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"  Prepare to look like the goddess you are in this gilded braided bun with a side of serious volume. Celebrity hairstylist Cash Lawless shows you the way.  1. Add thickening spray to your roots to amp up your texture. Spraying a thickening formula will not only boost the body in your hair, it will also provide grip so the braids stay tightly woven together. Model Zerita Hamilton used Tigi Bed Head Superstar Queen for a Day Thickening Spray. 2. Tease your hair at the crown and begin braiding.  Pull your hair half up and tease the section at the crown of your head with a rattail comb. Next, start braiding until you&amp;#039;ve reached the ends, and secure. 3. Create two pigtail braids with the remaining hair and lock them in place with elastic hair bands. 4. Wrap the center braid around itself and pin it into place with bobby pins. 5. Wind the lower right braid tightly around the first braid.  Do this counterclockwise and pin. 6. Take the lower left braid, wrap it around the braided bun clockwise, and pin. 7. Pull out some face-framing pieces of hair. And lock your look into place with a hair spray, like Oribe Superfine Hair Spray. 8. Bring a bejeweled circlet into the mix to take your updo to the next level. Zerita tied on one from Jennifer Behr.Now go Instagram the hell out of your super chic, short hairstyle, and tweet @Cosmopolitan with the hashtag #CosmoSexyHair. More Great Tutorials: Hair How-To: Beautiful French Braid Hair How-To: Double-Twisted Low Pony Hair How-To: Perfectly Undone Bun Follow Carly Cardellino on Facebook and Twitter. Photo credit: Kathleen Kamphausen "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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