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Greetings soon-to-be blushing brides and welcome to the Wedding Essentials blog. We are Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik and Rebecca Forsyth, the ladies behind the hair tutorial you see here.

Sarah is a stylist, blogger at Fash Flood and freelance writer based in Omaha. She’s obsessed with lipstick, vintage treasure hunting, beehives and pink ’50s bathrooms.  Rebecca is a hair stylist specializing in color services, amazing blowouts and vintage-inspired hairdos.  She can be found locally at Bungalow/8 Hairdressing and on her hair inspiration blog. The idea for the Demi-Twist was born from our mutual love for classic hairstyling and easy to do hairstyles that can be applied to many hair lengths and types.  This style is soft and romantic, perfect for the wedding member or attendee. Depending on your hair thickness and length, this style will take  30 minutes to an hour to complete.

You will need:  a volumizing product (We like Bumble and bumble’s Thickening Hairspray), hairspray (We like Spray de Mode by Bumble and bumble), a sturdy comb, a small bristled brush and bobby pins

1. Prepare the hair for the style by blow-drying with a volumizing product to encourage hold and style memory. Curl blow-dried hair with a 1 1/4-inch iron, spraying each 1-inch section with hairspray. This provides both hold and protection from heat.

2. Create a foundation by back-combing. Elevate strands at top of head 90 degrees (or more) from their growing point, and use a sturdy comb to push shorter hairs within each section toward the scalp, creating a sort of “nest.” For Sarah’s look, we back-combed not only the top, but also a bit beyond the round of her head for a stronger foundation and less Bump-It!-like volume. Use a brush with small bristles to lightly smooth the surface of the area, only skimming hair, so as not to remove the “nest.”

3. Smooth one side of your hair back, leaving out your bangs/fringe or tendrils around your face if you desire them in the finished look. You can smooth with a brush or with your hands for a looser, more organic finish. Pin with 3-4 bobby pins in a vertical column near the center back of your head. The back-combing from step 2 will provide a great cushion for the pins and make the hair easier to mold.

4. Twist the remaining side back. The twisted portion of hair should be placed over the pins from step 3. Hold the twisted hair over the previous pins and use a few more pins to secure the twist into your back-combing. For maximum stability, pin at both the top and bottom of the twist. Finish with more hairspray and dance the night away!

Leave any comments, questions or tutorial requests in the comments section and we will try to answer them as soon as we can. Thanks for reading and good luck!

Photography Daniel Johnson; Location Paxton Ballroom, preferred vendor