Accessories and Kissy Lips

I was at Hobby Lobby the other day doing a bit of shopping and I came across these awesome little accessories.

  This one is a black vinyl flower that we've clipped in her hair but it also has a pin clasp on the back so you can use it on clothes.

Here's another one we bought that we pinned to her jacket but it can also be used as a hair clip.  I think that' such a smart idea to have both options on the back of the flowers.  I think I'm going to start doing that with some of our accessories from now on.

To show off her new flower we did a Kissy Lips Messy Bun.  These are really easy but you want to have your elastics handy.  Start with a regular ponytail.  Now grab another elastic and wind it like a ponytail until the last time around when you're only going to pull the hair through the elastic slightly.  Now this will give you a little poof.  Grab another elastic and go around the entire poof and the extra hair until the last time around when you will pull the entire poof through but only a little bit of the extra hair.  This will give you your second poof.   

Rough it up a big with your fingers and don't be afraid to pull at it a bit to give it that messy look. 

Our church had a fun little activity day (Super Saturday) where we made these fun bow holders. 

This was a perfect craft for us because my princess is a dancer and has TONS of hair accessories! 

 Cute huh!

Recycled Treasure

I remember in the late 80's owning a little accessory that you would pull your shirt through.  I don't remember the official name of them but they were a circle with a bar through them. 

Anyway, I was at a yard sale the other day and found this little one that I thought would be perfect for a hair accessory.

I decided to do two French Twists on the front of her head. 

 Those twists led into two Corkscrews on the sides. 

I joined the two Corkscrews at the back of her head with an elastic and then fed the extra  hair through this little accessory. 

 I secured it on the back with an elastic when I was all finished and she had some fun little bling in her hair for the day!

Haircut and Church Do

My princess was in need of a serious trim to her hair.  I usually try to trim is about every 3 weeks but it had been a while and her ends were always getting tangled.

Here she is after the cut and we took a good 3 inches off just so it wouldn't be so long.  Her hair seems to grow fast and I'm sure we'll be trimming it again in no time.

We had church that morning so we decided to do something straight and pretty.  I started by parting out 2 inches of hair from ear to ear.  I then parted that section a little off-centered and created two pieces.

 

 I set the two pieces aside and then grabbed a small section of hair from behind the left ear and braided it all. 

Then I pulled the braid along the ear-to-ear part just like a headband.  Now tuck that little braid inside the hair behind the right ear and secure it with bobby pins. 

 Now braid each of the two front sections.  Pull the two sections over the headband braid and tuck them under the hair.  Secure them with bobby pins and softly smooth the hair over to hide the pins.  You'll end up with a nice, soft, hair-down look.

Piggie Pull-Throughs

Here's another really simple one that I saw on the back o four Topsy Tail box.

Simply divide the hair right down the middle so you have two sides. 

Create a low piggie on each side. 

Now, using your Topsy Tail, create a Pull-Through with each piggie. 

We just finished it off with a headband on top to fancy it up a bit.

I love using these little headbands with things because you can clip and flowers on that you like.  You can find instructions for these headbands here.

Pretty Pin-Up

So I thought this was something that everyone pretty much knew how to do and I got stopped in the store 3 times with people asking directions on it so I thought I'd do a post.

My princess just had some left over waves from her braids the day before so we wanted to let them down for the wavy look.

Now simply grab a section of hair from the front and twist is a couple of times. 

Add 5 or 6 bobby pins making "X"s to hold it in place. 

 Now fluff the waves around to the front and spray with some hairspray. 

 Very simple huh!

Ribbon Bun

This one turned out really pretty and I don't think the pictures do it justice.

Begin by sectioning out a bit of hair in front and create a small Pull-Through on one side.  Now you can either leave your Pull-Through straight or braid it like we've done here.

Wet the hair down and pull all of it back into a ponytail, being sure to include your Pull-Through as well.

Now separate the ponytail into as many small sections as you like - we've done 12 here.  Add a strand of ribbon to each section by tucking it through the elastic holding the ponytail.  (You will have ends of the ribbon sticking out but it will all be hidden when your bun is completed.)

Divide each small section into two pieces and, using the ribbon as your third piece, create a 3-strand braid.  Secure the end with an elastic.  Go ahead and do this with all of your small sections. 

Now that you have all your braids, just roll them up into the head once or twice (depending on the length of hair) and bobby pin it down.  Let the little wispy ends of the braid stick out wherever you like.  Continue doing this with all the braids making sure that the are evenly pinned around the original elastic. We've also added some little flowers that are glued to hair pins and just tucked them in and around the bun for some more detail.   

8-Strand Braid

So if you're totally intimidated by the name, there's no need to be.  It's actually pretty simple. 

 

Begin by pulling all of hair back into a tight ponytail.

 Divide that ponytail into 2 equal halves and make a Quad Braid out of each half.    If you don't know how to do a Quad you can go here. 

Tie the bottoms of your braids off with elastics to hold them together. 

Now twist to two Quads together.  Connect them together at the bottom with one final elastic and then you can take out the previous two elastics if you like.  Pretty simple huh! 
Also, I was finally able to get a link to a video onto our beautiful "Challah Braid" post which you can find here.