French women always look impeccable thanks to this elegant and easy-to-do updo.

This thing about looking beautiful and elegant updos is something that we have always liked, although we have to admit that those of us who are not so crafty, the famous ballerina bun or clean look is very good for us. And hey, flattering is very flattering and gives us that margin to play with the lifting effect, which after 40 always comes in handy.

But of course, when we see our dear French cousins-sisters with their undone buns, relaxed but absolutely perfect and elegant, even when buying bread, we can't help but want to emulate their hair style. To achieve this, there's nothing like soaking up some tutorials so that things don't go wrong and turn out just as we want.

Specifically, this updo we are talking about is known as the French twist. It is a bun that plays with the essence of the classic Italian bun, which is why it looks so elegant, only the French version is less polished and much more serene and casual.

To do it, we will take all the hair as if we were going to make a ponytail but without putting any elastic, we will only use our hands. While with one hand we hold all the hair, with the other we will pass two fingers over the ponytail and begin to twist it as if it were a churro. While we are doing the twist, we are raising the hair to form the elongated bun.

In this way, all the hair will remain curled inwards, which is the key to this updo. It doesn't matter that it's not perfect, because precisely the charm of this updo is that air of “it didn't take me long to do it and that's how ideal I look.”

Once we have the bun itself made, we will take a large bun hairpin (for a more invisible effect) or a French hairpin type skewer, and we will pass it through the inside of the bun that will have been left in the shape of a tube. In this way the updo will be perfectly fixed and the result will be impeccable.