Little Girl's Hairstyles --I want to see your pictures!

Ladies! I know those that visit my blog, along with other hair blogs, work hard on all this hair! Now is the time to show it off!
I want to see your 'headshots'. This time let's do first day of school (or preschool, or first pigtails, or first anything!).
Excited to see what you share! Send pics to girlzhair@gmail.com, or you can post them on my Facebook page: Pretty Hair is Fun!

Happy picture taking!

Oh, and here's what we picked for our school pic hairdo:
Double Twists with Waves
We had one with straight hair, and one with wavy. I'll post some pics when we get them!

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Infant Bows Part 2

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Infant Bows

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I had some offer some other great suggestions on how to get bows to stay on an infant heads.

Betts Family offered this great advise:
If you live in a humid place like I do in Seattle Karo and KY don't work as well as in dry places so I discovered that a traditional Elmer's glue stick works wonders. . .bows stick all day and it washes out with water! I love the looks when you're caught glue-ing a bow on a babies head! I love your blog thanks for all the fun ideas.

I wanted to thank Betts family for giving us this information. I live in such a dry climate I hadn't thought about the humidity.

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Lauren's Double Braids from Make it or Break it

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Braids

Lauren

ponytails

Another fun Make it or Break it hairstyle from Lauren.

Make a center part and make large part french braid as shown below.

Make another french braid as described above. Below is a picture of what I did.

Then pull all the hair into a ponytail.

Top view

Side View

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The Messy Bun Step by Step Instructions

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bun

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rolls

Recently I have had a lot of people asking me about my messy bun. So here goes if these are not clear please ask questions I will do my best to explain what I do.

Because we don't just like plain messy buns at our house you will get a few instructions on rolls for the front of the hair.

I first made a roll across the front of her head this pulls all the bangs out of her face.

I then made a 2nd roll and 3rd rolls as shown below. 1 almost parallel to the first and the 2nd to make a t. I secured them in place with small bobby pins

Then I made 3 more rolls. Another one parallel to the 2nd roll and one that follows the t shaped one. The last one is parallel as shown below. (I hope all that made sense if not try and look at the picture)

Now to start the messy bun. Take all the hair and put it into a ponytail. Don't pull the hair all the way through on the last loop of your elastic.

The back of the hair will look like this after all the hair is into the ponytail.

Now I take the hair that is looped and pull it upwards towards her head. This makes a circle shape in her hair secure this with a clear small elastic.

Below is the hair after I have pulled the loop upwards.

Now bobby pins become your best friend. I use bobby pins to put the hair where I want it as shown below. If you put the hair into a bobby pin and it looks to small put your finger in the loop and pull a little bit. You can also pull small amounts of hair and pull it to the other side and secure with bobby pins.

Below is the finished messy bun. If this doesn't make sense please ask me more questions.

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Diagonal French Braid to Bun

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Braids

bun

Follow the post before for great 2nd day hairstyle

Now the difference is to take the end of the braid and wrap it around itself to make a bun.

If the bun doesn't lay how you want it then take bobby pins and move the around until you like the bun.

Below is the side view.

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Little Girl's Hairstyles - How to do hair for School Pics!

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4 strand braid

corkscrew curls

curlers

daisy chain braid

french braid

hair down

hair up

holiday do's

laces

puffy braid

stuffed bun

thumbelina

twist braid

twist buns

I don't know about the rest of you, but School Picture Day is probably one of my most stressful mornings (pathetic, I know). I stress because:

1: I can't be there to rearrange, comb, spritz anything back into place, and

2: how do I get the hair to STICK, look natural, but not move until it's picture time?

I justify my erratic and tense behavior because, as I tell my girls, "I'm paying for these, so I want them to be PERFECT." So, now that you are feeling sorry for my children, let me share with you some possible ideas, that I think would be SUPERB for picture day.

I really really like my girls' hair down for pictures. I think that if I'm going to do something fancy, it should be visible, and since most of my fancy stuff is in the BACK of the head, it does nothing for their pictures, which I really want to show off their cute little faces. So, here's some of my favorites, with the hair down, that I think we'll be choosing from, since our picture day is tomorrow!

But, I know some of you may want to have the hair up, so I've picked a few faves for you too. They are at the end. Enjoy! Good luck with your morning!

Hair Down

French Braid Headband

Twists with curls (soft curlers)

Double Twist Braids with Waves

The Thumbelina

Side Puffy Braid Headband

Daisy Chain Braid with waved hair

Rosettes/Twist Bun Headband (I will be sharing a video on how to make the actual headbands soon!)

Twisted Laces in Crown Or Side Puffy Braid

Hair Up

French Twist Braids with Stuffed Bun

If you wanted to eliminate the top twists, I think a side bun with a flower would be adorable for pictures as well. I'm leaning towards this hairdo myself.....

The Heidi Updo with Four Strand Braids

Side Pony with Twists

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Diagonal French Braid

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Braids

This style was so easy and fun and litteraly took minutes to do.

I started by making a french braid starting at her left ear that went diagonally towards the right side of her neck.

Above is the starting of the french braid.

Below is the back view of the french braid.

Make sure to braid all the way to the end of her hair.

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When Mom's Out of Town

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ponytails

Just recently I was out of town and told my husband will you please just put our daughters hair into a ponytail for school. I figured this would be the easiest for him.

This hairstyle is no glamour do, but it means the world to me. I came home and got showed these fun and cute pictures. All this style is, is a plain ponytail.

My husband took pictures of his hairstyle to share. He took pictures of the front side and back of this style.

I could not be married to a better man and I just wanted to share this fun story with everyone.

Below is the back view

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Little Girl's Hairstyles - How to do a Puffy Braid Updo 10-15 Min

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10-15 min

bobby pins

How to do a messy bun

puffy braid

stuffed bun

updos

Well hi there..........I've been away for a while! It's been such a crazy last few weeks. My daughter started a new school, we've had family visiting, and I've just had other duties taking priority! But I hope to redeem myself and start posting regularly once again!

Here's a fun one that I saw on a little girl when we were at the library. I'm sure she thought I was odd as I kept glancing at her trying to 'understand' her hairdo so I could go home and do it myself!

Basically, this is just an upside down puffy braid, that starts at the base of her neck and travels up to a messy/stuffed bun up top. There is a front ponytail that will join the bun at the top as well. Begin by parting off the lowest ponytail section and clipping off the rest up top. Of course I do this with damp hair!

After doing this section, and the next section above it and putting them into puffy braids (shown below), I part off the top and frontmost ponytail, as pictured. In retrospect, I think I'd do a pull thru ponytail on the top, so it would lay flatter. Either works!