This one takes some time so it's nice that it lasts a couple days. My princess had a swimming party and we were going out right after so I knew I wouldn't have time to redo her hair. We decided to do one of our swimming styles. 
Start by sectioning out a circle right at the crown of the head. (Make it about 3 inches across.) Wrap it tightly in an elastic. There should be hair hanging down on all sides of the ponytail. 
Now make another circle part around the first one so that you are separating the remaining hair in half and in a circular shape around the original ponytail. Pull that middle section up around the original ponytail and attach it with a loose elastic just to get it out of the way. 
Section out the remaining hair into 1.5 inch squares. Combine the hair from each square into an elastic until all the remaining hair is in elastics around the perimeter of the head. 
Now let down the next section of hair from the ponytail. Section that out into 1.5 inch squares as well but make sure the squares are not parallel with the original squares. The parts need to look like stacked bricks - alternating, if that makes sense. 
Now separate each small ponytail into 2 sections and take one section from each adjacent square to add into the new ponytail on the square behind. Do that around the entire head. Now gather all the loose ponytails and attach them to the original middle ponytail with an elastic. All of the hair should be up in a ponytail now. 
Go ahead and break that up and create as many small braids as you like. You can add beads to the bottom of the braids if you want to, like we've done here. She swam in this hair and it still looked perfect for church the next day. We even took out all the braids and elastics and she had a crimped ponytail for school on Monday!
Start by sectioning out a circle right at the crown of the head. (Make it about 3 inches across.) Wrap it tightly in an elastic. There should be hair hanging down on all sides of the ponytail. Now make another circle part around the first one so that you are separating the remaining hair in half and in a circular shape around the original ponytail. Pull that middle section up around the original ponytail and attach it with a loose elastic just to get it out of the way. Section out the remaining hair into 1.5 inch squares. Combine the hair from each square into an elastic until all the remaining hair is in elastics around the perimeter of the head. Now let down the next section of hair from the ponytail. Section that out into 1.5 inch squares as well but make sure the squares are not parallel with the original squares. The parts need to look like stacked bricks - alternating, if that makes sense. Now separate each small ponytail into 2 sections and take one section from each adjacent square to add into the new ponytail on the square behind. Do that around the entire head. Now gather all the loose ponytails and attach them to the original middle ponytail with an elastic. All of the hair should be up in a ponytail now. Go ahead and break that up and create as many small braids as you like. You can add beads to the bottom of the braids if you want to, like we've done here. She swam in this hair and it still looked perfect for church the next day. We even took out all the braids and elastics and she had a crimped ponytail for school on Monday!
Tie the large middle section of hair into a ponytail and set aside. 
The rest of the hair should be hanging down and you're going to section it out into 1.5 inch squares and bind them with colored elastics. 
You should end up with small ponytails and elastics going all the way around the head. Divide each small ponytail into two sections. 
Take one section from one elastic and one section from the adjacent elastic and make a Corkscrew. Add that corkscrew into the large middle ponytail with an elastic. Continue doing this around the entire head until all of the hair is in the center ponytail. 
Now make a Twisty Bun and tie it down with a large elastic. 
Start with a crown of 5 elastics creating a crown at the top of the head. 
Next, divide the small ponies into two sections each and combine them with a section of new hair to create your second row. 
You will have 6 elastics on your second row. You can create as many rows as you would like but I usually stick to 2 or 3. 
Combine the remaining hair into a ponytail which you can braid, curl or leave straight. I've done a quad braid here. 
Add your favorite hair accessory and you're done! (Just remember to take the accessory out before swimming.) 
As you can see, it holds up great in the pool! 
First you want to start with a crown of 5 elastics around the front of the hairline. 
Divide the hair from each elastic into 4 sections. Separate 2 sections to each side and weave them through hair from the next elastic. 
Attach the woven hair together with a second row of 5 parallel elastics. 
Then you can combine the remaining hair into a ponytail, braid or bun.
Ribbons always slip around so criss-crossing the hair over it like this really holds it in place. The princess got lots of nice compliments from people at church and she said this picture had to go on her new blog. :)
