The Big Tease

Here are a few pictures of me dressed up for Halloween. I'm Betty Draper from the hit show Mad Men. This classic 1960's style requires lots and lots of backcombing along with a ton of hairspray.








I parted off the top section and curled it all towards the back. Then I parted the back down the middle and curled the 1" sections forward towards my face.
Once it was cool I went to town with my comb. I teased the crap out of me entire head. Then, using just the edge of my comb and my mason pearson brush I smoothed it over and into the shape I wanted.

The Grown Up Ponytail

You see a girl at the mall with super cute ponytail and you think to yourself why doesn't mine every look like that. Her secret, is most likely back combing aka teasing and ponytail position. Not too high where you look like a HS Cheerleader and not too low where you look momish. The right position is just below the crown. You want the sides to sweep back and a little up to give the face some lift.

Now the how to.

First, back combing or back brushing either works. The trick to it is to hold the ends very loose and kind of scoop as you comb/brush backwards. You don't need to do your whole head just the top and front part of your sides.


Next, With a brush using just the edges of the bristles to smooth out the top of the hair being careful not to brush out all your back combing. Brush it back into your ponytail and secure really tight.



Then, grab the hair at the crown and pull up and forward just a bit it create some height in the crown.






If you want to add a head band do it now and just make sure you still have the height in the crown area.