Yesterday I added a post about the latest braids that I did on my daughter. Today, I wanted to follow up with some pictures of a few variations of the braids. These braids had a few styling options. Of course, the braids could just be left done, or they could be worn in a pony tail, half up and half down, two pony tails, etc. Here are a few ways that I styled her braids:

Have you ever gone the long way around, only to discover that there is a quicker way to get to your destination? Well, this sort of describes my last adventure of coming up with a lasting style for my daughter’s hair.  I spent at least an hour attempting to learn to flat twist her hair.  I had this elaborate plan to flat twist the front of her hair.  Then I was going to do two-strand twists in the back.  Well, I started the style one night, ran out of time, put her to bed, only to have her wake up the next day with her hair looking like…let’s just say, twists do not last very well sometimes on active 2-year-olds; especially over night.  So the next day, I tried to come up with a way to salvage what I had done the night before, so that I could continue twisting.  It was not salvageable.

So I had to take each flat twist down and cornrow it instead, thus taking the long way around when I should have just resorted to long lasting braids in the first place.  Needless to say, the style came out cute, despite the extra time I spent on taking down twists and rebraiding.  Here’s what her hair ended up looking like:

I braided her bangs into four cornrows and added beads.  I then cornrowed the rest of the hair at the front into cornrows going back.  The back of her hair is box braided.  So far, this style has lasted two weeks.

Here are pictures from the second year of my first BC.   Please click continue reading below to see all of the pictures and styles (natural-ness kids: see coils/coil-out done on a 5 year old boy below).

Here’s another attempt at a pony puff (one of my hair goals).  My hair is getting long enough for a pony puff, but due to the amount of work that it takes to get it into a pony puff, I do not consider this goal accomplished. continue reading …

Here are a few pictures of my daughter and I with our braids/twists. My hair is cornrowed in the front and two-strand twisted in the back.  My DD’s (dear daughter’s) hair is cornrowed and beaded, with one row of box braids in the back.  I just appreciated getting a break from doing any hair for the next two weeks or so.  Yay! Click the pictures to see full sized.

Here is a variation of the braids and beads done here: Braids with beads. This time, rather than doing the box braids in the back, I cornrowed the hair in the back (except for one row of box braids at the bottom) and made a beaded ponytail.  I still haven’t perfected cornrows, but the ponytail hides some of the imperfections. Click pictures to see full size version.

I am so proud of myself for accomplishing this style on my daughter!  This was the best set of cornrows that I have done on her.  I cornrowed the front and box braided the back.  I then accessorized her hair with brown tone beads. Be sure to click pictures to see full sized.

Another set of braids done on my 2-year-old DD.

Once again I’ve completed box braids on my 29-month-old DD. They took almost two hours to complete and lasted about 2 weeks. Here are pictures taken the night after completing them:
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These are the same two-strand twists, but this time I dressed them up with a headband.  I’ve been getting a lot of compliments on her hair.  I think it’s a very cute style for her.

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I finally tried two-strand twists on my daughter.  I’m very pleased with the results.  I used the same method on her hair that I use on my own: how-to

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