Little Girl's Hairstyles -Small puffy braid 5 min

This picture is not the best for showing off the hair style, but it was the best I could get at the time. That's what happens when your model is 3 and full of sassafras.

This is what we started with. She had slept in the 2 side twists and braid (see previous post) and since she's always begging to leave her hair down, I decided to do this, since you don't have to get the hair wet, and it works well when you want to leave the rest down.

I used 5 elastics for this style. I first parted it on the side. I left it dry, but to get all those little fly away pieces around her face, I lightly sprayed the pieces with hairspray, and then combed them. To begin, part off a square section of hair.

Secure it with an elastic, keeping the pony to the far outer edge of the square. Then part off another square, but enlarging it on both sides evenly.  Secure with elastic, again to the outer corner.

Part off a third section, and repeat. I left a small section over her ear. I just prefer how this looks when you are leaving the rest of the hair down. I think it blends in better.

Finished first side.

Repeat on other side, but only with two sections.

I combed through her wavy hair with just my fingers, and sprayed very lightly with hairspray. You can't see the front from this angle, but I thought it showed how the front sectioning didn't take away from the back.

The goofy grin again along with the finished ponys. Since I used all different colored elastics, I didn't use any bows, but they do look cute with this style too. Of course, because bows are cute on little girls. Big bows. The bigger the better I say.

Little Girl's Hairstyles - 2 Side twists to low braided pony 7-10 min

This is a pretty quick little do, well at least, faster than you'd think. You'll need two elastics for this version.

Start with a side part, and fully damp hair, including underneath.

Grab a 1 inch or so deep piece to begin twist. See full side twist post on how to start your twist. Sorry I didn't picture it here. What was I thinking?

Do a full twist before bringing up hair from underneath. Keep combing hair down to from crown to keep it smooth on top.

When you get to the middle of her head, secure it with an elastic or clip. Make sure you can take it out easily with one hand, since you'll be holding the other twist when you come back to this point.

Do same twist on other side to the middle. This is the trickiest part--keeping the hair in the middle from poofing up, and then getting the other twist ready to join to the second twist.  Just keep your left twist tight, and pull down the hair smooth in the middle, then undo your first twist's elastic/clip.

When you can get them together, twist both sides down 1 or 2 times more, to pull them away from the head a bit. This will make it more comfortable on her little head.

Secure with elastic. You can braid, curl, or do a bun here. I did a regular braid down, after spraying it with water again thoroughly, and combing it out.

Spray with hairspray, and stick in a bow or flower and she's all sorts of marvelous!

Little Girl's Hairstyles - Gum in the hair oh my!

Yep, it happened. Gum in her hair. I figure I'd post this, to let you know what worked for us, since I was pretty sure I was going to have to cut it out, and have to lop off all of her hair.

Peanut Butter.

Lots of it.

Take a big hunk and just massage it into the gum. I had to do about 5 or 6 hunks of PB, since it gets crumbly, but it crumbles the gum out along with it.

For some reason I tried using hairspray on it at first, but that was not a fixer.

She smelled like a PB cookie all day (even after I washed it), but I managed to save her hair, so I could deal with the odor. Needless to say, she is banned from gum for a long while.

Little Girl's Hairstyles - How to do a basic part

So, I am putting this in, because my husband is always asking me (when he's trying to help out and do the girls' hair.....which unfortunately has HAD to happen sometimes), "HOW do you part it?" So I thought, well, there might be others who want to know an easy way. SO here ya go: Start with the end of the comb like so.

And like so. I like the fat end of these combs, since they don't get tangled in the hair as easy as the narrow end.

Pull in whatever direction you need, straight, angled, zig zag. Use your other hand to separate the hairs away from the tip of the comb. I couldn't do that here because I don't have three hands.

Use your comb to pull hair away from part, and comb down. Don't worry, I had to repart this one to get it straight. It happens. All the time. If you are doing a zig zag, or the back of the head, only do one direction at a time. Part it off, comb the hair away from the part, and move on to the next section. Combing the hair away and spraying it with water will keep the hair out you don't want when you work on that section.

Voila. A semi-straight part. It's hard with one hand!To part down the back of the head, for two ponys, or whatever, see this post: Back Part