Braided Wrap Around Piggies

Every year, my husband's family has a tradition to do a "tea party" with all the aunts, moms, daughter, granddaughters. They do a theme & this year it was cowgirls - to celebrate grandpa who was a rancher out on the Arizona strip.

You can't go to the cowgirl tea party unless you are dressed in your best apparel. Adde & her cousins got cute little red cowboy hats to wear too - so I thought it would be cute to have little curly piggies hanging out - but I can't just do pig tails. Here's what I came up with:

Put the hair into pigtails (or a pony tail) & braid a piece from UNDERneath the pigtail.

Wrap the braid around the pig tail (I wrapped it twice & made sure the last wrap was under the pigtail - but you could just wrap it once if your braid was wide enough). Tie it off with a clear elastic. You can see the elastic here in this picture, so just pull the braid gently over the elastic so it's not showing. Unbraid up to the elastic or what is left so it is now part of the pig tail. Do it to both sides.

I curled her pigtails & topped it off with a red cowgirl hat & it turned out darling!!

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Puff Braids

I thought this one was pretty self-explanatory, so I didn't take a million pictures like all my other posts. This would also work on a girl who doesn't have much hair, or her hair is really short.
The best way to do this is when the hair is slightly damp. I parted it on the side, trying to keep the elastics as even as possible.
I curled her hair to finish it off.

People always ask how I get her curls to stay all day. The cue is "dirty" hair. We've all heard it before. But since I bathe her in the mornings, I blow dry her hair, add polmade & curl it in sections (bottom, middle & top). Before I curl each section, I spray her hair with hair spray to make it "dirty". Then I curl away. I spray again once I've curled one section. Repeat with each section.

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Inside-Out French Braids

(If you don't know how to do this french braid, remember you can click on the utube link that I provided for a demo.)

Start by parting the hair straight down the middle. Like always, I clip the side I am not working on out of the way.

Braid away. I like to go down a little further, just to make sure I get all the hair in.

Do the other side now & put an elastic in about the same place.

Then, bring the braids together (I always cross mine, they look nicer) & put an elastic in. Take the other elastics out & unbraid up to the new elastic. Put another elastic in but don't pull the hair all the way through this time. My daughter has a natural curl so it automatically goes over the pony tail with a little help of hair spray. If your daughter's is not like this, you could do a quick curl to make it stay over the pony.

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Top Knots

Okay, so she kinda looks like a geisha. LOL. Oh well - we'll bring an asian theme to our do today.

Section the hair into 3 different sections. The left side, middle & right side. I like to clip the left & right sides out of the way, so I am only working on one section at a time. I start with the middle section & part near the bottom & clip the rest up. Put that part into an elastic.

Make your way up, doing the puff braid & put your next elastic in. I had a picture for this but accidentally deleted it, but you will see in the next picture.

So, do your third elastic & this is what it looks like. Leave the top & do the same things to the side, with the parts all matching.

Wrap the hair on top into little buns & holding with an elastic. I added the same ric-rac that I used last week

front view

back view

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For those of you who have never round brushed before...

...here's a little mini lesson for you. It was hard without having someone else take pictures, so I'll try to explain the best I can.


Brush the hair & part it. Blow dry it until it is ALMOST dry. Don't dry it all the way.
I round brush her hair in 3 sections:bottom, middle & top layers. I start at the bottom & clip the rest up, as shown in the picture. I like to take the blow dryer to it again just before I start round brushing to make it a little more dry.
Start closest to the head & make your way down, with the blow dryer following (obviously couldn't show you the blow dryer because I don't have 3 hands)

Do this all around the bottom layer until it is completely dry.

Let the middle section down & clip the top up. Begin round brushing this layer until it is completely dry.

Finally, let the top layer down, or all of the hair, & round brush it until all of the hair has been round brushed & is totally dry now.

I like to add a little polmade & you are finished. You don't need a curling iron to curl the ends. By round brushing, it gives the hair volume & curls it.

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These are a few pictures that people have sent me...

...and look how darling they all turned out:

This is Ellie's darling dos

& Kyla's (from Kyla's creations)

Her mom is starting to get really creative & this is what she's come up with!!

& last but not least: Rachel's darling little girl, who is starting to get longer hair to try things out. It shows you can do these things on every little girl.

Thanks, moms, for sending these in. If you want to yours posted too, send me picture via email, so we can all see what you've come up with.

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Zig-zag into a Curly Pony

Make sure her hair is damp. Do a zig-zag part, adding elastics along the way.

Pull the remainder of the hair into a pony tail.

Spray the hair before you start so the curls hold better. Curl away. I used a curling iron this time. After you are done curling, make sure you spray the curls to really keep the curl all day.

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