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MET BALL 2014: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen How-Tos

Celebrity Hair stylist Mark Townsend shares how he styled Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for the 2014 Met Ball, where they were nominees for Accessories Designer of the Year.

Lauren Quick
Lauren QuickContributor
May 6, 2014
1 min to read


Celebrity Stylist Mark Townsend shares how he styled Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for the 2014 Met Ball, where they were nominees for Accessories Designer of the Year.

Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen attend the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

GET THE LOOK: MARY-KATE

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Inspiration: Classic-yet-modern, vintage Ferre dress

Styling: Take hair and pull into a low bun. Secure with a few bobby pins throughout the bun.

Fun fact: Mary-Kate usually asks Mark only to use five or fewer hairpins, but for the Met Gala, she let him use 10!


GET THE LOOK: ASHLEY

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Inspiration: Vintage Chanel; sleek, shiny and effortlessly chic

Styling:
STEP 1: Add a few drops of oil treatment to damp hair and blow-dry with a round brush.
STEP 2: Gather hair into a low ponytail and secure with an elastic.
STEP 3: To keep ponytail sleek, spray Oribe Soft Lacquer hairspray on a reusable mascara wand and run through the hair on the hairline and above the ears.
STEP 4: For added shine, spray a smoothing finishing spray on hair and through the ponytail.

Fun fact: To add contrast to Ashley's blonde locks, Ashley came up with the idea to tie a velvet ribbon around the base of the ponytail.

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