Hatsumomo's hair style

**Eirinn** · July 15th, 2008, 12:04 PM

I've recently wetched "Memoirs of a Geisha" and just loved Hatsumomo's hair

It's kind of half-up and I just can't figure out how it's coiled. Do you guys have any idea? Here it is:

And another version:

Sorry for the size and quality but it's so hard to find anything better

**AerisDawn** · July 15th, 2008, 12:37 PM

It's hard to tell but the second picture looks like the hair is folded under somehow.

**Samikha** · July 15th, 2008, 02:09 PM

I would like to know this as well

I love Memoirs of a Geisha!
So I dug up my DVD and got some screenshots

I am not entirely sure it is all the same hairstyle - the toys differ etc. But they're not different enough that I can really tell from the limited view we get of the back of her head, and it might be just that in some scenes it's closer to falling apart than others.

I'm hoping someone who's good at spotting updos can chime in

**Dulci** · July 15th, 2008, 02:14 PM

Doesn't the DVD have a special extra feature on the hairstyles? *tries to remember*

**Samikha** · July 15th, 2008, 02:23 PM

I watched the special features, they do say a bit about the hairstyles, but there's nothing about how they were actually made :/ I was hoping for hairstyle tips the first time I saw it, but it's useless! :P

**Isilme** · July 15th, 2008, 02:24 PM

I would love to know how to do this style too! I love it

I have tried to do just a loose half up with some tendrils falling out from the updo. I made a loosely coiled cinnamon bun. It's not the same, but similair.

**lora410** · July 15th, 2008, 02:27 PM

I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! And her and her hair are simply gorgeous

**Samara Morgan** · July 15th, 2008, 02:51 PM

I've got the DVD too and they only show the various wigs used and I think one of the hairstyles for Sayuri in the special features. Hmmmmm - I remember someone on the old LHC (I think it might have been wonderlywroughte but I'm not sure) said they were interested in finding out how Hatsumomo's hair was styled, but I don't think we got an answer

**flapjack** · July 15th, 2008, 03:51 PM

I think a giant cinnabun using all the hair in the middle of your head and leaving down hairs all around it would work out fine. Or a chinese bun, too. Whatever one holds better, but looks looser with your hair type. You and I have similar hairtypes and I think the chinese bun would work better for me in that regard. Then it looks like she kind of loosely twisted some tendrils hanging down on the back and sides. You could easily do that with a little bit of coconut oil on your fingers while twisting.

It also looks like... from the angles of the top of her head... that she has it two different ways. In some photos, it looks like she took a chunk of hair from her crown and parted it all on the side and then wrapped it around the hair sticks. Maybe trying that in an eternity/figure 8 shape around the hair sticks and over the bun would give it the loose/messier look with the volume on the top without making the actual bun fall out. And then throwing a couple long pins in to hold the chunk of hair wrapped around the hair sticks and over the bun.

I actually want to try this, now. Haha.

**k_hepburn** · July 15th, 2008, 04:01 PM

I would hazard a guess that there are some hair pieces involved as well as some kind of a hair rat underneath the bun. Li Gong, the actress, appears to have a lot less hair in those real life pictures that I've found. I also find it noticeable that the hair for the bun does not appear twisted or wrapped tightly - so it was probably held up by lots of hair pins as well as tons of styling products.

Greetings

katharine