A birthday do....for Liza Loo!

Today is my daughter's best friend's birthday! If you are a regular follower you will recognize her cute face! If not you can see her here...here...and now here! Today she Turns 8. So I would like to wish her a Happy 8th Birthday! My daughter slept over at her house and got to attend her birthday party and now today a couple of the girls get to go to a fun place called Kangaroo Zoo! I am so glad they are friends. You know how you don't always like your kids friends? Well I actually LOVE Lizzie:) So I feel lucky that they are friends!

She had her family party and I asked her mom ( and my good friend Dawn) if I could do her hair! I gave Lizzie a few choices and this is what she picked!

I started out by making a part from one ear to the other and pulling the hair forward.

Then I slipped the headband over the part. (see my other hairdo similar to this one)

I took a section of hair from both sides of the headband and pulled it up over the headband.

Then I took that piece of hair and tied it into a knot.

Next I clipped it down and out of the way with a barrette.

I did one more on the left and 2 more off to the right side.

After I took the barrettes out I hooked them all together in the back with an elastic.

I curled the hair out and tied a ribbon around the elastic.

Top View

Better View of the front

Side View

Back/Close-up

And of course...last but not least a front view. Happy Birthday you beautiful girl you! Hope all of your birthday Wishes come true.

Triple, Tripled braids

Before you check out today's hair-do make sure you check out my giveaway going on right now for some really adorable hair bows from Chic Clips!!!

This was a very simple hair style that doesn't take alot of know how to do. Not to mention tomorrow I will be posting Day-2 of this hair-do. Who doesn't love a hair-do that you can get 2 days out of?.............................Well I do anyways:)

First Start by parting the hair down behind her ear on both sides and pulling the rest into a ponytail.

Part out a section in the middle and pull out of the way.

Braid the remaining sections on both sides into 3 braids.

Next braid the 3 braids into 1 braid.

After you do this on both sides use the middle section to do the same thing.

Use all 3 braided braids and hook together in the back.

Cover the elastic with an accessory (this one is from All Things Ribbon) and curl the ends under.

Top View

Back/Side View

Side View

Front View with a sweet smile(I think this was a forced smile)!!!

Not Hair related, but I had to throw this picture in:) This is my Sugar Practicing her violin. Today was the very first day she got to hold her Bow AND her violin and use them together! We have been having alot of fun with practicing the last few weeks!

Simply Pulled Back with a Headband

So tons of people left comments about how they couldn't believe I could get my daughter to sit still for my hair-dos. Not all of them take that long, and some look like they would take longer than they do. I do have some easier do's posted in my archives, and for ease of finding the simple and fast ones, I have added a new label on the old styles as well as the new ones called: Fast and Easy. So those of you looking for something simple I DO have some of those... and will have more coming!

So Lizzie Bunny came over and I wanted to do her hair (meet Lizzie Bunny HERE) but didn't have alot of time and I still wanted it to be cute. So here is an easy 5 minute hair-do.

Start by parting the hair down to the middle of her ears on both sides.
Then pull the rest into a regular ol' ponytail.

Then I put the headband on covering the part. This Headband is from All Things Ribbon.com. Some of you have heard of it, but for those of you who haven't they have some really amazing hair things.

Next take the hair on one side and pull it back to the ponytail.

Wrap it around the base of the ponytail. Repeat on the other side.

Depending on how long the hair is you may need to wrap it more than once. For Lizzie bunny we did it twice. Hook the pieces underneath with a small elastic.

Back View

Side View

Top View/Front

Top View/Back

Thanks Lizzie Bunny!!! I love having you come over and being my guest model!!! You are beautiful:)

Slight Pigtail Variation

Once again I want to remind everyone of my giveaway going on HERE. Go check it out now to win a fun gift card to my daughters favorite store!!! The giveaway ends this Sunday.

Since my Giveaway is titled "A few of our favorite things" I thought this would be the perfect post. This is a very simple version of regular ol' piggy tails. Which just happen to be my daughter's very favorite style. Plain ol' Pigtails. Since I seem to have a problem with regular ol' things...I have changed it up just a little bit.

It still looks like very basic pigtails but with a slight variation. This way is fast and easy but we are both happy :) !!!

Part a small section out on both sides (like shown in the picture). Keep this section up front and out of the way.

While keeping the 2 sections out up front, part the hair down the middle and put in 2 regular pigtails.

Take the 2 parted out sections and pull them back over the hair holding in the pigtails. I combed it so it would be smooth.

Next take these 2 sections and do a simple shoelace knot by wrapping one strand around the other one and pulling tight.

Hook each end of the knot into the pigtail closest to it, using a new elastic.

Add some bling. Bows, Flowers, ribbon. Whatever suits your mood for the day. Curl the hair under and spray with hairspray.

That's that. Very simple pigtails with a slight variation. After all is said and done it adds maybe 1-2 minutes and to her looks exactly the same as the original variation.

Braided with two Braids

I really liked this. There was just something about it to me.

I felt a little bad when she was worried about riding her bike because the helmet would mess up her hair. You are obviously obsessed when your child is concerned about hair over play!

I just noticed I start alot of my hair-dos the same!!! Part the hair down the middle and then part out a small section up front from the part to the middle of her ear.

Then part a small section on the back side of the part like shown in the picture ( It really is true a picture is worth a thousand words... sometimes I can't seem to find the words that clearly explain what the picture does).

Braid both of the sections you parted out. tie them off with elastics. The middle will act as the middle strand of a braid.

Pretend like this is a regular braid by taking the two small braids and crossing them over each other in a X shape.

Then continue to braid them as you would any braid. Tie the end off with an elastic.

This is what it should look like. I then curled the ends under and tied a ribbon covering each elastic.

Back View.

Close-up/Side-View

The end result. Love it! But I love it all. Maybe it's all great ...or maybe SHE'S just great:).