Dutch Pony Hair

 Well today was another cute one! To create today's hair you need to know how to do a "dutch braid". I always called them "inside out braids" growing up. It's basically a french braid but you braid under instead of over and the braid looks like it's sitting on top of your hair instead of blending into it.
We parted her hair on the side. Then sectioned off hair hair and created the dutch braid, stop adding new hair when you've included all the hair back to the ear. Continue dutch braiding without adding new hair to the end of the hair. Put an elastic band on the braid, and let it hang while working on the rest of the hair. Then pull all of the rest of the hair not in the braid up into a ponytail. Now take the braid and pull it back to the ponytail and wrap it around and underneath the ponytail. My daughter's hair is short enough that I was able to curl it under just a bit and bobby pin it into place. If your hair is too long for this you may want to pin it where you want it and move your elastic band up the braid to just below the pinned spot and release the braid past that spot. Then take an additional elastic band and pick up the loose hair and the ponytail and band that all together as well.

Please don't judge the lighting! We are trying every room in the house trying to find the best light for this blog! (It's not going well)

I really wanted to give her a "bump" on the top of her hair but I haven't mastered that without it looking like a rats nest! I have the general idea of how to do it and we will keep working on it. Coming to a blog post near you...how to make a healthy looking intentional hair bump! lol