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

Little Girl's Hairstyles - Bobby pin rolls 3-5 min

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.

Little Girl's Hairstyles - Horseshoe braid 10-15 min

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.