Friday Q & A — hair and how we do it including “sock curls”

Or this hair:

Ha!  


That’s what it looks like more often than not lately, especially since it’s spring break right now…


Lucy was still wearing her pj’s at 5:30 in the evening the other day.


I love weeks like this with all my heart.  


But I digress.  Back to the important stuff:  HAIR.


I will have the girls do a tutorial at some point, but I figured I’d share some stuff we do on a regular basis around here.  


When you have four girls hair must be done, gosh darn it.  

But I am the girl who came up with my own hair-dos growing up, so doing hair isn’t the worst thing ever to me.  One growing-up hair-do creation involved spraying a wisp of hair into a curl plastered right on my each of my cheeks.  It only lasted until I smiled, then it chinked right off.  


Here are some things we do a bunch.  I know they are old news to many, and there are SO many more fancy things out there, but this is what I’ve got in my tried and true arsenal.
CURLING

Take one section of hair and hold a hot curling iron vertically to catch it at the roots.

Inch down the section of hair slowly, turning the curling iron as you go.

Repeat.

TWISTING

Take a section of hair to twist.

Divide it into two sections:

Twist them both the same direction as each other, then twist them together opposite.

Does that make any sense?

Lucy asks for “ponytail twisties” almost every day.  They are the same thing but put hair in ponytails first and then twist it on down.


WISKING HAIR OUT OF EYES

Lucy loves to wear her hair down but I can’t stand it all straggly in her eyes so I do this a lot:

Take a section and put it in an elastic.

Loosen the elastic just a tad, separate the hair inside the elastic in half:

Push the small ponytail through the opening you made:

And there we go…

…hair that won’t get in her face.

BRAIDING

 I call that one on Grace on the left “The Claire” because she pretty much asks for it every day.  Just do a french braid but start it right above the ear instead of on top.  Gather hair from top and bottom as you braid.

I love this one too:

You just do two loose braids on each side and fasten them up and over the top with bobby pins, carefully trying to hide the elastics.

What type of curling iron do you use on your girls’ hair? It always looks great! 


We use a bunch of different curling irons we’ve collected over the years but I think these are the most common ones:

That 3-barrel one on the left crimps hair like this:

Once you get all the hair rolled onto the sock, tie a knot.

(My girls think I’m funny because I hold one end of the sock in my mouth while I tie because I seem to need three hands to do that!)

 Ready for bed:

In the morning simply unroll those socks and finger through the curls.