22 Eylül 2008 Pazartesi

Triple Twists

Sometimes I start doing their hair and I never quite know where I will end up. You can tell that is the case with this do.

I started by wetting her hair and parting it in a zig-zag down the middle.



I then took each side and pulled it up into high ponytails.



Unfortunately there aren't pictures of me twisting her hair into corkscrews, but that is what I did. I separated each ponytail into three sections about the same thickness. I smoothed some pomade on each section and split it in half. Then I twisted each half in the same direction while twisting them together the other direction. I repeated on each ponytail until I had three twists on each.



Then I took each corkscrew and pulled it up under the main elastic. IF I had known where I was going with this, I would have used clear elastics. She was playing soccer that day and I didn't want to chance the corkscrews coming undone and so the elastics needed to stay in place. Clear would have been much less noticeable.



It will look like this. I am not a fan of those ends.



So I took my flat iron and curled them towards myself.



Then I added her soccer ribbons. Which, by-the-way, we can't use anymore because they won't let us use metal. Whoops. Guess they will have to wear them when they go to pro soccer games on daddy-daughter dates. The also helped to push those out-of-control ends back.




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12 Eylül 2008 Cuma

Welcome SITS Readers



I am so extremely flattered! Heather from "The Secret is in the Sauce" picked me to be their featured blogger today! Thank you ladies!

Just a little about me...I am a creative person by nature. With three busy little ones running around, I don't have a whole lot of time to put into that part of myself in this season of my life. Sure, I dabble a bit now and then, so I take out my creativity on my daughter's heads. My husband refers to it as "hair art". I have so much fun talking to my daughters while I twist and contort their hair to whatever my hearts desire is that day. Just this morning I got a rundown of the entire third grade class at my daughters elementary school.

I want to thank all of you that have come to my little corner of the internet! Have a look around, make yourself at home, enter a contest!

11 Eylül 2008 Perşembe

What you can do with tiny French braids

I have this current fascination with French braids that have only been pulled from one side. For example: you start a normal French braid but instead of pulling hair from the right, you pull it under from the left and only add in on the left side. For styles like the one below, it makes the hair "POP" just a bit. LOVE THAT!

For this one, we parted her hair and I pulled the excess into a ponytail to keep it out of the way.

Braid each side down as far as it will go.

I am getting stingy with my elastics, so I held each braid with a clip while I finished the other side.

Pull the excess that you had in the ponytail out and wet it and smooth it into a low ponytail in your hand. Remove the clips and add to the ponytail.

Secure the ponytail with an elastic, but when you get to the last time you are going to pull it through, only pull it through halfway.

Tie a ribbon over the elastic.





For this one, follow the same directions to the part where you have each braid into a clip.

Remove the clips and hold each braid at the bottom.

Pull the two braids together tight across the hair.

Secure with an elastic.

Curl the hair with a flat iron or curling iron.

Add a ribbon.

If her hair is fine like this little ones, spray the hair to stay down.










P.S. I have a little something coming up on Friday...here's a little teaser.