DIY: faux beehive

(You can click on the photo to see it a little larger!)

You'll need: hair, a hairband, bobby pins, and a puffy pony

I use the puffy pony tool to secure the bun so it doesn't flop around, and also to give it added height. I think a hair comb would probably work as well.. you can be creative if you don't want to get (or don't already have) this specific tool :)

1. Pull your hair into a very, very high ponytail. 2. Secure tightly with a hairband, leaving the ends of your hair tucked in the back. 3. Tug at the ends of the bun to fan out your hair. 4. Insert the puffy pony (or similar tool) in the back. You want it to go right over your hairband, through the front. It should feel really tight and secure.. if not, try again! This is what keeps the hair from flopping around so it's an important step. 5. Pin all those fly-aways down! 6. Voila! Finished! Leave it as-is, or top it off with an amazing hair bow (mine is from hive & honey!)

It's really easy once you get the hang of it. It takes me 5 minutes tops each morning to style my hair! No hairspray, no teasing, but lots of volume! It gives the appearance of a big beehive or giant bun, but at the end of the day when you take the pins out it's soft manageable hair that you can sleep on ;) Keep in mind, my hair is only about shoulder-length.. you don't really need super long hair to do this style!

my super lazy sort-of-beehive hair tutorial

I thought I'd share how I do my hair-bump thing today! When I do my hair in the morning, my main requirements are no hairspray and no teasing. When I take my hairdo out before bed, I don't want it to be all knotty and stiff, so I stick to bobby pins (LOTS of bobby pins) and other tools to achieve volume.

My favorite tool is the Puffy Pony. It's intended to make your ponytails more, well, puffy, but I use it to make my super lazy sort-of-beehive that you see in most of my outfit posts. It's *incredibly* easy to do, and I think it ends up looking much more fun than a simple bun or ponytail. Naturally mine didn't come out perfect in the tutorial (I think my hair is camera shy) but you've seen it before in photos so you know what I'm aiming for lol :)

I may have overcome my self-consiousness when it comes to photos of myself, but I'm still weary of sharing my voice so I'm silent in the tutorial, and just have it set to music. (Not quite ready to expose my awful New Jersey accent just yet) Soo here are the instructions (including the step I left out. whoops!)

1. Pull your hair up into a really high ponytail

2. When you're pulling your hair through for the last time, don't finish pulling it through all the way.

3. Pull the ends to puff out the hair

4. Pin back any really large chunks that didn't stay in the ponytail holder

5. Insert the pony puff over the ponytail holder from the backside, and secure it into the hair on the front of your head. (Yes mine is missing a prong.. it still works, but obviously gets a lot of use! lol)

6. Use bobby pins to shape the sort-of-beehive. You can make it really tight and small, or huge and floppy -- it totally depends on the amount of pins you use.

7. I forgot to address the bit of hair that ends up sticking out of the back of your ponytail holder. I usually either wrap it around the front and tuck it under the bun with pins, or I twist it and pin it into the back and cover it with a bow or fancy little hair knick knack :)

Basically I do my hair this way every single day, except for one other sort-of-beehive style that's pretty similar except I don't use the Puffy Pony (I feel so stupid even saying that name..) so maybe if you want I'll do a tutorial for that one too later?