Toddler Hair Tutorial

1. First part hair into 4 sections. Starting from top of your head dow to each ear. This makes the two front sections.

2. Split the back of the hair into two parts. This does not need to be precise. Now, I like to put a little product on my hands. Just a little bit to help your hands stick to their hair and give you more control. Nothing wet or sticky, just a little tacky.

Here are some ideas of products that work well:  bumble and bumble grooming creme or Paul Mitchell Shaping Creme

3 & 4.  Then you want to tie the back two pieces into a knot. Nice and low.

5.  Continue  to tie knots until you run out of hair. Do this as tight as you can. It will loosen up on it’s own.

6, 7 & 8. Then finish with a rubber band and tuck end under and secure with a bobby pin.

9. Take one of the side peices and wrap it over the top of the knot and then around and under it and secure it with a bobby pin. Repeat with other side. This will cover up the space ubove the knot. It is easier with longer hair. If you are doing this with shorter hair, and it wont wrap all the way around and under, you can pin it into the knot.

10. It is ok if it is loose. That is kind of the look. It doesn’t need to be perfect. Just try and hide all your bobby pins. You can pin up more of the front peices if you like.

11. I like using shorter bobby pins for little ones. I cannot find a link for them but you can get them at Sally’s Beauty Supply. One brand is Strictly Professional. If you prefer the regular size ones these are the best. They stay closed  really well and are great bang for your buck.

now here it is on longer hair. ruby is four. her hair is long and pretty thick for her age.

For a how-to on doing this style on older girls and thicker, longer hair, visit thebluecloset.com.

Disney Cruise Line Hairstyles for Girls

We just got back from a holiday Disney cruise to the Bahamas, where they offered these darling and easy styles for your toddler or young girl, along with glitter make up. Very cute and easy princess makeover!

Festive Holiday Hair for girls

This post featured on babble shows how to do 12 easy and fancy holiday hairstyles for little girls. 


Consider the following a holiday hair guide for the rest of us. The rest of us with so-so braiding skills, very little patience, or hard to style hair. There’s no reason our little girls shouldn’t be able to have fancy hair for the holidays. Rather than relying on long hair (something we don’t have) we rely on easy styles with simple embellishments anyone with desire and a hot glue gun can make and tailor to their own needs.

Using a few things at the store to put together some fun holiday embellishments, we could have gone crazy with holiday peacocks, Santa hats and tiny little wrapped presents sticking out of ponytails, but we decided to keep it simple. Head to the holiday section of any craft store and see what inspires you. Here is what was purchased for these hairdos:

• 3 plastic headbands -$3
• Bag of little satin roses – $3.50
• Thin red, gold and green ribbon – $1 each
• Thick red satin ribbon – $2
• 4 candy cane shaped ornaments – $2
• Glittery snowflake ornament (with 3 snowflakes) – $1.50
• What we already had – Hair ties, bobby pins, plastic sewing needle, tail comb, spray bottle and a hot glue gun.

To see more, click here.

Kids Holidaywear at Neiman Marcus for Target

In just a few days, Neiman Marcus and Target will present Holiday24, an exclusive collection of 50 gorgeous gifts from 25 top designers. Starting December 1 for a limited time. The dresses below are by Designers Marchesa (Dark Pink Floral and off-white beaded dresses), and Jason Wu (solid and print dresses). Get a sneak peak at the collection on Target's website.

I love these holiday hairstyles to pair with the gorgeous dresses above. These hairstyles work well for holiday parties, Christmas and Hanukkah. Twisting back the sides and securing them with a bobby-pin in the back makes an elegant look with some loose ringlets on long or short little girls' hair. Perfect for all of your holiday celebrations! Older girls (around 6 years old) can do this style themselves.

image via motherbabyearth.com

Crewcuts Girls Holiday Style

A great source of inspiration for holiday fashion can be found in J Crew's kids line, crewcuts, which has everything you need for little girls Christmas gifts, Christmas dresses, and festive winter clothing. The holiday 2012 crewcuts looks include sequins, glitter, flowers and tons of darling embellishments that I have found to last through many washings. I also love their ideas for holiday and winter photo shoots for little ones.

Girls Holiday Fingernails and Nail Art

Festive winter nail art and nail polish designs for little girls fingernails will keep your daughter's hands looking stylish all season! Most of these are DIY and some designs can be done by little girls themselves!

Candy Cane Striped nails with rhinestones

 

Christmas Tree Nail Art (using a stamper- see link at the end of the post)

Festive Green and red bauble nails

 Red and white stripes and a candy candy sticker decal

 Snowflakes on little girl's nails

 Santa, Candy Cane and snowflake nails (my little one loves every nail to be different like this!)

 Sparkly blue winter nails with white snowflakes for little girls

 More snowflake fingernails!

images via Nail Art Gallery; BeautyRushCo;  little-nails.blogspot;

How-to for Christmas Tree nails using a stamp: susies1955.blogspot; Santa Clause French Manicure; Sparkly blue nails with snowflakes; Black and white Snowflake nails (this gal also has several other Christmas-y nail art ideas); light-blue snowflake nail design; Candy Cane Fingernails;

Holiday Hair Accessories

A festive headband or Christmas hairbow makes any girls hairstyle a bit more fancy. Here are some of my favorite hair accessories for the holidays. See where to buy at the end of this post!

 

images via hairstyletrends.biz; myblessedhome; haironmars; Etsy Snowflake Clip; Prissyinpink; Festive Hairbows from girlshue.com; Christmas headband from Etsy; Red Flower Christmas Headband for babies or girls - Etsy;  Christmas Chiffon Candy Cane Headband;

Holiday Girls Hairstyles

As the holiday season approaches, lots of us moms are in need of festive photo shoot ideas and hairstyle inspiration for our little girls. These Christmas, winter and festive photography ideas are from the very talented Marina Pershina. I love the idea of a holiday PJ photo shoot for little girls at this time of year.

Holiday Hair, from Toddlers to Pre-Teen

Garnet Hill kids Catalog pre-holiday 2012 has the cutest festive and unique hairstyles for girls! My favorite is the messy braid pinned up in the front, and it even works for a dressy look. Messy buns and toddler updos, even a curly haired toddler with the sides pulled up into a darling curly blonde bun. The e-catalog and all the gorgeous holiday dresswear can be found at GarnetHill.com. I hope you love these little girls holiday hairdos as much as I do!