Criss-Cross Head Band

If I wasn't lazy & in a hurry today, I would have kept her hair straight. But it went up today - which still turned out cute.

Start by parting the hair on the natural side. Then part the hair from the part, down toward the ear. Now, part the hair into squares on each side & add two elastics on each side of the part.

Part the next row of elastics & the exact same way. Make sure you put your elastics right behind the one in front of it. Criss cross only each side of the part (not across the side part. Make sense? Look at the first picture if not).

Pull it all together into a pony tail. I didn't pull the pony all the way through.

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Happy 24th!!

First off, love the closed eyes. We wanted to be festive for the 24th with her cute head band, but I also wanted her hair up & out of her face because of how hot it has been.

Part the hair on the natural side. French braid each side, just half way.

Criss-cross the braids and put them into pigtails.

Do your messy buns. For these - I looped her hair & pinned it & with the last piece, I wrapped it around the middle & pinned it.
That's all there is to it.

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KnoTs & WhaT KnoT

Knots, knots & more knots.

Part the hair a little more off to the side than you normally would, because there is only one line, it looks better. Gel damp hair. It's easier to knot the hair if you start by twisting the piece you are going to knot.

Wrap the hair to tie it into a knot.

Pull the knot tight & twist the next knot, adding the previous knot into it. Tie your second knot.

After I knotted the hair twice, I pinned it so I could work with the rest of the hair & pull it into a slight side pony tail. Then I took the bobby pin out after it was all pulled back.

After the hair was into a pony, I split the hair in half but I made the halves very uneven, with one large piece & one small piece. Tie the hair into a knot, right over left & pull it tight. Now, see the smaller piece of the two ends? Wrap that around the pony tail.
I put an elastic in place to hold the wrap around, but kinda hid it with the hair.

Although it looks like alot of steps, it really is so easy & all I needed was 2 elastics for it!! Pretty good, right?

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Side Pony Twists

This makes Adde look like she has more hair than what she really does.

So start with your side pony tail.

Do twist braids all around. To do a TWIST braid: Grab the section that you want included in the twist. Split it in half & twist each half (like in picture). I twist the right piece to the right & the left piece to the left.

Start wrapping around each other. You need to keep twisting each piece as you wrap around the hair though. This is what keeps the hair twisted.

There you go. I can never get a perfectly smooth pony. So after it's pulled up - spray it a little with hair spray & smooth it out with a comb. Works every time!!

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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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