How To: The Fake Undercut

Hi everyone,

The undercut is a style that's become popular in the last while, but if, like me, you're too scared or too lazy (imagine trying to grow it out!) or a combination of both to shave half your head, never fear! Here is a quick and easy way to fake it :)

For this hairstyle, you will need:

• A hairbrush
• A fine-toothed comb (not really necessary, but it does make parting your hair that bit easier)
• Bobby pins
• Hair bobbins

• Started by brushing through your hair and getting rid of any tangles. This will make it much easier when it comes time to start plaiting.

• Next, you need to give yourself an extreme side parting, pulling most of your hair over to one side of your head

• If you want to, you can section off your hair on the the side with more hair and put it in a ponytail for the sake of convenience, you won't be needing it for awhile.

• On the other side (the one you will be using) section off your hair using your ear as a guide, like so.

• You can tie back any hair that falls behind your ear, as its the section in front (see below) that you'll be using.

• Further divide this section horizontally into two even sections, using your comb if you have one (there's a lot of dividing in this tutorial, I'm sorry)
• If your hair is on the thinner side, you can skip this step and just do one plait, but if you have a lot of hair like me, you're probably better off doing two

• Pin the top section out of the way for the moment, leaving the bottom section out

• From the section, take a small piece from the front

• Divide this section into three

• Start plaiting, grabbing section from the top and bottom (the smaller the better) and adding them to the plasit as you go

• When you run out of hair, secure it with a bobby pin, like so...

• Now take the top side section...

•  Section off the front and repeated the process

• The result should look something like this...

• Take the back and other side out of their ponytails

• And here is the finished look...