to coordinate with your outfits.
Creating simple yet elegant hairstyles using chopsticks is quick and convenient once you get the hang of it. Use chopsticks to hold your hair in a bun and other up-swept hairdos. Save unused chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant or buy decorative ones at an accessory shop, and stash some in your purse for a quick find. Chopsticks are the perfect alternative to using a ponytail holder or scrunchy.
Instructions
1. Brush hair and apply any smoothing serum as you normally would. Keep in mind that the smoother or slicker the hair is, the harder it will be to hold the hair in place, whereas tousled hair holds much better. If you are planning to make a bun, you may want to put less product on the length of the hair, or use less smoothing serum and add a little grooming cream. Place your chopstick(s) within easy reach.
2. Pull the hair you want to secure into place using your hands. For example, to make a bun, smooth your hair back with your hands, creating a ponytail. Your hair can be wet or dry, it doesn't matter.
3. Twist the hair you want to secure hands. For example, to make a bun with chopsticks, begin the bun the way you normally would. Hold your ponytail in place with one hand (the helper hand - the hand you do not use for writing) and starting the twist with the other (your writing hand). As you twist your hair, move your hand that is holding the ponytail down from the base of the ponytail, slowly following your hand that is twisting the hair, holding the twist in place until you come to the end of the now-twisted ponytail. Coil your hair into a normal bun by lifting the twisted hair up and molding a curve, working with both hands to coil the hair around this base.
4. Hold the bun in place, using your helper hand, and tuck any loose strands into the bun. With your free hand, pick up a chopstick. You can secure it using one or two chopsticks. To secure it with one chopstick, stick the chopstick into the base of your hair, near the side of the bun, making a motion like you are beginning a sewing stitch, piercing the chopstick into the tightly pulled back hair and grabbing some of the hair with the chopstick. Bring the end of the chopstick out of the hair and immediately pierce it through the bun, pressing firmly on the end of the chopstick until the tip comes through the other side of the bun. Securing the bun with one chopstick is effective, but looks more casual than a two-chopstick hairdo.
5. Secure the bun with two chopsticks for a more elegant look. Take the first chopstick and pierce some of the tightly pulled back hair near the base of the bun, in a motion like you are making a sewing stitch, picking up some of the hair rather than fabric. As the chopstick's tip comes back out, pierce the bun with it. Do this at an angle, inserting the first chopstick from the upper right quadrant of the bun, and angling it through the bun, toward the lower left quadrant. Repeat process with the second chopstick, only inserting the second one from the upper left quadrant, and angling it toward the lower right quadrant.
6. Create the bun around the chopstick for one more alternate up-do. Pull your hair back into a ponytail and hold it securely with your . Pick up the chopstick with your other hand and pierce the through the center of the pony tail at the base. Continuing to hold the ponytail in place, use the handle of the chopstick to angle the tip under the ponytail and then looping the hair to the right onto the chopstick, angling the tip into a counter-clockwise direction, coiling the hair around it. As you get to the end of the hair length, the majority coiled onto the chopstick, manipulate the chopstick using the handle to press the tip upward, making one final coil around the ends and piercing into the nape of your hair.
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