Checkered Braids

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My Husband had surgery last Friday and I have been super busy trying to do all the stuff around the house AND take care of him this weekend. He is doing okay (nothing life threatening). I wanted to post this sooner but life just gets away with me sometimes! Too bad I have to work during the week!

This was pretty simple, and I love the way it turned out. When you do braids up front like this...the options are endless for the next day's hair-do.

Start by parting her hair on both sides down to the middle of her ear, and pull the rest back into a ponytail.

Section out 3 equal sections and then pull the middle one up and out of the way.

I braided 3 braids in the left section.

Then I braided 3 braids in the right section but only part way down.

I braided 4 in the middle section. Once again pulling these up and out of the way.

Take the top of the 3 braids on the left side and connect it to the top braid on the right side. Notice I connected them on the back/right side of her head?

Then braid this piece. Add the next braid down on each side into the middle piece. Repeat with the bottom braid on each side.

Grab the 4 braids from the middle section and weave them over and under the sideways braids,(alternating with each braid).

I slipped some decorative bobby pins down into the connection points of the connecting braid to cover the elastics. Curl the hair. I did half ringlets and half partial curls.

Top View

Side/Back View

Close-up of Back View

Side View

Front view.

Can you see my dying plants in the background. Maybe I should spend more time doing yard work and less time doing hair! LOL!

Crossed and Wrapped Braids

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Before I start this post I realized my pictures were not the best. If anyone wants me to provide better instructions e-mail me or leave a comment saying so and I will re-create it with a better step-by-step. Sorry and I hope it makes enough sense:)

This was done the day after this hair-do. Which made this go by super fast because the braids were left in from yesterday's do. Go check it out to see how this Hair-do originated.

I started with these 9 braids. She slept in them so they are a little frizzier than I would like but I am not about to re-do them either.

Pull the braids out of the way and clip them together.

Take the remaining hair and put it in a side ponytail.

Un-clip the braids.

I had 9 braids because they were left over from yesterday. But, if I were doing this for the first day and didn't already have the braids in, I would have done 10 braids so it would be even.
Start with the braid in the middle and grab the braid next to it. Wrap them around each other.

Then I grabbed the braid on the other side and did the same thing.

Do this with all of the braids. The pieces on the right side I hooked into her ponytail with an elastic. The second to last section I put an elastic in to hold it's shape. When you get to the last braid on the left side you will need to tie the braids in a knot.

After you tie the braids in a knot add an elastic at the bottom of it to keep it's shape.

Take these last 2 sections and tie them together in a knot.Then hook them into the ponytail.

See how on the right side I also put an elastic in the last section to hold it's shape?

Then I put her hair in a messy type of bun. Then I added my hair thing and it was done. The instructions make this seem like an extremely long hair-do, but it took me under 10 minutes.

Close-up of how the braids are wrapped around each other.

Back View with a messy hair thing!

Back/Side View

Front view!!!!!

I love doing this...if for nothing else all of the pictures I have taken of her cute smiling face!

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!

Three day weekend-do # 3

Okay so this is the third day I have left her hair in! I normally do not EVER leave it in this long and I made her shower that night. But we were busy doing stuff that weekend...so I let it go. I did hate washing her 3 day hair sprayed hair!!!

This is leftover from this hair-do (day 1) then this hair-do (day 2) Now this is day 3 of using the same base for the do's!

Check out this hair-do for the instructions to the first half.

Then I made the 2 twists in the bottom 2 sections and pulled it all back into 1 ponytail.

I curled it under and that was that! I hate when I forget to take a front view....but what do ya do?