I’ve made this flower bun a few times. I found it on Cute Girls Hairstyles, which has been my biggest inspiration lately. Actually we are all hooked on Mindy’s hair tutorials: my girls like to choose hairstyles from her for me to try, I’ve even caught my husband on her website (and I’m sure it was him who put Cute Girls Hairstyles on the bookmarks bar on our computer). You can follow Mindy’s instructions for the flower bun via this link: cutegirlshairstyles dutch flower braid

First, you need to practise dutch braiding, kind of upside down french braiding. After you get the hang of dutch braids, this one is fairly easy to do, just takes a bit of time. The last part where you need to ”pancake” the braid and roll it into a bun is quite tricky. My girls have very fine hair, so lots of it sticks out the braid easily and ”pancaking it” makes it even worse.

When I made the braid in the picture, I had no hairspray or hair gel, so I used hair wax to try to prevent the hair from sticking out. Or so I thought. After the braid was finished and picture was taken, I started tidying the hairpins and combs away, and picked up the little black hair wax pot, but when I looked at it more closely, it was actually my makeup remover, which comes in an almost identical black pot!! No wonder, the hair didn’t really stay where it was supposed to!

I’ve also made a variation of this with two flowers, which ended up looking more like snails, but still quite nice: