Holiday hair

Few days ago our family came back from almost two week holiday. It was just as I expected, unfortunately I was not able to post anything on the road, I needed to wait until now. In this post I want to post all the hairs I photographed during those two weeks.

First of all when we left I had this knotted braid. I loved how well it lasted!

Then I wanted to try Cute Girls Hairstyles French Backs and this was result.

I took quite a few ribbons with me since I wanted to rehearse ribbon braids but in the end I only managed to do these two styles, First one is four strand dutch braid on myself and the second just a dutch braid ending in a ribbon bow.

This was my Christmas Eve style, I struggled with this one since I wanted to have loop braid both side of my head and somehow I couldn't make it work. In the end I got some sort of up do out of it!

While traveling I got my self two new toys, a hair crimper,which makes a very small wave to the hair to make it look more full and also a mannequin head. Of course I tried out both of the immediately!

This is how my hair looked crimped.

And this is how my mannequin head looks like, I made loop dutch braid to it just to try out the hair. It felt more like real hair than I thought!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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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How to make your hair look longer?

Well, for example like this!

This is a pull through braid up do and I wore this today to my friends girls birthday party. I really like it, makes my hair look longer and thicker and it hold up very well!

Snowflakes

One account in Instagram, @hair_by_jakky, is hosting a Christmas hairstyle competition. I thought about Christmas hairstyles and I started to think about snowflakes. I already had this snowflake necklace so this is what I come up with. I think the hairstyle would work in other parties as well, with or without the necklase.

Day of first times

In my earlier post I was styling my friends Piritas hair. Today I also did mine and used a hair style I've had never tried before. I started to try on loop braids and in the end they looked so nice that I did an up do out of them.