Easy Peasy Messy Bouf

Before I start this hairstyle I wanted to say a big huge Thank You to my followers and fellow bloggers for welcoming me back! I appreciate your comments

I included a bunch of pics today... Alex was really hammin' it up today;)

If you remember the last post, I did french braids along the top of her hair. This left super cute crimpy hair all over her head...
In fact this picture shows just what it looked like when I took the braids out... Lol, my own little Alex Einstein!
Anyway, I just made a little bump by teasing the front part from underneath. It didn't take much because the crimp had already added a lot of body.

I just used a little clip to hold the hair in back and another on the side to hold back her bangs.It turned out super cute! Becuase her hair is so short, I didn't have to do anything to the bottom. But for longer hair, you could put braids in the rest of the hair the night before and make sure they're wet. In the morning, all the hair will be nicely crimped.

This last one is my favorite of the bunch!

My goodness... too much sass for me;)

Teenage bun with diagonal braids & positive day

I have so enjoyed this week, To Cool For Hair has had show choir camp all week and has wanted her hair off of her neck! so we have done some really cute things... the only problem with 8am start times we haven't got a lot of pics :( but today we didn't start till 11:00 so I took pics for a tutorial! I did three diagonal french braids from the right side of her head to her left side. then I secured them with an elastic
then I did three diagonal braids from the right side to the left from the bottom to the top so the ends met at the same place and hooked both ends together, so I only have 3 ponys


Then I did my usual pin curl buns across the ponys, they kind of ended up on a diagonal from the right side down, I loved how this looked!

Here she is from the front!

from the top!

I was so excited and she loved it! she told me today I should change her name on my blog because she is definitely NOT to cool for her mom to do her hair! ahhhh, that made my day!

I was a day late on this

but I thought that it was a great idea! and with a happy teenager, a loving hubby and great kids! plus the fact that I don't have to do cub scouts till next week! what could be better! thanks dust bunny hostage for this great idea!

Three french braids and a new bow!

I spent yesterday calling Alex Fancy Nancy. Partly because she had dressed herself and even picked out the bow, but also because everything she saw was "fabulous!" ;)

For this 'do I just did three french braids in the top half of her hair and left the rest down. I did a super messy(lots of teasing) bun and added a big bow;) Voila! -Though, to be honest, if I did this one again, I would make the middle braid smaller...
We had a craft show mid July at our church and I made a crazy number of new bows'n'such. So, Alex has been wearing a new bow everyday. This pair is her favorite so far(she's only wearing one of them)!

Oh, and I had to show off her style! Sorry for the blurriness, btw, I am using only my telephoto because my regular lens was broken at the Gorilla exhibit at our Zoo--yeah, that's another story! Anywho, she is wearing some pink capris under the dress.

And this last one, hahaha! She has been trying to perfect this over-the-shoulder look for some time! Thanks Jenn over at Girly Do's, you inspire my daughter. Well, Beans does anyway! ;)

And that's my cutie pie!

pigtails with spice, and braids

I get so sick of the same thing so my brain says braid something and I do!

Part out the hair in front of the ears and then put the back hair into piggies
section out 2 sideways pieces and dutch braid them back, here is braid #1


braid #2

pull them both into the pigtail that makes a nice diagonal line

then I did her pigtails up into little buns! here is how I do buns http://chic-clipshair.blogspot.com/2009/05/crown.html totally easy and fun!

from the front before bows

tada! bows and all!

Back from Hiatus... with a new pixie cut!

Okay, so, this is the last real 'do we did before her new cut. Actually, I was sad after I cut her hair the first time. I think because it was just shorter, but I hadn't given her a style or anything. Anyway, this is just a french twist braid... something I've done a zillion times;)

And here is the top view, pretty style!
Okay, here it is! The first look at Alex's new pixie look. Now she has some sass to go with her... well, sass! ;)

This is the best one I could find to show how I fixed it. Since her hair was wet after we had finished cutting it, I blowed dried it gently for a few minutes. Next I took a 1" curling iron and flipped out the ends slightly. This took about a minute.

Next I just did a random zigzagish part and added a clip to keep her bangs back. No product or anything, so this got a little smooshed in the car, but it bounced back. This last picture is about and hour after we arrived at our destination...

Yep, pretty stinkin' cute!

;)

free bows again!

Lets just call this talking Tuesday! I pulled a all nighter with a really good friend who owns sticheroo's the worlds cutest custom embroidery store! if you haven't seen her stuff you should definitely check it out! She has great prices. http://www.stitcheroos.com/ due to the fact that my brain isn't working and I don't know if I can tell you how to do hair I thought I would let you know about my Face book giveaway all you have to do is go be a fan of my face book page and leave my a couple of comments! totally easy and you could win a pigtail set of bows free and clear! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/chic-clips/87254607742
hope y'all can win!

how to bleach tips for a boy!

My little monkey man is a crazy hair obsessed little man, He loves his hair just so and since he was three he wanted his hair tipped! I flat out refused until he turned 5, I thought he would forget, but forget he would not! Then I refused to pay 30 bucks for him to get tips so I ran to my favorite store ever Sally's Hair Supply! and they had this set for 7 bucks! The instructions say to mix it all at once but I only do about a tablespoon at a time! The one kit and I do about 7 or 8 tip jobs! all the neighborhood boys have it done! so you mix the stuff one part to one part really easy.

then you spike up all the hair and brush just the tips, told you it was easy and way to easy to pay 30 dollars!

Here he is happy as a clam and all bleached up!

Now his favorite part! he gets to sit and play video games for 1 hour!
tada! tips and a happy little boy!

short hair do #1

Here is a hair do that I have done a couple of times on the little princess since she has cut her hair short! so I parted out the front section, due to the fact that we lost all of our hairdoing clips on vacation I am using elastics!
Then I hooked the sides back so that my parts would still be straight when I braided her hair.

braided the hair pulling strands only from the front so the braid would stand up on one edge. this is also a dutch french braid which helps it pop up.

still braiding

took out the extra elastics, combed the back smooth, and your done

pony tail with braids just for fun

What kind of hair should we do, a ponytail? Never! unless we spice it up a bit! we started by parting the hair from ear to ear and then parting that section on a dramatic diagonal part. Combed smooth and hair sprayed and then braided back one of the sections
combed, hairspray braid again!

this pic shows the part really good. then I just combed all the loose hair into a low pony and hooked the braids in with an elastic! really easy but a little bit fun!

back, before it has been "bowed"

from the front with some cheese!

with a bow! we love the Jonas Brothers! these bows will be on chic-clips next week

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeazy

so Remember to enter both of the great giveaways that end this week!
http://frugalmommyof2girls.blogspot.com/2009/07/chic-clips-giveaway.html and http://sugarandspiceandallhairnice.blogspot.com/2009/07/few-of-our-favorite-thingssummer.html
on with the hair
So... Today I thought Easy. and I pulled out this hairdo from the dark recesses of my mind, It I am sure has been done before and possibly blogged about! If you have done this do, by all means let me know! I can't remember where we originally saw this one! (oh I forgot to mention, the little princess did not get hair extensions, I have a few more long hair pics of her!)

so, I started out by parting the hair into four sections and braiding the hair, I put pomade in the hair first to reduce frizzies on the braids

Then, I crossed the braids and hooked the bottoms together like this It kind of makes 2 Vs


from the front, I love this hair it looks simple and classic from the front

and a little sassy in the back, with a pair of our favorite korkers!