This cute girls hairstyle name had us giggling away like mad this morning. Well, I was giggling but when I played the song, Twist and Shout, to Squidge she soon got the joke. This is a very easy and cute hairstyle that’s perfect for manic Monday mornings. You don’t need longer than five minutes from start to finish and, yes, that includes the brushing out of tangles and swearing under your breath.
This particular girls hairdo was invented by us and is really just a bunch of cool hairstyles smashed together into one.
You’re going to need a rat tail comb, spray/water, a brush and a hairband.
Brush the hair out using a spray (or a spray-in conditioner or detangler) and then, using the rat tail comb, part the hair from the middle of the ear to about 1/4 up the head. If you look in the pic below, you can see how the hair is pulled up and away from the ear in two directions.
Do this on both sides of the head and brush the rest of the hair into a loose pony at the bottom. This just keeps it out of the way while you twist. Clip away the left side and start on the right. How tightly you want your twist, or how soon, is up to you. If you separate the strands close to the front, then your twist will start really early on. I preferred to create the illusion of pulled back hair here, so I just twisted the entire hank of hair into itself. Like this:
Ask your little one to hold the right strand and then twist the left. When they reach the middle, twist them around each other until you get down to your loose pony. Again, ask your little one to hold this while you separate the hair from the loose pony into three and start a French braid.
As you can see in the image the twisted hair disappears under the braid. To do this, just braid the hair to the neckline, ask your daughter to hold it, then take the twisted hair and slip it under the hair at the top of the French braid. Pull it down until you reach the three strands of your braid, blend it into one of the three strands, and complete the braid.
Ta da! Done. Easy as pie and lots of fun. Although there are points when you wish you had more arms…
Yesterday I broke my 40-year cupcake curse. Well, not really 40 years, I wasn’t baking at 6 months old, obviously, but it sounds more dramatic.
Anyway…
Yes, I broke my cupcake curse and made no less than 12 gorgeous, perfect cupcakes that tasted amazing. YAY! So, in honour of this moment I am sharing the recipe that made me flawless cupcakes.
Note: Put Nutella in the fridge for a good 2-3 hours first
Ingredients:
225g butter softened (I bunged it into the microwave for about 30 seconds
225g caster sugar
225g self raising flour
4 medium eggs (they must be medium or the mixture tastes too eggy)
2 tsp vanilla extract
Make it up
Preheat the oven to 200 C and get those all important silicon cases ready and waiting. I was told that a neat little trick is to give the insides of the cupcake cases a little wipe with oil or butter to stop the cakes from sticking and it worked a treat.
Now blend the sugar and the butter until they are really, really creamy. We don’t have a blender/cooking fun instrument so we whisked it by hand. It takes longer but is kind of great for arm muscles I reckon.
Once the mixture is super creamy and light add the four eggs one at a time. I’ve found that the trick to making the mixture light and fluffy is to really beat the mixture thoroughly after each egg. We whipped it for ages each time (Squidge also found this hugely entertaining so that’s a bonus) and the resultant cupcake mixture was so frothy it was amazing.
Now drop in the vanilla extract and stir it in carefully with a metal spoon
Do the same with the flour – fold it in with a metal spoon until thoroughly blended. I think that you have quite a bit of leeway here as I let Squidge do most of this (she wanted to!) and the mixture didn’t fail or flop.
Once that’s all neatly made, drop one to one and a half tablespoons of mixture into each case. We have a variety of different silicon case sizes so how much you put in will depend on that really. Add your teaspoon of Nutella and then cover it up with another tablespoon of mixture.
I also made some with a dollop of jam and some with a swirl of honey
Pop them into the oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown
Wait for them to cool (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, yeah RIGHT, wait for them to cool. Oh, oh, hahahahaha)
EAT
I have found that, even with cooling the Nutella prior to dolloping, it can drop to the bottom of the cupcake and not form that lovely and beautiful filling thing that you dream of. I have googled this issue and found several different options. The first is to make it icy cold (check), and the other is to roll your filling in a bit of flour. Oh yes!
This apparently works brilliantly with fruit fillings, chocolate chips and all sorts, so give it a bash.
Heidi over at One Feisty Mama says that she just swirls the Nutella into her mixture (when she bakes her Nutella Cake) which spreads the chocolate evenly throughout and tastes amazing. I used this trick for the honey filled Victoria sponges (which were inspired by Silky’s moon biscuits from Adventures of the Far Away Tree) and they were scrummy with pockets of honey.
There you go. Victoria sponge cupcakes with Nutella filling (or any other damn thing you please). And the ingredients are sooooo cheap and easy, this is my kind of recipe.
This hairdo totally captivated both Squidge and I when we saw it on the Adopt a Do site yesterday. It looks amazing! So we both thought it would be the perfect choice for Crazy Hair Friday at school today.
I did end up practising it a bit yesterday afternoon and sadly didn’t have the required hairpin that Mindy recommends so it was a little bit harder than it should have been.
For those of you who have girls with curly, fine hair, this do is best created with damp hair (not wet!) and then by twisting the strands before looping them through the hairpin to make them easier to manage. It is actually quite easy once you’ve got the hang of it (and if you have a proper hairpin – note to self: get some) and really, really would be brilliant for weddings, parties and general fun.
It isn’t the most robust style, though. In spite of using a very tight French braid, one of the bows kept falling out. In the end it stayed looped on one side while popping out on the other, a little frustrating. And I don’t expect her hair to come back from school looking anything like this. In fact, I imagine it has already started coming loose even though I used hairspray.
I am not sure if this is because I used the wrong hairpin and stretched the braid too much though, I think it might be. Anyway, this hairstyle looks really complex but is rather easy to achieve. It is, however, time consuming and your little one will have to sit completely still as you thread. I recommend a book/TV/something to keep them occupied while you make it.
I am particularly proud of this one, I really love it.
I am still struggling with twisting hair. It is incredibly frustrating and yet it delivers such awesome results that I have to keep on trying to get it right. I mean, just look at this hairstyle! It’s so chic and gorgeous and Squidge just loved it. It is one of the best cute girls hairstyles in my repertoire now.
Again, I was inspired by Adopt a Do, but what she makes look easy I find really tough. I think that the reason I struggle is because (other than my two left hands) Squidge’s hair is so fine and tangly. It seems to untwist itself as fast as I twist it! Again, plenty of spray in conditioner and hairspray (I use the John Frieda one that isn’t sticky and awful) tends to fix the problem.
If your little one has the same kind of hair as Squidge, then this style is pretty much perfect. Once you have the hair twisting to your demands, it really does keep those tangles at bay. Although I have to confess that this particular cute girls hairstyle didn’t withstand the demands of school.
I really must start taking pics of how her hair looks at the end of the day so you can see how well each one copes! Happy hairdos!
This hairstyle is sadly not shown as well as it should be in these pics. I do apologise, I have no idea why I managed to get everything except Squidge’s hair in focus here. I think it was One Of Those Days. Probably brought on by the fact that it hasn’t stopped raining for a month and my brain is likely turning into some kind of mush/mushroom.
This hairdo is gorgeous and it was also taken from Adopt A Do as her styles are still rated as among the easiest and most versatile in my books. You’ll notice that the heart hoops at Mindy’s site are a lot thicker, but Squidge’s seem more, well, tame and this is because Squidge’s hair is very fine and curly.
We often start a style only to realise about halfway through that it just won’t work with thin, fine hair at all. My hair used to be like Squidge’s but it is now very thick so I have no worries about that changing in the future, but for now, all the posts on this site will be ones that work for little girls with fine locks and plenty of curls.
While these heart hoops aren’t necessarily as lustrous as those on Adopt a Do, they are definitely cuter than cute and, I promise, one of the easiest hairstyles to make. You will need to really get your daughter’s hair completely knot free and keep it a bit damp throughout to avoid those frustrating tangles so common with fine hair. I find that using a spray in conditioner (I always rave about Vosene so feel free to insert your choice here) makes a huge difference.
Have you ever sat at your desk and wanted to just scream/cry/hide? We all have those moments. While I was in the Kruger Park recently, I was driving home after a hot day in the park when I saw a giraffe crossing the road. I stopped to watch him when out of nowhere, another dude appeared. I grabbed my phone, turned off the car, and sat there recording the utter silence and this giraffe’s complete disinterest in my existence.
This was, I think, HIS road.
So, next time you feel mad, crazy and just plain frustrated, take a moment and just enjoy this. It’s just for you.
It’s Crazy Hair Friday again and so Squidge opted for this funky heart-shaped hairdo made with judicious use of hairbands and the rat tail comb. I saw this on another site called The Story of a Princess and Her Hair, which has some astonishing hairstyles. What that woman can do with ribbon and braids is nothing short of amazing. I recently tried to do her four-stranded plait but I am still failing miserably.
This particular hairstyle looks really complex. Many of the mums at school this morning asked me if I had to get up at 5am for it! Actually, it is beyond easy and can be done in about ten minutes once you have your head around the general idea.
You’ll need your hairbrush, rat tail comb, as many braiding hair bands as possible – I found these on Amazon – and lots of spray. As usual, I use the Vosene detangler and conditioning spray. Hate the smell, LOVE the result, and the fact that we remain lice-free in this house.
You’ll need to part the hair down the middle up until you are level with the ears, and then part the hair again down the sides to the ears. Take the left side and clip it or tie it away, and do the same with the hair falling down the back. On the right side, part the hair again at the diagonal and then clip the other chunk of hair away.
Starting at the back on the right-hand part, scoop up a little pony tail of hair, tie it up and then go to the next one and repeat. The trick here is to kind of twist the hair of the pony so it forms a neat end and then twist the second strand into it. This just makes sure you don’t have fly away bits and keeps the hair tidy for when you tie it. You can use as many hair bands as you like – the website I copied uses loads but I only used a few.
You move forward towards the brow, turn, grab the chunk you tied away, and then follow the shape of a heart to the back. Repeat this on the left and then bring them together in the middle. I added in some extra bands just for looks on the rear long strands. Then brush her hair at the back and you’re done! The crazy elastic band heart is all yours.
We used black braiding bands as we did this for school, but you can really get some great effects by using coloured bands.
I went to Africa and came back to discover that Hunger Games hair fun was in full swing. Over atAdopt a Do, Mindy had copied the hair that Primrose Everdeen wore at the Reaping and it is such a cute and simple girls hairstyle I was totally into copying it. I also saw the movie this weekend (am I the only person who cried in the Reaping scene?) so doing up the Prim Everdeen hair felt, well, hungerfan right…
The style is very simple. It’s just a French braid pulled close to the ears and started right near the front of the head. It is also a very tough style. Squidge went to school looking like she does in these pics, and came back with it looking exactly the same. Colour me impressed! It was also a five minute job, unlike some of the twists I’ve tried this week. I really do need to find out if there is a trick to hair twists because ours never work as well as they should.
So, here you go, the Primrose Everdeen hairdo, enjoy!
This hairstyle is entirely the genius of Mindy over at Adopt a Do. There is no way I could ever be that creative with hair. It also comes with a great story so be prepared to read some when you get there.
I bet you’re staring at it in a combination of amazement and concern. Who could send their child to school like THAT I hear you ask. Well. I did. And The Husband DID ask. And halfway to school, Squidge took the entire thing out and ended up wearing an awful, terrible Daddy Pony Tail of Doom.
Apparently, said The Husband, people kept staring at her and it freaked her out. I felt awful!
However, this is, to me, still an awesome hairdo and it is so easy to make. Possibly save it for a special occasion that warrants such insanity though. I’m not going to tell you how to make it, Adopt a Do does it far better and with video.
This hairstyle is stupendously easy and perfect, just perfect, for crazy hair day at school. It is also very cute and has that Princess Jasmine thing going for it as well. You’re going to need a rat tail comb, a hairbrush, spray, and five colourful elastics.
To start with get the hair all knot free and silky and make sure you’ve got those hairbands close by. I think I pulled a muscle trying to reach down for a hairband with one hand while holding onto the hair with the other. Using the rat tail comb, create this little top knot with hair from the centre of the head – don’t include the sides as you can see in the pic. Pull the sides and the rest of the hair into a side pony. Pick left. Pick right. Whatever floats your boat.
Making the topknot of this cute girls hairstyle is fabby easy. Just tie it into a pony, keeping the elastic loose (make sure you use those super thin ones) and then slip your fingers between the elastic and the scalp and pull the pony tail through. Don’t pull this one right the way through, instead tighten the elastic and use your fingers to cover it up. Done. It’s just an inverted pony with its head sticking up.
Then redo the side pony to include the tail of the top knot and make subsequent, evenly spaced, bunches of hair until it ends. Fluff out each bunch when you’re done and there you have it.
It will honestly take you five minutes, and that includes super curly and tangled hair… Promise.
This cute girls hairstyle name had us giggling away like mad this morning. Well, I was giggling but when I played the song, Twist and Shout, to Squidge she soon got the joke. This is a very easy and cute hairstyle that’s perfect for manic Monday mornings. You don’t need longer than five minutes from start to finish and, yes, that includes the brushing out of tangles and swearing under your breath.
Do this on both sides of the head and brush the rest of the hair into a loose pony at the bottom. This just keeps it out of the way while you twist. Clip away the left side and start on the right. How tightly you want your twist, or how soon, is up to you. If you separate the strands close to the front, then your twist will start really early on. I preferred to create the illusion of pulled back hair here, so I just twisted the entire hank of hair into itself. Like this:
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