Christmas decorations and all

I've been a bit busy the whole weekend! Or at least that's how I feel like. I must admit that I got things done, we decorated the house for Christmas, I made a gingerbread house and few hairs and I also went to a church concert. A weekend well spent!

As I was keeping myself busy I didn't think of my own hair so much, I think I wore this hairstyle few times. I also had my hair open. 

My friend here was the real (hair) star of the weekend. She let me do a bun hawk on her and she liked it, even though it turned out quite fancy! I really like how shiny her hair looks!

Xmas party time!

Today was an awesome hair day for me! I got the do the hair of these lovely ladies in the picture.

They are the colleagues of my husband and when we met earlier in the Autumn, I mentioned that I could do their hair if they had some special occasion. And now I got the change since it was their offices Christmas party! I'm so happy that they trusted me with their hair, doing the up do's felt like dream come true!

Then to the individual pictures. She wanted to have her hair in soft curls and half up, preferably over one shoulder. She had beautiful, shiny and sleek hair and we decided to add some volume to it with three clip on hairpieces. The highlights she has stand out beautifully in the braids in the back!

This girl was first asking for a curls which would be gathered to a bun on top of her head. To me she seemed more like a rock n roll kind of girl rather than the romantic type so after all we went for this more sleek bun style which compliments the beautiful color of her hair. Also the bow in the neck of her dress shows nicely in this one. 

And last, but not least, the Evita look-a-like up do. She has the most beautiful hair in the world, blond, thick, shiny and all the way to the waist! I would love to braid this hair sometime! She wanted to have her hair all up, in a neat but not too sleek bun. I first went for basic pull through braid up do, but since she had so much hair it became this pull through up do with vintage vibe on it. It suited her very well!

Trying to learn new tricks!

I haven't been posting anything in few days. I've felt I have nothing new to show. It's not that I haven't been practicing new things, few days ago I for example did this heart shape double lace braid up do where I tried to feather the  braids. Feathering means that you make a normal braid ( in this case dutch lace braid) but leave a strands out to the sides so you can for example add them to the next braid. Well, my attempt was not so successful, the feathering worked only in the top part with few strands. The heart shape did not work out so well either.

I was a bit discouraged after my feather braid attempt so luckily my friend let me braid her hair into 4strand dutch braid. 

Twist it, baby!

It's Monday again and so my non heat curl project continues! Today I tried rope twist curls. Rope twist curls were not on my original agenda but one of the Instagram accounts I follow @ bunorbraid , suggested it to me.  I though it was definitely an idea worth trying for.

This time I did not want to have very curly hair so I put only 5 rope twists to my hair. I looked like this when I was going to bed.

The curls what I got out looked like this.

These curls did not look exactly like what I pictured. The curls came out more curly than I wanted. So in the end I decided not to wear curls for today  but brush them out. Of course the left out curls gave me volume in my hair and I got quite nice up do out of it. 

On one side I did two rope twists which I pinned together to look like almost like a fishtail braid. On the other side there was a messy bun.

High and low buns

Maybe you thought that high bun out of short hair is something impossible? Well, it's not! Of course my hair is not that short but it's not even shoulder length and the bun in here is quite high. Today I felt that I wanted to feel like I have long hair so that's why I choose this look. I really liked it.

I also had a chance to do a bun for one of my friends. It did not come out quite as I expected but we both liked it still.

What a scare!

Today I was supposed to go to a massage, my lovely friend had offered to come by and babysit my little girl so that I could have some time for pampering myself. I made these braids thinking that this hair style would be comfortable while I lie in the massage table.

But oh,what happened! When I turned my back my girl took her pushing car and drove down the stairs. All the way day from top to bottom. I swear by heart almost stopped beating! So instead of massage I drove to ER. Luckily my dearest is fine, she only has a big bruise on her cheek. I'm still shaking because of the scare. I don't know how long does it take for me to get over this.

Little star

My friend asked me to braid her little girls hair for the photo shoot in the kindergarten. This little princess, one of the sweetest girls I've ever known,had asked for a braid which goes "there and there and there and there", this instruction  was given while spinning a finger round and round. Her mother thought that maybe her own braiding skills wouldn't be quite enough for the there and there hair, so I was called in to help.

My first try as there and there hair was ever-so-famous starburst bun. I've tried to make this few times before and I've never succeeded. I anyway decided to give it a shot  again and I got it right this time!  Mother and the daughter liked it too, unfortunately it didn't survive the night so in the photo shoot she wore her hair open.

But like the saying goes, tomorrow is another day and lucky for me today I got to braid her hair again. This time, to make the hair last through night we decided to make the braids tighter and I added one more spin of braid around the head.  I'm curious to hear will this last until tomorrow!

Challenge with the pull through braids, 3strand and normal

My new favorite braid is pull through braid, I've loved it since I learned how to make it. I made a regular pull through braid for myself the other day.

I explained earlier how I love that this braid makes my hair looks so thick and full. And I like how my new hair color looks with it too!

From Instagram I've learned that you can also make a 3strand version of the pull through braid. There is one pictorial of how to make that, it's made by @prettylittlebraids. Most of the hair accounts that I follow have already made their version of the 3strand pull through braid and today I gave it a shot too. I didn't watch the pictorial before creating my own braid as I used the same technique I make the regular pull through braid with. My first 3strand version looked like this.

After making this braid and watching the pictorial I realized that my technique is totally different than in the existing pictorial. I use a hair lasso to do the pull through braids. I even tried the 3strand version to myself since making these with hair lasso is so easy.

Non heat pin curls

On Mondays I do my non heat curl projects. Expect last Monday, because I totally forgot that Sunday that I needed to prepare the curls, Today I'm also cheating since I had the curls day early, I'm here showing my Sunday party hair. 

I did it so because yesterday I needed to have a really nice, really quick up do for my little girls birthday party. I decided, that having curls as a bottom would be the easiest hair style. I added some braids and this was my hair for the party. Making it took maybe five minutes!

I started doing my hair Saturday night. I wore these kind of pinned up bundles for the night.

These kind of curls were the result I got out. Talk about vintage vibe. And for these photos I have not styled my hair at all, only gone through it with my fingers after taking the pins away.

Baking braids

I'm sorry the blog has been quiet for few days! My mind has totally been away from hair stuff and instead I've been baking and entertaining visitors. First I had my mum come over for few days, then the parents in law's arrived and today we have celebrated my darling little girls one year old party. I just can't believe it's already a year when she was born!

When I was baking I needed to have my hair up so these two where my "baking braids".

4-strand fun and first Xmas up do

Since I started to follow all the braiding accounts in Instagram I've been rehearsing to braid with multiple strands. I'm still rehearsing so most strands I've done is five. I'm most of the time only rehearsing to do four strand braids properly and finally I think I got it! Even the french versions of it!

Here is the braid I did to myself last night while brushing my teeth

And this is a pancaked version for my friend today.

My other friend had a Christmas party today (already!) and I made this quick and messy bun for her.

(It's my boy in the background!)

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In the search of Ombre!

Almost half a year now I've wanted ombre dyed hair. That  means that roots and hair near the head is darker than the hair in the ends. I also wanted to have brown color in my hair with no red hues in it. First try to get this look was when I cut my hair to long bob in September. That time my hair turned out auburn red with no sign of ombre.

I changed my hairdresser and this is the result after try nr.2. I think this is much more ombre and I love the brown, it does not turn to red with any light. I'm wondering should I ask the dark part be more longer next time so that it wouldn't have high lighted effect in it? Anyway, I'm very pleased with this hair. I like to be dark haired again. 

I've also been dying to try my new bow clips from H&M. I'm not sure does the bow work with the stripes but at least I tried!

I have found the One!

This is actually yesterdays post but I was home so late so I went straight to bed. Yesterday I finally tried my Remington heat brush and oh boy, how have I been able to live without it so long! IT IS AMAZING! Almost better than straightening iron!

So yesterday morning I washed my hair and it dried by itself before I had the change to do anything to it. I didn't add any products. Suddenly I had the idea to try out the heat brush, brushed my hair with it with few strokes and voila, this was the result! Still can't believe how smooth it looks! I have not used any styling product also in the picture. 

Tuesday is the new Monday

Should have done my no heat curls yesterday but since I forgot, today is the new Monday.

I chose to do toilet paper curls this time. This is how I looked like when I went to sleep! I made quite a lot of hair parts and I twisted the hair into ropes before tying them into the toilet paper. I found this a little bumpy to sleep with but I managed and did not even get a head ache, which I get easily.

The curls, which came out, looked like this.

I wanted to wear my hair some what open so I only added a scarf. A real rock star look!

I also tried to do something with my friends hair but I was totally out of ideas. I did three or four things before I made this messy celtic knot.