All good things come to an end.

Happy New Year everyone, it's now 2015!

Can't believe how fast this year went! I first started this blog to document the hairstyles what I do to myself over the year 2014 but during the year I have started to feature more and more hair styles what I have made for other people and taking baby steps forward professional hair styling.

I have learned that hair is my passion, talent and hobby and I want to continue getting better at styling it. And I've also learned new things this year, I couldn't braid almost at all in the start of 2014 and lately braiding is all I've been doing!

Because of braiding I also discovered Instagram and the braiding community there, that has been such an inspiration to me! I've gotten so much feedback and encouragement there! As this blog was just a project for the year 2014 this will be my last post, I won't be updating the blog anymore. From now on you can find me in instagram under username 365goodhairdays.

Thank you all, my lovely readers, I had a great hair year 2014!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!