Friday's Film: The Quad

It's Friday again!  Today we wanted to flashback to The Quad.  We had lots of questions on this one originally and it's a braid that we use ALL THE TIME!  People always stop us and ask how we did that so here are the instructions:

Hopefully that helps a bit and makes some more sense.  The first couple times I did it, I was really slow but after a few times it comes very naturally.  Good luck!

Awesome New Tip

I've tried many different ways of organizing our hair supplies and I've posted several of them in my Accessory Organization post. 

Click on the link for some great ideas for your ribbon, small clips, elastics, flowers and other hair supplies.
I've always struggled with organizing headbands.  They are bulky and don't fit in small containers. 

You may remember my post on the Cure for the Headband Headache (instructions are on the link) and this is definitely a great solution but I found that I only had room for two of these containers on the dresser and we had many more headbands that needed a home.  I was browsing my favorite new site, Pinterest, and came across another idea that I had to try:

They are paper towel rolls that I attached to the inside of the bathroom cupboard door.  The original that I saw was attached the wide way but I needed two so I attached mine the long way.

I took an unused roll of paper towel and covered it with some fabric. (Zebra is my princess's favorite)  I stitched the fabric together for the length of the paper towel, placed it over the roll and then just hot glued the two ends in place.  It works perfectly for us and hopefully it will be a helpful idea for you!

Hidden Half-Up

This hairstyle is really easy and has a neat look to it. 

 

It's easiest when using wet hair for this one.  Create a small off-centered part in the top of the hair and then comb everything straight. 

 

Grab some hair from along the hairline that is right above each ear.  Twist those two side over the combed hair and combine it at the back of the head with an elastic.  (Have the combined area somewhat low on the back of the head.) 

Now gather two more sections of hair just below the first two and twist them together at the back of the head as well and combine them with another elastic.  You should now have two elastics at the back of the head and a section of hair still hanging that is combed straight. 

 Grab all of that hanging hair and roll it up over the two elastics.  Tuck it underneath the elastics creating a roll.  Secure it in place using bobby pins and add any hair accessories you like to finish it off.   

Friday's Film: Bedtime Braids

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Hooray for videos!  This is our first "Friday's Film" and we're excited to get lots more out there for you.  (Make sure you let us know which hairstyles you want to see.)    I must say that I'm not a fan of my voice and my little princess and I are not perfect during our filming but hopefully these videos will help some of you with the hairstyles!  (I also apologize for my fumbling about - I have to say that I do get a bit nervous in front of a camera - guess I better get used to it huh!)

  We had several requests for a video on on our Bedtime Braids that we posted last week so here it is:

We also experimented with making these braids "French".

Here is a picture of what it looks like.

Just make sure you switch which side you do your double wrap on when you move to your other half of hair so that the braids will look even.

When you're done adding in hair you can just finish off the braid with the traditional Bedtime Braid from above.

Here is the video for this one: 

I promise we'll try to get better with the videos and we will for sure have another one next Friday!

Video Requests...

Hi there,  I've figured out the video problem and it's all fixed!  I'm going to be starting a new weekly post called "Friday's Film" and there will be an instructional video on a hairstyle every Friday.  Please let me know some of the hairstyles you are interested in seeing and I will get to work on my princess's hair!  :)  Please identify them by the post title so that I will know exactly which one has been requested.  Thank you so much for all of the wonderful comments and I apologize that the videos have been so long in coming!  :)

-Julie- 

Hairagami

I found this cool product at the store the other day and had to pick it up to try. 

 It's basically 2 slap bracelets that are sewn together that you place your hair between.  It's actually a fun little gadget.  There are several different hairstyles you can create with this little tool but here is one that we did that took us exactly 1 minute!!!  

 My princess had just jumped out of the shower so here hair was nice and wet and I pulled it all back into a ponytail.  I then flattened out the Hairagami and opened the two pieces.  I placed all of the ponytail between the two pieces and then pulled the Hairagami down to the ends of the ponytail. 

 I rolled the gadget up to the elastic - making sure to spread the hair evenly over the Hairagami as I rolled - and then pressed on it to curl it up. 

You can shape the curled Hairagami anyway you like and we did it in a cinnamon bun fashion. 

 We finished it off by adding a flower clip and we were done. 

It held very tightly throughout the whole day and even gave us some cute curls when we took it out.

  I'm excited to try some new styles with it so I'll post everything we do!

Hair Weave

This is really pretty but only works with longer hair - sorry all you cute little shorties out there!  This style is darling with either straight hair or curls.  Start with a small off-centered part in the front of the hair just so that you have definite sides.

 

Now move to the larger side and gather two sections from the hair line, just above the ear.  Have your princess hold the lower section while you begin with the upper section.  Weave it in and out of the hair using a Topsy Tail if you like or you can just use your fingers to life sections of hair as needed.  Go all the way around the back of the hair and then over to the opposite ear.

 

Secure the end of the hair with bobby pins.  Grab the lower section of hair from your princess and weave that around as well - making sure to alternate from the previous weave.  Secure that at the opposite ear with bobby pins.  (I tucked the bobby pins under some of the hanging hair to try and hide them.) 

You could do this with many more than two strand and really have a beautiful weave but it was bedtime for us so we had to stop with only two.  :)