Basket Weave

This was another neat hair-do we tried recently.  With a bit of practice I might get a bit neater at it.  It went better then I expected and turned out pretty good.  Next time I think I would put some ringlets in the bottom hair.  The only thing with this type of hairdo is the fact that it doesn’t stay in long as it’s gets fuzzy quickly … I always like the long lasting hairdos the best.

 

You can find pictures and a video tutorial here

Waterfall Weave

Still on the waterfall theme.

This hair-do did not turn out as I had hoped, but I think it’s just because I need to practice it again and work out a few mistakes. 

Next time I would work across her head from ear to ear instead of on an angle like the video showed.

I seen the idea on this video, but as you can see my braid is much thicker at the bottom then what shows in the video. This makes sense since by the end you have worked in almost all the hair, but I wonder if I try it again and try to even it out a bit it will work better … I’m just not sure how I’ll avoid having such a bundle of hair at the end, which greater increases in size when you have to tuck the extra under it.

So this one needs some work and practice, but it’s a neat idea.

Front Twist and Weave

Rebecca had short hair for about half and year and then was ready to start growing it out again with the intent of donating it again.  Since Rebecca has thick hair that easily knots long hair can be a fair amount of work … and now that she’s nine she’s going to have to learn to care for it herself a bit more.   At the same time when her hair is done it is very nice hair with a nice thickness that looks full.  So we’ll see how long it gets this time before we get tired of trying to get the knots out and decide to cut off.

This hairdo is the same as the Twist and Weave that I previously posted, but I only did the front/top of Rebecca’s head.  I did four twist that I weaved and brought into the pig tails on the sides.  Because the front section of her hair by her ears was not long enough to twist across her head I just pull that back into the pig tails, using only the center section

Rebecca is happy to have hair that starting to get long enough to try different hair-do’s in.  It’s a new challenge for me to try work with hair that is not long.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twist and Weave

Another one of those fun weave ones that I like. This one turned out very nice and stayed in for some time ... I'm afraid Marietta hasn't been as faithful about washing her hair lately. We washed the pig tales a few times but not the weave for fear it would mess up. We probably should have tried to wash the weave to see what would happen, but seeing as it's pretty tight it would be hard to scrub the head and keep it from getting fuzzy. For a fancier look we would do the pig tales up in a messy bun. I think I have a pictures of it up like that also ... will have to have a look. Or you could put ringlets or curls in it (we were going to but it never happened). You guessed it ... this one came from Princess Hairstyles also. The tutorial is here.

I think I'll have to take a break from posting hairstyles for a bit. Rebecca has kindly pointed out that I have not yet posted anything about her birthday - which happened to be over a month ago now - so I better not let myself fall too far behind on other stuff.

Woven Hair Headband

Another pretty simple idea and a change for the typical elastic headband that I usually do. Doing it with wet hair and adding some mousse and/or hairspray to the twists while doing it probably would have given it a cleaner look and reduced the fuzz over the next couple days.

The tutorial is here.

Woven French Braid Ponytail

Another very fun and neat looking hair-do. This one took a bit more work then yesterdays post, but I think with a few tries it wouldn't take that long either. While doing it I put mousse and hairspray on the strands to keep them a bit slick and less fuzzy. I could have actually done that to the hair underneath before I started the weave. In the end the hairdo had to come out because it was getting fuzzy under the weave, but the weave stayed in nicely for some days ... I love hair-dos that stay in for several days, makes it so worthwhile.

I really like the weave hairstyles, they look so neat, or maybe it's just because it's something different. We've been so busy trying new hairstyles that we never get around to redoing old ones, but I'd definitely do this one again.

Click here for the tutorial.

Woven Piggies

I found this hairstyle on Princess Hairstyles .... our favourite site right now (as far as hair-do's goes :) Actually I originally seen it in a video, but with a bit of luck we managed to find the site and tutorial on it for which I'm very thankful for seeing as it turned out easier then I expected as I would have done it differently.

This is one of my favourites. I love the look of it and it was actually quite easy and quick to do. Click here to see the tutorial.