Backstage Beauty: How to Get the Windblown Topknot at Costello Tagliapietra

Pretty, right? So: Starting with dry hair, spray lots of root lifter right at the scalp (the stylist, Nelson Vercher, used Phytovolume Actif), then set hair in velcro rollers (so old-timey!). Let it sit until it's dried, then shake out the curls and tease it a little to bulk up the volume. Then...

Gather everything up to the crown of your head, brush it lightly tosmooth the top layer, twist hair into a high, loose knot, and securewith bobby pins. Then, in the continuing leitmotif of Fashion Week Fall2010 (or all Fashion Weeks, for that matter), blast it withhairspray--a ton of it. You can't find a better one than Elnet.

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