Random Update

I rarely visit this old blog. Life flies by and kids grow up.  My Little Princess will be in high school next year... I started this journey when she was in first grade.  Now she does her own hair.  This was her beachy waves after her last haircut.  She styles her own hair but prefers a messy bun best of all.  She still lets me do her hair for our school's annual Daddy Daughter Dance.

My tiny bean is in Kindergarten already and is rock'n a pixie cut!  When I used to style it when it was longer, it would last 20 minutes tops before she ripped out the bands and bows.  Now she occasionally lets me put in a bow on the side or she'll throw a tiara in.  Most of the time we just wet and tousle it - easy-peasy!  You'll never see her without her suitcase of art supplies and high heels when I let her wear them.

My Little Bird/Sport is my Warrior Princess.  When she isn't working on her grades she is swimming, power lifting or playing water polo.  A few times a year she'll doll herself up.  She even lets me do her hair for homecoming and prom!  I'm going to miss her when she heads off to college.

Crazy Hair Day 2014

My girls don't let me play with their hair much these days, but today was a special event - Crazy Hair Day.  My princess is growing up!  She loves having short hair now, but before we get it cut into a chin length bob again, we were able to do this for our school's crazy hair day.  

Big sis flat our refused to let me touch her hair - she's newly become a teenager - enough said!  Baby sis was sad that I didn't make her hair crazy today when we left and her sitter came.  Her long fine curly hair tangles so easy - I wasn't ready to tackle it - especially when I needed to make mine a little crazy too.

Crazy Hair Day 2013

It's crazy hair day and with my two big girls and a busy toddler, that's nearly the only day I really get to be creative.  My princess wanted her hair braided into a bird's nest.  We added some eggs.  We were unable to find a small stuffed bird in the time we allowed ourselves so she choose her baby duck stuffed animal.  Silly but fun - thank goodness for Pinterest.

My big girl fussed while I just put a few ponies in.  I fear this will be the last crazy hair day for a while.  She won for her class - by default.  No one else did anything at all - those silly middle schoolers!

I went for a 80's Sara Jessica Parker look.  It took me forever to get those snarls out.  My hair does not like to be ratted!

Catching up after being MIA

Well it seems like it's been forever since I posted . . . going back to work after #3 has been busy, busy, busy and, well, I guess we've been in rather a rut.  My littest - Bean, has just grown her hair long enough for pigtails - a move up from the waterspout! 

 My middle princess, rarely wants me to tug at her hair any longer.  Once and a while I make her sit still and do something - usually it's just a set of messy buns.  I love the ones in this picture because they were really coming out of the buns in such a cute way!  We put some cute alligator clips in and a bobby pin or two and let it go how it wanted.

  Now Little Bird - now called Sport is heading toward her teens at lightening speed and is becoming much more interested in her beauty routine!  She's practicing doing some of her own do's, but lets me play as well. 

 We've gotten pretty good at the front frech braid headband and try new modifications all the time.  This one was inspired by a tutorial I saw on pinterest. http://pinterest.com/pin/201958364509898007/

I tried this three bun do on me, and although my hair is as long as I think it's ever been, it's much thinner than pre-kids and doesn't look anything like this!  I didn't get pictures and I won't try it again unless I add a hairpiece.

This picture doesn't actually show how long my hair is - but I like it.  My hair is highlighted and the texture has changed so that I can actually wear it down and it says out of my face now - I don't know if it's the highlighting or the gray hair. . . either way - it's a nice bonus!

Well hopefully I'll be back to post soon.  I'd like to try some styles I've discovered on pinterest and show off some of my new hairpieces - I even made one myself!

See you soon!

Hairpieces!

Princess donated about 17 inches of hair back at Christmas - yes, I know - a LONG time ago and I really did mean to blog about it. . . remember that baby;-)

For something special on her 8th birthday in June, she got to pick out a really fun hairpiece that matches beautifully and gives her a beautiful updo look. It's actually an adult hairpiece, on the expensive side, but it was her birthday present.  I love how it twists around her teeny tiny ponytail (sorry, NOT shown) and hangs in beautiful curls. 

Princess - being Princess - we had to add some bling AND color the the updo too.  It's a shame that you can't see the sparkle of the bling in the picture.  The color comes from a fun colorful ponytail wrap that we bought ages ago.  Tucked in, it looked so fun.

I love that even though she's got fairly short hair now, she still likes to do some fun and beautiful things with it.  I also love how fast hairpieces can turn a little girl into a diva!

She was definitely the hit at the restaurant - Panara Bread - her birthday dinner pick - at least it wasn't McDonalds!  I do love my little Princess!

Sunday Morning 'Dos

I'm feeling the pull to get back into hair blogging, even with the new baby AND the carpal tunnel - ouch! But last Sunday I did get in a little cuteness!

The Tiara

I borrowed this from a favorite website, Shaunell's Hair and it turned out great - not perfect, but lovely all the same. We even got a couple of days out of it, thanks to is being created with messy buns. I still don't have the hang of Shaunell's way of making stuffed buns, I still need lots of bobby pins, but it still looked lovely and my little princess was happy to show it off:

The Grecian: A Style for your "big" girls

Little Bird, my big girl, is in 5th grade now. She doesn't mind a french

braid and actually prefers a messy bun, but I really wanted a little variety that she wouldn't totally balk at. This was my solution. I created a simple headband followed by a messy bun.

Her hair is just long enough now to make the headband at the nape of the neck and the end tie into the big ponytail. Her hair is so incredibly thick that I find it challenging to secure it, but fortunately, there is a curl on the underside so we left a few tendrils hanging in semi ringlets. On school days I don't usually bother with bobby pins, they don't usually stay in her hair that well, but this morning I wanted to tame the messy bun some and about half of the pins stayed in the whole day. Still for a quick and easy style, I think it looks great on my big girl.

Training up a future Diva;-)

I began this blog when I had two girls and wanted to learn ways to make their hair fun and pretty. Along the way we gained another little girl and, well, we need to train her up right. . .

To begin with, she needs to know all about accessories! Although I don't have the photo proof, it started in the hospital. Then, as shown, continued at her 2 week photo shoot. . .

Headbands. . . followed by hats. . .

Cute. . . Pretty. . . Silly!

By the time her hair grows long enough to style, she'll be ready to rock and roll!

The Birthday Updo

The Princess loves an updo with the works! Usually we find ourselves doing a version of the flower bun and spiral ringlets. Getting a little bored, I like how the top of this do adds some fun.

We sectioned off the top and twisted them combining them into twist braids that we added to the ponytail we had already created. It's nice having a big collection of bands, we used a big one for the big ponytail and an elastic to secure the twist braids.

Then I only created the top of the flower bun, leaving the rest of the hair to hang long and then curl with the spiral curling iron. I like doing this occasionally so one can get a sense of how long her hair is. Someday she'll probably want to cut it, but hopefully that day is far, far away. Meanwhile, she loves having long hair!

This was the perfect 'do for a special outing to "Build-a-Bear" and then to the Melting Pot for a chocolate dessert! Yum!

Daddy Daughter Dance

These pictures are from last May and I'm finally posting them:

Little Bird was actually very cooperative. We washed and dried her very thick hair, using a round brush to straighten it and put a curl at the end. It has natural curls on the underside and can be very unruly. After pulling it back into small ponytails we put some curls in using the spiral curing iron.

Princess wanted a fancy updo - of course! We pulled it back into a ponytail. Then we put most of it up into a flower bun. The remaining hair and ends from the flower bun were curled with the spiral curling iron. The tiara and flower were the finishing touches. The flower made it through the night, the tiara did not!

Just for kicks I thought I'd share our little Dancing Queen doing her thing! We've always said she dances to the tune of her own orchestra.

School Dayz!

I'm really impressed with this morning! It was the first day of school and the Baby Bean was only 7 days old!

Little Bird wasn't very happy with her hair and I don't know if I'll be able to capture it again to show it better. It looked great though! She had two french bumpy braids each going across the top of her head. I gathered each french bumpy braid into a ponytail and then created a messy bun. I loved the symmetry of it. Little Bird prefers ONE french bumpy braid and ONE messy bun!


The Princess's bumpy braid is so tiny compared to her sisters. The girl's hair is so very different! It's much thinner. I braided it into the pony tail just on one side. Then I made twisty braids. Sometimes we turn this style into buns for swimming, but not today!

Baby Bean doesn't have enough hair . . . yet! For the time being, I'm trying to get her used to hats and headbands!

The Multi-Purpose/Swimming 'Do

My Princess has long hair. Not especially thick, but it grows like crazy. We cut almost 8 inches in February and now it's back to almost at her waist. Windy days and trip to the pool. . . and of course summer lake swimming demanded a cute 'do that would keep her hair under control!

We ended up with this style more often than not the whole summer and have used it for fall trips to the pool as well!

Why I've been MIA

Crazy Hair Day at School

The Princess:
So I’m beginning to get over the worst of the morning sickness, just barely. But today’s occasion called for me to do something fun. Today was “Crazy Hair Day” at school. On top of the morning sickness, I had a 7:00 a.m. staff meeting as well. Usually we don’t have to all be to school until 8:00 a.m.

Last night to prep, I sectioned my princess’s hair into ponytails all over her head. Then I threaded glittery gold pipe cleaners into the pony tails and braided them into the hair. I left the hair at the end to twist and hang with the ends of the pipe cleaners which I twisted into little spirals. Then she was off to bed. It took her a little while to find a comfortable position to sleep, but she finally managed it.
This morning her daddy brought her to school a little early. She and her sister arranged her braids and then I added a few flowers and an extra pipe cleaner. I stayed remarkably stiff all day!

Little Bird:
Last night I divided Little Bird’s hair into pony tails all over her head. I wasn’t worried about being especially neat since I knew the girls would be sleeping on their hair. I wrapped her hair into loose bantu knots. This morning, I re-wrapped the knots and added flowers or pipe cleaners to many of the knots.

These days I can’t get caught up on perfect - but it sure was fun!
Question – what did I do for Crazy Hair Day??? I wore a hat! LOL, after all it was actually Crazy Hair/Hat Day.
Post Script: Both Girls won for their grade. They were very happy!

Slowing Down - 'till the Morning Sickness Passes!

Yep, that's right. Very, very, very, very surprisingly, at 38 I have found that I am expecting my 3rd child. I was SO tired over Christmas vacation - hmmm. Well, my girls have been lucky if their hair is getting brushed - me too, as I am working full time and feeling very old. Hopefully on some weekend, after a few naps I can actually do something interesting to my little girl's hair, but until then, I think I need to take a few more weeks off.

The night before do's

It's been a little while since I last posted - I've been having some health issues, but frankly I need to get something together because my children were looking like little rag dolls! Their daddy got them ready for school yesterday - they didn't even meet a hairbrush in the morning!

I've been extra tired but I had the girls take a bath last night and prepped their hair so I had VERY LITTLE to do this morning. After baths last night, I parted my little princesses hair into the hair headband, then I divided the rest with the zigzag part. I put the hair in pony tails and I wrapped them around my finger and made them each into a giant pin curl. It took a lot of bobby pins. I secured the hair headband with another set of bobby pins and put her to bed.
This morning, I wet down the hair headband and added gel. I smoothed it down and secured it behind her head. It looked like a little ponytail sticking out. Then I made some loose messy buns. They looked cute with the large curls in them. Then I tucked the little ponytail from the headband up into one of the messy buns.

Honestly, it wasn't perfect, but I'm talking 7 minutes tops here - and compared to yesterday, she looked like a million bucks!

Little Bird still hates having her hair done, but I needed her to look better than she has lately.

After her bath I put in five small french braids on a diagonal part and used clips to secure them. I knew they wouldn't be super neat the next morning, but it actually wasn't too bad.

I took the ends of each braid and bobby pinned them into pin curls. Then I sort of twisted the rest of her hair into two pony tail bun like things (I KNOW, so technical!) so that it would have a little wave in it.

I think Little Bird's hair looked fantastic from the back, but wasn't quite as neat as I'd like it in front . . . but then again, she looked SO much better than the poor waif she had been looking like!

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French Knots with a Messy Bun and some french twists on the side!

I don't know what these are called but I'm going to call them French knots. What I really love about them is that they make my princess look like she's got really thick hair!

I parted my princess's hair diagonally across the top into three large sections and left two small ones on the sides.
I made the french knots by tying the hair like you would a shoelace, after each tie, I'd grab another little section of hair and tie that in working myself from the front to the back.
After I finished each row I bobby pinned it in place for the time being.

I pulled all of the hair (minus the side sections below the french knots) into a pony tail and then removed the bobby pins.
Then I did a small french twist with the little side hairs on each side and continued the twist to the end.

I wrapped each twist around the pony tail and bobby pinned it.

Then I used another elastic around the pony tail - pulled the hair half way through and used a second elastic to help shape the messy bun. Other than the bobby pin showing in this picture, I really like how the messy bun turned out.