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  • - Hello, hello. (orchestral music)

  • Oh, head rush.

  • This isn't actually a Rita Hayworth hair tutorial

  • because I've actually already done one of those,

  • which you can find in the card above or in the description.

  • This tutorial's actually for what I like to call

  • my Accidentally Perfect Pageboy Style.

  • Or this whole thing goes terribly wrong

  • and I do what I normally do when the rolling goes wrong

  • which is just do some kind of elaborate updo.

  • I've been on crutches for the past week

  • so I'm a little out of it

  • which is why this hairstyle is absolutely perfect.

  • I first discovered it while I was in LA for business

  • and I was completely exhausted

  • but I knew that I had meetings the next day.

  • I genuinely can only do things when I have good hair,

  • it's a thing.

  • So even though it was past midnight

  • I grabbed my rollers,

  • shoved as many of them in my hair

  • as I could in a short space of time, passed out,

  • and woke up in the morning with weirdly perfect hair.

  • But ever since then I've been kind of

  • accidentally recreating it whenever exhausted,

  • and I'm exhausted now, so perfect.

  • Who knew that chronic fatigue could give life to good hair?

  • I am really out of it, wow.

  • (slurping)

  • Okay, tools you will need for this look, a hairbrush.

  • Yeah, they're linked in the description as well,

  • everything is.

  • Oh no, I remembered the thing I need, oh man.

  • A comb, because you need a really precise parting

  • for vintage styles.

  • Look at it, you could stab someone with that,

  • but most importantly, it gives you the perfect parting.

  • A tiny bowl of water.

  • Now, a lot of people tend to do a roller set

  • when their hair's slightly damp.

  • That doesn't work for me.

  • If my hair's just too damp I take it out in the morning

  • and it just goes straight again.

  • I have very, very straight hair naturally.

  • This isn't my natural hair,

  • no, I curled it like four days ago

  • and this is just the end of that set.

  • Water, to dampen your rollers,

  • the smart girls way to do it.

  • Lottabody Setting Lotion, the even smarter way to do it,

  • and a lot of foam rollers.

  • I keep mine in a Panettone case

  • because you can move it around easily, it's beautiful,

  • and oh my God, your rollers smell so good.

  • These are the rollers that I use

  • and they are from Amazon, like most things in my life, yeah.

  • Ooh, also a hairnet for obvious reasons.

  • Depending on the type of hair you have

  • you may want to do this look in already curled hair.

  • If your hair's too smooth and glossy

  • it's just not going to work.

  • Basically what this (stammering),

  • basically what this style does

  • is take hair that's a bit wild

  • and tame it into something smooth and beautiful,

  • when it work.

  • If it doesn't work, again, you're getting a fancy updo.

  • Let's begin by brushing this out.

  • (jazzy music)

  • So you can see it's actually,

  • my hair is naturally quite shiny

  • which is very nice according to adverts

  • but not very helpful

  • when you want to do vintage styles with it

  • because it doesn't like to hold the curl.

  • Actually, as a teenager I used to just get my hair permed

  • but even the tightest perm fell out within six months.

  • I do find, though, that dyeing it really helps it

  • be able to be curled, like if I wasn't,

  • so tip, if your hair is just too glossy,

  • dye it, put heat on it, ruin it.

  • Do-do-do, I naturally actually don't have a parting,

  • I kind of create this one.

  • This is how my hair naturally grows

  • and this is why I always had a fringe as a child.

  • There we go.

  • We're going for quite an intense side parting here

  • just to keep our lovely kind of 1940s,

  • we're aiming for femme fatale in a film noir.

  • I wish I had an actual mirror here

  • but I don't, I just have the viewfinder.

  • I should have though that through as well but I didn't.

  • This is 2/3 full and I'm gonna add 1/3 Lottabody, okay.

  • I'll just take out my hearing aid first ha ha.

  • I do actually have two hearing aids

  • and I'm meant to wear two of them

  • but I find that if I do that

  • it feels like my head is just closed in,

  • like my head can't breathe.

  • Please tell me someone else understands that.

  • (slurping)

  • I think I may be high on caffeine,

  • also I took some painkillers. (bell dings)

  • My body hurts if I sit down

  • but it also hurts if I stand

  • but also it kind of hurts if I lie down.

  • You know when it doesn't hurt?

  • In a hot tub.

  • Do I own a hot tub?

  • No, no I don't, no.

  • How much is a hot tub?

  • Is that a medical requirement?

  • I think so.

  • Right, let's start with the front of our hair.

  • This is one of my fastest hair rolling,

  • I don't know what I'm doing with my fingers at this point,

  • and it's quite fast

  • because you're taking large chunks of your hair.

  • Normally I close my rollers in this way

  • at the front of my hair

  • and over the back of my head, the top of my head,

  • but for this look I put everything in sideways.

  • We're gonna call it over the top.

  • These rollers will all be going in over the top.

  • Rather than going for lots of tiny rollers

  • we're gonna take this whole front section here,

  • ba-boom, then split that in half.

  • (jazzy music)

  • Don't worry, you don't actually have to be too perfect.

  • I actually do tend to generally stand here for ages

  • being fiddly and perfect

  • because I'm a perfectionist.

  • So we've got our front section here,

  • we're gonna split it in half.

  • It's only at the front of our head

  • where we're gonna be using

  • kind of two rollers to a large section of hair.

  • The rest of the time

  • we're just throwing the rollers in there.

  • Whenever you look at a beautiful, precise vintage hairstyle

  • and you're like, wow, so much thought has gone into that,

  • no, it's a lie, it's not true.

  • It's mainly an accident all the time. (chuckles)

  • How did you do that, Jessica?

  • All right, just a little dip of the roller

  • in the water mixed with Lottabody

  • and then we use our roller to just dampen our hair slightly.

  • This I find works so much better for me

  • than using hair that is already damp

  • because it means that it actually dries faster

  • and in good time.

  • Now, be careful with these ends, they're very important.

  • The goal is to tuck these ends right over,

  • by which I mean under.

  • Because technically this is over, right?

  • But you need to tuck it under the hair underneath it.

  • So we're tight when it comes to the ends

  • but from here on out we just do more of a relaxed.

  • So here you've seen pulling the hair,

  • I just hate this bit, wow,

  • we'll get that in a minute.

  • So we're pulling it tight

  • when we're working on these lower ends,

  • and then as we move along we become much looser.

  • There we go, just gentle,

  • just gentle pulling it around, lovely.

  • And then clip it off.

  • I have to say, I think these type of rollers

  • are always gonna be the most comfortable.

  • I sleep in these twice a week

  • and it doesn't bother me at all.

  • Whereas I've tried the other types of rollers,

  • especially those darn Velcro ones, ugh,

  • and if you have very long hair

  • the Velcro ones are pointless

  • because by the time you get up to your head

  • your hair is so long it's wrapped all the way around

  • and there's no Velcro sticking out, okay?

  • Use these clip ones instead, they're very useful.

  • If you do have incredibly long hair

  • I would advise that you just use

  • smaller segments of hair when you're doing this.

  • It's mainly about how you pull it very tight for the ends

  • and then loosen it and relax as you go through.

  • There we go, just dampening the hair.

  • Again, trying to curl the ends underneath the hair.

  • It's a tricky thing.

  • If it helps, I am not on my game today quite clearly,

  • if you need a bit of help you can use your comb,

  • the end of your pointy comb.

  • All right, well, you just do your thing then.

  • So you glide it down and then around the roller.

  • And that will help the very end of your hair

  • to get under the bit of hair.

  • Again, here we are, tight.

  • Now, the tightness that you're doing

  • is generally just until you feel safely

  • that your hair's not gonna just fall out.

  • And then loose, loose, loose, all the way to your head.

  • I just stabbed myself with my comb.

  • And clip in.

  • And now we move on to the back of our heads

  • which we're gonna take in one very large chunk.

  • And I'm gonna move so you can actually see what I'm doing.

  • Yeah, that's a massive chunk of hair.

  • Okay, now normally, again, I would break this bit of hair

  • up into smaller sections

  • but no, we're taking it

  • in this massive chunk over to the side.

  • Slight dampening of the roller, again.

  • I mean, do I really need to talk this through with you?

  • You're getting it, you're fine, you're doing it.

  • Did I just take this off the roller?

  • Yeah, yeah I did, good.

  • So again, we're going over the top,

  • quite taut for the ends,

  • and rolling in we just relax, relax, there we go.

  • Just gently rolling the hair in.

  • I've done this on Claudia before, this look,

  • and she has very curly, very coarse hair,

  • it gets very wavy, and there's so much of it.

  • She's got ringlets underneath.

  • And so her hair is a completely different texture to mine

  • and to get that kind of amazing, smooth,

  • you know, this kind of Instagram people

  • where it looks absolutely perfect

  • and then you realize that they're a professional hairdresser

  • and you're like, oh,

  • anyway, to get it to look like that

  • the best thing to do for her is to straighten it first.

  • If it's curly at the bottom, don't worry,

  • but if it's sort of wavy at the top here

  • then straightening it first may work for you.

  • Go with the flow, it's an accidentally easy hairstyle.

  • I don't wanna make it more complicated for you

  • by telling you you have to do five extra steps.

  • So I just grabbed the hugest chunk on the side,

  • it's fine, we're going with it, it's just happening.

  • It's life to me today, life is just happening.

  • The front's always difficult,

  • especially if like me you have a horseshoe cut

  • which is quite an old-fashioned hairstyle

  • but basically means that your hair is shorter at the front

  • than it is at the back.

  • It is almost impossible, I'd say,

  • to get the same look

  • if your hair is exactly the same length all the way 'round.

  • It's just not gonna give you that same vintage horseshoe.

  • Words are hard.

  • (laughs) Okay.

  • Claudia just went, bubba, miss you, got a kids.

  • And I was like, a kids?

  • As in, you've got children coming?

  • She went, no, I got a kiss from a thankful rabbi.

  • And then moving on to the other front section of hair.

  • Again, I'm not being too precise here.

  • I'm not worrying about it, everything is fine.

  • Sometimes I do look terrible, that's not true.

  • Sometimes I open the door to the postman

  • and he gives me a look like, oh.

  • So again, tight at the top, looser as we come down.

  • Try not to pull too tight as you snap around.

  • And again, just grabbing large sections,

  • just going for it, willy nilly.

  • Not caring too much about it.

  • Do it, you'll be fine.

  • Over here, a little tight up here, and then looser.

  • Doing the same on the other side.

  • To be honest, I curl my hair so much

  • it now just falls into segments.

  • Tight and looser, lovely.

  • All right, there we go.

  • Now all this hair at the back,

  • just gonna do one across.

  • Da-da, now, the rest of the hair, we just split it into two.

  • And again, tight at the top,

  • and looser as we come down.

  • Done, it's actually that easy.

  • Put the very attractive hairnet on our heads now.

  • Mm-mm-mm, I know,

  • don't you think it's just the most gorgeous thing ever?

  • I find that if you just keep this front one free

  • you don't get that awkward thing

  • where the net just slides down your face.

  • And now we wait.

  • And good morning!

  • Now, time to take this out

  • and see whether we've actually created something beautiful

  • or it's a mess and I'm gonna have to do this tutorial

  • actually about an interesting updo.

  • One of the tricks that really helps with this hairstyle

  • is that when you're taking out the roller

  • rather than twisting it in way

  • that allows it to become a ringlet,

  • we take it out very smoothly to the sides,

  • keeping the hair as flat as possible.

  • For example, like so,

  • and then just gradually pulling out.

  • She says, realizing her hair is actually quite long

  • and difficult to do with one hand.

  • There we go, lovely.

  • And then just using my lovely paddle brush here

  • and this will be linked in the description

  • along with all the other things I use.

  • There we go, and we're just giving it a tug

  • as we brush it down

  • to give it a nice little bit of smoothness.

  • Don't worry if the undersides

  • are looking a bit too curly at the moment

  • because they are, of course, the undersides

  • and it's what's on top that really matters.

  • I love Lottabody and it works, ooh,

  • it does make your hair a bit crinkly to start with

  • before you've brushed it out

  • and that's kind of gross.

  • And do the same at the back.

  • Again, I'm gonna be giving this another brush in a minute

  • with a bristle brush

  • which really helps with smoothness and shine.

  • Right now we're kind of just working on the building blocks.

  • There we go.

  • And look, you can already start to see

  • that it's taking shape.

  • She says, and then brushes it

  • to destroy where it's taking shape.

  • There we go, look at that, lovely.

  • This is probably the wettest roller I put in.

  • I was slightly worried

  • that this was gonna be still too damp at the ends

  • but I think we've got away with it, excellent.

  • (orchestral music)

  • I'm just staring out of the window, by the way,

  • if you're wondering what I'm staring at,

  • at our garden which we are kind of not doing anything to

  • because we're waiting for it to recover itself

  • 'cause when we moved in

  • it hadn't been touched in a long time and,

  • oh my God, the squirrels just ran past.

  • Gorgeous, okay, already you can see

  • got a bit more of a shine,

  • kind of looser curls at the bottom.

  • We're gonna be shaping those.

  • I try and give some good brushes underneath.

  • At the very last bits always,

  • you'll see this when we're shaping later,

  • but if you brush against your hand

  • you're likely gonna get a much better shape.

  • Lovely, and as always, I say this quite often,

  • but brushing against your boob, always a good idea.

  • Now, most people will tell you

  • that the best way to do a pageboy

  • is actually to pin curl it and I highly agree.

  • However, not all of us are perfect at the pin curling

  • because not all of us have the dexterity to do so.

  • Don't ask me why I can do rollers

  • but I can't hold pins, just a thing,

  • just the way my hands work, interesting.

  • Mm-mm, beautiful.

  • Now, we've let the hair at the front

  • become ever so slightly curlier.

  • What the hell is that bit of hair doing?

  • Who gave you permission?

  • Oh dear lord, okay.

  • Well, that bit of hair obviously twisted around itself.

  • Okay, there we go, lovely.

  • So using less hair at the front

  • allows for this hair to be ever so slightly coarser

  • and is a better building block.

  • Again, what is this bit of hair doing?

  • Okay, now we're coming in with the bristle brush.

  • Lovely, ooh, God, don't you just love a good bristle brush?

  • Ooh, how can you not?

  • Ooh, so shiny.

  • Be a little gentle with the ends now

  • because we are trying to fix it into a lovely shape.

  • This bristle brush is great for getting rid of the fluff.

  • Just run a good bristle brush over it, it really helps.

  • Partly what I'm doing here at the back

  • is I'm just running it through the top of the hair.

  • That's because we want to keep the top nice and smooth

  • and it's then easier with the bottom

  • to be building and shaping around your hand.

  • Ready to make the ends look spectacular.

  • You know what I've forgotten?

  • Clips, clips, hang on, I'll get some clips.

  • Almost panicked that we wouldn't be able to find my clips

  • but we're good, it's fine. (chuckles)

  • How long can I use the we just moved house excuse for?

  • So let's get to work on building up the front.

  • If you have a gorgeous natural bit of body in your hair

  • you might not need to do this,

  • however, as I showed you earlier,

  • my hair genuinely is flat as a pancake

  • and thus we need just a little bit,

  • just a little bit of help here.

  • Just gonna do some light teasing.

  • I've never yet worked out the magic of backcombing your hair

  • but making it not look

  • like you've backcombed your hair at all.

  • I don't know how people do that.

  • I look at some people's hair creations

  • and I'm like, (blows raspberry), magic?

  • What are you hiding in there, small animals?

  • I always imagine that there's some kind of tiny bunny rabbit

  • that's just in your hair

  • and it's helpfully holding up the roof.

  • (jazzy music)

  • I love Elnett, like I love everything about it.

  • I love the smell, I love the spray,

  • I love how handy it is.

  • Unfortunately my dear wife's grandmother also loved Elnett

  • and so she now just largely associates the smell of my hair

  • with the smell of her grandmother's hair.

  • In some ways it's a good thing, nostalgia,

  • and in some ways it's a bad thing, old lady.

  • But you know, that's fine.

  • I'm not ashamed to say

  • that my head smells like an old lady's head,

  • because that makes sense.

  • Pop some clips in here

  • and protect this lovely little frontage we've got.

  • I know, this is a whole mess.

  • Don't worry, we'll be sorted.

  • There we go.

  • Now, we're just gonna use the comb for this front part here,

  • just brushing through, do-do-do-do,

  • I always, obviously, have my parting

  • so that my hair falls over the side of my face

  • that I can't see out of, can't see out of?

  • So yes, can't see out of this eye

  • so it's fine to put lots of hair in front of it

  • but it then does,

  • you do run into some problems sometimes,

  • especially if you're ever doing something like a photo shoot

  • where they're like, "Could you just flick your hair?

  • "Every time it comes in your eye just flick it away,"

  • and I'm like, how will I know?

  • This, by the way, is the best way to brush children's hair.

  • If you hold it and then comb so no one's roots get pulled.

  • Works for children and dogs, and yourself.

  • There's really no need

  • to inflict pain upon your own scalp either.

  • So I'm just using my hand

  • as both a building block to brush against

  • and the thing saving my scalp from pain.

  • Lovely, can you see this little end curved section

  • that we're getting into here?

  • Delightful.

  • This is also why it's perfectly fine

  • to have your rollers that are underneath

  • be a little bit curlier hair

  • because you're just building upon that

  • with the hair above it.

  • Ooh, look at that,

  • look at what we're achieving here today, people, gorgeous.

  • (jazzy music)

  • (Jessica slurps)

  • Sometimes I think I'm really, really ready

  • to be a grandmother.

  • Like being a mum, slightly terrified,

  • being a grandmother, fully prepared.

  • Let's get the comb in there again.

  • Ugh, just realized I'm choking myself to death

  • but it's fine,

  • it's all in the name of beautiful, shiny hair.

  • What more can we ask for, people?

  • Okay, I'm now gonna move on

  • to working on the back of my head,

  • which is difficult because I can't see it, obviously.

  • But hopefully you can.

  • So I think we got pretty smooth down on the top here,

  • that's going well, at the bottom.

  • Wait, did this sort itself out?

  • Is the back of my hair weirdly perfect?

  • Ooh, okay, yeah, cool, we're gonna say that's done

  • and move on to this side.

  • There we go, flattening down.

  • Now, I always wear my hearing aid on this side

  • so I like to have this section of hair

  • that goes in front of the hearing aid

  • swooped behind my ear.

  • So I work from the hair that's in the center section here

  • and that becomes the front of my hair.

  • There we go.

  • So I'm shaping around my thumb.

  • And then you have to try and brush down

  • but without dislodging the hair that's behind your ear.

  • I am, however, if you're wondering,

  • feeling so much better than yesterday,

  • when I was curling my hair, losing my words,

  • and kind of losing the will,

  • losing the will to continue on,

  • but now we're good.

  • I can never do this on clean hair.

  • Only ever works on hair that has already been rolled,

  • is a few days old.

  • So if you were wondering,

  • yes, I have stopped washing my hair before I go to events

  • in order to get it to look nice like this.

  • We're going well, okay, wonderful.

  • Just some more, ooh, ugh.

  • We're filming in my new studio

  • and it's quite a big room

  • but I am breathing purely Elnett at this point.

  • (gagging) And we're done.

  • So there you go, there's my very easy pageboy hairstyle.

  • I hope that you've enjoyed it.

  • Please do try it and let me know how you get on.

  • Remember I have a whole other playlist

  • with lots of different rolling techniques

  • and some hairstyles in

  • and I'm gonna put that in the description

  • and in a card above

  • so you can easily go and watch through all of those

  • if you're feeling very inspired by hair.

  • By the way, remember to go and check out my Instagram,

  • @jessicaoutofthecloset,

  • where I have a variety of other looks.

  • Says the girl who only wears

  • one type of makeup at all times, but sure.

  • Just leave me a link in the comments

  • to whatever hairstyle you would like me to do a tutorial on

  • and I shall get that on the way for you.

  • Remember to subscribe if you haven't already.

  • Let me know what you thought of this video,

  • obviously I haven't done a hair tutorial in forever.

  • I hope that you've really enjoyed this one

  • and I shall see you in my next video, mwah.

- Hello, hello. (orchestral music)

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