A Favor...

I normally don't ask for stuff like this BUT one of my good friend's little girl Charlotte is in a photo contest for scholarship money (we all want our girls to be cute AND smart, right) and she needs our help! It's the last day of voting and she has to stay in the top 50 to move on to the next phase of the contest. So.... if you have an extra 5 seconds today and feel like doing something nice for someone else...... go here: http://apps.facebook.com/next_direct/gallery/show_entry/1593 and hit the vote button. You don't have to register or anything. Just put in your email address and hit vote. (Oh and they won't send you spam either. The email address is just to keep track of the voting.)

*They just added a captcha to the vote as well. It will ask you for a couple letters in her name. Her name is spelled CHARLOTTE. Don't put any spaces between the letters it asks for or it won't accept it. :)

Btw, Charlotte's mom is hair obsessed as well. :) She even sent in some cute hair ideas for you.

The first is a fun elastic braid variation to try.

If you look closely at the second picture, you can see glitter in the curly ponytail. She said to first put in the glitter and then spray it with hairspray to make it stay. What a fun idea!

Thank you in advance for voting! We could really make a difference in Charlotte's life for the better if she wins the scholarship!!

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. :)

I didn't do step by step pics either because like I said, I wasn't planning on a tutorial. Sorry!

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 tomorrow!

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.

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