Easy Updos with Fox & Boy Salon

If you’re like us, you left side ponytails the same place you left The Baby-Sitters Club and Debbie Gibson: the ’80s. Modernize the asymmetrical style in seven steps, with help from Heather Olexa of Fox & Boy in Manhattan.

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Easy Updos with Fox & Boy Salon

Generally speaking, if you ask for an updo at a salon, you risk transforming into Bayside High’s ’98 prom queen.

The safer alternative: a perfectly messy — yet elegant — side bun. In today’s video, stylist Julie Dickson, owner of Fox & Boy in NYC, breaks it down into four easy steps.

We love this look, because it’s simple for everyday wear and polished for fancy events. For more ideas, check out our how-to videos on jazzing up a ponytail, mastering the fresh-from-the-ocean look, and perfecting curls.

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Julie Dickson at Fox & Boy
Though most of her clients belong to the 25-to-35-year-old downtown set, Dickson’s lengthy experience at the UES’s swanky Minardi Salon and Soho’s Dop Dop make her an expert at prescribing the right style for just about anybody. “It’s about the entire aesthetic,” she says. “If a woman on Wall Street wants an ‘edgy’ cut, it’s an entirely different kind of edgy from someone working as a bartender on the Lower East Side.” At her one-year-old Nolita shop, Dickson’s sweet and sassy sensibility is reflected in everything from the colorful vintage aprons she dons to the rolling cocktail carts serving up magazines and cookies (and yes, sometimes booze, too). Cuts start at $100 for men, $100 for women. 280 Mulberry St between E Houston and Prince Sts (212-965-0369, foxandboy.com)

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She studied me for about thirty seconds and then said, "I think you should look like a folksinger who lives in the Village in the early '60s. Like someone who cut her hair herself." As it happened, that was exactly what I wanted, only I didn't know it. Later, when I went back for another cut, she amended the description to "A British schoolgirl who is having an affair with one of the Rolling Stones." Again: How did she know?

Granted, these are not the rarest of haircut ambitions (it's not like she somehow guessed my deep-seated desire to look like a Sun Belt mom who's having a midlife crisis, or a longshoreman after a long and difficult winter) but it's still impressive that she was able to size me up immediately. And her skills don't just apply to people who are obsessed with Mad Men; she keeps a preppy friend of mine looking like a natural redhead, and I have a curly-haired friend who loves her.

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After earning her chops at a handful of well-regarded salons—Dop Dop, Minardi, Beauty Parlour, and Blackstones—hairstylist Julie Dickson took her accrued clientele and opened this pretty, personalized spot in April 2009 (the name references a game of pretend played by her young daughter and son).

The salon combines the cool factor of her former downtown posts with an air of uptown polish: The four stations face antique mirrors, and dated music cabinets bear styling tools and vases of fresh flowers. Globe pendant lights hang above ornate French parlor chairs in the small waiting area, and the two shampoo sinks are shielded from the rest of the space by an elaborately tiled, curved wall.

Dickson uses Davines, Redken, and L'Oréal products, combining wet and dry cutting methods to observe the natural tendencies of the hair. She tailors her technique according to her diverse clientele, which includes students, stylishly rumpled men, and various downtown creative types. Though Dickson is adept at both classic and sharp, angled cuts, her particular talent lies in fine tresses, which she coaxes into full-bodied, textured styles. — Lauren Murrow