This new unfinished French Twist is cooler than the plastics in Mean Girls. To recreate it at home, hairstylist Britney Williams walks you through the steps below.
1. Blow dry your hair away from your face. Here, Brenna used a Maison Pearson boar bristle paddle brush and a blow dryer with a nozzle to help focus the air and brush her hair away from her face to get it all going in the right direction.
2. Create a bend in your hair with a curling iron. You don't want a full-on curl for this style — just a little wave. "So, what I do to get this look usually is wrap pieces of hair in sections of different sizes around a two-inch barrel curling iron for a just second to give it a bit of a bend," Williams says.
3. Apply a texturizing cream. Scoop out a dime-size amount of texturizing cream with your fingers and spread it evenly onto both hands, warming it between your palms first. Then, rake your hair back away from your face lightly using your fingertips to give the hair a little hold. Brenna used Bumble and Bumble Thickening Creme Contour here.
4. Twist the tail. Pull your hair back in a low pony, and then twist the tail around your thumb until your hair is tight and close to your head.
5. Pin the twist. Take a few U-pins and secure the twist flat to the scalp. Be sure to pin it along the rolled side, and don't worry about the strands peeking out of the bottom of the twist — that's what gives this style the cool-girl effect.
6. Continue pinning until it's secure along the rolled side.
Voila! You're done and you look damn good.
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