Yay!! Side ponies are in!!

I'm so excited!! My sister, Tami, sent this to me. Someone actually tried something from this blog!! It turned out darling!! She's only sixteen months and look at all that hair. It looks darling how she did 2 rows of it, instead of just 1! If any of you try anything - please email them to me so I can post yours too!! I love to see how it turned out.

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I'm trying to do styles that you can wear with short hair too (Ashley's request:)

Part the hair down the middle. Rubberband each side.

Make three dividing parts in the second line. Don't forget to include the pieces of hair from the first line!

Last row, just do two parts, but include all of the 2nd rows pieces into this one (don't half it)

Just pull the hair 1/4 through the rubberband so that it's not too heavy on top.

Round brush the back, or make it curly.

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french twist band

I had to do this post in 2 uploads - so sorry if it seems confusing. It's one continuous post.

This would be really cute on short hair too. You also could do it on both sides to make it look more like a headband.







To french twist hair: Part the hair on the regular part. Then slice down toward the ear, parting the
hair on it's side. It doesn't show in this picture but you want to brush all the hair forward so it stays in a tight french twist.
Take a chunk out of the part & split it in half. Start twisting the hair & after each twist, pick up a small piece of hair from the right side (or if you are twisting on the left side, pick up a small piece of hair from the left) & twist again, pick up another piece & keep on going until you get where you want to be. (Just like picking up pieces in a french braid but only from one side)

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Go as far down as you want. Sometimes I like to go all the way down & then do the other side, so they connect underneath to make a full band. Wherever you stop, just tie off with a rubberband.
I put pink sponge curlers in her hair, but you could keep it straight, or even put it up in a pony. She does NOT like to sleep in the curler, so I just put them in when her hair is slightly damp. Keep them in for like 45 minutes (I put a blow dryer up to it & spray it just before I take them out) So now my pictures aren't showing, so just scroll back up to the top so you can see what it looks like in the end.

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Twisty Knots

I wish I had like five hands to show better pictures, so I hope I can explain this well enough for you to understand. You can do as many rows of the twisted knots as you want. This would look really cute also on a little girl that has short hair, instead of pulling it into pigtails, leave it all down & blow dry it. Do her hair wet with the ends a little damp. Gel each section as you divide it. Start the part in the very front, making a small rectangle shape with the part. I've found the less hair you have in the knot, the easier (& they look better). After you have this parted, split it in half.

Tie like you are going to tie a bow, right over left, but do not pull it all the way down. After, twist both of the loose ends until you can actually see the twist *This is the key: if you do not twist them, the knots will not stay.

After you have twisted each side of the loose ends, wrap EACH side once, one at time, through the whole (like you are doing a double knot). At this point, you still have not pulled the loose ends to knot it. If I don't make sense on this step, let me know.

Now you can pull each side down & this is the result.

Do as many rows as you want, starting the next section the exact same way.

If you wanted to keep it down, you could round brush or do big loose curls. Spray the knots for a stronger hold.

When she's playing hard, I like to pull it up out of her face, especially in this heat. If you want to do these kind of pigtails, just don't pull them through all the way. Pretty cute end result, right?

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twist down

This turns out really cute & is super easy!! You just twist down, merging all the pieces with it the whole way down (almost like a frenchbraid) but twisting the pieces together the same way.

Using the end of a tail comb, line up from the center of left eye to the center part. Slice upward. Working off that line, create an asymmetrical rectangle from the front right slicing all the way until it meets the left part.
I like to pull what is not going into the twist into a pony tail, so I do not include it at all in the twist.

Moving to the right front, grab a small section & overdirect it back & twist.

Take a similar section immediately below the first & merge it with the first twist & continue to twist to the back.

Work through the perimeter of the rectangle by pulling small sections above & below the original twists & including them into the twist. Continue until you reach the end of rectangle.

Secure it with a bobby pin.

So it's pretty simple. I kept the rest of the hair down & waved it, but you could pull it into a low ponytail too.

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side ponies are still in (right?)

I wanted to post this picture, because this was after swim lessons & then swimming at home for another hour or so & it still held up pretty good. I'm always trying to think of things, especially in the summer that will stay in all day long & I don't have to redo after playing, swimming or naptime. I think it stayed pretty good. The closer your rubberbands are, the better the hair will stay in, usually. You won't have to be fixing it thru out the whole day. I just parted her hair into thirds. Clipped the top & bottom so I could just work with middle. Then I sectioned her hair off adding rubberbands along the way, doing a zig-zag. At the end, I just combed it all over to one side and pulled it all together into a messy, side pony.

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