St. Patrick's Day Hairdo Idea

I wasn't planning on posting today. But, this *pre-St. Patricks's hairstyle just turned out so cute! I had to share it. :)

Here's a quick video tutorial showing how...
Make the french braid first. I did a diagonal inside-out french braid. A regular french braid would also work. Or if you don't know how to french braid, you could do an elastic braid. Whatever!

To sew around the braid, I used our plastic needle and did it basically the same way I did this ribbon headband hairstyle. Start sewing at the bottom, on one side of the braid. Sew up to the top and down the other side with each ribbon. (You'll need 3 pieces of ribbon total.)

This was actually fairly quick too! From start to finish this took less than 15 minutes. Have a happy St. Patrick's Day! Oh, and in case you're wondering, the cute shamrock bow came from Kells Bows.

St. Patricks Day Hairstyles - The Rainbow and Clover

We actually did this St. Patrick's hairstyle 2 years ago! I meant to post it last year and then forgot. It's been sitting in my drafts all this time. :)

I remember experimenting and trying to figure out how to add watermarks on these pictures too. You'll have to ignore our old "hair4myprincess" address on these pics. I'm WAY too lazy to go back and change the watermarks.Anway, this is pretty self expanatory I think. It's supposed to be a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end (since her hair is kind of a golden color lol.) This is a "Princess Original" as it was her St. Patrick's idea!

Just part from side to side, make your elastic connecting braid, and finish off each section before you part out the next section back. Of course, use the same color of elastics on each part of the "rainbow." Pull everything together on the side. I made a messy type bun, as you can see. She wore it in a curly side ponytail the next day, that was cute too. See where the orange elastics are? Those were actually supposed to be green like the colors of a real rainbow would be. Well, our green elastics had gone MIA (of all colors to be missing on St Patty's) so orange it was.

Oh and Just a little warning; this hairstyle took awhile! I wouldn't recommend attempting it unless you have a good 30 minutes to spare. We were both tired of it towards the end!! There was something good that came from spending all that time on this though..... She was able to wear it for 3 days and it held up really well. Of course, there is also the clover hairstyle we posted last year. You can find that here: St. Patrick's Hairdo

Tritzi Gift Certificate Giveaway!

Head on over to our giveaway blog and enter to win a gift certificate From "Tritzi" for some cute hair accessories like these......


Notice I attempted a 5 strand diagonal french braid! It went ok until I got to the bottom lol. Thank goodness I could cover up the "not so nice part" with a cute flower from Tritzi!! :) The hairstyle on the right is just a regular old fish braid. On school mornings we do quick braids like this A LOT. It's fun to have some cute accessories to spice them up a bit. To enter the contest for the gift certificate, go to our giveaway blog: http://hairandshare.blogspot.com/
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5 Strand Braid Video

After seeing the 5 strand braid that one of our awesome readers submitted the other day, I was determined to figure out how to do it. So, here's my first attempt.....
As you can see, it's definitely not perfect and I need to practice before I feel comfortable trying a Five Strand French Braid version. It really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be though. You can do it! Here's the video that taught me how. Give it a try!!

Top 100 Mom Blogs of 2009

Imagine my surprise and shock when yesterday I was checking out Momdot's annual list of the "top 100 mom blogs on the net" for 2009. (A lot of my favorite blogs are on this list: Pioneer Woman, Nie Nie, My Charming Kids.) And then I came across number 76........ which happened to be US!!!!

What? Who? How?

Anyway "The Princess" and I are beyond HONORED to be part of this list. I mean what in the world? One of the top 100 for the whole internet!?! Maybe it's a mistake or something (shhh don't tell anyone and we'll ride it out while it lasts lol) but we'll take it.

So, I obviously wanted to thank Momdot for choosing our blog and making our day. And what better way is there to thank a blogger than by a whole bunch of comments. (Because we all know bloggers love comments, right?) So if you have a few extra minutes: Head over to Momdot, check out her list of the top 100 blogs, and leave Trisha a comment letting her know I sent ya. (Even though we're one of the smaller blogs on her list, I definitely want her to know we have by far the best readers!!!)

Guest Hairdos Part 3

This will be our last guest post (at least for a little while.) Then, I've got some fun hairstyle ideas for St. Patricks Day I'm hoping to squeeze in next week.

1. I had to start off with this one since Dr. Seuss's Birthday was just the other day! This "Cindy Lou Who hairstyle" was made by placing a small paper cup under her hair. The mom who sent this one in sure is creative! I love it!! This would be perfect for Halloween or Dr. Seuss Day.

2. French Braid pigtails
3. French Braided Heart

4. Twist Braids
5. French Braid Headband

6. Woven Pigtails7. Braided Connectors
8. Quick Heart Ponytail9. 5 strand french braid! (I really want to try this.)
10. Quick Heart Hairstyle
11. Olympic Rings Hairstyle
12. French Braid Heart With Ribbon13. Quick Heart Pigtails variation
14 and 15- Easter Updo Variations
16. Renaissance Hairstyle17. Twist Weave and Cross Hairdo
18. Cute Fairy Costumes
19. Easter Updo

20. Quick Heart variation
21. Five Minute Hairstyle variation
22. Twist Braids23. Twist Braid Star Hairstyle
I'm so impressed with all of these great hairdos! Thank you so much (all of you) for sending in your pictures. I hope I didn't miss anyone. If you've done a hairstyle you were wanting to share with us, you can post it to our facebook fan page at anytime. There have been a lot of fun pictures posted to our page lately, so feel free to join us and check out our "fan photos" and "favorite hairstyles" albums while you're there if you're looking for more ideas.

Guest Hairstyles - Part 2

Continuing on with our series of adorable hairstyles from you. Yay!

After I posted the first set of guest hairdos last week, I had some requests for links to instructions for a few of them. So in case you want to try something, I'm adding the links to the tutorials on this set and the post from last week. (At least on the ones I recognize.)

Here we go.....

1. Twist braid Heart
2, Woven Pigtails


1. Spider Web Hairstyle There are quite a few variations of this one around the blog. I just linked to the first one I could find which happens to be the Christmas Tree hairstyle, lol.)
2. French Braids and a Bun


5. Our first "non-human guest!" I love it. I think this style is an original creation from the hair doer who sent it in.


6. Quick "Quitter Twists"
7. Twist, Weave and Cross


8. Woven Basket Hair Style


9. Fancy Easter Hairstyle


Now a huge thank you goes out to our guest hairstylists and cute models who sent in these pics! And....horray, we can look forward to one more guest post later on this week. Can't wait!