Easy Festival Hair Style

If you're heading to a festival this year or just want a pretty up-do I've created this simple hairstyle that I'll be wearing at T in the Park it takes less than 5 minutes to create and lasts all day. Getting your hair away from your face and hiding unwashed, slightly greasy hair and still making it look cute may seem like a bit of a challenge when you're wanting to go enjoy the festival but this style is done in no time and will have serious hair envy from onlookers. 

What you'll need for this style is hair grips and a headband if you want you can not put a hair accessory in if you want to keep it simple and sweet.

I'm going to use this flower headband that I made last year I was inspired by Millie Mackintosh's that she wore to Glastonbury 2013 so I went to a craft store and picked some ivory fake flowers, branches of fake greenery, craft wire and a simple black headband. I then placed the flowers around the centre of the headband and wrapped wire around each of the flower stems then I added the green leaves assorted through it and cut off any excess. It can take a little time to get the flowers adjusted to how you want them to be but it's so much more fun creating your own and picking the style and flowers to go on it than just buying one. 

Put the head band on your head and if it's really heavy secure it with grips either side so it will stay in place.

Next you'll need to have some hair grips ready for pinning the hair in place the more you have the more secure the hairstyle will be.

Start off by taking your largest front fringe section and sweeping it behind your head and over the headband.

Secure it in place with a hair grip.

Take a large section of your front hair and plait it behind and away from your face then wrap it around the back of your head and secure with a hair grip.

Repeat for the other side and secure drift away hair in place with a grip if you want a more sleek up-do but as this is for a festival I'm going to leave it a bit more looser and carefree.

Now take two large back sections of your hair and plait them separately then wrap them towards the other side of your head and grip in place do this for the other one too.

Now if you have a small section of centre back hair I looped this up the centre of the plaits and wrapped it in them then gripped in place.

If you're wanting a sleeker style hair spray any fly away hairs and use more grips for security but for a casual, bohemian look loosen the plaits and pull some front stands of hair out to fall beside the face.

I've finished the hairstyle off with some reflective sunglasses that I got from New Look you're all ready to party in the sun (or rain if you're in the UK) this hairstyle is really easy to do and it's always easy to distract attention from greasy hair to giant flowers on your head. 

What festival are you going to this year?

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