Recreating this style?

**florenonite** · October 27th, 2009, 09:20 AM

I've been watching the new BBC miniseries of Emma, and I love the way Emma wears her hair. She's got SL hair, and as far as I can tell it's curls pinned up and encircled by a (fake) braid.

Could I do pin curls and pin the curls up, perhaps? In the second picture it looks more bunned, but I tried a bun encircled by a braid and it looked horribly lopsided. ETA: At first I thought it could be a sock bun, but if you look at the first picture it's quite flat against her head, not like a sock bun at all (at least, not like mine, which stick out about two inches).

I apologise for the poor quality of the pictures. I Googled and couldn't find anything that showed the style, so I took a couple screencaps from iPlayer.

**Pegasus Marsters** · October 27th, 2009, 09:24 AM

Try a sock bun then braid the loose ends around it?

**Heidi_234** · October 27th, 2009, 09:48 AM

Yeah, it looks like a messy sockbun with the ends braided and wrapped around.

**Rentlle** · October 27th, 2009, 10:01 AM

yeah, I was thinking about a messy sockbun too

with curly hair..

**missmagoo** · October 27th, 2009, 10:04 AM

You could also try putting half or 2/3 of your hair up in the sock bun and braiding the rest to wrap around.

I can get my wurly hair to look like that when instead of pulling my hair all the way over the sock, I take individual sections and sort of loop/twist them around the sock. That way preserves my curls more and makes the whole thing more full.

**Zéphine** · October 27th, 2009, 10:25 AM

To me, it looks like this style, only with the rolled hair arranged less neatly. I agree that it looks like pinned up curls rather than a bun style.

**florenonite** · October 27th, 2009, 10:54 AM

See, I don't think it looks like a sock bun, or at least not like my sock buns look like. It's closer to the head than a sock bun; my sock buns stick out from my head a lot, and that one's flat. Maybe my sock buns are just fail

I might try that style, Zéphine; it looks like a sock bun only less protuberant.

**missmagoo** · October 27th, 2009, 11:06 AM

It's kind of similar to this style http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/...e&articleid=26

**florenonite** · October 27th, 2009, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by missmagoo

It's kind of similar to this style http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/...e&articleid=26

Ooh, thanks for that link

**missmagoo** · October 27th, 2009, 11:14 AM

No problem, I was hunting around for some inspiration for my own hair when I saw that style and thought it looked pretty similar to what you were looking for.