How to Make a Chignon

When it comes to updos, a timeless favorite is a soft chignon. We've seen them on Leon Michelle and Carrie Underwood. Today, celebrity hair stylist JD from Duran Duran Salon, is joining us to give us a step by step on how to achieve the perfectly uncoiffed bind at home. My hair's already curled, so we recommend giving it a little bit of a wave before you get started. But, it works on straight hair. I'm going to backcomb her hair to give her some height and volume, just a little bit through the crown. I'm using a backcombing brush. It's a little more gentle on the hair. Now, I'm going to brush out the backcombing with a Mason Pearson brush, just to kind of smooth it out a little bit. A comb work is just as good. Just go over it lightly on the top layer. Now you're going to remove some of the hair around the hair line to add a bit of softness around the face. I'm going to grab the hair from the other side smooth it out as you go. Now I'm going to pin and set where I want my chignon to lay, which is going to be off-centered a little bit to the side, and we're going to a little bit of a messy chignon. For shorter, thinner hair like mine, are we actually going to create a bun? I'm not. I'm actually going to take your hair, and I'm going to [xx] it around and I'm going pin it as I go into a circle. With longer hair, actually do a bun, and then take the pieces that are surrounding and pin them up and down and put some fun accessories in your hair. Because her hair is so fine, I back-combed her ends to give her a little bit more body and width, so that I can take the hair and turn it, and help get a bun from it. Now I'm just adding a couple of bobby pins for safety. I'm going to use a 1940's vintage brooch to put in your hair, which adds something fun and shiny to your updo. And now the last and final step is just to put a little bit of hold with some hairspray. And now you're done. JD thanks so much for being with us today. Thank you. And a soft chignon is the perfect formal updo. However. you can make it a little less formal, by removing the jewel pin and wearing it to a meeting or a girls' night out. Thanks again for watching Bella Sugar TV.