Little Girl's Hairstyles: Off centered braid and twist hairstyle 15-20 min

Happy April! This is my favorite time of year! All my bulbs are coming up (along with the weeds), but I just love watching everything start to blossom and turn green again, rather than the drab brown patches I've been looking at all winter! So in preparation for the Easter holiday, here's a little 'series' I'll be sharing in the next few posts:

This is a 'progressive' hairstyle, I like to call it, because I use the first part of this hairstyle, with the off-centered french braid and twist in a few different hairstyles--which I build on, to give you more ideas and variety.  This hairstyle has a french braid, a twist, a twist braid, a stacked pony, and a regular braided ponytail-but it's still easy and basic! Like most of my 'basic' components, I have videos on how to do them. Feel free to check those out for the french braid and the twist braid if needs be in the Video Tutorial section.

 To begin, I started with, of course!, DAMP hair. This is pretty much the case with about 99% of my hairdos. I give her a center part, back to the ear line.

 I then part down to her ear on the larger side. This is where I will be doing the french braid.

 I french braid back to the part, and then continue with a regular braid, just far enough to reach a little past the center of her head in the back.

 Then on to the smaller parted section.

 Comb neatly and begin twisting towards the center of her head.

 Join them off-centered like so, with an elastic.This is my stopping point for the other hairstyles I'll be showing you soon.

 From this point, I do a twist braid down to the ends of her hair

 And then secure the rest of the hair into a low ponytail.

 I pull the ponytail over the top of the joined braid and twist,

 and make a stacked pony and wrap the twist braid around base of the ponytail. I use a clear elastic to secure the twist braid in place. I then braid the ponytail down to the ends. If your daughter's hair isn't long enough to do the twist braid, just wrap it around the ponytail base.

 You'll need to plan a few extra minutes if you want to do all the twists and braids, but it's a fun one to do! I really like the off-centered look of the ponytail when she's all done.

Little Girl's Hairstyles -French twist braids with stacked pony 10-15 min

So, as usual, this started out as one thing, and ended up completely different. But I was happy with how it turned out  (or else I wouldn't have shared it!).

This would be a good style to work hair gel in first, after thoroughly soaking the hair. Keeping the hair wet throughout this one would be helpful. I parted on an angle in the front, and clipped the rest of the hair back. You'll be making 3 sections in the front, and I did the twists angling away from her part.

My first twist was the top section of the larger section off her part.

I also clipped off the section of hair on the left, since I was angling the twist that way, it helped keep it out of the one I was working on. Divide the section into two pieces, and do one full twist.

Start adding in hair, just like you would on a french braid. The tricky part here, is making sure you are adding hair evenly to both sides. Here's my method: Twist the two pieces, then add hair from one side, and then the other. Twist again, and repeat. I did the two twists in the larger section of the part twisting away from the part, and then I twisted the hair on the other side of the part in the opposite direction. This is not necessary, I just liked the distinction it gave to her part.

When you get as far as the part, twist it tightly, and then secure as close as possible to the head with an elastic.

This shows the difference in the direction I twisted the hair. Left side to the left, right to the right.

Larger section of her part, both twists going in same direction.

Next comb all the rest of the hair back into a pony. I would suggest thoroughly soaking the pony again at this point.

I divided the hair into two sections. If the hair you are working with is thinner, then make this first section less thick than the  rest. This will be the portion you are wrapping around the pony to make it a stacked pony.

Start twisting the section of hair, and then start wrapping it around the pony. You are basically making a twisted bun around the ponytail.

Keep wrapping the hair and tuck the end under, then wrap an elastic (clear, preferably) around it at least twice to secure. Make sure to get a few of the rolls of the twist secured, not just the base.

With the hair that's left out, I sprayed with water again, and then did a twist braid.  Spray well, and you are done! I tied a ribbon around the twist bun of the stacked pony.

You can better see the parting here, and the twist braids' direction.

I gotta admit---I love the stacked pony. I did it on my other daughter the next day, but just pulled all her hair up into the stacked pony, and then curled the hair hanging out, rather than doing a twist braid. I really liked it, and it was fast and cute.