Saturday, June 5, 2010
Hair Stuff
Our first set of yarn braids made it almost 4 weeks. That's amazing because normally any protective style like braids or twists lasts 4 days at most. I took them out right before our friend, Jorge's, wedding just because of the wedding and put in cornrowed pigtails. I cannot tell you how much I love the yarn braids. I am not a girl who likes to spend a lot of time fussing over appearance and with out the yarn braids, I have to spend an hour every 3-4 days doing hair plus making fixes in between. I really dislike waking up in the morning and not knowing what her hair is going to look like because it doesn't stay in a style very well. It makes me anxious to have to think about having a hair style completely trashed but not having the time in the morning to fix it before we have to leave. The yarn braids really help with those things. I also saw a lot less shedding/breakage. Without yarn braids, the constant manipulation of her hair made it feel like she was losing lots of hair. With the yarn braids, very minimal hair loss. So we're now on set two of yarn braids. This time I did a flat twist across the front, like a headband. She's also been really into imitating my hair so if I have a ponytail, she wants one, etc.. Today I had my hair in a French braid so I decided to try it with her braids and then finish it with a messy bun with an assortment of yellow ponytail holders. D thought it looked messy but I kind of liked it.
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how do you get the yarn to stay in her hair? Is it regular yarn? Looks cute!
There are a handful of ways to do yarn braids and lots of videos out there on youtube on how to do it. The two times I've done them I've used two pieces of yarn that you wrap around the base of the braid so that you have two strands of yarn, the hair, then two strands of yarn. You just start braiding, keeping the yarn as tight as you can to the head. Eventually, you will run out of hair so as you get to the end of the hair, you simply split off yarn from one of the sides that has two pieces. Eventually, you will end up braiding two pieces of yarn, one piece of yarn and one piece of yarn. (That description was probably very confusing so I'd just google it or look on youtube.) And yes, it is just regular old black yarn. Red Heart from Walmart, like 3 dollars for a skein and I've only used maybe 1/4 of the skein so far.
There are a handful of ways to do yarn braids and lots of videos out there on youtube on how to do it. The two times I've done them I've used two pieces of yarn that you wrap around the base of the braid so that you have two strands of yarn, the hair, then two strands of yarn. You just start braiding, keeping the yarn as tight as you can to the head. Eventually, you will run out of hair so as you get to the end of the hair, you simply split off yarn from one of the sides that has two pieces. Eventually, you will end up braiding two pieces of yarn, one piece of yarn and one piece of yarn. (That description was probably very confusing so I'd just google it or look on youtube.) And yes, it is just regular old black yarn. Red Heart from Walmart, like 3 dollars for a skein and I've only used maybe 1/4 of the skein so far.
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