Mrs. Price is Right about Homeschooling: Hair

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Bun head--my newest way to make a ballet bun

Spring Recital 2012

Mija loves ballet and is working diligently on the upcoming Nutcracker. (She has two new parts in addition to one she's done the past two years.)

The biggest challenge is getting and keeping mija's hair in a bun. It's long but thin and fine.

There have been two products that I found that finally kept her bun up and her hair back. One was Big Sexy Hair Volumizing Hairspray
and the other were these Goody Spin Pins. I make a braid and then screw this in and tada, it's a bun.

Well, the other day, mija took her bun out before she got home and lost them.

Now I will admit that I love the "screws" but came across something on Pinterest (of course) that gave me something else to try which actually works.

First, you take an old sock and cut the toe off. Thankfully, I found one of those lonely-socks-which-has-lost-its-mate-in-the-dryer to use. Here's what it looked like when done.

You fold the sock over and put it over her pony tail...kind of like a scrunchie.

Then you flip the hair over the sock making sure to cover all the sock.

After it's all covered, you slip a ponytail holder over the hair-covered sock.

The hair that is hanging out is twisted around and around the ponytail holder. Now the Pinterest link used bobby pins. We didn't have bobby pins, so we just used little clips all around.

It's easy enough and has been good about staying in place. I think I'll fold the sock over more so the bun doesn't stick out as far next time.

I still want to get more "screws" before The Nutcracker, but this way is working just fine in the meantime.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Little Girl Hair Ideas

I like trying to do different things with mija's hair. This is challenging since I'm not the most talented hair dresser and mija is tendered-headed and has fine, thin hair which doesn't like to stay in place.

Here are two hair-do's I've done recently and where I learned how to do them!

The first is called "Lady Gaga" Hair bow. A bow made from hair! Very easy.

Here's the link:

Source: kouturekiss.com via Betsy Price on Pinterest

Second, we did a French twist into a rope braid. Here's a picture of my first attempt.

Here's the link to the video:

Source: youtube.com via Betsy Price on Pinterest

Not too bad for my first attempt! You can just do the bottom part of it, too!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Pinterest Shares--Things I've actually done

I don't know about you, but it's so much easier to pin things on Pinterest than to actually do the things you pin! Today, I thought I'd share a few of the things that I've actually done or at least attempted to do. Several I've posted here on my blog.