Look SOFT

Romantic hair that stops at lobe height to reveal baubles reflecting the candlelight

Everything about this hairstyle points to Nyasha’s twisting, turning ear candy.

“Saturated with mousse for hold and texture, Nyasha’s hair was wound around one-inch curling irons, leaving out the roots so as to place the volume and width at lobe-height, drawing the eye to the earrings,” explains O’Rourke. He raked through the curls with a wide-toothed comb, and misted them with texturising spray to roughen up the result.

A ballerina bun designed to expose only the main event: the jewelled clusters on Alice’s ears.

“For a pretty-not-prissy chignon [think Duchess of Sussex], blow hair out with a big-hair mousse to give all-important volume and texture,” says O’Rourke. “Part in the middle and lightly smooth hair back into a low pony, making sure to cover the tops of the ears. Twist and pin the pony into a bun and tease out some small fuzzy strands around the face.”