Kategoria: For the smallest ones

30 huhtikuun, 2015

Supernopeat letit, vaikka vappujuhliin

Tässä hauska tapa saada ihan tavallisista letitetyistä saparoista hieman erilaiset. Kampauksen vaikein vaihe on jakauksenteko, loput käykin parissa minuutissa. Videosta näkyykin, että tämän kampauksen voi tehdä jopa liikkuvalle 4-vuotiaalle! Saparot on myös helppo tehdä, vaikka pullapitkopalmikko olisi ainut letti, jonka osaat.

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Vaihtelua ja lisäideoita näihin letteihin saa esimerkiksi nauhalla, tai käyttämällä samaa tekniikkaa eri osiin kampausta. Alla olen yhdistänyt epätasaiset saparot ensin ranskalaisiin letteihin, sitten olen tehnyt saparot vain osasta hiuksia ja viimeistellyt kampauksen lettinutturoilla. Viimeisessä letissä saparoihin on lisätty pienet rusetit.

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Here’s a super quick way to make normal braided pigtails a bit more interesting. The most difficult part of this style is parting the hair, the rest will only take a few minutes. As you can see in the video: this is doable even on a moving toddler! These pigtails are easy even if you only know how to do a basic braid.

You can vary the style by adding ribbon or by using the braid as part of a hairstyle. In the first picture below, I have finished two french braids with uneven pigtails. In the second picture, we did the pigtails with just part of the hair and finished with braided buns. And in the last picture, we added little bows to finish the look.

14 huhtikuun, 2015

Lettinauhaa ja nauhalettejä

Nauhalla saa tavallisestakin letistä juhlallisen ja erikoisen, lisäksi värikkäällä nauhalla saa pienen letitettävän iloiseksi. Lettinauhaa voi letittää kampaukseen mukaan tai sitä voi punoa letteihin jälkikäteen.

Jälkikäteen nauhan punominen onnistuu parhaiten hiuslasson avulla, mutta sorminkin sen voi tehdä.

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Ensimmäisessä kuvassa on kaksi neljäosaista lettiä, jotka on punottu yhteen nauhalla jälkikäteen. Tässä kampauksessa käytin punomiseen pelkkiä sormia. Nauhan voi pujotella myös kengännauhan tavoin kahteen hollantilaiseen lettiin. Toisessa letissä tein kaksi pientä puolihollantilaista vierekkäin ja pujottelin valkoisen nauhan hiuslasson avulla lettien väliin.

Viimekesäisessä blogipostauksessani löytyy myös vaiheittainen kuva-ohje korsettilettiin, joka on ollut suosittu sekä lasten tapahtumissa että lettikursseilla.

Jos nauhan letittää mukaan lettiin, sitä voi käyttää letin yhtenä tai kahtena suortuvana. Näitä saparoita kaunistaa neljä pientä 4-osaista lettiä, joissa on yksi osio nauhaa, kolme osiota hiusta:

Nauhan kanssa näpertelyä pitää muutaman kerran harjoitella, mutta mitä enemmän nauhalettejä harjoittelee, helpommin ne alkavat onnistua. Tässä ohjevideossa opetan poninhäntään letitetyn 5-osaisen nauhaletin, josta kaksi osiota on nauhaa ja kolme osiota hiusta:

Ja toki nauhasta voi tehdä ihan vain rusetinkin tai hiuspannan, joka menee pään ympäri, tai vaikka molemmat.

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You can add a nice detail to braids with ribbon, and ribbons also make little braidees happy! Usually I either braid the ribbon into a hairstyle or weave it in afterwards.

In the first picture, I’ve done two four-strand lace braids and weaved them together with ribbon. A topsytail is normally handy for weaving, but I used just fingers for this one. In the second picture, the ribbon was weaved in with a topsytail after doing the two dutch lace braids.

I’ve got an older blog post with step-by-step pictures on how to do a corset braid with ribbon.

Instead of weaving, you can also braid the ribbon into a style using it as one of the strands of the braid. Braiding with ribbon requires a bit of practice, but it will get easier, I promise. I’ve done a Youtube tutorial on a five-strand ribbon ponytail:

Below, I’ve done little four strand braids with ribbon and tied them into pigtails. And of course you can use the ribbon as a headband or a bow, or both.

5 helmikuun, 2015

Uusi YouTube video joka viikko

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Julkaisin juuri ensimmäisen suomenkielisen YouTube videoni! Jee! Käykää kurkistamassa, kommentoimassa, tykkäämässä ja tilaamassa Jenni’s Hairdays kanava. Kanavalta löytyy myös vanhat englanninkieliset lettivideot, mutta nyt lisään uusia videoita sekä suomeksi, että englanniksi uudella hienolla lookilla (kiitos kuvauksesta ja editoinnista Veli Creative!)

Aikeeni on julkaista joka viikko uusi lettiohje. Vaihtelen vähän tasoa: tällä viikolla helppo ja nopea käärmeletti, ensi viikolla jotain vähän haastavampaa.

Käärmeletti on nopea, koska se ei vaadi jakausten tekoa, eikä ole symmetrinen. Se myös sopii kaiken ikäisille: videolla esiintyy 4-vuotias tyttöni, mutta tein tänään myös saman kampauksen siskolleni.

I just published my first proper braid tutorial (and I only got my left and right mixed up once)! I have some older tutorials on my channel already, but the new one has a completely new look – shot and edited by Veli Creative. Go and have a look, like, comment, or subscribe to my channel.

I will be publishing a new tutorial every week, both in English and Finnish. I will include different levels: this week is a quick and easy snake braid, next week I’ll do a more advanced style.

The snake braid is quick because you don’t need to do partings and it’s not symmetric, so you can just go ahead and do it without too much fuzz. It suits all ages as well: the tutorial shows it on my 4-year-old daughter, but I also did the same braid on my sister today.

23 heinäkuun, 2014

Hair for weddings

Those of you who follow my Instagram or Facebook page know, that I was doing a lot of hairdos for a wedding last Saturday. Today, I was planning hairstyles for next Saturday’s wedding. Such an honour to be asked to do some wedding styles, so I thought I’d share last weekend’s styles with you.

First of all, I had the honour of styling the two little flower girls’ hair for my cousin’s wedding. They have very thin and curly hair, but the older girl’s hair is quite long. I did two dutch braids with a ribbon for her, and let the end of the braid just curl nicely. This lasted really well and still looked good after running in some fields, dancing and playing. For the younger flower girl, I made a hair clip bow with the same green ribbon. It looked cute until she pulled it out, but it lasted fairly long!

Other than the flower girls, I did three adult’s hair: two lace braid hairdos, one of which I finished with a ponytail and a bow, and the other one as a rolled bun and a flower. The third adult hairdo was a starburst bun on some lovely pink hair:

With adult hairdos, it’s important to do something that the model is comfortable with. All these three were very happy with their braids, so I thought they were a success.

And finally, of course, I did my own three daughters. The older two told me exactly what they wanted, and my youngest one hates her hair on her face, so I chose a style that would keep her hair out of the way for the whole party:

So last weekend was kind of a practise run: next saturday I’m doing three bridesmaids hair! We did some trial hair today, so it should be fairly easy, but as it is the bridesmaids, I think there will be more pressure!

And just to add some extra pressure: I will be doing the bridesmaids in the morning before working at a kids’ festival, doing braids… that will be about 6 hours of braiding all together! I think my fingers will be hurting 🙂

19 kesäkuun, 2014

Memories of the Carribbean

We are finally settling in our new home in Finland. I didn’t have a chance to blog while we were travelling, as I only had my mobile… My Instagram followers have seen more than enough of my ”travel braids” as I posted at least one braid from each country we went to. So now for those, who are not on Instagram: I’ll show you a few favourites from our Carribean trip.

First, we went to Jamaica. It was amazing. We all agree that out of all the countries we went to, Jamaica was our favourite. The people we super nice, food was good, atmosphere, music, weather, the sea… everything.

There were braiders everywhere! And so many amazing braids! When we first got out the plane, my 5-year old said ”mummy, everyone here has much nicer braids than what you make!”… So, I took it as a challenge, and this was the first morning in Jamaica:

I got so many compliments for this and other braids throughout the 2 weeks in Jamaica, I even got job offers from the local braid-salons! Really felt that my work was appreciated in Jamaica 🙂

Next, we went on a Caribbean cruise visiting six of the Eastern Caribbean Islands. On each island we did a little trip to a beach, did some snorkeling or just relaxed and went swimming. The braids were always destroyed in the end of the day from all the seawater, so perfect excuse to do new braids every day. Here are some of my favourites (snake braid in St. Kitts, rope braid in Antigua and fishtail-french braid in St. Lucia):

After the cruise we went to Mexico, where I’ve always wanted to visit. It was really interesting with all the history, Mayan ruins etc. and of course Mexican food, one of my favourite cuisines!

Again, we swam a lot, so needed to re-do the braids all the time. I was trying to decide which photo to put here, and then found this:

This braid was done by my husband. He was complaining he never gets any braiding practice anymore, as I always do the hair! So he came up with this braid, which I thought was beautiful!!

But that’s enough from our holiday (I might do another post with a bit more, but if I add it here it will be too long!)… I hope I’m better at blogging regularly now that we finally have a home again!

1 joulukuun, 2013

Braiding at the Christmas market

Today I was doing braids at the Finnish Christmas market. I only had 1 and a half hours to do as many as I could… I managed 10 heads!

I very rarely get to do braids on anyone else than my daughters, so it was quite an experience to do so many so different types of hair: thick, thin, curly, straight, layered, fringe etc… I really enjoyed it! And it was for a good cause: fund raising for the Finnish school.

I was a bit worried before hand, how to get the little ones to sit still without a TV or computer. I had brought a small sticker book, and I asked the girls to stick some stickers in it while I was braiding. It worked really well.

These all took about 5-10 minutes. The trickiest one was the little double lace braid headband on very fine and thin hair, and the one I enjoyed the most doing was the thick long Rapunzel braid.

19 syyskuun, 2013

Quick and easy

I haven’t posted anything this week, as I have been busy with taking the kids to school and all the after-school activities… If anyone else has been as busy, here are some quick fixes for the school mornings:

This one is super easy: just do two basic braids, then tie them together at the back. I used a very small hairband and then took a strand of hair from the ponytail, wrapped it around the hairband and attached with a see-through elastic.

This hairdo took me about two minutes to do. It looked nice for the whole day. The next day I tied all the loose hair and the little braid into a ponytail, which was also a nice hairdo, and a bit different from the day before.

A variation of the above hairstyle: do the same, but instead of basic 3-strand braids, do two little fishtail braids. This one takes slightly longer, as fishtail braids always do, but I was still able to make this in under 5 minutes.

13 elokuun, 2013

For a good day

I made this twisted ponytail on my youngest daughter today. It looks lovely and is fairly easy to make. However, today was the wrong day for this hairstyle.

Last night we arrived home from a camping trip at 3 in the morning after driving 9 hours. My daughter woke up when we carried her to her bed, and didn’t properly fall asleep for the rest of the night. So today she was on the worst mood ever, too tired for anything. So by the third temper tantrum this hairdo was completely gone: it was not meant for rolling on the floor screaming!

If you would like to try this on a better day, here is how to do it:

First, make a twist in the middle of the head by twisting two strands of hair around each other and adding a bit of hair into each twist. Once you’ve picked up hair all the way to the neck, tie with an elastic band or hair clip.

Next, do another twist on the right by twisting two strands of hair around each other, adding hair at each twist until you’ve added all the hair on the right side. Tie with a clip or hair band.

Finally twist the hair on the left side and tie all three twists together into a ponytail (and remove other hair clips and elastics).

Hope you have better luck with it than me!

14 heinäkuun, 2013

Thin hair and little of it

The pictures are of my daughter, who has a lot of hair for an average 2-year-old, but this hairdo is perfect for everyone with a lot less hair than her.

Last week, I was trying on some french braids and lace braids on my cousin’s daughter, who has very fine hair and little of it. I always ran out of hair before the braid got anywhere, so I invented a little trick to make a braided headband (or other braids) work:

I started braiding with three strands of hair. Then, instead of adding hair at every ”stitch” of the braid, I added a bit of hair to one stitch, then did three stitches without adding any, then added a bit of hair, followed by three normal stitches again, then added some hair to the next stitch and so on. This made the braid long enough to stretch across the head, but I managed to keep it tight and didn’t run out of hair.

Here are some step-by-step pictures of how I did it on my daughter (I’m half way through the braid, but you can see the trick):

She has a lot of hair, but also funny bits of very thin and short baby hair at the sides of her forehead, so this trick worked well on her as well.

18 kesäkuun, 2013

French braid ponytails

I don’t like simple ponytails, not just because they are boring, but because they come off easily, or strands of hair escape, they become loose and they end up looking messy and dull. So I’ve created a lot of different variations that either make a ponytail a bit more interesting or hold the hair better. One version that I quite like is this ”french braid ponytail”.

For the smallest ones with lots of fine baby hair, both pony tails and normal (one or two) french braids are difficult, as there isn’t enough hair to hold the hairdo together. So I like to do this ”3 french braids into a ponytail”: just do a little french braid in the middle of the head, leaving roughly one-third of loose hair on both sides. There is no need to divide it evenly, just do it quickly before the girl looses patience. Then french braid the two sides, and tie everything into a ponytail.

For my oldest daughter, I’ve done this ”2 french braid ponytail” a few times. It lasts long, holds the fine hair at the front and at the back of the neck well, and looks nice. But this is a bit trickier to make, as she can’t watch tv when I make the back part of the braid.

So, to make this one, I’ve divided the hair into two parts: front/up- and back/down-part. Next, I’ve made a french braid from the back of her neck up to the middle of her head, and then another one from the front of her head down to the middle. And finally tied the two into a ponytail.

To get the back part done, she had to lie down on her stomach and look at a book while I braided. After that, the front part is easy, but as you can see from the picture, my latest trick to get them to sit still is to get them to look at hairdos on Pinterest!