Lottie Wigwork and Postiche 16/10/15
60’s Hair Beehive
Turn on the heated rollers so they have time to warm up. You
will need medium sizes rollers.
Put a side or centre parting in the hair and then section
off the hair in line with the ears so you have two sections at the front and
one at the back. Use a pintail comb to do this.
You will need to put the rollers into the hair using the brick work technique.
Therefore take a section from the middle of the top of the hair, making sure it is not wider than the rollers you are using, otherwise it will fall off the end of the roller and will not be heated so will not change in structure.
Brush the section using a comb and pull it up and away from you. Then place the roller at the end of the hair and roll the hair around it using your pin tail comb to help you keep the hair neat and on the roller.
The roller should sit on top of where the section of hair was, is should not be above or below otherwise the curls will be distorted.
Then use one of the metal pins that comes with the roller to secure it in place. Alternatively you can use a large hair clasp but these do not hold the rollers in place as tightly.
For the next section of the brick work do a parting below the first roller in line with the centre of it. Take your sections from the middle of the hair and work outwards continuing to put in rollers in the same way. At the sides of the hair you may want to put the rollers in vertically instead of horizontally to help create the shape of the beehive.
Continue this until you get about half way down the back of the hair.
Then if you want to do a half up half down hairstyle you can
leave the rest of the hair or style it however you want.
Alternatively you can put the rest of the hair into rollers vertically if you want to have all of the hair up. Doing this will help to direction the hair into a full up do.
Then put rollers into the front sections of the hair starting near the parting, rolling the hair in the direction away from the parting until you reach about half way to the ears. You can angle the sections and rollers slightly to help to create good direction in the hair for the beehive. Then with the rest of the hair put the curlers in vertically.
Leave the rollers to cool and set.
Take the rollers out.
Backcomb the curls on the top of the head and around the front.
Brush the curls on top of the head into a beehive shape. If you want the front sections of the hair to be in the beehive then brush them into shape as well. Alternatively you can leave them out and style later.
Use the end of your pin tail comb to lift the hair up to add volume and use hairspray if you want a traditional 60’s look with lots of volume. If you want a more natural modern look then use a bit of hairspray at the end.
Twist the hair at the back of the beehive and pin using Kirby grips, taking the grips through the hair and then back into it so that they are secure.
Brush through the curls under the beehive and brush them over to one side- the opposite side to the way the twist in the beehive goes. Secure just past the twist using Kirby grips crossed over each other.
Then bring the hair over the Kirby grips and twist in the same direction as the beehive twist. Secure using Kirby grips.
To pin the top of the twist you may want to use a fine pin s it does not flatten the twist.
If you did not bring the front sections of hair into the beehive then brush them through and pin them however you want to into the rest of the hair.
Finish with hairspray.
