Q&A for How to Make a Messy Bun

A messy bun can be done overnight. Make a bun before you go to sleep, and you will have a "perfect" messy bun in the morning.

Your hair is probably too clean. Really clean hair will always fall out of an up-do. You could try using extra strength gel or mousse or braiding the hair to get it to stay. Leave a small portion loose to wrap around the bun, if you like. French braids leading to the base of the bun can help the sides stay. Use a sock or bun base, those can help keep the hair in place.

Definitely twist the hair, as that is the key to a great messy bun. Otherwise, the bun will look too neat. There is a fine art to looking casually messy.

Use products such as mousse, hair gel, and hairspray. When your hair is wet, apply mousse all over your hair. After putting your hair in a bun, use maximum hold hair spray. You can also use a small amount of hair gel or hair wax around your hairline or wherever hair is sticking out.

If you have sort hair, try take a bunch of your hair put it around the ponytail clip and hold in place as best you can. If your hair is too short, then no messy bun for you till you grow some more. Or, use a hair extension done a la messy bun style.

Just pull it all up and brush it to make it higher. Your hair will probably need to be at least shoulder-length to do this effectively. You can't make much of a bun with short hair.

Try teasing/backcombing your hair, or even manually tugging out pieces of hair and scrunching the bun up.

Yes! I had a hard time with it as well. Try the sock bun method instead: Do a Sock Bun .

By teasing your hair. You can do that by using a comb to brush your hair little by little in the opposite direction (towards your elastic).

The buns made in this article are arguably pretty 'normal' buns. Check out How to Make a Bun for an alternate method and better distinctions between different types of buns.

You can curl your hair with a straightener. Check out wikiHow's special hacks to curl your hair with straightener.

Pull at parts of the hair to help make it messier. Also, not brushing your hair before you make the messy bun helps.

Tip your head forward and gather the hair into a high ponytail, tying it up with a hair tie. Then, just follow the instructions from this article to turn the ponytail into a bun.

You just hold the bun down and wrap the elastic around the entirety of the hair.

You can try using hair extensions to bulk up the amount of hair you have. Many women do this to add volume to their hair.

It can be a quick go-to hairdo, or you could spend a little bit more time on it, getting your messy bun to what you want it to be!

I personally recommend the third method, because I think that it is the easiest and quickest, but you can also try others and see which you like best.

You will need lots of pins and possibly a good scrunchie to keep it in place better. Also, putting your hair in a good, high ponytail can also help. Use hairspray if you want to keep your hair in place.

Yes, it should work with wet hair, though you might struggle with getting the elastic around your hair.

You don’t necessarily need it, it’s only if you want the hair to stay in place. You only need it if your hair doesn’t stay in place when it’s tied up.

You don’t need to; it’s optional. If you do want to use them, put not far from the elastic.

There is not much you can do with 4c hair, first wet it and detangle it, let dry (not so dry) and then make a bun.

A messy bun isn't supposed to be perfect. If it looks kind of casual it's fine. If your bun is really loose, just add bobby pins to the front, back, and sides for extra support.