It’s super easy to make your own glitter gel.

All you need is your favorite hair gel, glitter, a sealable container, and something to stir with. Squeeze a moderate amount of gel into the container, then grab glitter in your favorite color (classy gold for Angela), add in a good bit, and mix together. You’ll want the mixture to be mostly glitter; somewhat thick, not see-through. Play with different color combinations (see our iridescent combo) and glitter sizes for a little extra fun!

Then simply apply glitter gel to hair ends or entire strands. (Brittani double strand twisted Angela’s hair before she applied glitter gel to the ends and let it dry before pulling Andrea’s hair apart.) You decide how far up you want to go with the glitter! There’s no wrong way of giving your hair some glitter love.

Put your hair in a high ponytail and create a braid using extensions.

Add pre-colored track hair to the braid by wrapping the tracks around the braid, starting at the bottom of the braid and working your way up. Brittani used needle and thread to secure the tracks, but hair glue works as well (do not use hair glue on your real hair though!). Bobby pins help secure the tracks at the base of the ponytail. Brittani also used silver pipe cleaners to add some fun.

Use the mesh wrapping from a bag of lemons or fish net stockings as your stencil. Hold it tightly across the face and apply face paint of your choice (like Snazaroo or Mehron). Add 1-2 other colors of your choice at the bottom or top to add dimension.

 Brittani Irons and Zariane Nunez

Thank you to In the Master’s Hands Salon & Spa (inthemastershands.com; @hairartist_brittani) and Czar Cosmetics (@czarcosmetics)