Pulled through and twisted out!

Yikes!!!!!! Where have the days gone? I feel like I have been working and practicing the violin with my daughter and nothing else! That means it's time to make time. Does that make any sense?

This is actually yesterday's hair-do. We had stopped at a little convenient store after violin lessons to let my daughter pick out a treat for practicing so hard this week. Not to mention she had such a great attitude about it and wanted to only work on the things she actually needed work on. Most of the time it seems like they want to take the easy way out...but she really wants to learn. She has done gymnastics and ballet and this is the first thing she has actually really loved:) She talks about it all the time and we practice 6 days a week. Well it was so cute, because we were standing next to 2 teenage girls and one of them said "that has to be one of the coolest hair-dos I've ever seen in my life". My daughter thought it was the coolest thing that TEENAGE girls liked her hair:)

We started with regular ol' piggy tails.

Next we did a pull through knot on each side.

Take the hair from the ponytail and split it into 2 pieces.

Using those 2 sections twist both sections out. (The left one left and the right one right.)

Twist until tight and hook with an elastic. We repeated this 2 more times. You may need more or less depending on how long your daughter's hair is.

We curled under the ends and added some hair things.

Close-up/Side View

Side View

Close-up from the front

An adorable front view! I think I just might die without her:)

For fun we threw in a picture of how her nails looked today!

Braided Ball Chains

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I hope you all had an amazing and relaxing fourth of July! We had SO much fun! It just happens to be one of my very favorite holidays! We didn't really do much in the world of hair though!

I wasn't really sure what to name this...so this is the name I came up with. This was a super easy hair-do and even my husband said he liked it. Which normally I have to sit and hound him and say "Don't you think her hair looks cute? It turned out So cute huh?" I swear he wouldn't even care if I didn't even brush it! Is my husband the only one like this?

I started with a zig-zag part down the middle.

Next I made a small ponytail from the part down to the back of her ear on each side.

Then I used the remaining hair and made pigtails on the bottom.

Using the top ponytails I made 2 braids in each and hooked them to the piggy tail underneath it.

Braid 4 braids in each piggy tail and hook them together with an elastic at the bottom.

Next I added 2 more elastics in the middle of the braids. Before adding the elastics I kinda poofed them out into a ball shape and then added the elastic so they would stay in this shape.

Back View

Side View

Top View from the back.

Top View from the front.

Very rarely do we not add any accessories, but she didn't want any in. She thought they would distract from her new earrings she got at the carnival! LOL How funny is that!?!?

I love this picture! It's my sweet little model!

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!

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:)