Hair Carnival: Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!! We have decided, along with some other wonderful bloggers, to show you a couple of designs that incorporate hearts in the theme. Hearts of course are perfect for Valentine's Day but you could do these any time which is great too. This is the first year that I have actually set out to purposely style Des' hair for Valentine's Day. Since Des is getting older I decided to try and play off of that. 

After washing and detangling Des' hair I had to figure out what I was going to do. I decided to part a heart in the center back of her head. For that section I did small two strand twist and then fishtailed the twist together. 

Once I finished with the heart portion I decided to try to do an updo of sorts with what was left of her hair. I did flat twist up and around the sides of the heart and I also did three flat twists on the left side of her head, I finished the flat twist with two strand twist. With the reminder of the hair I just did random two strand twist. 

I took a few twists and made a swoop bang. I then just put the rest of the hair in a side a bun of sorts. I held all the hair in place with little clips, 3 total. 

Des takes the clips out at night and puts on her satin bonnet to sleep and in the morning we just put the hair up in the clips. 

Here is another style I have done on a friend's daughter. I incorporated a heart at the top of her head and put the remainder of her hair in a braided faux hawk. I did place two beads at the front of the cornrows that I braided into a heart shape. It was a simple style but she loved it and with tweens that means so much. She also told me people at school loved it, so that makes it all worth it.  

Feel free to share your Valentine's hair do on our Facebook or our Google + page, we would love to see. Hope you all have a wonderful and sweet Valentine's Day. Until the next time... Stay Blessed. 

Hair Carnival: Halloween 2011

So it has come time again to share with you a Hair Carnival. We have done quite a few Hair Carnivals this month cause there has been so many great things going on that we had a lot to share. There are lots of other bloggers participating in this Hair Carnival and why not it is for Halloween, how fun, be sure to check out the other links at the bottom of this post. I am sure you will find some wonderful ideas for next year.

Des has had quite an active Halloween season this year. She attended a costume party, a costume contest at school and of course Halloween night itself. Needless to say she definitely wore her costume and wore it well. Well with that comes doing hair "to go with" the costume.

The first time she wore her costume she was going to a party and on this particular day her plate was full. So she had to have a style that would work well with all the events going on on the day of. The first part of the day she wore a twist out and then when we had a chance we did an upside down french braid that we put into a pony tail holder. Des wanted to use two different types of ribbon so we did. The first ribbon I cut into two different lengths and just placed it through the ouchless ponytail holder so that it could just hang down. The second ribbon I used, purple and black zebra print, to do a mummy braid on half of the hair in ponytail. The other half of her hair in the ponytail I put into twist and then twisted them around the mummy braid into a bun. I used hair pins to hold the bun in place. Des of course wanted to wear make up with her costume so we put on some eye shadow, eyeliner, and lip gloss. She look so pretty when she was done.

The night before Halloween we decided we were going to try to do her hair to look like a bat. We braided the edges in the shape of the wings with the different sections of the wing separated with braids which we then wrapped ribbon around. The sections of loose hair we just smoothed out and gathered in to a ponytail at the top of her head were they all met. We took that ponytail and divided it; the loose hair became for the body of the bat and the braids became the head of the bat. We left out a section for a twisted out bang and also a small area for the ears of the bat. I realized after it was all done that you couldn't really tell it was a bat cause it went around her whole head but oh well. Des liked it and it was a good learning experience for me.

The morning of Halloween before school we got up and did makeup again for Des to wear to school off she went. I also to the bantu knot of twists down so she could wear bands.When she got out of school her makeup was pretty much off her eyes, not sure how, LOL.

Oh well, we did makeup again and wet her bangs, cause they got poofy at school. Off we went to "Trunk or Treat" at church followed by trick or treating in the neighborhood. We had fun, her big brothers tagged along with us and although they won't admit it, they had fun too. 

I enjoy these times since Des seems to be growing so fast. I hope that she will only be wearing makeup for Halloween for many more years too come... LOL. 

Hope you enjoyed our Halloween Hair Carnival and please stop by our Facebook page and leave some pics of you or your lil ones dressed up, we would love to see. Don't forget to "LIKE" us while you are there.  Till the next post.... Stay Blessed. 

Before Baby Braids

Just wanted to share with you a style I did on my friend Suggaa. Suggaa asked me if I could braid her hair up cause she was very pregnant and very busy. Suggaa has long, fairly straight hair so I was looking forward to doing these braids to see how they would hold up. 

Before

Suggaa came over with her hair washed and dry already. I decided to use Eco Styler in the clear container to help hold her hair and keep the fly aways down. I asked her how she wanted her parts and sectioned her hair off. I parted her hair from ear to ear and then did a side angle part as well.  I clipped up the sections I was not working on. Once I parted off the sections I just started the cornrows, I did my best to be sure that I made them all the same size. Before actually doing the cornrow, I put sprayed water on the section and applied Eco Styler along the roots. I was sure not to braid her hair tight but I did make sure that the braids were to her head. The back section is just cornrows straight down. I actually did this style right before I started writing this blog so I did not take pictures to show the steps but we did take pictures.

The Top

The Top Front

The Back

Suggaa kept this style for a week before doing a braid out. At night, she put a scarf over her hair so it would not get frizzy. I really enjoyed doing her hair, it took about 4 hours with breaks and such. Suggaa enjoyed the girls rubbing her pregnant feet. She had to move around often so that she could stay comfortable but it was nice. 

Later in the week.

Shopping

Looking for a Baby Shower Cake

Braid out, front

Braid out, back

Hope you enjoyed this, until the next time... Stay Blessed.