Oh, head rush.

This isn't actually a Rita Hayworth hair tutorial

because I've actually already done one of those,

which you can find in the card above or in the description.

This tutorial's actually for what I like to call

my Accidentally Perfect Pageboy Style.

Or this whole thing goes terribly wrong

and I do what I normally do when the rolling goes wrong

which is just do some kind of elaborate updo.

I've been on crutches for the past week

so I'm a little out of it

which is why this hairstyle is absolutely perfect.

I first discovered it while I was in LA for business

and I was completely exhausted

but I knew that I had meetings the next day.

I genuinely can only do things when I have good hair,

it's a thing.

So even though it was past midnight

I grabbed my rollers,

shoved as many of them in my hair

as I could in a short space of time, passed out,

and woke up in the morning with weirdly perfect hair.

But ever since then I've been kind of

accidentally recreating it whenever exhausted,

and I'm exhausted now, so perfect.

Who knew that chronic fatigue could give life to good hair?

I am really out of it, wow.

(slurping)

Okay, tools you will need for this look, a hairbrush.

Yeah, they're linked in the description as well,

everything is.

Oh no, I remembered the thing I need, oh man.

A comb, because you need a really precise parting

for vintage styles.

Look at it, you could stab someone with that,

but most importantly, it gives you the perfect parting.

A tiny bowl of water.

Now, a lot of people tend to do a roller set

when their hair's slightly damp.

That doesn't work for me.

If my hair's just too damp I take it out in the morning

and it just goes straight again.

I have very, very straight hair naturally.

This isn't my natural hair,

no, I curled it like four days ago

and this is just the end of that set.

Water, to dampen your rollers,

the smart girls way to do it.

Lottabody Setting Lotion, the even smarter way to do it,

and a lot of foam rollers.

I keep mine in a Panettone case

because you can move it around easily, it's beautiful,

and oh my God, your rollers smell so good.

These are the rollers that I use

and they are from Amazon, like most things in my life, yeah.

Ooh, also a hairnet for obvious reasons.

Depending on the type of hair you have

you may want to do this look in already curled hair.

If your hair's too smooth and glossy

it's just not going to work.

Basically what this (stammering),

basically what this style does

is take hair that's a bit wild

and tame it into something smooth and beautiful,

when it work.

If it doesn't work, again, you're getting a fancy updo.

Let's begin by brushing this out.

(jazzy music)

So you can see it's actually,

my hair is naturally quite shiny

which is very nice according to adverts

but not very helpful

when you want to do vintage styles with it

because it doesn't like to hold the curl.

Actually, as a teenager I used to just get my hair permed

but even the tightest perm fell out within six months.

I do find, though, that dyeing it really helps it

be able to be curled, like if I wasn't,

so tip, if your hair is just too glossy,

dye it, put heat on it, ruin it.

Do-do-do, I naturally actually don't have a parting,

I kind of create this one.

This is how my hair naturally grows

and this is why I always had a fringe as a child.

There we go.

We're going for quite an intense side parting here

just to keep our lovely kind of 1940s,

we're aiming for femme fatale in a film noir.

I wish I had an actual mirror here

but I don't, I just have the viewfinder.

I should have though that through as well but I didn't.

This is 2/3 full and I'm gonna add 1/3 Lottabody, okay.

I'll just take out my hearing aid first ha ha.

I do actually have two hearing aids

and I'm meant to wear two of them

but I find that if I do that

it feels like my head is just closed in,

like my head can't breathe.

Please tell me someone else understands that.

(slurping)

I think I may be high on caffeine,

also I took some painkillers. (bell dings)

My body hurts if I sit down

but it also hurts if I stand

but also it kind of hurts if I lie down.

You know when it doesn't hurt?

In a hot tub.

Do I own a hot tub?

No, no I don't, no.

How much is a hot tub?

Is that a medical requirement?

I think so.

Right, let's start with the front of our hair.

This is one of my fastest hair rolling,

I don't know what I'm doing with my fingers at this point,

and it's quite fast

because you're taking large chunks of your hair.

Normally I close my rollers in this way

at the front of my hair

and over the back of my head, the top of my head,

but for this look I put everything in sideways.

We're gonna call it over the top.

These rollers will all be going in over the top.

Rather than going for lots of tiny rollers

we're gonna take this whole front section here,

ba-boom, then split that in half.

(jazzy music)

Don't worry, you don't actually have to be too perfect.

I actually do tend to generally stand here for ages

being fiddly and perfect

because I'm a perfectionist.

So we've got our front section here,

we're gonna split it in half.

It's only at the front of our head

where we're gonna be using

kind of two rollers to a large section of hair.

The rest of the time

we're just throwing the rollers in there.

Whenever you look at a beautiful, precise vintage hairstyle

and you're like, wow, so much thought has gone into that,

no, it's a lie, it's not true.

It's mainly an accident all the time. (chuckles)

How did you do that, Jessica?

All right, just a little dip of the roller

in the water mixed with Lottabody

and then we use our roller to just dampen our hair slightly.

This I find works so much better for me

than using hair that is already damp

because it means that it actually dries faster

and in good time.

Now, be careful with these ends, they're very important.

The goal is to tuck these ends right over,

by which I mean under.

Because technically this is over, right?

But you need to tuck it under the hair underneath it.

So we're tight when it comes to the ends

but from here on out we just do more of a relaxed.

So here you've seen pulling the hair,

I just hate this bit, wow,

we'll get that in a minute.

So we're pulling it tight

when we're working on these lower ends,

and then as we move along we become much looser.

There we go, just gentle,

just gentle pulling it around, lovely.

And then clip it off.

I have to say, I think these type of rollers

are always gonna be the most comfortable.

I sleep in these twice a week

and it doesn't bother me at all.

Whereas I've tried the other types of rollers,

especially those darn Velcro ones, ugh,

and if you have very long hair

the Velcro ones are pointless

because by the time you get up to your head

your hair is so long it's wrapped all the way around

and there's no Velcro sticking out, okay?

Use these clip ones instead, they're very useful.

If you do have incredibly long hair

I would advise that you just use

smaller segments of hair when you're doing this.

It's mainly about how you pull it very tight for the ends

and then loosen it and relax as you go through.

There we go, just dampening the hair.

Again, trying to curl the ends underneath the hair.

It's a tricky thing.

If it helps, I am not on my game today quite clearly,

if you need a bit of help you can use your comb,

the end of your pointy comb.

All right, well, you just do your thing then.

So you glide it down and then around the roller.

And that will help the very end of your hair

to get under the bit of hair.

Again, here we are, tight.

Now, the tightness that you're doing

is generally just until you feel safely

that your hair's not gonna just fall out.

And then loose, loose, loose, all the way to your head.

I just stabbed myself with my comb.

And clip in.

And now we move on to the back of our heads

which we're gonna take in one very large chunk.

And I'm gonna move so you can actually see what I'm doing.

Yeah, that's a massive chunk of hair.

Okay, now normally, again, I would break this bit of hair

up into smaller sections

but no, we're taking it

in this massive chunk over to the side.

Slight dampening of the roller, again.

I mean, do I really need to talk this through with you?

You're getting it, you're fine, you're doing it.

Did I just take this off the roller?

Yeah, yeah I did, good.

So again, we're going over the top,

quite taut for the ends,

and rolling in we just relax, relax, there we go.

Just gently rolling the hair in.

I've done this on Claudia before, this look,

and she has very curly, very coarse hair,

it gets very wavy, and there's so much of it.

She's got ringlets underneath.

And so her hair is a completely different texture to mine

and to get that kind of amazing, smooth,

you know, this kind of Instagram people

where it looks absolutely perfect

and then you realize that they're a professional hairdresser

and you're like, oh,

anyway, to get it to look like that

the best thing to do for her is to straighten it first.

If it's curly at the bottom, don't worry,

but if it's sort of wavy at the top here

then straightening it first may work for you.

Go with the flow, it's an accidentally easy hairstyle.

I don't wanna make it more complicated for you

by telling you you have to do five extra steps.

So I just grabbed the hugest chunk on the side,

it's fine, we're going with it, it's just happening.

It's life to me today, life is just happening.

The front's always difficult,

especially if like me you have a horseshoe cut

which is quite an old-fashioned hairstyle

but basically means that your hair is shorter at the front

than it is at the back.

It is almost impossible, I'd say,

to get the same look