You'll want the hair damp/wet for this, you'll neeed 1-2 elastics, depending on how you want to finish it. Start with a side part.
I started my inside out braid with a section this big. You don't have to use this much, or even go in as far as the part, but she has a lot of hair, so I start with a bigger section.
Always start with braiding the first 3 pieces alone, then start incorporating the rest of the hair.
You want to use the part as an axis for rotating around. As you wind your way around, pull hair in, originating from the part.
I frequently comb out the pieces I'm holding, as well as the hair that I'm pulling pieces up from. This helps keep it from getting tangled in your hands and it looks smoother.
Just keep curving around the head. You'll be manuevering yourself around quite a bit during this one. Keep taking hair from the part down.
Another view of how I'm using the part as an axis. And a view of my laundry on the floor. This is NOT necessary to doing fun hair....but just part of being a mom.
Braid to the ear, and then pull front section of hair, from forehead back, into braid.
At this point, you can put your elastic in, or keep braiding down.......which I personally don't like, since the angle of the braid might make it hang awkwardly. Please try to ignore that fancy couch.
If you put in an elastic here, put it in so it's facing down, instead of the way the braid is wrapping around her head. That way, your pony hangs down, and not towards her face.
I did two twist braids to finish her hair. Divide pony into two sections, and make sure it's thorougly wetted down. I like it really wet for these twists, it keeps all the little ends in and makes it look nice and polished. Take one section of hair, and divide it into two again. Start twisting both pieces the
same direction. Once you get halfway down, start wrapping them around each other, in the
opposite direction of how you started individually.
Keep twisting the separate pieces, as you wrap them around each other, down to the end. This is what it should look like.
Do the other section, and spray both topside and underside of twists with hairspray, and then all over the rest of the hair.
All finished! I put a bow in at top of twists. You can see it in top picture.
This did take me in total about 15 min. Part of that was restarting her part, but each time you practice this, it should take less time.
This style is really great on curly, short, or thin hair. If you have any cute bobby pins with flowers or gems on the end, this style is perfect for showing them off. If you do enough rolls, then it looks like they have a crown of flowers/gems. These are fast and easy. I do these on myself often as well. You'll need a bobby pin for each roll you plan on doing. I did three in this picture.
For this style, I started with wet hair, and did an angle part. You can part straight too, I just prefer the angle. On the larger side of the part, I parted off another section, about 2 inches wide.
Start twisting hair away from part. Start base of twist towards front of head, and pull it towards front of head, until you have a twist about 2 inches long. Giving your subject pretzels and parking them in front of the tv helps a great deal too.
Start laying twist down away from part, and the closer you get to the head, incorporate the hair on that side into twist.
Tuck the hair, in this case, on the left side, into the twist, until it's nice and tight and laying down, about 2 inches long. This can take some redoing, just keep trying until it looks about like this.
This is where you want to grab your bobby pin and open it. I like to use the longer flat edge on the side that's fattest, in this case, the right side, and the bumpy shorter edge on the less thick side, or left side here.
This shows how to position it. You'll have to enlarge this one to see it better. Lay the pin down flat to the head, and put one tip just to the right of the roll, and the other on the other side, so the pin straddles the roll. Push the pin in all the way, keeping it covered under the hair. This too can be tricky, so just readjust as necessary. It also helps to have bobby pins that closely match the hair color, as it will disguise it better.
This is what it should look like after you get the pin all the way in.
I parted off another section on that same side, using the same width as the first one. You can see that leaves some hair over the ear. The hair down by the ear is usually too sparse to roll, so I leave it. You'll have the same on the other side.
I do one roll on the others side of the part. This time I roll the opposite way, but again away from the part.
All three rolls finished. I decided to pull the rest of her hair back into a low pony to finish it. You can leave the hair down as well. This style is really great on curly, short, or thin hair. If you have any cute bobby pins with flowers or gems on the end, this style is perfect for showing them off. If you do enough rolls, then it looks like they have a crown of flowers/gems. This is a versatile, basic style, that you can incorporate into many hair dos.
With ponytail. Pretzels are finished.
