Halloween Costumes & a Winner

Happy Halloween everyone!  We hope your whole day is fun & festive!  We've announced our winner for the Disney on Ice "Treasure Trove" tickets, so if you entered, head over HERE to see if it was you.

We also wanted to share our costumes with you since we think they were pretty silly and I worked so hard on them since I am NOT a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination!  There were no princesses or girly things this year ... they wanted to be Minions from the movie Despicable Me.  If you aren't familiar with the movie -- these are the guys they were trying to look like.  Ironically they picked how they wanted to look and we got their costumes all done & then we found THIS funny short on YouTube (I think it's on the BlueRay as well) and it's the 3 of them all together fighting over a banana.  If you need a good laugh you should watch it.

 Here's Goose -- she was didn't dare smile because she thought her yellow face paint would crack!  She was the Minion Dave!

 Here's our cute little Bug - aka the Minion Kevin.

 And our little Bee -- and we couldn't figure out what her Minion name was on the movie!

 Here's all 3 of them together.  They were a HUGE hit -- especially when everyone saw them together!

 Happy Halloween from 

The Cute Little Minions in Hairland!

 

 We hope your day is Spook-Tacular & full of fun!!

Don't forget to share your Halloween costumes with us on our Facebook Page over HERE!!

Halloween Headbands & Disney on Ice

So I've got to give a HUGE apology to my friend Jen over at All Things Ribbon ...  Months back I'd gone to visit my sister and the fabulous bow making Jen lives just a hop skip & a jump from her so we arranged for me to pay her a visit & meet her ... finally.  She was so sweet and spent the afternoon with me, Goose and my sister and we saw her amazing bow-tique and I got to see first hand how she works her bow-magic.  Simply put - I'm amazed.  While we were there she put us "to work" and we got to help make these fun headbands for Halloween.  I'd meant to post these forever ago and because Halloween was so far away at the time I totally forgot.  We made one for each of the girls (although Bee is showing them all off here) and one for Beans from Girly Do's.  We chatted the afternoon away and bonded over bows.  You can't get better than that!  So Thank You so much Jen for a fun filled day and for the headbands & I'm so glad I finally got to meet you!!  (I would post pictures of our fun together but someone is a bit camera shy! wink wink)

Anyway, these are the ones that we put together and we just love them.  I know I've said it before, but Jen is so talented and if you ever need bows or holiday hair accessories (and even dresses) her site is truly the place to go & she's on Facebook as well and she's always posting new & amazing things.

 

This one is my fav - she anchored the little skeleton with his hand so it looks like he's hanging on for dear life!  Soooo cute!

So if you aren't up for crazy hair styles for pre-Halloween - you've definitely got to accessorize with something Halloweeny from All Things Ribbon!

Also ... another fun thing I have to share is that I've got a family 4 pack for Disney on Ice's "Treasure Trove" to give away for anyone in the Utah area, or that wants to make the drive.  So head over to our giveaway blog HERE if you are interested in entering.

Now ... I'm off to finish sewing parts of the girls costumes.  And I don't sew! :)

Crazy Hair Day Styles

It's Red Ribbon Week this week where the girls go to school, which always means fun activities.  We had crazy hair day and since Halloween is coming up - these silly & crazy styles fit right in.  I've got to say, doing hair for crazy hair day takes more time than just regular hairstyles for us, so these pictures were snapped on the way out the door because we were almost late!

With Bug's hair we just did a bunch of the crazy buns all over her head.  I guess technically these are called Bantu knots, but we weren't trying to make them look that good.  We just parted her hair all over & added some silly curly pipe cleaner with all the random colored rubber bands.  If you do these, remember you can get some great curl from them too - we did this on Goose as an experiment a long time ago.  You can see the curls HERE.

 And for Goose we thought we'd do a big massive sock bun on top of her head (you can see how we did it in THIS post).  But to top it off and make it look even sillier, we have a soft finger puppet bird that we thought we'd perch on top to make it look like she had a birds nest on her head.  Since there is a sock under all that hair, we just safety pinned the bird to the sock.  If we'd of not been so short on time, I was going to add some raffia that I had lying around to make it more "straw like" but it was silly all the same!

 A look from the back.  You can sort of see the head of the safety pin, but we didn't care!

 She was laughing all the way to school, until she got out of the car with a slight panic that today wasn't crazy hair day & she and Bug might be the only ones w/weird hair!  Luckily we'd seen other kids on the way that had colored hair & such, so we were good!

 For more crazy hair ideas - some seriously FABULOUS ones -check these out.  I found this on Pinterest, but the actual post is here on Bee in our Bonnet.  One of the hairstyles inspired the bird on top of Goose's hair - one of the pictures they did a birds nest for her hair, but it is much fancier than ours!  Go check them out.  If nothing else your kids could have amazing hair for Halloween if they are a bit past dressing up!  This picture from Bee in our Bonnet is only 1 of many amazing & creative hairdos.  I was in awe!

 Oh, I love all the craziness at this time of year!  Hope you are enjoying it too!

Halloween Hair - Jack O' Lantern Bun

Sorry we didn't get the next letter in our alphabet series posted last week.  We had fall break and the girls were out of school for a couple days so we took advantage of it and had some well spent family time.  We'll get the next installment of our series up soon!

Wahoo, Halloween is in the air, and we've got a fun little way to add it into your dd's hair in the form of a bun that looks like a little Jack o' Lantern.  Nothing overly complicated here - the hardest part will be deciding how you want the cute little face of your jack o' lantern to look.

You will need some construction paper, or if you want it to hold up better, some felt.  Black and green to be exact.  And you will need orange ribbon as well.

Cut your eyes, nose, and mouth out in black, and a little stem in green.

Then attach them to hair pins.  You can tape them or hot glue them onto the pins.  Bobby pins will work but I find hair pins work best for stuff like this because you can stick them straight down in the hair easier.  Make sure you make the face parts big enough.  I ended out making ours a bit bigger after this try!

Make a ponytail in the hair.  Then add some orange ribbon.  I thought I had plain bright orange ribbon but apparently not, so we used this funky orange one I had on hand.  Add it to the hair under the rubber band of your pony so is secure.

 You can do this a couple ways.  You could add 3 strands of ribbon and do a regular 3 strand braid or we opted for one of our favorite techniques - we did a 4 strand braid with ribbon in it.  You can see our video HERE on how we do that.  Braid it to the end of the ponytail and secure with a rubber band.

 Then twist it around to make your bun - or circle shape of the pumpkin.  Secure with a few bobby pins.

 Add your pins with the pumpkin face parts on it and you're done!  The tricky part of this was getting the pins in and avoiding hitting the ribbon.  In the end I just used some tape on the back of the mouth & stuck it to the ribbon since I was short on time.

 Here it is with our small mouth & I decided we needed to make it a bit bigger.  So that's what I mean about making sure the face pieces are proportionate to the size of bun you are working with!

I like the bigger mouth much better and so did Bee.  She thought it was so fun having a pumpkin in her hair!

And as always, if you are looking for other fun Halloween Hair ideas - check all of ours out HERE.  Our biggest hit was our Halloween Spider Hairdo that we did last year!

Double Braids into Pocahontas Braids

If you remember our Triple Braided Pocahontas Braids we did not too long back, this is just a slight variation of it that we did for school the other day.  Not hard and perfect for a school morning.

Obviously instead of the 3 braids on top, I just sectioned out two and then pulled them down into the Pocahontas braids.  With Bug having shorter hair this worked a bit better.  I wish the 2 small braids from up top were a bit longer so they'd have shown up more in the braids below, but you get the idea!

 I love zig zag parts!

Again we just left the right side plain but you could certainly add 2 braids on this side as well.

 And a quick smile before heading out the door.  This one is a quick & easy one and just a fun way to jazz up your typical braids.  You could do twists or any other version of braids or whatever your favorite thing is & then pull them down into the braids below.

Letter H Hairstyle

"H" is for Hair . . . of course!

We're still going through the alphabet, one letter at a time and we have reached Bug's favorite letter - H!  Be sure to check out all our other alphabet styles HERE.

The day I did this, I wasn't feeling overly well, and so if I do this again, I'll be sure to bring the ponytails on top a bit closer in.  So keep that in mind when making your H hairdo.

Part the hair from front to back right down the middle.

On the right side of the head part down to the ear & make a small ponytail with the hair in front of the ear.  Be sure to get it closer to the middle part than I did!

 Braid, twist, or whatever you prefer to the ponytail.  Temporarily secure it at the bottom.

With the remaining hair on bottom comb it into another ponytail.  Be sure it lines up vertically with your pony above.

Add your braid straight down into the pony tail at the nape of the neck.

 Repeat on the left side so you have 2 vertical braids into ponytails.

 I opted to not do this like the Letter A hairstyle where I pulled braids across the middle since I was not feeling well & wanted this to be a bit faster.  I also didn't want to break up the vertical lines of the H by pulling braids across.  So I used ribbon instead.  These craft needles are great for ribbon in hair:

Using the needle pull your ribbon through mid-way through the vertical braids on the left & right & then tie it in a bow or knot.

 Once you've got your ribbon tied, you're H is all done.

And of course our letter H in sign language:

 You could also put the remaining ponies in buns or something if you wish as well.  I didn't even curl them this time - I just let them hang as is. This is a fun quick one and she like the ribbon in back.  She said it was like her hair was a present!  Be sure to share them with us on our FB Page when you do these!  Bee loves to see them all!

No Heat Curls - from Socks

Did you realize you can get curls from a sock bun?  I stumbled upon THIS video at the end of summer and was all kinds of excited to try this on the girls.  The fabulous gal in the video is the same one I got the idea from for our Figure 8 braid.  She's got some great ideas!  Anyway, Since we try to be careful w/the girls hair and not use a ton of heat to curl it I was antsy to try this to see the results!

Over the last couple of months I have tried this sock bun method at least a half dozen times on the girls in an attempt to achieve the amazing curls that are shown in the video.  I've got to admit I was pretty bummed at first.  So here's how a bunch of our "sock bun curl experiments" turned out!

Our 1st attempt was on Goose & I thought because she has such long hair I'd put 2 sock buns in for extra curl.  I had random socks floating around that had holes in them so I cut the toes off & rolled them up.  I figured for as much hair as she has I should use a big sock.

 Put 2 pig tails in really high for her to sleep in.

 Pulled the hair back down through the bun & started wrapping.  It's kind of hard to see it in her video because the part where she wraps the ends in is out of her camera's view.  One of these days I'll have to make a video so you can see that part.

When I got done she had HUGE sock buns on each side.  And I mean they were HUGE.  We laughed quite well about it!

 The next morning this is how they looked.  I was worried about them falling out so I'd used a few clips & bobby pins to try keep them attached to her head.

I unrolled them & there was a bit of curl.  Not as much as I'd hoped for.  

Once we got the ponies out and finger combed her hair, this is all that was left.  I was so disappointed.  Her hair always holds curl well so I was surprised.  It also made her hair very dry feeling and almost straw like which it never does.

I ended out pretty much bagging the curl idea & pulling her hair back into a braid & leaving the bit of ends that had a little wave hanging out.  I was sad it didn't turn out better.

 Our 2nd attempt, I did it on both Bee & Goose.  It was just with 1 bun like the gal does in her video.  I thought maybe I'd rolled them wrong and just need to use the 1 sock.  It was an even funnier site with them having these HUGE mounds of a bun on top of their heads!

 The next morning Goose's had stayed put for the most part.

And the ponytail had a lot more curl it seemed.  I assumed I hadn't rolled it right the 1st time I'd tried it or her hair had been too damp.

 But sadly, once again after we'd let the ponytail down and finger combed it in the hopes it'd stay - the curl just turned to a very slight wave and it felt like straw.  Weird.  Good gravy -- how hard can this be? Strike #2.

But when I pulled Bee's out (I'd had to clip the bun to stay since her hair seemed to slide more) ...

 Her pony wasn't as curly as Goose's had been ...

Once I'd done her hair we did still had a bit more curl but it was pretty much gone by the end of the day.  Still not a total success.

I decided to try a smaller sock.  We had the little socks I'd used clear back when I'd done the Ni Hao Kai-Lan Buns on Bee forever ago, and so I thought I'd try that instead of my big adult socks.

I just did one in Bee's hair & it was barely hanging on in the morning.

We got about the same result in the curly pony tail -

But when I let her hair down I was a lot more pleased with the result.

But sadly once I'd pulled her hair up, it seemed to already be relaxing and falling out.

So on yet ANOTHER attempt - with the small socks, I decided to give Bee 2 little buns on each side.  BUT the ONE CHANGE I made was to put a bit of mousse in each pony before I rolled them up.  I decided maybe that was needed to help achieve more curl - or at least curl that would hold.

Again, I'd sort of clipped them on to keep them in place, and in the morning they had still come off a little.

 But her pony tails were much much curlier than any other result I'd had to this point.

 And voila!  Success -- FINALLY!  These curls were gorgeous and reminded me of the ones you see the rodeo queens sporting!  We sprayed the curls a bit with hair spray to hopefully keep them this time!

As in the past, I didn't want to disturb the curl too much so I simply twisted the hair on the sides & joined them in the middle on the back of her head.  It was so pretty.

 

 

She was so excited that she got curls from a sock & that it finally worked -- and so was I!  They held up pretty good, although she was wearing these for Church so it's not like she was running around being a crazy kid on Sunday.  They relaxed a bit as the day went on, but it was finally a success!

So to sum it up -- I love these but I highly suggest you use some kind of product when doing them and don't use too big of a sock in your dd's hair.  I never did try it again on Goose because after 3 tries (I haven't posted all the pictures from each attempt here) it just didn't seem to work.  I'm assuming it is because her hair is so thick & long.  The weight of her hair probably didn't help either.  I had the most success in Bee's hair using the 2 socks which I continue to do.

Have you ever tried this?  If so, what were your results - and did you find anything else helpful when doing it?  We'd love to hear your tips!