Little ones

We went to a birthday party Saturday and this four year old young lady let me braid her hair. I went for a style I saw that day in Instagram, heart with a ponytail inside and two dutch braids from both sides to one simple braid. I was told she loved being photographed!

And then, for the first time, I managed to do some sort of hair style for my own little daughter. She is now 13 months old so I hope soon I get to do all sorts of braids for her! I did a small dutch braid on the front and secured it with a pin. Then she has two pig tails. So cute. Lasted maybe ten minutes.

Family affair

Today was the last kind of busy day hairwise, tomorrow me and the rest of the family fly to Netherlands and we don't return until end of the year! I hopefully have a chance to post something also from abroad but I can't promise you anything. 

Today's up do is a messy side bun with one pancaked dutch braid. My friend had her family photos taken and she wanted to have a simple style for it.

Space calling

Hi, it's Monday, I have a non heat curls day. Today I chose to do them with foil. I was thinking that i don't want to have so curly curls so I did less sections than earlier. Guess what happened?

I got myself an afro!

I wanted to have my hair open (even though it's raining) with a head band so I still went for it. It took some hair spray and gel to make it work!

My favorite braid

The pull through braid just is my favorite. I had a change to do this to my friend today.

Slide up and down

These two are my hairstyles from today. When I opened Instagram frist time in the morning I saw a hairstyle from @girlzhaircreations and fell in love with it. This one is inspired by it. In my version the the hair parts, which make the curve, are done with two different hair parts as my hair is too short for the original creation. Rest of my hair is into ponytail, in original pic it was in curls. I really liked this one!

I didn't have time to do the up do above so in the morning I had something else to spice up my pony tail, a four strand slide up braid. It was my first try so it's not anything near perfect, nice looking anyway.

Visit in heaven

I went to hairdresser today. It's one of the most relaxing things in the world when someone is doing your hair! I got my roots made more dark and ends more blond, in between some highlights are added. As a cherry on the cake my hairdresser made me these soft curls and waterfall braid going round the head.

 I just simply love this!

Festive time of year

Christmas time is of course always festive but even more so with all the birthday parties we are invited to. Today we celebrated first birthday of my friends little princess, she was just adorable! I made my friends hair for the party.

Rock n roll me

I guess this is as rock n roll I get! 

I just love this style, I think it would be great if I was going out. I actually did have a small party today, we had a small Christmas party with the other mums. I wouldn't call that as going out partying, though!

That Christmas feeling

I want to post my hair pictures separately from the last one, with the little princess in it, I think she deserves her totally own post!  Lately, I've fallen in love with four strand braids. I think four strand braids make my hair look thick and they are  fairly easy to do.  Braids have anyway been my favorite for a long time now. This is my style of today, I have four strand dutch braid in the left over curls from yesterday.

I also found this pic from last week, I was trying to have a braided headband. Well, it didn't really last the whole day since the hair in my neck is so short but the picture looks nice!

Princesses do exist!

This morning we were having a birthday party at our place for four one year olds, two girls and two boys, they all were cute as buttons! One of them was my little princess, she had one more party to enjoy her cake and cookies. Even though it was quite of an hassle with eight adults and 14 children I managed to braid this little princesses hair! 

She was wearing light blue Disney princess dress so what would be more suitable than ribbon braid. The ribbon is actually light blue with pink dots in it so it matched the dress, too. I think the braid worked out pretty nicely and she seemed to be pretty pleased with it too!

Through a straw

Hey, it's Monday! And yes, it's again rainy and windy. It has been the same weather every time I have done my non heat curls.

This time I choose straws as my helpers. Yesterday evening when I went to bed I looked like this. You should have seen the face of my one year old when she woke up in the morning, I think she was a little bit afraid of me, at least she wouldn't hug me until I took these off!

I divided the hair the same way as I do when I use toilet paper. I divided the hair to approx. 12 sections and rolled the around the straw. What surprised me was the good grip the straws had, when you get the knot done, they really hold very well, there was no pins needed. But unfortunately the straws made quite a noise when they rubbed against the pillow in the night!

When I opened the knots in the morning this was the hair waiting for me. Before this shot I did not style my hair at all, just went through it with my fingers. This is pretty tight curl.

So what I ended up doing with the hair was this. I made flip accents both side of the parting and kind of a mowhak in the back with three ponytails. This held up surprisingly well, I went outside with my hood on and also took a nap and it still looked the same!

Taking the braids abroad

This weekend has been fabulous! I went to a one night city break to Tallinn with three of my girlfriends, this was something I've been expecting  for the past half a year.   We girls try to do a trip like this every year but since we all have children and jobs it's not so easy to organize time away of from our families. When we get away, though, it's like we've never been apart, we talk and talk into the late night. We also had some pampering done in a spa and we visited a great restaurant. I feel like I'm a new woman again.

To me this was a weekend of braids, I made this dutch five strand pancaked braid for myself  both days.

I was also first time twinning with a bunch of other braiders in Instagram and for that I needed to do the style here. It's a dutch lace braid turning into a pull through braid, you can find all the creations under hashtag #dutchpullthroughtwin. I did this braid to one of my friends, she has the most beautiful hair color!

The picture in the right proves that we actually were in Tallin, here we are having some hot blue berry juice in the market square in Tallins Old Town. There was Christmas market there and we were sniffing the Christmassy atmosphere

There was one more braid I did, this is 3strand  pull through braid to one other of the girlfriends. Here it looks alright but unfortunately it did not survive the shopping!

Here comes the bride!

Today I got to do what so many self learned hair stylists secretly wish to do. I got to do an  up do for a bride. This was my first time ever doing brides hair so I was super exited about the opportunity and also a bit nervous.

This beautiful bride wanted to have  romantic and simple up do where all her hair is up. Her usual style is very sleek and natural. Also, they were celebrating they day with a small party so too festive hair would have not suited the occasion. Her hair is very thick and little bit wavy and it has ombre highlight in the ends.

After some consideration the bride decided that she wanted a bun and a braid on one side of her head. The braid was selected to be a four strand braid with one micro braid in it. 

I think the style suits her very well, she must have been very beautiful bride! I hope their day was perfect and I wish them all the best in the future!

My hair recently

As you've notice, I haven't posted so much about my hair and every day styles, even though that was the original meaning of this blog. I try to get back to my original rhythm so here are my hairstyles over the few days.

Monday I tried out waterfall twists. For the first time ever they worked out the way I really wanted them to. I really liked this style!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I had my hair just on pony tail, Today I realized that I can actually have a high bun if I just pin the hairs in the neck up!