Wedding Updo Full of Highlighted Messy Curls

Messy wedding hairstyles are perhaps the least popular styles, because weddings are such formal events. But "messy" can work and in fact it can also be elegant. It's the chaos-organization paradox.

This lovely bride's hair is full of the chaos of curls, but organized into a quite reasonable amount of space. It's messy, but not really huge. It's not looking messy like she just got out of bed. It's "stylish messy"—deliberately.

Really refined piecy curls such as these can take quite some time to style. You definitely want to take the time to make sure it doesn't seem sloppy or unkempt.

And in the final look, even though the hairstyle does seem somewhat messy, it clearly looks as if the bride's hair was specially done for her wedding.

If it still looks too messy for you, you can tone it down with thicker pieces, or not so many pieces.

Also, note that the highlights contribute to the messy look, making it more pronounced, so you could tone it down even more by avoiding highlighting.