Bound-Up Puffy Braid

Another one from Evelyn!

I didn't take step-by-step pictures because it's really simple and pretty self-explanitory, once you look at the picture.

I just did a puffy braid down the middle of my daughter's head, then, since she's got lots of little flyaways, I did a section on each side of the middle and criss-crossed them over the single section. I had two "x"s, but the second set is covered up by the bows. Oh, yeah, and after the second 'x', I just pulled the middle one in half, one for each side to make pigtails.

Criss Cross

Today was a BAD SIT STILL DAY.

BAD.

Rip my own hair out bad.

So um. This looks cruddy and uneven. But you get the idea. I wanted to go all the way down, but well..BAD SIT DAY.

Did I mention today was a not sitting so still day?

So you start with your first piggie and put a ribbon in there with it while you're wrapping the hair up. It's best if you find the middle of the ribbon and go over a little, but you should be able to tug it to adjust it after it's in.

So you bring it over to the other side and that's your beginning.

I decided to do four down her whole head (like I said, I stopped)..you could easily do this with two (I believe other hair blogs have done that) or other variations. So you just do your little ponies into ponies.

Just keep crossin.

Looked cute with four, decided to do it into two so I could have matching bows, then couldn't find said bows. I liked it both ways, but the two would've looked better with bows. Four seemed to stand alone well.

You could always leave the ribbon longer, curl the back..etc. I would've fixed it all up but um..our ceiling fell in yesterday, so we've been living in craziness. That's my excuse. Is it good enough? Am I out of trouble?

The "gwen"

Really, It reminded me so much of Gwen Stefani when I was done. My friend Jauna came up with this one on her cute Ky. Whenever I try Jauna's hairstyles they do NOT end up the same, as Ky has REALLY curly hair. Sophia's is SO stick straight. So I started with Jauna's idea, and had to finish differently.

Kyleigh

I parted in the middle first

Then down the side

I did three up. Jauna did two.

Then The hair that's left on top made a 4th for me (made a third for Jauna's)

Without the fourth ones

With the final ones in.

Worked for Jauna and Ky to leave it, not so much on Sophia.

So we folded them forward and made loops

Added some bows

Zig Zags

I laid awake one night and thought of this. Wasn't sure if I'd seen it, looked, couldn't find it. Planned on doing it..two days later the lovely lady of She Does Hair did it. hahahah

So I'm finally getting around to doing it myself. I need practice. It's horribly apparent (in a rush too..the parts are awful LOL). But it's DO ABLE on her thin/short hair so I'm excited.

Do a top part all the way across her hair and put a pony on one side

Then do another part all the way across and pony it off to the other side..Then repeat. It works well to get your part all combed and nice looking BEFORE adding the previous ponytail.

Thin hair 'french braid'

It's not at all a french braid, lemme put that out there. I have TRIED and TRIED to do one, but with her hair being so thin, straight and fine I can NOT get it to work. I've done this one before, and I KNOW probably everyone on the other hair blogs has as well. Let's just say it's the 'poor hair man's' version of a french braid. I really wanted to do them with this shirt and figured this was a close second.

This one is way easy to do, way easy to customize. Works with a headband.

Works with two bows..and it would work with bows at every rubber band (if you had them). Also probably be adorable with 'rag bows'..(tear some short strips of fabric, tie them around and leave them just in a knot)

I got an email from Jamie who has two CUTE hair challenged girls. The younger, Kassie, has thin and curly hair. This worked in her hair perfectly! In fact, Jamie has twisted them which is way cute. I've tried this with a ribbon but keep failing, I'll keep trying haha.

Pony Headband

This is similar to a couple headbands I've seen on all the other amazing ladies' blogs. Some of them have done braids, some knots so I'm sure some have done these. I was just so excited to see that they worked on Sophia!

Next time I'll make them smaller so it's more headband like..but it was a good first try! Also a tip, leave some hair at the end by the ear so it looks more natural..don't grab it all like I did. (I think this has to do with the fact that it's short and thin hair? It looks fine on longer hair to grab it all which is why I did..) That's the second thing I'll change next time ;)

Part from ear to ear and keeping the hair wet, pull each pony into the next all the way across.

Pouting is necessary when taking pictures.

Yet again the best face shot I could get. Ugh.

Also, I decided to change the post before this one's title. I had a lot of emails about it and a few comments that it actually would work well for a lot of girls...ok and I ended up liking it after a few hours. So "Meh" no longer. It has a name now haha

Snake ponies

This was just gonna be the front row of bands but it was irritating her with the pony being so close to her face so I wound it back around. The last one isn't even, it's further down on her head to allow for a bow (so you can still see the middle band..it made the bow even with that end band..the illusion of being 'even')

Anyway, I do like it for the off the face factor (ok she likes it for that reason hah). I figured I'd post it in case it sparks some ideas in you. It gave me a few ideas for how I could improve on it and I may try it in a couple days.