It was school photos last week. Quite tricky as most beautiful braids look great from the side or back, but quite dull from the front. Also, you send the girl to school with a nice hair do, but never know what happens before the photo.

Luckily it was not raining or windy, but it was a Thursday. They have a sports class on Thursdays. So, if the photo was after the sports class, she would be pulling her clothes off, pulling her sport’s top on and then off and clothes on again, great potential for messing her hair up completely! And for an extra twist, she requested curls. Oh, and it was a Thursday… the little sisters go to kindergarten on Thursday mornings, so we struggle to get everyone out the door on time in the best of times. So this was our solution:

I’ve concluded that ”half up dos” are best for school photos: no matter which way she tilts her head, some of her hair will show in the picture. The ”half up do” is also good when you make curls by braiding the hair, as there is always straight hair on the top of the head: the little braid will hide it.

So, the night before, we did two loose french braids to get the curls. Then, in the morning we opened the french braids and did a ”side lace braid”. The lace braid is really easy and holds the hair really well. You make it like a french braid but only pick up hair from on side.

This picture was taken AFTER school, and it still looks great. I haven’t seen the school pictures yet, but I think hair-wise, it was a success.