Little Girl's Hairstyles - Makin' me proud!!!

My friends! I love nothing more than hearing feedback from you, and how you like certain things, and how you've tried them out, etc. But, what I love MOST, is when you send me pictures of hairdo's you've tried, and they've worked, and you share how happy you are about i!! It makes us mommas happy to make those little gals beautiful, and I'm so thrilled we can share it all together!
So that's enough of my cheesiness, I wanted to share with the rest of you some of the adorable pictures I've recently received:

Says her mom: ooo so excited! We just tried the curlers out you suggested, big hit! Take a look.

To see the post she referenced, look HERE.

And I received a great comment where an excited mom posted on her blog about her gal's hair. Take a look at her blog:  Tammy's Two Cents.

To see the post she referenced, look HERE.

Thanks for sharing these with me!! You made my day!

Don't forget to check out the awesome giveaway too--it's a great one!

GIVEAWAY! Flowerz In Her Hair!

Have you seen Flowerz In Her Hair? If not, and if you love big beautiful ribbons and bows in your little gals' hair as much as I do, then you really should be over checking out Amy's (the mastermind) stuff. I will be sharing some of the adorable items I have from her in the coming weeks. It's high quality stuff ladies--and her variety of things to choose from!-you could spend all day looking at her blog!
Amy is offering a $20 gift certificate to her blog for those that wish to enter. Here are all the ways you can get entries (and you should definitely enter more than once!)

1. Follow Pretty Hair Is Fun To Do and Flowerz In Her Hair on Facebook.
2. Add a Pretty Hair Is Fun To Do link or button to your blog.
3. Add a Flowerz In Her Hair link or button to your blog.
4. Send a tweet about PHIFTD and FIHH.
5. Send an email to a friend telling them about this giveaway and cc girlzhair@gmail.com.

When you have done one or more of these, leave us a comment telling us what you have done! The drawing will take place on Friday, Feb. 5, and the winner will be announced on Sat. Feb. 6.
GOOD LUCK!!!

Little Girl's Hairstyles How to do a -Messy Bun Video Tutorial

I show how to do a messy bun here, from a stuffed bun. I also have a video on how to do a stuffed bun, so check that out if this one isn't clear. Have a great weekend!!

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Twist Braids into Pony Loop 10-15 min

Well, this was another experiment that I ended up liking pretty ok, and unlike some of my more elaborate creations, this is one we actually do quite often. So it has my everyday ease of doing thumbs up!

This hairdo is a great one to start out using some lightweight gel, worked through nice, wet hair. The gel will help keep the hairs tucked into the loop at the end.

This is how I parted it to begin with: Down the center to the ears, and clipped off the back.

Make 4 ponys, 2 on each side of the first part.

Do a twist braid on each of the four ponys. I had my little gal help me hold the ends of the braids.

Once all the twist braids are done, comb the back of the hair into a low pony.

You can either put in an elastic and secure the pony first, and then bring in the twists, or do it all at the same time. I don't like having more than 2 elastics around a pony, and the loop does requre another, I chose to do it all together. The trick with that is to bring one braid over at a time, and keep it tight.

Secure with an elastic.

On the last pull through, pull the majority of the length of hair through, leaving enough to wrap around the base of the pony.

Wrap the tail around like so, until all the hair is wound around.

Wrap another clear elastic around the wrapped hair. Having wet hair here will help keep the loop smooth and even. Try to keep it all together as you pull it through the last elastic, or else it can look a little messy (like mine here!)

Smooth is out as much as possible, and spray it well!

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Q & A: How to get the gals to sit still long enough to do their hair!!??

A recent comment (and many many others) have led me to share just some things I do to get my gals to sit still and let me play with their hair.
This is what my friend Angelia said:

I can't get my fiance's girls to sit still and play beauty shop. I even got a comb and everything. I want to play with their hair so bad, but they just run around like boys. :0(


Well, here's what I do ladies:
 
1. I go to my girls' bathroom and grab 3 things: Their small step stool, the garbage (for hairs that are combed out),  and the basket that I keep all of my hair 'tools' in (elastics, combs, hairspray, spray bottle, etc.). It's portable and I keep it under my bathroom sink so it's ready to go.
2. I park them on the small stool in front of the TV (gasp! I know). I turn it on to their favorite cartoon (or whatever they'll watch).
3. If that is not going to hack it that day, I offer a variety of my wondeful homemade nutritional snacks...such as candy, fruit snacks, pretzels,etc., to eat while they watch TV. (I am teaching excellent habits here.) 
 

My basket

This usually works 9 times out of 10 with my 3 year old. My 6 year old has been through this enough that she'll stand still for me in the bathroom and we just chat while I do her hair. But, like I mentioned in my last Q & A, it just takes repetition. Kids will get used to a routine and you can have your 15 minute window of hair time. I've found that having all my stuff readily available helps too, because if I'm constantly getting up to get something, they like to get up too and run away.
 
I hope that's doable for some of you! Don't give up--they get used to it, and LOTS of compliments help them start to like the whole 'getting pretty' time.  :)