Finally... a messy bun I can call my own!

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When I started doing this hair-do, this is not what I had envisioned. It was a completely different style! Yikes. Her hair was too thick to do the style I had imagined. I am going to save that style for another time and another model! So this is what I came up with instead. If you have been following me from the beginning you know I cannot do a messy bun very well. So stumbling upon this worked out perfectly!

Start by pulling most of the hair into a ponytail. I only left out a small section at the bottom.

Next I did a reverse pull through. Where I brought the hair up through a hole in the middle of the ponytail underneath the elastic.

It should look like this. I then proceeded to do the same thing 2 more times(2 more reverse pull throughs). This will vary depending on how long your daughter's hair is.

I braided the section at the bottom into 3 small braids.

Remove the original elastics and add all 3 braids into 1 common elastic.

So now you have this silly hair sticking up through the inside of the bun.

Take the braided section and pull it up through the same hole you did the pull-throughs through.

See how you have this section of hair that is coming up through the hole? Bobby pin it so it stays put. Fold it down over the bun and spray with Hairspray until it reaches it's desired shape.

I bought these cute hair pins from our local dance/ballet supplier. It's like an open ended bobby-pin with a flower jewel on the end.

Slide them into their desired location. Or place whatever kind of hair accessory you decided to use.

Underneath/Back View

Straight on back view

Front View with a side of super sweet!

Criss-Cross-Goulash!

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I am calling this hair-do Criss-Cross-Goulash because it had so much going on. I just couldn't decide what to name it. Isn't Goulash just a recipe with whatever you can find thrown in together? That's kind of what this hair-do is. It has French braids, criss cross ponytails and a messy bun all combined into one. Is this name dorky? If you have any suggestions on a better name, I more than welcome them:)

First I parted a section off to the side going down to her ears on both sides, then pulled the rest back to keep it out of the way.

Then I did a french braid on each side.

Next I made 3 small ponytails behind the french braid.

I made one more ponytail on each side adding the french braids into them. That makes a total of 5 directly behind the french braids.

Then I made 3 more small pony tails underneath the first ones.

I split the ponytails in 2 and added them to the ponytails off to the sides. Kind-of in a triangle shape.

See picture because I am horrible at trying to explain this part!!!

I made another 3 ponytails and repeated the above step.

See how the x in the middle is underneath the criss-crosses? This is how I like it to look, so when I criss-crossed the bottom row I started with the middle pieces.

At this point I just combined all of the hair and pulled it into a ponytail.

Instead of pulling her hair all the way through for a ponytail, I only pulled it half-way to give it this messy bun look. Then I added my accessory and hairspray.

Back View

Side View

Top View

And as always, my favorite View.....From the Front.

By the way....this was her on her last day of Kindergarten. Makes me want to cry again just thinking about it!

My version of a Messy Bun (Cheating)!!!

Okay...so I suck at messy buns. I am horrible at them, it is not one of my strong points. I have tried every way out there to make my messy buns look cute and not...well...messy. But, unfortunately they still look like I didn't even try to make them look nice. I know there are some of you out there who have mastered the messy/tousled look. So This video is my version of a messy bun. Okay, Okay, I know I cheated my way there, but that is just one more reason I like this way. It's fast. Super fast. I don't know how many of you work?!?! But I do, and some mornings I can't drag my butt out of bed. So we like fast and cute styles for those days.

We started this with a plain ol' ponytail and one of those fake hair scrunchies. We actually bought ours at Family Dollar, for $1. So it's a fast and cheap hair-do!



Okay, so the video's pics are not all that clear and it took too long to try and change the whole thing, so I just added 1 picture at the bottom of the finished product.