Our Friend the Bobby Pin

Expect to see: braids, braids, braids. Colored hair. Hair tutorials from people far more imaginative and talented than I. Some of my attempts at the tutorials.

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Reblogged this before, but it seems more relevant now.

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  photos + post: Kristin Ess

Golly gee, we love very vintage-inspired ponytail. This is what I like to call the “Barbie Pony” when talking to a client. It’s got a part, a little volume + some soft bouncy curls. This particular version is a very wearable one. If you want to get a little more dramatic, you’re welcome to put as much volume and curl as you want! There are a LOT of steps in this tutorial, but that’s only because we wanted to be as detailed as possible. Alright, here we go…

Start with clean dry hair. If your hair isn’t perfectly clean, give it a little shot of dry shampoo! You can do a side part or a center part– which ever you feel is more flattering to your face shape.

Make a diagonal section starting at your part and going down in front of your ear.

You can see exactly where we parted here…

and here. Now clip the hair from the front section up and save that for later.

Give the hair a nice tease on top in your “crown area”.

Smooth over the teased hair using the finer side of the comb so it doesn’t appear too ratty. At this point you can give the top a little spray if you want to!

Now, put all the hair in the back into a nice, high, secure ponytail. It’s okay if you end up flattening out the teased bump a little bit because…

You can use a tail comb to pull it back up. As long as there’s teased hair under there, you can get that volume back.

Next we take out the front section. Take one side and drape it over the ponytail holder. Use a little spray to hold it in place if you need to.

Use small bobby pins to secure the pieces you’re wrapping around the ponytail holder.

Repeat the same thing on the other side. If hair falls out of this section or doesn’t reach, you can just let it fall and/or tuck it behind your ear.

Curl all of the hair in the ponytail. I like to curl everything in the same direction on each side so that you get a pattern going, but you can definitely make a more messy curl if you’d rather.

It’s completely up to you whether you brush the ponytail curls out or not. I personally like t0 brush them because the ponytail gets fuller and more bouncy.

Check the back using a hand mirror and make sure it looks balanced. Give it a final veil of strong holding hairspray.

Good luck dolls!

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As if I needed more of a reason to love Elizabeth of Delightfully Tacky! These super quick victory rolls are going to be so much fun to play around with the next time I want a little bit of va-va-voom added to my look. What are your favorite vintage up-dos? (via Delightfully Tacky)

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Been really busy training for my new job, but here's a cute thing. 

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Kailee of Let’sMakeItUp posted the last two videos for her back-to-school series. Here’s the first one: a messy-but-classy bun. I’m not going to post the last one in the series because I’ve already posted something similar on here already, but you can go check out Kailee’s YouTube channel if you’re interested. 

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Whoops. Accidentally posted that to my other blog. 

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This blog just got a bit smaller than it already was.

Because I started this blog mainly for my own reference (I want to keep hairstyle ideas on hand for whatever occasion), I’ve gone through and deleted most of the posts that are just pictures. I left some of the stuff that I might want to do to my own hair and the stuff marking my progress, but yeah. Just letting you guys- all seven of you, haha- know. I think I’ll also go through the posts and redo the tags: from now on, all of them will have the #ourfriendthebobbypin and will probably be tagged on whether the 'do is casual (which most of them are), fancy, updo, braid, etc. I’ve done that for the most part; I just wanna make sure I got it all. Again, for my own reference and yours, if you want it to be. 

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I LOVE hair buns, so this is perfect.

A TWIST ON THE LOW BUN

photos/post/design: Kristin Ess

Here’s another fun, cute way to pull your hair up off your shoulders during a hot, hot heatwave! It’s basically a topsy-tail looped through so many times that it starts to coil. Here we go!

photos/post/design: Kristin Ess

Gather all of your hair into a ponytail in the back and secure with an elastic (we used a clear one, but you can also use one that matches your hair color. It should be neither high nor low, but somewhere in the middle.

Carefully drag the ponytail holder down to the bottom of your ponytail. We stayed about 3 inches away from the ends so we would have something to tuck in at the end (you’ll see).

Split the hair down the middle as you see in photo 3.

When you loop the hair through go under toward your neck first and then up through the hole– not up and over the way you would normally do a topsy tail loop.

Keep going.

Keep going. It will start to coil up and get tighter.

Once it coils up all the way, you’ll start to see it form a bun shape. Use large bobbypins to secure it.

Now tuck the tail under, secure it with a bobbypin and smooth down any fly aways using hairspray and a tail comb. You want it to look tight and shiny– this is not a messy ‘do.

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This is an older video from LetsMakeItUp. It's always fun to see a well-established youtuber a couple years ago. Kailee was pretty adorable (as she still is now) and her voice was pretty different. Anyway, here's her tutorial for a zigzag braid, which I LOVE. I have to keep practicing this on myself, but I WILL get it one day, I swear! And I will be wearing it all the time once I do :)

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Another back-to-school tutorial from Let's Make It Up. 

         TIPS:

How to Dutch braid: It's fairly simple. It's like doing a normal braid, except that you cross the strands UNDER instead of over. If you don't know what I mean, try doing a normal braid. It probably comes really naturally to you by now, but if you look at what you're doing, you'll notice that, each time you cross hair to the other side, you're moving it over the other strands. So, once again, for the Dutch braid, cross the hair UNDER. 

I'm not sure how well this will work if you have shorter hair or a lot of layers. In my case, I've been trying to grow my hair out for a while, and the longest parts of my hair are only a bit past my shoulders. This means that the shorter parts (i.e. the part that would be used for the braid probably won't reach all the way around the ponytail. Instead of the knot that Kailee suggests, then, I suggest that you just bobbypin it around the ponytail and call it a day.

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Kailee (not sure if that's how you spell it) of Let's Make It Up is doing a back-to-school series. I'll probably post more of her videos because I love how easy her tutorials are to follow. She also talks pretty quickly which I, as a pretty quick speaker myself, appreciate. 

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Tried chalking my hair today. It's pretty easy, but also pretty messy. 

How to do it: wet your hair; use non-oil-based pastels and apply to hair in a downward motion; wait for hair to dry; seal the color using a straightening or curling iron.

Pros: temporary color, fun, pretty

Cons: pretty messy, dries out your hair, puffs of chalky material flies into the air if you try to brush it

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I think I'm at least proficient with the 4-strand braid...

Still, I can't say I have it totally mastered. Another issue is that my hair, with all the layers, isn't long enough in some parts to braid it all neatly. But who likes neat hair anyway?!

Also, Moroccan Oil is amazing. I stopped using it for a while because I don't bother blow drying my hair anymore, but now I can't imagine why I did that. It makes my hair look and feel AMAZING. Anyone who has hard water knows that your hair gets super gross and dry after a while due to the mineral deposits in the water. Clarifying shampoo could help, but a lot of those have detergent, which just dries it out more. Bluh. 

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Not to brag, but....

I started this blog so I could keep track of all the styles I wanted to try on my hair. So far, I've learned a couple tricks:

1) One of the earlier styles I posted about, in which you braid on both sides of your head and criss-cross them around a bun at the back of your head. I got this one DOWN.

2) The rope braid

3) The inside-out braid (I've been posting about this one a lot, because it was pretty frustrating)

4) Kind of an offshoot from the inside-out braid, but I learned how to do the Katniss braid correctly

5) The fishtail braid

You wouldn't think it's such a big deal, but for a while, I just felt so "meh" about life that I didn't bother doing anything besides school stuff. I wasn't unhappy per se; I was just nothing. Last semester, I started making small goals for myself, so I could feel I had some control over my life. This summer, I set some goals, but some awesome stuff just kind of found me without my even trying. Oddly enough, one of those awesome things was doing my hair. I don't even know why it makes me so happy, but there's just something so great about knowing that I did my hair because I gave a shit. And giving a shit is really important. 

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LetsMakeItUp is here to save the day with a giant video encyclopedia of braids. She covers the following braids at the following times, so you can skip ahead to whatever you want to learn. 1) The French braid- 0:00 2) Dutch Braid- 2:52 3) Fishtail- 4:36 4) Rope Braid- 5:43 5) 4-strand braid-7:34 6) 5-strand braid- 9:40

LEGGO.

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Wait. But bobbypins go in your...hair?

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FINALLY going somewhere with the inside-out (AKA dutch) braid!

It takes me a while to really get myself to do something that's new to me. If I can get away with not doing it, then I just won't do it. For example, when I read the tutorial on the Katniss Everdeen braid, I saw that it required an inside-out braid, but I didn't think this was compleeetely necessary, so I ignored it. I finally started practicing the inside out braid yesterday in order to a loopy hairstyle and MAN, have I been missing out! The Katniss braid (and all the other hairstyles I've been trying that called for it) looks AWESOME now. 

For those of you who don't know, the inside-out braid is just a braid that sits on top of your hair rather than in it (as seen in the picture). The braid is more obvious and its how cornrows are done. To do this braid, cross the hair UNDER instead of over when you braid. Easy peasy.