Buns

In one of our hair lessons we started to learn different buns and how you can form 3 different buns in different ways. In Elizabethan time a lot of Elizabethan women wore buns, it was a simple and neat way to have your hair up and it also looked very elegant. 

What you will need:

• Brush
• Pintail Comb
• Hair bobble
• Hair Grips
• Hair Pins

The first bun technique we learnt was the section bun. This is a very simple technique to create a larger, very smooth, rounded bun on the top of the head.

What you need to do:

1.  Brush the hair getting all tangles and knots out
2. Take a small/thin hair tie and tie a ponytail at the top/back of the head
3. Section your hair into 4 parts, these will create the bun shape
4. Next you take one section of hair and you told it under itself towards the hair bobble to create a section of the bun
5. Pin it with hair grips to secure it tightly
6. Repeat for the other 3 sections evenly spacing them out
7. You need to make sure that the opposite section to the one you are doing is at an even height so the bun looks tidy
8. Next what you need to do is take your pintail comb or even easier a hair pin and slowly start pulling two sections of the bun together closing the gap in-between them
9. Once the space is closed use that same hair pin to pin it together to keep it in place, we use a hair pin here because it is easier to fix into the hair for this type of bun and can be easily hidden
10. Repeat steps 8 and 9 for the rest of the sections
11. After that smooth over with your pintail comb making sure it is nice and neat
12. Hairspray if needed

Bun in all 4 sections

This is what the completed bun should look like.

An even shape across the whole bun, nice and neat

The next two buns we learnt to do are very very simple, both wrap around buns, one with a plait and one just twisted.

What you will need:

• Pintail comb
• Hair brush
• Hair pins
• Hair grips
• Hair bobble

1. Brush the hair
2. Tie the hair into a high ponytail and secure with your bobble
3. Wrap the ponytail around the hair bobble 
4. Tuck the end under the bun and secure with a hair grip
5. Secure the rest of the bun to the head with hair pins

This bun is a lot smaller and tighter than the section bun, but a lot easier and still very effective.

 The last of the buns is the plait bun, with a similar technique to the wrap bun but just with an added plait to it.

What you will need:

•  Hairbrush
• Pintail Comb
• Hair bobble
• Hair grips
• Hair pins

1. Brush the hair
2. Tie the hair into a high ponytail
3. Plait the hair doing a simple 3 section plait
4. Wrap the hair around the hair bobble
5. Secure the end of the plait under the bun using a hair grip
6. With some hair pins tidy up the bun and pin down anything that needs to be