Thanksgiving

Today we started with four small ponies in the front of her hair.

Each of those ponies was then braided.

I then made two messy buns with the remaining hair, I added the braids to the buns.

I thought it would be fun to weave the four braids, so both braids on the LEFT went to the bun on the RIGHT.

Both braids from the RIGHT went to the bun on the LEFT.

However, when I brought them to the opposite side, I made sure I wove the braids under then over the braids theat crossed it path on the way to the bun (I hope that made sense)

I ended with two big flowers!

twists and braids

Today we did some twists and braids!

We started with two small piggies in the front of her hair.

We then added twists, if you dont know how to make twists with out having them unravel, here is the secret.

1. Divide the hair into two sections.
2.twist the sections in the same direction, for example take the section of hair and twist it to the LEFT. take the other section of hair and also twist it to the LEFT.
3. take both twisted sections of hair and twist them together going in the opposite direction. So take the two sections of hair that have been twisted to the LEFT and combine them together twisting the two sections to the RIGHT.

For some reason the opposite twists of the hair keep the twists from falling out, so you can easily do a twist instead of a braid.

I then had Joely hold the twisted hair while I prapared two piggie tails in the back with the remaining hair.

Before I added the elastic on the large piggie tail, I added the twisted hair from the mini piggie on the opposit side.

After doing this to both sides, I completed the piggies with braids. I liked the idea of combining the twists and braids instead of ending with twists. However, if you wanted to end with twists, I think it would look cute if you added three twists from each piggie tail!

hmmm

For some reason Joelys Blog is having a difficult time uploading pictures at this time, we have some more styles saved and we will post them as soon as we can upload the pic's easier!

Dorthy twist and messy bun

When ever I do this particular twist in Joely's hair I am always reminded of Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz.

I've wondered what this twist is called, but I have no idea. I do know it was easy and it stayed in great all day, sometimes we don't get so lucky.

Start with the hair parted down the middle and choose which side you want to begin with. I started with the right side, I began by taking the front section of the hair and divided it into two section, each time I twisted the hair I gathered a little more hair to add to it...like doing a french braid but only using two sections instead of three.

When I started doing the other side I made sure to secure the first side with a ponytail holder (that would later get removed)

When both sides were twisted I combinded them and made a messy bun then finished it with a large flower.

The other picture is of Joelys bracelet we made to match the outfit she was wearing... a girls gotta have her jewelry.... right?

Braided piggies

Okay, this one turned out better then I was expecting...I love when that happens!

We started out by doing a small section of hair in the front and we dramatically parted it on the left side.

We brought it over the right side and added an elastic (see front photo)
We got side part pony idea from one of her Brat's dolls. We take ideas anywhere we can!

Then we parted the remaining hair right down the middle and made two piggie tails. Add elastics. Make sure you add the hair from the little front pony into the right side piggie.

From the hair in each piggie tail I made 5 small braids and added small elastics to the bottom.

Finally, I took the braids and looped them up the top of the piggie and secured it with a streamer bow.

It turned out pretty cute!

mini cross over

Today we did an easy hairstyle, that I think just turned out super cute! I always like to add a little something extra instead of just doing a pony tail..so here is what we did today.

We made two little piggies in the front of her hair, and added elastics.

We then made two more little piggies directly behind the original two, before adding the next elastics though I added the hair from the opposit side- this way there was a little criss cross.

Finally I pulled up the remaining hair into a messy bun and added the cute little streamer bow we made last night!

Braided Climbers

I was so excited to come back home and do Joelys hair again, being in SLC with only boys doesn't allow for much creativity!

Today we did climbers.
Start with two little piggies at the base of the neck, attach elastics and braid.
Next add two more piggies above the first two, criss cross the braids to add to the piggies on the opposit side. Attach elastics, then brad again.
Then gather the remaining hair and bring to a pony tail at the crown of the head, add braids to the pony tail and add an elastic.
We then took a section of the hair from the ponytail, braided and wrapped it around the ponytail holder,securing it with bobypins to make a bun.
The remaining hair we braided at looped downwards securing it also with bobbypins, and we were done!

Gone for a few days

Joely is at a friends house for a few days while we are in SLC, so we wont post for a few days. I actually have some pictures on my camera, but the hair styles just didn't turn out well. I hate when the idea is so much better in my head. Oh well.

Hermione Granger

Joely was Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter for Halloween. So the night before we put her hair in braids, the next morning all we has to do is brush them out to give Haermione her frizzy hair...Looking cute sweetie!

Symphony 'up do'

These pictures were taken while waiting to go and see the symphony today! Mrs. Pays class had a fiedtrip today, so everyone had to dress in there Sunday best. We did this hair do loosly based on how we saw Emma hair last night at the ward Halloween party...Thanks for the idea Emma!
We started with two small puggies at the front of her hair, added elastics then braided.
Joelys held the braids while I prepared two more small piggies.
We crossed the braids to the opposit piggie and added another elastic.
We did this all one more time.
Then we ended by doing our final braids and brining them to the opposit side to a messy bun with the remaining hair for that side.
Add two cute and rather large hot pink flowers a we were done!

Elastic lovin' hair

On this hair style we took a section of her hair in the front (it was dramatically parted on the side) and added a little yellow elastic, then we added more elastics about every inch and a half down the ramaining piece of hair. After that we made a large ponytail with all the remaining hair added the 'elastic' strip of hair, and secured with our halloween ponytail (yup we wore it again today). We followed the same pattern of adding elastics down the remaining hair of the large ponytail. But try to keep the hair close to the neck when adding the elastics to avoid looking like pippy longstocking with her her going staright out. The pontail will however stick out away from the head a bit, I just wanted to tame it the best I could!

Aubreys Princess hair

Aubrey slept over again (her new little sister was born yesterday) So today we made her look like a princess. We did two little piggies at the front of her head, then combined those into two other little piggies (ie. puffy braids). We did the very same thing at the base of her neck. Starting with two little piggies and combined them with two other piggies. (when piggies are at the base of the neck and move up they are called climbers) we then took the four little piggies and combined them with the remaining hair at the crown of her head and added an elastic....now the part that really made her a princess is the bow we made her today, we made a streamer bow (I explained how to make those on an earlier post). we did a braid with the ponytail, wraped it around to make a bun and secured it with her new princess bow, and of course all princess' need glitter gel hairspray to top it all off!

Easy Halloween do

This is the easy stanby hair do. Two larger piggies in the front pulled back to a large ponytail with all the hair. The important thing today was that we got this really cute halloween hair tie yesterday at the Childrens Place, it has little candy corns on it....so cute. Needless to say we couldn't pass it up, so today we just had to do something where you would see the new hair tie!

Ring around the ponies

Today we added little ponies all the way around her head, I think it's easiest to do four in the front then two in the very back. Finally I add a little pony on each side by her ear to connect them all together. We then took the remaining hair at the crown of her head, made a large ponytail and twisted the hair fron each little pony to add to the large pony. We secured that with an elastic then made a bun and put our streamer bow in. Streamer bows are SO easy to make, we made this to match this shirt, just find ribbion to match which ever outfit you have (we made some of our ribbon into corker ribbon). Next cut the ribbon to desired length, each of ours is 5-6 inches, Finally you tie the ribbon onto a ponytail holder, only going around about half way. These are the eaiest bows to make and look really cute with buns! PS. She also has on the necklace to match this shirt. :)

Sunday messy buns

What a cutie! Joely had her hair in four little ponies in the front of her hair with matching elastics, then pulled into two messy buns. This was so quick and easy, which was good because I had meetings at the church today and Joel is out of town, so I have to quickly get the kids all ready for church. She wanted to wear her two big blue flowers that we made, I know the don't perfectly match, but she never really gets a chance to wear them. She also wanted me to take a picture of the necklace she was wearing because it was a pecfect match to her dress. I know it's silly but we actually make a lot of bows and jewlery to match each school outfit that she has...hey we are having fun doing it so that makes it not so odd....right?

Aubreys hair

Yeah Aubrey spent the night on Friday night. Joely and I were so excited to do her hair and add it to the bog, in fact when she came on Friday I quickly grabbed some ribbon and my glue gun so I could make her a matching bow for her outfit that day. We new we could get two cute hair do's in, but Aubrey had other plans! Once I finished her 'Friday' bows she refused to let me even touch her hair...what a bummer. But alas, there was still Saturaday, unfortunatly I never got a great picture of her hair. Here's what we did. Started with two little piggies on top of her head, I then braided the hair from those piggies and had Aubrey hold the braids. Then I made two low piggies in the back of her hair, added the braids and added an elastic to hold it in place. Then I took each of those piggies and braided them, then looped them back up added another elasctic and two cute pink corker bows. Oh yeah and as for the pictures I am always taking vertical pictures, but unfortuantly the blog wont let me rotate them!

Twisted smocking

This is a cute smocking hair do we did. We sectioned the front of the hair into four sections and added matching rubber bands, then we twisted the hair and brought it down to two other little ponies. We kept one of the twisted sections from the left and added a twisted section from the right for the left side mini pony. We then did the exact oppsite for the little pony on the right. We then took both those mini ponies and added it to a big messy bun with all the rest of her hair. We were in Cedar all day and playing around, and by the end of the day it still looked great!

Red Shirt Friday hairstyle

Here is our easy hairdo for Red Shirt day. We made this cute little streamer bow to match her shirt (we have other bows we have also made for red shirt day too). Joely is really excited to have her own blog, I think it will be something fun for us to do together. But I should warn you if you want a spectaclular new hairdo for your little girl, I'm not the mom for it! :) We just love to make hairbows together and try to find new things to do with her THIN hair.