A number of the new styles have not and literally it is like tying a knot in your shoe. So I'm going to just finish off this teasing illustration poufy crown that we did before with a simple knot designed back here and it'll just be a half up half down look, but this is what you need to do when you run across. You'll see it in the photos but I like to show a little bit of a live demonstration on what to do with the knot and the different things you could do it not grasp what the main point is telling half and when to take a chunk. I can head a little bit With the challenge and take a chunk of the hair that's behind here. And now I'm going to split it equal parts. So right now there's not as much hair from the head as there is in the ponytail and it's going to be one big knot anyway, so I'm just basically going to go right and split the hair in half.

It doesn't really matter where it comes from. Yes. Come down here, I'm going to literally tie knot and your knots can be loose, they can be tight. They can be wherever you want them to be, or whoever the client wants them to be. And they can also work their way as far down the strand as you want. Or you could have your ends here to curl and you can leave them out.

This is a great and easy look for like a flower girl. And to keep everything in there. It's gonna put a little elastic here I love these little elastics. And so now I have things I could do with this not the design process. I really like to leave to the end. So a lot of my updates are about construction that gets you to the place of having freedom for design.

When I used to teach my courses, my life classes, if someone fell in love with something they made right here, oh my gosh, this is perfect curl, this is perfect, whatever, and then they, they didn't want to mess it up. And then they tried to work around this perfect curl and that could get you stuck. So the process that I teach is to get the construction in, and the designing comes at the end and then you work side to side so you maintain your balance. So I'm just going to look at what I took over there. Took some hair here and take the next the rest of my ponytail I'm going to split it huh And not these not could be lower for like a Shenyang kind of look. But this is I'm going to stick with this right now so I don't get you or myself confused and go in with my elastic and like I said, I like to do the creating at the end.

So if I find out at the end that I don't even really like these little pearls, I'll just hide them. But for now, that's where I'm going. When I work with a client, we basically have an idea of the shape and the look of the up do how it exactly ends up That can shift a little. So, I'm going to play with my knots and see what kind of a look I wanna do. And play around with design and colors and whatever outside feel like doing. I like to do something really amazing and creative in the back.

That was how I got so many referrals. The client is basically happy with placement. She doesn't want it too high, she doesn't want you know her front to be too tight. She doesn't want certain things that when she looks great on in the mirror, she's basically happy. So she's happy with the poop and what's going on in the sides and half down. Then what I do and here is the magic and this is what people will see at the prom or at the wedding.

And then my name in my referrals will increase. Okay. So I am liking that. There is this piece here that I left out behind the ear. And I'm going to use it to design Now it could just be another let's stick with nuts. I mean you certainly grade this, you certainly can do something else.

I'm going to pull it down here and add it into the design. All right, I'm gonna hide that tail. I don't really want to see it. And for purposes of teaching, I'm not getting into like perfection. This is more about construction and ideas. Certainly with a real client perfection would be included in fine tuning everything.

I just want to give you some tips and ideas for that. When you're in a course of mine that says not, this is what I mean in the live version. Basically a rule of thumb is wherever my thumb is, I want to feel and I know I'm probably holding the pin differently and upside down and but this is how I learned and this is how I do it. I want to feel the ball of that hairpin hit underneath my thumb, catch a little the hair and go down. And if I'm worried about that piece. This is what a hair pin is for you go in and you pull back and you tuck and also, the way that I'm doing this video is, is lower here.

Okay, so I'm going to take my ends and just kind of find a spot for them. I love these little short hair pins. They're little short bobby pins. They're, they're great for kids and small sections like this. So sometimes what just caught my eye now is this loop and this thing here. I thought it'd be fun to feed That little ends through.

And that leaves this little little curl there. So now when you're when your client is happy with the front, and they're happy with the height and they're happy with everything, they're reading a magazine, and you are getting to be super creative. So here's a simple knotted half up, half down and that is what I mean by not