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:)

Partial French Braided Piggy-Tails

This is my niece Kaia! It was fun to do her hair! She was laughing almost the whole time!!! She said I was making funny faces every time I took a picture of her. Who knows....I probably was. She is just not use to someone taking her picture while doing her hair!!!

It is quite different when you are doing someones hair that is SO different from the hair you are use to. Ya know?

I started with a part slightly to one side. Whichever you prefer works best.

Then I made a small part on one side down to her ear, and braided about 1/2 an inch.

Then I took a small piece of hair on one side and added it to the braid.

Then I did the same thing on the other side. Notice I am only using small sections from the sides and leaving the rest down?!?! Does this make sense?

I did this one more time adding 1 more piece from each side.

I repeated this on both sides of her head, then tied those pieces off with an elastic. Then I took the rest of the hair that was left down and parted it in 2.

I made 2 regular piggy tails with this hair.

Next I took one of the braids and twisted in towards the other side of her head.

Connect the twisted piece to the piggy tail on the opposite side of her head.

Repeat the same thing on the other side.

Add your Hair Bling...or hair accessories to the piggy-tails to cover up the elastics!

Back View

Close-up of the top/side view

Side view with some perspective.

And as always I like to end with a front view. Hopefully she will come back soon so I can do her hair again....I'm thinking sleepover:)

Braided Ponytails...and a new Model!!!

I am going to start off this post and tell you about this beautiful model we have here today!!! This is Lizzie. AKA Lizzie Bunny, Liza Loo, Liza Moo, Liza Loo Moo, Or if you want you can call her by her actual name....Eliza.

She just happens to be my oldest daughter's bestest friend. She lives 30 seconds away. They are always saying that they are sisters and not best friends. We love to have her over....and I LOVE TO DO HER HAIR!!!

Here is a beautiful picture of her standing on my front porch (after we did her hair).

First I started by making a large triangle shaped ponytail in the middle of her head.

Then I took the hair on the right side of the ponytail and pulled it covering the part.

Then I made that piece into a small ponytail next to the first one.

Next, I did the same thing on the left side of her head. Pulling it over to hide the part and making it into a small ponytail.

I skipped the step where I did the same thing with the hair underneath. So if you look closely at the picture there are 3 more ponytails underneath the first three. So there are a total of 6 ponytails.

Take the first 3 ponytails and start to braid them.

Continue braiding until you get to the next 3 ponytails.

At this point you want to add the left ponytail to the left strand of the braid, the middle ponytail to the middle strand of the braid, and the right ponytail to the right strand of the braid.

Continue braiding to the bottom and tie off with an elastic. Spray it with Hairspray. I am the queen of hairspray!!!

We only pulled the hair out of the elastic part way to give it a Spikey look. Then add whatever accessories you want to add.

And Voila! Thanks for being my model Lizzie!!! I'm sure we'll see you again soon.