Avainsana: back-to-school hair

waterfall twist, back to school hairstyles

Back-to-School-Letit

Kauhistuttaa aikalailla tiistainen koulun alku: Miten voi olla mahdollista saada kaikki ulos talosta aamupalan syöneinä ja siistin näköisinä ennen kahdeksaa? Viime viikkoina ollaan aamupalapöydästä noustu 11 aikoihin ja lasten nukkumaanmenon kanssa olemme ihan Etelä-Eurooppalaisessa aikataulussa. Hiukset pitäisi tietysti olla kauniilla ja kestävällä letillä, mutta miten ihmeessä se voi olla mahdollista jos sekä lapset että vanhemmat ovat puoliunessa?

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waterfall twist, back to school hairstyles

Olen varma, etten ole ainut, jolla kauhistuttaa, joten kaikille pitkähiuksisten vanhemmille kouluaamujen avuksi kokoan tähän viisi back-to-school suosikkiani ohjevideoineen. Tällä kertaa parhaimmuutta mittaan sillä, kuinka nopea ja helppo kampaus on tehdä ja kuinka hyvin se kestää.

1. Käärmeletti: Kestää todella hyvin, viime viikolla keskimmäinen tyttöni oli 4 päivää tällä letillä. Koulua varten teen tämän luultavasti jo edellisenä iltana yhdelle tytöistäni, jotta aamulla letitettäviä on vain kaksi. Tämä on myös nopea, koska aikaa ei kulu jakausten tekoon.

2. Köysiletti: Tämä kampaus on todella nopea ja köysi (tai twisti) letti on kivan erikoisen näköinen. Pitkissä hiuksissa köysiletti pysyy hyvin, lyhyempiin hiuksiin on hyvä keksiä jokin variaatio, koska ainakin videolla näkyvässä, sivulle tehtävässä mallissa niskahiukset lähtevät helposti repsottamaan.

3. Twistiputous:  Tämä on nopea, ja helpompi, kuin normaali putousletti. Ihan pienimmille jatkaisin kampausta esimerkiksi sitomalla hiukset lopuksi poninhännälle tai tekemällä normaalin kolmi-osioisen letin, näin kampaus pysyy koko päivän.

4. Lätytetty hollantilainen letti: Tämäkin on kestävä ja helppo mutta erottuu ihan normaalista letistä, jos sen tekee videon ohjeiden mukaan vinoon. Lätytys-tekniikalla saa letistä näyttävän ja paksun, mutta jos haluaa lisätä letin kestävyyttä, voi lätytyksen jättää tekemättä.

5. Epätasaiset saparot: Tämä tyyli vie voiton, jos mitataan kampauksen helppoutta. Letit näyttävät erikoisilta, mutta ainut vaikea osuus näissä saparoissa on jakauksen teko.

Näillä pitäisi päästä alkuun, teen tässä muutaman päivän sisään vielä toisen postauksen ja lisää ideoita kouluaamuihin.

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In English:

I’m slightly nervous about the school mornings: we are completely in summer schedule, and I can’t see how we’re going to manage to get everyone ready and out of the house before 8am!

So I decided to compile five favourite quick and easy tutorials here to help everyone out on school mornings. These are all  quick and easy and they hold very well:

1. Snake braid: holds so well, that I will probably do this on one of the girls the night before, so that I only have two girls to braid in the morning.

2. Rope braid: very quick, and holds long hair very well. For shorter hair, you might want to think of a variation of this to make it last better.

3. Waterfall Twist: quick to do, and easier than a normal waterfall. For the smallest ones, you might want to put the rest of the hair on a ponytail to make it last better.

4. A Pancaked dutch braid: This one is easy, but looks different from an ordinary dutch braid if done diagonally. The pancaking makes it thicker looking, but skip the pancaking if you really want the braid to last.

5. Uneven Pigtails: These are the quickest and easiest of them all, but still look fun and different.

You can get started with these five, I’ll do another post towards the end of the week to give you all more back-to-school ideas!

 

More back-to-school hair

Now that our Swiss and UK friends (and pretty much everyone else) have also started school, I’ll share some more of my school hair ideas.

First, a 5-strand braid with micro braids. Warning: five strand braids always require some finger flexibility. This is nice and fairly quick if you’ve practiced it a few times, but don’t attempt it for the first time when you’re in a rush in the morning.

This is also easy to do in your own hair. Here’s a link to a tutorial by Bebexo: 5-strand with micro braids . And once you’ve practised it a bit, you can try a french version (on the right), but that’s a bit advanced.

5-strand braid with microbraids 5-strand french braid with microbraids

 

 

different pigtails, gymnastics hair, back to school hairIf that’s all too much for you, here is one that is much easier: criss-cross pigtails.

The hardest part about this is making the partings: you need to divide the hair into six sections. Then make two pigtails at the top, cross them over, make two pigtails in the middle and include the crossed over pigtails as well, cross them over, and make two pigtails with the rest of the hair. I’ve twisted the hair a bit, to hide fly-aways.

 

milkmaid crown braidFinally, a quick and pretty hairstyle: milkmaid braids.

The model here is my youngest daughter, who is not in school yet, but so often we have no time to photograph the older ones!

Here is a link to a tutorial by Cute Girls Hairstyles: Milkmaid braids.

This is also perfect for thinner hair. I tried it on my oldest, and it looked awful as her hair is so thick that the sides were very bulky, and it was too heavy to pin up securely enough to last a whole school day. But on the two younger sisters this style stays in quite well.

These hairstyles and a couple of ponytail days should take you through another school week!

 

 

 

 

At least the hair looked nice

A few minor back-to-school disasters yesterday: had one girl there at the wrong time (luckily too early), forgot their snack boxes (saved by husband who ran back home for them), forgot quite a few items from the list to bring to school, and in the evening, tried to cover the notebooks with plastic, and got it all wrinkled. And after all that, I had another accident with not reading the label on my hair wax and makeup remover containers, this time with waxy eyes! Clearly too tired after the first day!

But the main thing was: they both enjoyed school very much AND their hair looked nice 🙂 :

two dutch lace braids back to school hairfrench braids made with five strands, back-to-school-hair

The first one of these is very easy, and could even do it in the morning (but we did all the hair the night before). It’s two little dutch lace braids. That’s a lace braid, but  instead of moving hair strands form the side over to the middle, you move from the side UNDER to the middle. So like an inverted braid.

The second one is more tricky, and requires some practice. I’ve made two french braids, but with 5 strands instead of 3. I did this first time about a week ago and ended up with loose braids that fell apart, but after trying a few times, I’ve mastered the 5-strand french braiding. You might want to start with making simple braids with 5 strands first (here is a link to a tutorial on a simple 5 strand braid, which I found on YouTube).