Video: How to Style a Pompadour on a Girl

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Hillary Steel

Hillary Steel is a hair stylist located in Miami, Florida.

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Hi, my name is Hillary. I'm in beautiful Miami Beach, Florida, and I'm going to show you a nice little style to go out with. A nice, the pompadour. The hair chemist taught me how to do. Gets a nice little glamor. Kind of tease, take all the sections of your hair. You tease them. Keep them forward at first. Put a little height. Some to the sides. And you can pin it straight back or you can do it off to the side. Just depends. I like to do usually straight back but it works really well for pretty much any occasion. So now let's I'll tease towards the front, kind of add a little bit of the hairspray to it. So with my hair all crazy like this, all teased I would use this hairstyle just basically to go out or I mean it's all about humidity proof hairstyles in Miami because the more set your hair is the better. So then after I tease everything, I bring it back and yeah like I said, you can really do anything with this. Like it works for any occasion, but it's also a very glamorous style I think. So usually I mean you can take it off to the side if you want. If you want to do something different. Or you can kind of do two sides back, but for this particular one, the pompadour, I'm going straight back. And then you just take your bobby pins and kind of just do them on either side. Like just to secure everything. You can add as many as you want. I usually like using the blond ones since my hair is more it's a little bit lighter but after you pin it, really you only need two pins, but if you want more to add a little bit more stability and height, you can take say a few more. If your bangs are kind of short or something. Just get it up in there, it's pretty simple. It's quick, it's simple. And a lot of times even if I wear my hair down all night, I'll bring bobby pins with me just to if I want to fix it, if my bangs are doing kind of that weird flippy thing. And then you can just kind of add a little hairspray to the top. Get some height and volume, just move it up a little bit and like I said with the curls, I like to have them just kind of flow outwards. Get any fly aways. Maybe add a little hairspray there. And then you have nice volume and yeah you can keep it wide or you can you know, take down a little bit more. And add a little bit more height to it. OK as soon as it's kind of teased a little bit you can really do whatever. Just depending on your face shape and everything. We'll just do this one. There you go. And then it's good to go. You're locked in. And this is how the hair chemist taught me how to do my hair. Just a little glamorous look for when the hair is kind of all over the place because it's humid as anything here in Miami, and just secures your bangs back, still look glamorous, and you're good to go.