figure 8 worm buns

Sunday is always my day to do the girls hair however I want so this was Baby Mermaids do for today!

I started by pulling pigtails to the back of her head

then i split the right pigtail in half and twisted it into a twisty thing and then twisted it around the left pigtail and back around the right to make a figure 8

then I just continued until all of her pigtails had been twisted around in the figure 8

stuck some bows on, (of course)

and your done! super easy but really cute!

she lost two teeth yesterday so we had to do a close up of the teeth!

Glinda the Good Witch!

To cool for hair was Glinda in a recent production of Wizard of Oz, I had to do her hair for the 6 performances and I thought I would give you some pics, She had a HUGE crown and she had to fly so her hair had to be up so it didn't get caught in the mechanism to fly her but not up so high that her crown couldn't fit, when I first thought of Glinda I thought of long curly hair which would have been pretty, but she didn't want it yanked out when they flew her so this is what we came up with!

We started out by putting her hair in three low pigtails

she sat here for a long time holding the camera, by the time we were done with the show I could put it up in about 10 minutes if I didn't have any costume problems that I had to deal with!

then I put each pony in a pin-curl bun, I used TONZ of hairspray! it made the bun look nice and neat and keep it in under crazy circumstances, (she also had to wear a tree costume with a head sock and a jitterbug costume with a head sock so the bun had to stay!

here is a different view of her first bun

the second one done! now it looks like a long bun all the way around the back of her head, I thought I got a close up of the back of her head but we must of had a costume issue come up because I cant find it with the 100+ pics she took while sitting here!

Here she is from the front all Glinda'd out!

and from the back, you can see the harness that she has to fly with and her hair pretty well from this shot!

Daddy Daughter Ball

My girls got the chance to go to a Daddy Daughter ball with their dad! They had such a good time, he got them little corsages and everything, the funnest part was my Dear Husband surprised them. The ball was at the school, so they new about it, but he told them he wouldn't be able to do that with them. Then he asked them to get dressed up cause they were doing something special, they got all dolled up and then they were off to the ball! they had a great time! Here is Baby Mermaids hairdo.

First I combed her hair back into a pony but I left all around it long.

I put the pony into a bun

then I started to pull up little sections, spray them with lots of hairspray comb them smooth and then hook them into the bun.

Keep pulling the hair up till you have all the hair into a bun (except the bangs)

then, braid back the bangs into the bun

other side of the bangs

The pictures keep coming, this one is from the front

and then I had to stick in a bow! LOL

well thanks for looking at my blog!

To cool for hair's hair mishap!!!

For Too Cool For Hair's Christmas concert we thought that we would do something special, so I got out the curling Iron and began curling and hair spraying and curling and hair spraying, but as I was getting done curling I realized that I was "Hair spraying" with a hair spray bottle that I had put detangler in! good job mom, so by the time I was done her curl was all but gone, so my tip of the day is make sure that you write on your bottles that you make detangler in! this hair do would have been so cute if the curl would have stayed in I will still give you a step by step and hopefully I can do It again soon without the water! LOLI just pulled her hair up in chunks and curled her hair and then took out a little bit at a time and curled it

Then whenI had got to the top back of her head I started taking the hair and hooking it into a bun, sort of the first to I rolled to give it some volume, the rest I just hooked under the rolls to make it look smooth. then we took the very front and hooked it into a smooth hair headband.

here she is with her hair already falling out! LOL

from the front

Tada she is done! Have fun singing To Cool For Hair!!!

Happy Thanksgiving! braided buns

Hey! Happy thanks giving! We had quite the crazy month but I am pretty proud that I got as much blogging done as I did! I am off to shop all night and then craft fair for the next two days but hey! I just thought that we would wish you a happy holiday and show you To Cool for Hairs holiday do.as you can see from the pics Baby Mermaid has an addition to her face!
Yep she got glasses! Here she is waiting for her turn to get her hair done!

so I just started putting in little dutch braids in her hair

every witch way no rhyme or reason

Here she is with her braiding done.

Then I pulled it into four ponys around the back of her head then I just put the ponys into pin curls and fixed them up the best I could. ( the stuffing and yams were in the oven so I had a few minutes to work!)

from the back

from the top

and there you go from the front all the way done (mom would have added a bow, or flower)
I am so thankful for wonderful kids, a awesome hubby that reminds me to slow down and not try to do everything, the best parents in the world, good friends, great friends and awesome followers! Thanks for following me on this wild ride called life!

Double bun, Chinese style!

We found this do on Girly do's by Jen

I love it I have done it on To Cool for Hair and had rave reviews from her friends! but today we did it on baby Mermaid, my bottom curl is a bit funky but i didn't have time to redo it, I think I should have used a few more bobby pins but oh well, by the way can you see the hair glitter strands? remember to enter here!
start by making a double bun in the back and leaving a front section out.

Here is the bun, wrap the left out section around the buns and secure with a bobby pin


we added a bow over the wrapped hair! Just for fun.

side, view!

front, now were ready for church!

Pigtail buns with worms

This is one of my favorite do's I haven't done it forever, the buns I first saw on she does hair, but they substitute for any bun, I love them!I pulled her hair into two pigtails in the back and then twisted down the front in two sections and hooked that into her pigs.
Then you just grab chunks of the pigtails and twist away

Keep twisting they will start to fold up on themselves, keep twisting

once it is twisted up like this then you just put the bunch where you want it and bobby pin it in, I love the tiny bobby pins from Sally's for this hair do, then you don't have huge bobby pins sticking out!

Here is a side view of her bun all done up, you can see the twists in the front, I should have taken pics of that but I forgot! sorry!

from the back you can see why we call these buns worms!

front, with cheese!

done and with bows in, I got so busy I didn't get a pic of just her!

*side note, we did this hair for her baptism on Saturday, she looked gorgeous and was so excited, she woke up at 5 am to get ready, we talked her in to sleeping a little bit longer! We are so proud of our Baby Mermaid! Congratulations sweet heart!

smocking with a twist

Today Is Baby mermaids 8th birthday and so we thought that we would do something special, It took about 20 min but I think that with some practice we could cut some time off that! It was fun to sit and talk about why she is important to our family and why we love her so I didn't mind the time! We parted her hair into pigtails and pulled one side out of the way, then we parted out the very front, split it in two and then put that in Little pigtail, then we parted out the next section and pulled the front to pigtail back and twisted them and them hooked them into the pigtails on the same side,
Here is me half way done with the first side I think that we did 6 sets back to the base of her neck and then hooked the four little pigtails together to make two pigtails!

Here is the other side

From the front with cheese!

and the back with bows of course!