Cute and Easy Pinup Hair Tutorial

Tools and materials:

• 1-1.5 inch rollers
• Smoothing serum
• Brush
• Soft bristle brush 
• Teasing comb
• Pomade

1. Rollers

First, you will need to put rollers in your hair and leave them overnight.

The curl pattern is just to roll everything under. Everything at the top is rolled back.

Be careful when removing your rollers. With foam rollers you don’t pull them out. Simply unwind them.

2. Start styling

Start the styling by picking your part. I’m doing a side part. I think a side part works best with this style.

Break up your curls with your fingers and brush your hair against your hand to minimize damage.

Then brush the curls in the direction you want them to go. Take smoothing serum and apply to the ends of your hair.

3. Section off the top half of your hair

On the smaller part of your hair, section it in half horizontally and clip it up.

Then do the same to the back section of your hair, sectioning it in half and clipping the top half up. Continue around the other side, pinning everything up.

4. Backcomb and clip the bottom half of your hair

Take the hair in sections and start backcombing. Then spray it with hairspray.

Comb halfway down starting at the root of the hair to push the volume down to the bottom.

5. Brush and clip the top of your hair

Let down the top half of the hair. On the side with the smaller part, brush the hair down starting at the root.

Put clips halfway down to push down the curls. Then clip the hair to keep the curls down. 

Do the same thing to the back of the head.

6. Style the bangs

On the other side of the head, brush the hair. Before doing the clips, we’re going to style the bangs.

Take a small section of hair and backcomb at the base. Then spray with hairspray. 

Continue taking the hair in sections, backcombing at the bottom, and spraying until you get to the other side of the forehead.

Once everything is backcombed, give it another spritz and wait for it to dry. We are going to brush the outside of the curl. Use a brush with loose bristles so you don’t brush through the backcombing. 

You should have a swoop in the front. Place your hand underneath it so you don’t pull the height of the backcombing out.

Take a bit of pomade and go over the hair. Check the back of your hair and make sure the hair is wrapping cleanly around.

Place some clips at the base of the swoop to hold it in place. Comb through the ends to make them smooth.

7. Style the rest of the hair

Now brush out the rest of the hair, again being careful not to brush out the backcombing. Then apply hairspray and pomade. Now that the pomade is in, you can control the curls and direct them.

Take out the clip on the other side of the hair and put a bobby pin behind the ear.

Again, brush over the top of the curl to smooth it out on the top while being careful to keep the backcombing in place underneath.

Take the clips out of the rest of the hair and go over the rest of the hair, smoothing out the curls.

8. Finishing touches

When you’re done, spray everything with hairspray.

Pinup hairstyle

What’s great about this look is that you will be able to keep that volume in your hair all day long. I love this throwback, pin-up hairstyle so much. It’s such a fun and classy look. 

Leave me a comment and let me know how your hair came out.

If you have any great hairstyling tips leave those in the comments too. I love hearing from you all and exchanging tips. Have a great day!

For another hair tutorial, check out my post on Easy Vintage Twist Hairdo Tutorial.