Double The Fun Braided Headband

Usually Aubrey's hair is in an updo style but today we were looking for something a little different. This is what we came up with.

To start, I sectioned out the front of her hair and pulled the rest into a pony. Then I parted that hair down the middle of her head and made puff braids on each side.

This is what the top of her head looked like:

Next, added an extra elastic to each side.

Using another elastic, loosely connected the two tails while crossed over each other.

Then, just braided each tail.

Next, I got out my trusty Topsey Tail and used it to weave the braided tails in and out of the puff braid. (sorry for the bad picture)

This is what it then looked like:

I took the ends of the braids and connected them using a clear elastic at the base of her head. If your working with shorter hair, you could make pigtails and just at the ends to them.

Curled the ends of her hair and we were good to go!

This was actually a really quick style! Curling her hair took longer than the rest of the 'do.

It also held up well through the entire weekend!

Easy Braided Headband

I originally saw THIS post over on one of my favorite blogs~

It's A Girl Thing

I then put my own twist on it and this is what we got:

a quick, fun style that keeps the hair

out of Aubrey's eyes and lasts through a day of kindergarten!

To start, I made five ponies on the top of her head

where our "headband" would be.

At this point, her hair that was not in the

ponies was pulled to the side where the "headband"

would end and secured with an elastic.

Next, I braided the first pony.

Then connected that braid to the next pony.

This was continued across her head. The last braid was

added to side pony.

I made a messy bun with the unbraided hair

and added a matching flower clip.

As Aubrey would say "easy, peezy, lemon squeezy"!

First Post~ Knotty Headband

For the pass few months I have been obsessed with following blogs. I start everyday by checking to see if there are any new posts by my favorite bloggers! Now that my good friend Missy started her own blog, she has inspired me to do the same! This particular hairstyle happens to be one that Aubrey wore to a birthday party at Missy's house. Hope you enjoy it!

Aubrey had a pink headband with a bow on it that matched the dress she was going to wear perfectly. The problem: headbands NEVER stay in her hair. So we improvised a little.

To start we gathered our supplies: bobby pins, brush, comb, headband, and wet set lotion from Sally's.

Next I misted her hair with water and parted it behind her ears, pulling the hair that would not be included in the headband into a temporary pony tail. I then made a side part where the bow on the beadband would be.

Then I made a horizontal part with the headband hair, temporary clipped it off to the sides and inserted the head band.

At this step I thoroughly misted her hair with the prepared wet set lotion (2-3 parts water to 1 part lotion). Next comes the knots. I unclipped the headband hair and grabbed a small section from both sides.

Those two sections of hair were then tied just like when you tie shoe laces.

Looking back now, I would have made the first knot actually under the bow. Next I continued the knots down the headband, adding a little more hair each time from both sides (similar to french braiding).

When I reached the other side, I tied it off with a clear elastic.

I repeated the first steps on the other side. Again, next time I would make my first knot directly under the bow to hide more of the headband.

At this time I pulled all the hair from the back that was in the temporary ponytail into a side ponytail right where my first row of knots ended. Next, I took the tail from my second row of knots and included it into the side ponytail using pins to secure it, covering up the back part at the same time to give it a more finished look.

I curled the ends of the pony and this is what we had:

View from the other side:

Total time: about 20 minutes.

We spent the entire next day at home. Even though I slipped the headband out, the style seemed to stay in (thanks to the wet set lotion). You can kind of see it in this picture of Aubrey with her AG doll and the x-mas tree she decorated all by herself!