4th of July Hairstyles for girls

 This is a Hair-spiration post. I meant to post this last year but i had just made it to posting these styles on our FB page and so without further a due here are three 4th of July hairstyles for girls that are super cute, festive and great for all ages that i did this past year on the Diva.  I didn't feel directions were needed as the styles are pretty much self explanatory and like most of the time these i created off the top of my head (not saying that someone hasn't thought of them before me, i just didn't see them anywhere else)...  I used a variety of products to create these styles and we are still on our all natural kick so that realm of products are all that we use. Last year i had done a cute 4th of July hair style too and you can click here to reflect upon it....

Enjoy!

                            (This was the HUGE hit of the 4th of July styles this year <3 span="">

 These are some of the many wonderful bows we were blessed with by our lovely sponsor Cute N Curly Bowtique <3 span="">

Happy Styling! God Bless...

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

Cornrows, Criss Crossed Ponies and Sidewinder's

So lately i have figured i may start posting some hair-spiration with not much wording included... So in the near future you may see some of that... But for now here is a brief posting on a style that i had recently done. This one i had freestyled from the basis of wanting to use some of our Sidewinders, and from there i just created.  It seriously has been too long since ive done cornrows and i find since I'm so slow handed at them, that they take longer than doing any other type of style... I really wish i could find a local person who could help me perfect my technique without having to pay for a class since i know everything there is to know besides a better hand technique (in my opinion).

This style began with pig tails and i moved back as i went... I parted the middle section first and clipped them off individually. Then i moved left to right in each box (cornrow, box braid, box braid, cornrow) Then i finished them off with 2 inch Sidewinders.  Then i moved on to the bottom row where i split the section straight down the middle and created some lower pig tails to coinside with the top frontal ones. I rubber banded those off with the top two middle box braids forming an X into them and braided the remaining free hair into two single braids and finally some Sidewinders.

I had decided to leave the frontal hair free from the pig tails for some variation.

I used Distilled water in our spritz bottle followed by Blended Beauty Soft Curls Moisturizer for a moderate moisturizer throughout as i planned on leaving this style in for a few days, and Kinky Curly Knot Today for hold as needed.

On the third day i touched her style up with a few alterations... I decided to braid the free hair into two big braids from each pig tail adding individual Sidewinders part way up the braids. I also parted off two front sections and cornrowed them, adding Sidewinders at each end. 

I pretty much left the rest as previously styled but i just re-did the (then fuzzy) cornrows and box braids

I try to use the same color scheme for a few days when using accessories so i dont have to manipulate much...

This style took about 40 minutes in total to do and lasted about 5 days with minimal touching up/frizz.

Happy Styling :)

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

Topsy Tail Created Quadruple Pig Tails

Here is a traditional style tweaked into an eye catching unique style. Before i began i gathered our Topsy Tail Styling Tool and a few of our regular products...

I began styling on her damp freshly washed, conditioned, and moisturized hair which was detangled prior too adding our styling product. I split her hair down the middle and then i parted a cross-sectional part creating 4 pig tails.

I loosely put rubber bands on each of the four sections.  Just loose enough so that they are able to be flipped inside themselves via the styling tool.

I took the Topsy Tail and slipped each pig tail through the loop individually with the pointed end being slid through the bottom up towards the top of the pig tail.

For lack of better explaining these are just simple pig tails flipped inside out so that they lay flatter and are more discretely rubber banded than the traditional pig tails. 

I always like adding unique flare to styles and this one turned out cute girly, simple, quick and unique all wrapped up in a cute little box together <3

I left her curls freely hang in their natural state from the pig tails...

This was the style that she wore for her Valentines Day Party at school and in total it took 20 minutes to create and i topped it off with our light hair moisture spray and it was complete.

Happy Styling!!

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

Egg Tails Easter Hairstyle For Girls

This posting is coming a bit late i know but its better late than never :) ... We have been super busy and consumed with our soon to be welcoming of our Baby Boy G any day now as well as tons of other things! So since we didn't give the Egg Tails a whirl last year i decided to try them for the first time this year for Diva R's Easter Party at School. Before i started on the style i spent hours searching for some ideas and ways to keep the eggs from falling out of the tails and in the end i really liked how Princess Piggies created the Egg Tails with the webbed rubber banded effect veiling around each egg.

The element which i encountered that altered my initial idea of doing it that way was that my Divas hair is only about half as long in full curl mode so the webbing would take longer to do and i wanted to do 4 braids around it "entrapping" each egg so that they were wrapped like presents. But they kept sliding out so i opted for the basket look with the braided handle over top as this seemed to be the best way i could get them to stay put. I used the smallest plastic eggs that i could find in colors to match her shirt...

I began with pig tails and grabbed a random middle section of the pig tail and braided it to the end, i then had the whole back section of the pig tail to form the "basket" to hold the egg in place. I slid the first egg in and "molded" the loose hair around the egg the best i could with her hair being so thin and i rubber banded the hair together just below the egg and moved on to the second egg where i repeated the above steps. I ended her Egg Tails in finger curls. All in all this style was complete in 20 minutes.

I used Kinky Curly Knot Today Leave in Conditioner as the slicker on her freshly washed conditioned and partly air dried curls (which i will be discussing and reviewing soon)..

This turned out to be super cute and unique with a hint of fun and festiveness. Her friends at school (and parents) thought this was a cute and creative style and idea. She loves the compliments and her teachers always oogle her styles too :)  I kind of figured that the eggs wouldn't stay in her hair through school because her favorite daily activity is playing dress up at play time so i knew things would be going over her head.  This is exactly what happened but as always her amazing and thoughtful teachers put her pretties that may fall out in her cubby and it was to my surprise that even though the eggs fell out the form of the eggs were still in full effect and even as we were walking out with no eggs in people were stopping us with compliments so it turned out to be an additional blessing in disguise <3

Didn't think to take pictures though :/

Next year if we do this i will be opting for the webbed  encasing of the eggs and maybe Styrofoam or a hard egg shaped material like that since these smooth plastic ones wanted to just slide right out of my Divas hair.  I think that this may work alot better with getting less movement from the eggs on coarser type hair in this method i chose to do above but is still equally possible on any and all hair types <3. 

Here are some of the Diva's Blessed Easter Bows from Cute N Curly Bowtique!!!!!

 

Happy Easter <3 God Bless and remember who Easter is TRULY about!!! Not that Bunny either!

<3 Jesus <3

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

"Z" is for Zebra Hair-Style

Here is a style from a bit back that we did for a special Zebra week at Diva R's school... I didn't have many ideas how to incorporated festive Zebra-ness into her hair style so i said hmmm the phonics letter happens to be Z so why not try braiding a Z in her hair??

I googled myself crazy and i could not find any tutorials on the letter Z so i decided to just freestyle it and see how it turns out. I really wanted the Z to be evident so i figured that i would do it in the middle back of her head and do some pig tail to separate the hair evenly making the Z pop.

I first parted her hair into pig tails and clipped off the bottom half of her hair so i could part out the top part of the Z in its correct fashion. I used my rat tail comb to draw/part out the letter Z in her hair and though it looks complicated it was as simple as drawing a Z on the paper. Its like creating bubble letters to explain simplistically.

Then i clipped off both side sections so that i could cornrow the Z without interference. Then i rubber banded the very ending of the Z shaped cornrow so that the "tail" ending of the Z would blend in with her pig tails. Then i just braided each piggy tail into regular braids, rubber banded the mids and finger curled the ends.

Here is a front view... This is clearly another spin off of the foundated pig tail set with some intermediate flare.

This style took about 35 minutes to complete and lasted a few days with minor touch up to the pig tails.

God Bless

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

Pig Tail Braided Braids

Here is a simple and quick posting as this girly hair style is so easy and self explanatory, not much explanation is needed <3 I called this style the Pig Tail Braided Braids style because as you can see that's all there is to it...  I added our normal products and put her hair in two pig tails with a center line parting and secured each with butterfly ballies.  I detangled her pig tails and dampened it with some of our distilled water spritz as her hair likes to dry up quickly.  I then finger parted three even sections from one pig tail as pictured below...

Then i braided the rightmost section into a regular 3 strand braid and rubber banded the ending.  Then i braided the three sections together into one regular three strand braid (hence the braided braid name)... Which resulted in the cutesy eye popping style pictured below...

Here is a close up and this style is so easy that anyone can do it and there is no skill required.  This is a simple and quick style which took 15 minutes from beginning to end to complete and we were off to begin our day.

This style is a style which paves the way to add creativity and flare to the already traditional pig tails so that by using the simple pig tail foundation and building on to it you can have your Diva sport them with her own edge incorporated.

Diva R's Mommy- Kim

Pig Tails With 2 Strand Rope Twists and Barrettes

Ive caught a case of the Pig Tail fever! Here is yet another simple quick and easy style from our recent vault of hairstyles for girls.   I used some of our normal products that are in rotation with this style and its creation...

I dampened, detangled and parted her hair for pig tails with a part going straight down the middle.  Then i pony tailed each side off with some white heart bobbles and i decided i wanted two rope twists stemming from each pig tail... (Rope Twists are the twists that are 3D in formation and they look like actual ropes) They are super easy to create and only require splitting the secton in two even parts and twisting each part counterclock wise and then twisting the two twisted parts together counte clockwise to form them into the "rope" shape. 

These twists stay longest out of all for us and i love the 3D effect <3 All in all it took 20 minutes to create and stayed in place with some rubber bands and clips.

Simple quick cute and girly <3

Diva R's Mommy-Kim

Pig Tail's with Braided Heart's

This style was yet another Valentine's Day hairstyle which i felt the heart was necessary to incorporate into :) The pig tails with braided hearts style was a spawn style off of my previous Valentine pony tail with braided heart style. I decided to double the pony tail, create pig tails instead and construct them with hearts &lt;3

I used some distilled water spritz followed by finger dabs of our Pretty Curls Whipped Hair Butter and topped it off with our Bee Mine Juicy Spritz ...

This style is very self explanatory and from beginning to end the style took 20 minutes to complete making this a simple and quick cute hair style for little Diva's.

Diva R's Mommy- Kim

Diva R's Hairstyle from Pretty Brown Girl's Showcase...

This style here is from the Pretty Brown Girl Showcase event that i have been promising. I began with taking pictures before the style was complete. The products i used were Pretty Curls Whipped Hair Butter, and distilled water spritz. I ended up going with some randomly parted cornrows and a Bantu Knot with beads.  Since her shirt was white, black, and purple i chose these colors for the small pony beads as well.

 There isn't much to this style its pretty self explanatory and my parting was random and i just created as i went.  Below is a picture of the top view before the top two pig tails were made.

 So the next morning i finished the style and in total it took 2 hours. Here is the complete style in its 1st version. This is how Diva R wore it to Pretty Brown Girls Showcase event...

 

I began with spritzing a small amount of distilled water throughout her hair and then as i braided i dabbed in some Pretty Curls Hair Butter in Lemon Meringue. I simply pig tailed the back and then i created a braided Bantu Knot the the free hanging middle section.

 My sweet girl loved her hair <3

Miss Love Your Girls Biracial Curls!!!

I was super surprised at how long this style actually lasted!  So i decided that a few days into it i would cornrow the Bantu Knot section so that we can have complete cornrows throughout.  I figured with it like this it may last even longer :) Randomly throughout the style period i spritzed her braids with distilled water. Then i reapplied some light moisture spritz on her hair 2 times in a 7 day period.

So it remained a whole 7 days! Below are some shots of her 1st and 2nd re-style...

 Her is the 2nd and final style alteration i did...

In the pic above you can see that i undid the pig tails in the back and i braided each side instead and then added some butterfly ballies to the mids and left some of the bottom braids/beads free.

Below is what her ends looked like right after i took the rubber bands and beads out. The first thing i do when i see ends like that they are in need of great heavy moisture and so i spritz distilled water on and squeeze it in and i follow it up with a thick cream tub moisturizer and for this time around i used the Bee Mine Luscious Balanced Cream Moisturizer and i twirled her curls into it around my fingers until the ends were heavily coated and i let them soak. Anything with a shea butter foundation and a nice mix of healthy hair oils will do just fine :) After styles like these i always give her hair days to breathe before i style it again..

Diva R's Mommy-Kim