Braided Bead Star

I know, I know.... another Fourth of July hairstyle. Are you getting sick of it yet? Don't worry the fourth is almost here and then I promise I'll move on to other things. For some reason It's so much fun coming up with hair-dos for holidays. If you didn't get to see the first ones see HERE and HERE.

For this hair-do you will need some red, white, and blue beads. Four pieces of pipe cleaner (we used red), and pipe cleaner is super cheap. Last but not least bows, or some Holiday flavored ribbon.

Start with a small section of hair in the front/middle of her head.

Do a pull-through knot.

Make 2 more small ponytails on each side of the first. Do a pull through in each of these as well.

Hopefully everyone knows what a pull through knot is. If not I am going to try and post some Hair basics in Video form, I just have to learn how first:)

Pull the hair from the 3 ponytails out of the way and then do some regular ol' piggy tails.

I took 2 pieces of pipe cleaner and pushed them through the underneath side of the pull through knot. Next I twisted about a 1/2 an inch of the pipe cleaner around itself (see picture above). Split the middle section into 2 pieces.

Make a braid using the pipe cleaner as 1 of the strands.

Each time before I braided the pipe cleaner into the hair I strung on 1 bead alternating the colors.

Secure the left section of the middle piece to the left piggy tail. Do the same thing on the right.

Now move to the outer sections of hair. Braid them using the same technique. Secure the bottom of the outer pieces with an elastic.

Next I took the outer braids and crossed them over to the opposite side piggy tail. Notice I weaved them under the already secured braids. Secure and add your bow or ribbon. I curled her piggy tails under and sprayed with hairspray.

Top View

Side View

Back View

Front View.

If you didn't notice this is one our favorite holidays, and all of these hair-dos are making us excited. Not to mention I get Friday off of work!!! Yeah a three day weekend, and some fireworks, what more could I ask for?

Sewn Stars and the Giveaway Winners!

Thanks to anyone who entered my Summer Giveaway "Part 2". I love reading peoples comments! I picked the winners through Random.org. Congrats to the winners, who are......

#91- Lisa and #99 Amber. Hey girls neither of you left contact info so I left comments on your blogs!!! Hopefully you get them. I need to hear from you with-in 48 hours or I will draw new winners! Thanks again and don't forget, there will be one more part to my summer giveaway and it WILL be hair-related. Not sure how soon it will be....but soon:)

Here is another idea for those of you feeling patriotic! This was pretty quick and it was cute....not my favorite in the whole world or anything but she really liked the stars! I have several other fourth of July styles, so sorry if you get sick of seeing them!

I'm sure many of you have seen these sock buns before, but for those of you who haven't I will explain how I did it. All you do is cut the tip of a sock off and roll it up like in the picture. Roll it up until you can't roll it anymore.

I did her hair is some high piggy tails and slipped the hole of the sock around each one.

Next, take the hair from the piggy tail and wrap it around the sock so it covers it.

To get it to stay I carefully slid a stretchy hair thing over it.

I sectioned off a piece of hair and clipped it out of the way. This piece will be needed to wrap around the base of the bun.

I used this plastic craft needle to thread some thin blue ribbon through.

I slid it under the elastic and tied a knot so the ribbon would not slip off.

Then I used the needle to start sewing a star.

Each time I crossed the ribbon over the bun I only sewed it underneath the elastic.

Once my star was formed I tied the ribbon in another knot around the elastic.

Using the sectioned off piece from earlier I twisted it and then wrapped it around the base of the bun bobby pinning it into place. Repeat on the other side. If you wanted you could always just do 1 bun to cut down on time.

Top View

Side View

Back view

Close-up

She looks like a little Princess Leah in this picture, don't you think?

Over the Ribbon Rainbow....

So If you haven't entered my fun Giveaway going on...Go check it out here!!! And if you have, I made a mistake and posted the wrong ending dates (sorry). I fixed them last night on the original post.

You'll need 4 different colors of Ribbon, some elastics and 2 bows!!!

I mentioned in one of my last posts how much it's been raining here. Well...thanks to the rain we have been lucky enough to see several brightly colored Rainbows over the last week at my house! Yeah! They have been beautiful. Well those rainbows and the fact that rainbows are one of her favorite things (does any little girl not like rainbows?) gave me this idea. It was just for fun, but she loved it!

First I started with an exaggerated part off to one side of her head. (after I wished the part would have been a little more exaggerated).

Then I parted out a large rectangle section (like in the picture)

I secured that piece on top of her head and pulled the rest of her hair into regular ol' piggy tails.

I used the hair that was secured on top and divided it into 4 sections and did a pull through knot in each one.

If you want to do this without one of these tools, stick your finger through the ponytail underneath the elastic and then flip the elastic through the hole you made with your finger and pull the ponytail through the hole? Does this make sense?

I did all the pull through's kind-of on an angle so the ponytails would be slanting toward the pig-tail on her left side.

Take a long piece of ribbon and slide it underneath the pull through.

Make sure the ribbon is even on both sides, then tie a knot in the ribbon.

For this step I just took the ribbon and wrapped it around the piece of hair.

Secure it to the pig-tail so the ribbon does not come unraveled. Do this with the remaining pieces of hair. We chose the 4 colors we did because they match the rainbow on the front of her shirt:)

After all four pieces were wrapped with ribbon I hooked them to the piggy tail with a clear elastic.

I cut some of the same ribbon and tied them around the other piggy tail so it would not be so plain. The big white bows are supposed to represent white puffy clouds! I curled under her piggy tails and also the ribbon pieces.

Left side view

Right side view

Top view

Front View

Whole body shot...because for some silly reason she wanted a picture with her scooter!!!

So a few of her favorite things...Rainbows. Check out our giveaway going on, and thanks for all the great comments so far. Some of them have really made me laugh!