How to do a ‘Mohawk’ French Braid

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to show you a modern, edgy twist on the traditional French braid hairstyle. I actually just tried this out one time when I was bored with how my hair looked, and it looked great! Anyways, let’s get right into it. 
Step 1: Brush out your hair so it’s tangle-free, and then comb it back so you have no part. 

Step 2: Take a medium-small section of hair from the very front of your head, close to your face, and separate it into three section. 

Step 3: Braid the sections together for one rotation, then add more hair to each section of hair and braid it in. 

Step 4: Continue adding sections into the braid until you have used all of your hair, then braid the rest of your hair in a regular braid. 

Final Result: 

   
 
This hairstyle is basically just a normal French braid that starts closer to your face with smaller sections added in. Because it starts father up on your head, you achieve a ‘mohawk’ effect which can go great with an edgy outfit, or you could dress it down to look more girly. If you feel like this hairstyle is not something you would wear, you can just wear it overnight and when you take it out, you will result in beautiful heat-less beachy waves. I really like this hairstyle. I think that it’s super easy to do, and it’s very versatile. 
That’s all for today’s post! I hope you guys enjoyed it, and see you next time. 

Get Ready With Me: School Semi-Formal Dance

Hi Everyone! Yesterday was my school’s semi-formal dance, which was super fun! So today I wanted to show you guys my outfit and hair, and tell you how to do my hairstyle. Let’s get right into it! 

Outfit:

 
Navy Blue Lace Jeweled Bodycon Dress- Dillard’s, $90 on sale 

Silver Glittery kitten heels- Payless, $25

Hairstyle:
  
This hairstyle is a French Fishtail Braid twisted into a side bun. 

Step 1: Comb your hair back. 

Step 2: Grab a section of hair at the right side of your head and split it into two sections. 

Step 3: Start it like a regular fishtail braid with only one rotation. If you need help, here is a link to an earlier post that can help you:

https://nicolefemme2000.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/5-cute-quick-and-easy-hairstyles-for-school/

Step 3: Start taking an outside section of hair and adding more hair to it, then crossing it over to the inside of the other section. 

Step 4: Continue doing this across to the left side of your head. 

Step 5: When there is no mor hesitate to add to it, braid like a regular fishtail braid all the way down. 

Step 6: Secure with a hair elastic that matches your hair color, then twist it in a bun shape.  

Step 7: Secure the bun with lots of bobby pins, hiding the end of the braid in the middle, and cover it with jeweled bobby pins if you would like. 
And you’re done! This hairstyle is moderately easy, but time consuming. But the time spent is wort it because it looks elaborate and professional. I am super proud of this hairstyle, and I hope you guys try it out. 

That’s all for today’s post! I hope you guys enjoyed it, and see you next time. 

 

4 Strand Lace-Up Braid

Hello Everyone! Today I went shopping with my friend for a dress for my formal school dance. So I’m super excited to make a post for getting ready for formal night later this month. Anyways, today I’m going to show you guys how to do this cool hairstyle I discovered. I found the directions for a braid on Pinterest, but it I looked totally different when I did it so I’ll just tell you my way of doing it. Let’s get started! 
Step 1: Part your hair to the side. 

Step 2: On the side of your part with more hair, grab a 1-inch section in the front, divide it in two, then divide those sections in two. 

Step 3: The easiest way to think of doing this is to number each section from left to right, 1-4. 

Step 4: Take section 4 and put it over section 3. Then take section 2 and put it over one, then wrap it under one and over section 4 (which will be in the right side of the middle at this point) 

Step 5: Renumber the sections left to right, 1-4, and repeat step 4 until you get to a stopping point. 

Step 6: Secure the braid with some bobby pins, and put a cute bow or clip over them if you would like.  
The finishing result: 

  
This little braid is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, and it looks super cute for school. I love this for a more casual day. I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and see you next time! 

How to Make Vintage-Style Waves

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to show you guys another hairstyle post since I haven’t done very many of these. I also just made this up myself to see how it would turn out and I love it. So let’s just get right into this post! 

What you will need: 

• A 1/2- 1 inch sized curling wand or curling iron 
• A paddle brush
• A large hair clip or hair tie to keep your hair out of the way

Step 1: Take the top layer of your hair and put it up using your hair clip or hair tie. 

Step 2: Using your curling iron or wand, curl the bottom layer of your hair. 

Step 3: Let your top layer of hair loose, and curl it too. Make sure you have curled all of your hair. 

Your hair should look similar to this:

  

Step 4: Using your paddle brush, brush through each curl once.  

Your hair should look like this: 

  

And you’re done! This is so simple and looks gorgeous when done! Plus it lasts for about 2 days which is awesome. I really love this hairstyle, and I’m going to wear it all the time. I hope you guys will try it out too. See you next time! 

How to Waterfall Braid

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you one of my go-to hairstyles. This braid is very intricate and difficult looking, but it’s extremely easy to do. Let’s get right into this! 

Step 1: Part your hair to the side. 

  

Step 2: On the side of your part with more hair, take three small strands of hair and braid them one cycle. 

Step 3: Next, pull the top strand in-between the other two strands, and twist the other two pieces around it. 

  

Step 4: Take strands of hair and pull them through the other two strands, repeating Step 3 until you have reached the back of your head. 

Step 5: Pin back your braid with a cute pin or bow if you would like to make this look even cuter. 

Finished Hairstyle: 

   

 

And you are done! This looks super hard, but it’s so simple and quick! I love to wear this to school when I don’t feel like putting much effort into my hair but I still want to look nice. I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and see you next time! 

5 Cute, Quick, and Easy Hairstyles for school

Hey guys! Today I wanted to show y’all some really cute and quick hairstyles for school. I know that most of you are going to school and want to sleep in as much as possible, so here is how to have super cute hair that takes very little time.

Before we get into the hairstyles, I just want to show you guys an awesome brush that I used for all of these hairstyles. It’s a double-sided brush, one side detangles your hair and the other side has boar bristles to calm your hair and make it shiny.

Evolve Double-sided Hairbrush: Walmart, $5

1. Twisted Ponytail

1) Part your hair to the side with your part starting around the middle of your eyebrow/ the arch of your eyebrow.

2) Take all of your hair to the side of your head without the part and comb it to smooth it out and keep it in place.

3) Put your hair in a loose ponytail.

4) Make a hole in the middle of your ponytail above your elastic, making sure that the hair on either side of the hole is of equal size.

5) Pull the rest of the ponytail through the hole. It should look like two loose twist tied together.

6) Tighten your ponytail by separating it into two sections below the elastic and pulling them apart. It should look like this from behind:

2. Retro Twists

1) Put your hair in a side part like in the hairstyle above.

2) Grab the front section of your hair from the bigger side of the part and comb it out away from your face.

3) Loosely twist the section back a little bit, then push it forward to create a small bump. Secure the bump with bobby pins.

4) Loosely twist the rest of the hair from that section  back and secure with bobby pins or a cute hairclip if you want.

Purple Jeweled Hairclip: Charming Charlie’s, $10

5) From the other side of your part, take a smaller section of hair from the side and twist it back tightly, then secure it with a type of pin or clip.

3. French Braided Ponytail

1) Comb your hair back.

2) Loosely French braid your hair, adding large sections to your braid.

3) Once you finish taking sections, do not continue with a regular braid. Keeping the braid, put the rest of the hair in a ponytail.

4) Taking a small section of hair, wrap it around your elastic, tuck the ends of it in the elastic, and bobby pin it in.

4. Easy twisted bun

1) Flip your head upside-down, brushing out all bumps in your hair in the back and front of your head.

2)  Hold it like you would for a  ponytail,  then flip your hair back up and secure it with an elastic.

3) Pull your ponytail up, and twist it upwards as much as you can.

4) Twist your hair around the base of your ponytail, then secure it with another elastic.

5) (optional)  Add some cute hair accessories.

Velvet bows: Forever 21, $3

5. Fishtail pigtails

1) Part your hair down the middle.

2) Put two equal sections of hair on both sides of your head.

3) Fishtail braid both sections. Here is my older blog post on how to fishtail braid if you don’t know how:

https://nicolefemme2000.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/how-to-fishtail-braid/

4) Pull apart your braids so they are looser, and look more messy to have that boho type of vibe.

That’s all for this post! I hope you enjoyed it,  and see you next time!

PS: This was supposed to be posted yesterday, so sorry about the delay.

French braided bun

Hey guys. I found this hairstyle on Pinterest a while ago and I wanted to recreate it and write out some instructions for you so you can do it too. It’s fairly easy if you know how to french braid. Let’s get right into it.
1) Comb the tangles out of your hair and comb it all back.
2) Comb a small front section forwards and put it in a ponytail.
3) Comb the rest of the hair back into a ponytail.

4) Make sure all of your hair is combed through with no tangles.
5) Take the front section of hair out of the ponytail holder.
6) Take a small section of hair from the front section and two sections of equal size from the big ponytail and start braiding them.

7) Gradually add sections from either section and french braid them in.
8) Once you have used up all of the front section, just French braid sections into the rest of the braid from the ponytail.

9) Twist the braid around the ponytail as you braid.

10) After you have French braided the rest of the hair from the ponytail, braid the rest of the hair normally, and bobby pin the end of the braid. Then tuck the end of the braid in the bun and bobby pin it in.

And you are done! This is super simple once you get the hang of it, and a nice twist on a bun too. Plus if you sleep in it it will make your hair curly. That’s all for today. See you next time!

PS: My bun looked kind of weird, so I included the picture I used for reference so you might be able to see it better.

Thanksgiving: Outfit, hair + makeup

Hi guys. Today I wanted to show you what I wore for thanksgiving and basically my whole look that day. I hope this inspires you to try something new! I hope you like it!

Outfit:

Sorry this is kinda hard to see here but I didn’t really have any better photo options so this will have to do.

Black and white striped peplum top: Target, $25
High waisted Black leather paneled pants: pacsun, free, see fall haul post for more information
Black ankle boots: Kmart, $15

For my hair I just straightened it.

Makeup:
For my makeup I did a natural looking brown smoky eye and I’m going to tell you how to do it.

1) Take some of the lightest brown eyeshadow ( circled in photo) and apply it all over your eyelids.
2) Take the next lightest brown eyeshadow and apply it over the outer edges towards the middle of your eyelids.
3) Take the darkest brown and apply to the outer edges of your eyelids.
4) Blend if necessary.
5) Take a small brush and put the darkest brown on your lower lash line from the outer edge to the middle.
You are done! It’s a quick and easy way to get a natural eye look you can dress up or down for any occasion.

That’s all for this post! I hope you enjoyed it!