A beginner's beehive

My hair is fine - so fine that there were very nearly tears and tantrums when it came time to deciding what to do, or indeed what I could do, with it for my wedding. Curls just fell out, and the half-up do we eventually settled on required the formation of two small hair horns to create a bump that gave the illusion of volume - carefully combed over to cover.

So, my hopes of creating any form of beehive in the image of my glamorous 1960s style icons were slim. But after watching this video tutorial by Carrie at wishwishwish.net, I decided to give it a go.


Some 50 hair grips and half a can of hairspray later, I was very pleasantly surprised by my reflection. The 'do' only took ten minutes to style and withstood everything a windy and rainy Sunday in Brighton could throw at it. Of course my hair was taller, but it seemed to make me walk taller too - I definitely felt my Sunday best.