STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

theotherjess · Chanel

Favorite easy hairstyle

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

Pony tails - for some reason guys love these - I do them low like Marcia Brady. I can put my hair ina messy bun, but it takes a long time, and my hair is too soft to stay in just one pony tail.

jacL · Coach

Sometimes I do side pony tails or messy side braids. Some of my friends use those claw clips, but the small ones so you can't really see them, but they never stick in my long hair.

calico · Kenneth Cole

My favorite of the moment is to pull the front part of my hair (like my bangs) and pin them right at the front so that look kind of "puffy", more or less how Ashlee is doing it here:

And then I take the rest of my hair and make a low bun (chignon?) near the nape of my neck, and not a messy one, like ballerina-type bun. In fact, that's how I'm wearing it right now!

lindsayp · Kenneth Cole

I've never figured out how to do the poofy thing with the front. I've tried teasing my hair but it doesn't do anything. I have very fine hair. When I've managed to just get it to poof by doing it loosly, when I try to put it in a ponytail or a bun it gets tight and looses its poof. I'm just hair-retarded. I still don't know how to blowdry my hair without turning my head upside down...

could I maybe get step by step instructions? sorry to be retarded!!

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

i could use those directions too, anyone?

jacL · Coach

I can't tease mt hair either. Instructions please!

Tashina · Kate Spade

i like to do the bangs pulled back too with a little height in the front. i use thickening paiste. i use kind of a lot too because my hair does not tease very well either. then i hold the section straight up in the air and blowdry it. then tease a little bitwith a very fine tooth comb and then twist it. what i find helps to get some height is after you twist it if you push the twist forward a little bit before you pin it down.

i also like to do a big bun high on my head like Carrie used to do on sex and the city. kind of messy. it is so easy too. until i figured it out, i thought it would be the hardest thing to do. you just take a tube sock or two, depends on how big you want your bun to be. cut the toe and then roll the sock into a doughnut. put your hair into a tight ponytail or a messy ponytail and thenpull the tail through the sock. spread your hair over the sock until it covers the sock completely and then bobby pin the ends down. then mess it up or not. the only thing that gets tricky is making the base of the bun, where the bun meets your head, not look like you bobby pinned your hair around a sock. i usually just wrap a pretty scarf around and pin it.