Flowers in your hair is so last year. Flowers from your hair, now...

May 13, 2017 5:06 PM

Russian stylist Georgiy Kot creates astonishingly elaborate hair styles. PopSugar collected a few styling videos from his Instagram.

A few I really loved:
Giant lily
Bridal bouquet for a movie.
Ribbons and Pearls
Ombre Waves

posted by jacquilynne (15 comments total)

flowers from your hair is so 150 years ago
posted by entropicamericana at 5:07 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Yes, but this way, you don't have to die first.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:08 PM on May 13, 2017 [4 favorites]

That's the first time I've seen those oldschool nonclosing hairpins used outside of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
posted by rhizome at 5:15 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

My stylist used a few of them in constructing a french twist for me a couple of weeks ago. Before that, I don't think I'd ever known they existed. I thought they were just regular hairpins that had been flexed open too much and stayed that way when I first took them out of my hair.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:25 PM on May 13, 2017

Exactly. "These aren't springy at all." I think there were a few in the corners of the drawers in my grandma's bathroom.
posted by rhizome at 5:29 PM on May 13, 2017

I assume they must fill some particular hairdressing need, since she used precisely two of them, against about 18 of the kind that snap closed. I have very little hair -- it's both fine and thin -- so the relatively simple hairstyle she created for me is mostly hairspray, bobby pins and backcombing.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:38 PM on May 13, 2017

Those hairpins are marketed as made for dancers.
posted by mmiddle at 5:42 PM on May 13, 2017

These are great but I get the sense they would only work well if you had no uneven hair.. . No layers, maybe, but more importantly no broken hair that would leave little hair stubs sticking out of your rose petals. I wonder if that's why so many are done on mannequins: humans with hair that perfect and healthy are hard to come by.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:27 PM on May 13, 2017

The U-shaped pins? I use those. They're great, you can get a 1-pound box from Amazon and it lasts forever. I can hold up all of my (thick, elbow-length) hair in a bun with just one of them.
posted by nonasuch at 6:38 PM on May 13, 2017

I think I may try this one. I think that one I could actually do myself.

As for breakage, minimal breakage probably is a requirement for a hair model, though also I notice that the texture of the hair in some of the petals or ribbons did not seem to behave like hair to me. Then I saw one with the hairspray more clearly in use and I understood. For most of the stiff styles, the hair is practically saturated in product which tends to be sticky enough to make stray ends stay part of the shape instead of sticking out especially if helped out a little with a flat iron.
posted by Karmakaze at 6:43 PM on May 13, 2017

Someone on my Facebook feed posted a supercut of these videos the other night. I have to be honest, I was getting a major Effie Trinket vibe.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:00 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Yes, I also use those U-shaped pins all the time! Both in that small size and in the ginormo size. They're not like bobby pins for holding down flyaways; they're structural pins. The trick to them is that you flip or twist them going in, so that as your hair tries to untwist or fall down, it's locking the pin in harder (this is also how you get side combs to hold your hair up all day). It takes a tiny bit of practice but it's a super-easy way to do your hair and it's comfortable and secure. (I have to fix a ponytail during the day way more often than I have to fix a one-pin french twist.) Takes me about 20 seconds and I don't need a mirror.

I think they don't work as well if your hair is very fine and silky, but these are not problems I have. :)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 7:45 PM on May 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

if you're going to san francisco ...
posted by pyramid termite at 7:53 PM on May 13, 2017

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posted by cenoxo at 8:23 PM on May 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

His descriptions are really sweet. I like his appreciation for his assistant on the ombre waves one.
posted by Emily's Fist at 6:20 AM on May 14, 2017 [1 favorite]