The 4 strand braid pull-back

It has been too long my lovelies!
Here is a quick hairstyle to spice up your hair for the day!
This is a 4-strand braid pull back.

Separate out a chunk from the front of your hair and tie the rest back from your face. Take the chunk and separate into four even pieces. Holding the pieces pulling back from your face, start to braid. The braid is taking an outside piece and going over, then under, then the other outside piece going under, then over. Keep repeating this down the strands till you run out of hair.

If that way of thinking about it doesn't work for you, the other way that I have heard it explained is taking one outside piece over, under, over, then flipping the two in the middle and repeat.

Once the strand is done you can tie it off and proceed to mix it into the style. Or, you can do what I did and hold one of the middle strands and push the rest of the braid up to make it a little messier, then tie off.

What I did once I had my braid tied off was pull it into a pony tail to fit what I had to do that day. Or you could pin it with a flower, hide the end under some other hair with pins, or pull back into a bun.

Voila! You are done and ready to head out the door!

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Workout hair

Hello my lovelies! I am currently getting ready for the color run tomorrow. If you don't know what that is a link to look at it is right here --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsfHC-0d6A This is one of many videos of this really cool run, and I get to do it tomorrow! I am so excited! Anyway, as part of the getting ready process I have come up with a simple and cute hairstyle for the 5k. 


The first thing you need is hair ties and a comb (preferably rat tail) and bobby pins if you so desire. 


First thing first, as always, comb out your hair till smooth.  Once smoothed out you are going to comb it back out of your face and section the hair from the arch of one eye brow back to the back of your ear in a diagonal line. Do this to both sides from the eye brow so you have two pieces at the front of your head that are shaped like triangles. Tie the rest of your hair back for now to keep it out of the way. 

Top/front view

Take the tip of each triangle and twist, incorporate more hair as you continue twisting all the way down the hair, leading back to the top of your head. Then tie off.

Side View

Then take your hair and the twists and twist them tightly into a ballerina bun. Tie it off with a hair tie.

Back view

This is when you may want to fix the strays and bumps with bobby pins, but since I am just going to go for a run, it doesn't matter so much to me.

And that is it! Let me know if you try this out, or have questions or comments.

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