Happy Thanksgiving! braided buns

Hey! Happy thanks giving! We had quite the crazy month but I am pretty proud that I got as much blogging done as I did! I am off to shop all night and then craft fair for the next two days but hey! I just thought that we would wish you a happy holiday and show you To Cool for Hairs holiday do.as you can see from the pics Baby Mermaid has an addition to her face!
Yep she got glasses! Here she is waiting for her turn to get her hair done!

so I just started putting in little dutch braids in her hair

every witch way no rhyme or reason

Here she is with her braiding done.

Then I pulled it into four ponys around the back of her head then I just put the ponys into pin curls and fixed them up the best I could. ( the stuffing and yams were in the oven so I had a few minutes to work!)

from the back

from the top

and there you go from the front all the way done (mom would have added a bow, or flower)
I am so thankful for wonderful kids, a awesome hubby that reminds me to slow down and not try to do everything, the best parents in the world, good friends, great friends and awesome followers! Thanks for following me on this wild ride called life!

Wide Hair Headband

For some reason lately I have been in a hair headband mood, so I did a wide triple head band on Baby Mermaid. I did a regular headband with her bangs, a dutch braid second and then a regular french braid last. so it was quite a bit wider than usual
Here it is all pulled together under her hair

hair combed out from the back

and from the front, I think we stuck a bow in after the pic, but sometimes believe it or not my kids will go to school without hair accessories! and remember to keep checking back for my very cool fabo giveaway!!!!!

Shorty cornrows

Here is a hair do for short hair

I parted out the front of the Little Princesses hair and split it into eight sections

I braided each section back in a dutch french braid (we call them cornrows) If I am wrong in calling them that feel free to tell me as I do not know what the difference is and I would love to!
Then I curled all of her hair under hairsprayed to my hearts content, and then I fluffed it up ( the picture does not do it justice is really was very pretty. I was going to fold the braided ends up and make fantails or Heart buns but the Little Princess said I was done! So I stoped

Here she is from the front

braids, headband blah blah blah!

So, today I had something else in mind totally but baby Mermaid did not get enough sleep and Kinda twigged so here goes. so I did a french braid that went across the front.
then I did a second row that was a dutch braid. here is where we deviated from plan

I took both the braids and hooked them under her long hair

stuck a bow in there and See ya! go bug your teacher!

braids,again

Today I was in the mood to braid so that is what we did! sorry these instructions are so vague, I was typing them while on hold on the phone! so please forgive me!

we did a dutch french braid parting the hair on the far right side!

Then we did a second braid only parting it on the left side.

Then we did a third braid, on the right side again, and then pulled the back into a high ponytail.

then we hooked the braids back into the pony!

add a bow,

and some Baby Mermaid cheese,

and, your done!

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!

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

Low Pig tails with a braided headband

A quick easy hairdo with low pigs and a couple of braids so we parted out 2 one inch sections of hair from ear to ear where we wanted the head band to lay. I did a dutch french braid so it would stick out a little bit.we braided one section from right to left and only took hair from the front side of the braid so it would sit back on the part!

Then I started the back braid from left from right, only pulling hair from the back so it would sit next to the first braid

Then I put the rest of the hair into low pigtails, with the braid that ended by that ear,

added bows of course, and you have one cute baby mermaid!
I wish I would have taken a finished pic from the top, I cant believe how cute it was and how many complements I got on this one!

funky summer pigtail bun

To Cool for Hair had to speak in church on Fathers day and she wanted me to do her hair! so I had to take advantage and do something special, yet grown up! so we took a square part on the top and then parted the rest into pigtails set fairly low in the back behind her ears. ( we didn't want the princess Lea look)

Then I parted the square diagonally and dutch french braided the sections.

Hear it is finished braiding, I wish I would have pulled both braids to one side but we pulled one to each pony and fastened with an elastic

Like So

Here we are putting in the funky bun, unlike the other buns I do where I wrap the hair all the way around my fingers, this one I just wrap the middle around my fingers once! then a pull the loop up and bobby pin it to her head.

Here is a pic of me putting in lots of bobby pins! Her hair is so straight and thick that I have to use tons of pins or they just pop out! I told her we should staple them to her scalp... Maybe that's why she doesn't like me to do her hair LOL
This is what makes it messy and funky is the tails sticking out every which way

here is one side after I got all the pin curls in

Back view before I curled it

And the back view

here she is from the front,