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leave it down! i always thought naturally curley hair was the prettiest. just take a quick shower in the morning and apply gel and your hair will look good. or how about half-up? or a poof in the front could always work. be creative, you'll figure something out :)

I couldn't be bothered to deal with my hair in high school, it was the early 80s and I wanted to look like the skinhead girls I saw standing outside CBGBs when I went into NYC with my friends. I buzzed all my hair down to a crew cut.

In college, I majored in costume and makeup, which is really like getting a degree in Advanced Dress-Up And Other People's Laundry. I unofficially minored in dyeing my hair in the co-ed bathrooms. Anyway, I learned to do all sorts of hairdos, on other people's heads. It's a much different trick to do an updo when you can walk around and see or work on it from any angle. I also got a lot of experience on other types of hair, all not like mine.

So, now we come forward in time, and I've grown out my hair to nearly the longest it's ever been. Knowing how easy an updo could be, I immediately was confronted with my thin and curly hair texture (one I'd never dealt with in school), plus I couldn't see what the heck was going on back there. It took some doing, but slowly the updo is becoming my friend.

With longer hair, it's obvious that your hair can either be left hanging down, or it can be "put up" somehow. This can seem like a mysterious process, one of those magical arrangements that only a hairdresser can pull off, or maybe that woman at the gym that you already don't like for how pert and perky she is.

In this picture http://images.squidoo.com/resize.php?1177780987&fi... , I have hair down to just below my shoulders, really I do. However, most of that longer hair has been wound up into a simple little bun at the back of my head. It's not hard, I can do it by feel and my mother likes how you can see my face when I do it for pictures.

Doing an updo can be useful when traveling, gardening, working out, sleeping, dancing, looking fancy, for enduring hot and humid weather, or just if you feel like it that day.

And when you "do" your hair up, it can be an updo, an up-do or an up do, whichever you prefer...lol!

UpDo Me, Baby!

What the Professionals Have to Offer about Updos

Having instructions to follow, especially with pictures, can make doing fancier updos very easy. These can give you tons of great ideas for making more formal hairdos for events like weddings, proms or holiday parties.

Do half down - half up. Use like a barrette or a pony tail holder to secure it, always looks cute - never fails. Like split your hair in half to where its even and secure the top half.