The Rose - Beautiful And Quick Hairstyle!

Make a ponytail on top of her head (with a clear elastic) like this.....

This hairstyle works best for me when the hair is damp. Also, put a little bit of gel or pomade in at the top of the ponytail and run it all the way down to the ends.Next, take the ponytail and start loosely wrapping it around the elastic....Keep going.....Wrap the hair around as many times as you need to, depending on how long (or short) your little girl's hair is. You can either keep going until the ends are all wrapped up, or leave a little bit of the ends out like we did.Tighten everything up just a little bit (it should still be fairly loose.) Rearrange things if you need to (so that it's somewhat centered) and smoosh it all down so that it lays flat.Now it's time to bobby pin everything in place. Don't worry about trying to hide the bobby pins. I think they look cute showing a little! We pinned this in 3 spots: The top, at the base where the ends are coming out, and on the right side. At each of these points we used 2 bobby pins (crossing each other for a better hold.) So, 6 bobby pins total. To spice things up a bit, the princess picked out these cute bobby pin flowers to add from Every Little Detail. We also curled the ends under just a bit and added a ringlet to each side of her head.

Including the time for the curls, this took 7 minutes to do. If you leave the curls out, you could probably do it in 5!

$100 For One Million Page Views - A Fun Contest!

I just noticed the counter on our blog passed 900,000 page views over the weekend and is getting closer and closer to 1,000,000! It's taken a little over a year and a half and a lot of people stopping by our little blog to rack up that many views!!

I decided do this contest as a thank you for all of the fun and enjoyment my daughter and I have received from doing this blog. You'll never know how much each comment/email/friendship from our readers (all of you) has meant to us!

Here's How To Win:

If you scroll down to the very bottom of our blog, you will see a little box (the counter.) The number to watch is the first line (pages.) Whoever happens to land here when the counter hits 1,000,000 will win up to $100!!!!!

The more hair obsessed you are, the more cash you will win!

* You will get $20 for being the millionth visitor.
* I will add $20 more if you are also one of our facebook fans.
* +$20 if you are a blog follower (on our right sidebar.)
* +$20 if you have shared this contest with your friends and posted about it on facebook or on your blog sometime between now and the time this contest ends. (The more people you share this with, the faster the page views will add up and the quicker this contest will be over!)
* +$20 if you are an owner of our new hairstyle book.

The winner can choose to either have cash (through paypal) or a gift card. Keep in mind though, I live in a fairly small town so the gift card selection is limited. (We do have a Walmart and a Home Depot.)

*Oh, and please don't feel like you need to fan/follow us/buy a book/whatever unless you really want to. That's not my intention with this contest. I just want to reward and thank our "hair obsessed club" and our regular visitors more than..... a passerby who accidentally landed on our site at the right time by typing in the wrong address, lol. *wink*

Now, some of you might remember the contest we had for our 100,00th visitor almost a year ago. It ended with more than one winner (which was not what I had in mind.) THIS contest is for page views, which are counted every time the page is loaded, even by the same visitor. So, I am confident that there will only be one winner this time around.

The lucky 1,000,000th person will need to take a screen shot of the counter and email it to me for verification. To take a screen shot, hit "ctrl" and "print screen" at the same time. Then, open up something you can paste a picture into (like microsoft word) and press "ctrl v" to paste. After you've pasted it, you can send it to: hair4myprincess at yahoo dot com.

If you're using a Mac: Press "the apple button" (it's near shift) plus "shift" plus "3" all at the same time. That should take the screen shot. From there you should be able to paste.

If you are technically challenged like me. :) Take a picture of your screen with a digital camera and email me the picture. Geez, if you need to use your Polaroid and "snail mail" the picture - I will accept that too, lol. I don't care the method, I just want to make sure I'm sending the prize to the right person.

I can't wait to see who the winner is. Good luck everyone!

Heidi Hairdo - Christmas Style

Ok, so I lied! I thought I was done posting until after Christmas. But, we did this hairstyle today and it turned out so cute. So, how could I not post it? :)

I only have one picture of the steps (sorry.) I wasn't planning on posting this at the time I was doing it! It's actually very easy though. Just make some pigtails and braid in a ribbon or scarf on each side. (I didn't have two scarfs available, so I added one to only one of the braids. Whatever works for you!) Leave out some of the scarf hanging on both the top and bottom of the braid to make bows later. Next, position the braids over the top of her head and sew them into place with a plastic needle and ribbon. Tuck the ends of the braids in with bobby pins of you need to. Then, make some bows on each side with the leftover ribbon or scarf. This took less than 10 minutes!



K, I posted this quick....... in record time! Hope it makes sense, lol. And now I'm REALLY done. I haven't even started wrapping (or cooking, or cleaning.) aaack

Holiday Bun

It looks like this will be the last Christmas hairstyle I will have time to post. We actually just got back from Disneyland! And now we have all the Christmas stuff to do. So, I'll be taking a Christmas break from blogging.

Just for fun, here's a little glimpse into our trip....... The Princess meeting another Princess!
And now back to the hairstyle....

Make a ponytail (We did ours on the side. The middle would work too if you prefer.) Split the ponytail in half and run 2 ribbons through the elastic at the top. (You can see the red ribbon here. We added white as our second ribbon.) Braid both sides of the ponytail and secure with clear elastics at the ends.Form one of the braids into a circular shape and using a plastic needle, sew the ribbon around the braid. Don't worry too much about the end of the braid at this point. You can tuck it in later.Starting on the other side, sew the remaining braid around the first one with the other ribbon.Tuck the ends in with a few bobby pins. Then, tie the ends of the ribbons into bows so that they don't come undone and finish it off with a cute Christmas bow.

I put some french braids in front before we started the bun just for fun this time.


Another day we did this bun without the french braids and added some elastic braids instead.

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and we'll see you after the holiday!

Christmas Hairstyle - Holly Berries

First of all, I want to thank everyone who joined us in the "candle for Bryson" post yesterday. The enormous support shown to the Ross family was awesome and brought a tear to my eye. :)

And now, another fun holiday hairstyle....

This one is very simple. Just some barbie bangs and 3 knots to form the "berries." (Make sure to add an elastic to the bottom of the knots to keep them tight.)We stole some "accessories" off an ornament on our Christmas tree!Sorry about the dark picture. Don't know what's up with that?

She had some braids in the day before which made some cute waves. We finished off the look by curling in some ringlets with our curling iron.

A Prayer For A Friend.....

I realize this is a hair blog. But sometimes there are more important things in life than hair, ya know? Late Monday afternoon my dear blogging friend (Shellie) lost her 2 year old son in a drowning accident. I have a 3 year old son, so it really hits home how devastating something like that would be. I can't imagine what she's going through right now. I'm joining the blogosphere in a special "Wordless Wednesday" dedicated to Shellie. If you want to join in, take a picture of a candle lit in honor of Shellie's sweet angel (Bryson Ross) and post it on your blog. (I ended up having to take the links off because it was messing up our page.) If you did a special candle post and want to add your link, please leave it in the comments. Thanks!

The Winner! (And Other Stuff)

Our winner of The Crafty Moms gift certificate has been announced! Go here to see who it is.

In other business: If you are wanting to purchase a hairstyle book as a Christmas present; today is the last day to order that it will for sure get there on time. We are leaving town tomorrow for a few days and won't be shipping out books during that time. If you order one while I'm gone, I will ship it out as soon as I return. It may make it before Christmas, but there are no guarantees. So, order today if you can!!! Thanks!