How To Fishtail Braid – Hairstyle Photo Tuorial
Hair tutorial time! My brain is completely fried at the moment, so many things to organise and do, I think I need a life overhaul! Being a bit busy means less time for pretty hair, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have cute hair. Fishtail braids look really complicated but once you understand the basic idea they are quick and easy to do!
Here is a video version for those of you who prefer them and the downloadable version is at the end as usual:
So let’s get started!
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Brush all of your hair over to one side.
Separate the hair into two halves.
Take a small piece of hair from the back of half #2.
Pull it over half #2 and hold it with the same hand you’ve got half #1 in. It now becomes part of half #1
Now take a small piece from the side of half #1.
Move it over half #1 and to become part of half #2.
That’s the basic technique. All you need to do is alternate taking small sections from each half, pulling them over and then putting them in the other hand so they become part of the other half. So the next step from where I left off is to take a piece from half #1 and move it over to half #2
And then one from half #2 goes to half #1.
Continue this pattern over and over and over. Keep in mind that the smaller the sections of hair you take, the more intricate the final braid will look.
As you keep going down you should get something like this:
Continue braiding until you either run out of hair or you’ve got the length you want.
Tie it off with and elastic.
Bam! Braid!
Now this braid is pretty good by itself but I prefer mine to look puffy and more even in the width. The way to achieve this is to pull the pieces and puff them out after you tie it off. It feels a bit like you’re ruining your hard work but trust me it’s not going to come undone unless your hair tie is loose.
Easy!
I like to curl the ends too.
Then just add a decoration.
Taadaa all done!
Now do a celebration dance because you FINALLY learned how to do a fishtail braid!!
Or you know, just calm down and enjoy your braid…
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How To Use Pastels For Temporary Hair Colour!
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How To Use Pastels For Temporary Hair Colour
Hope you’re having a good day it’s time for another hair tutorial.
Have you ever wondered how you could get temporary, bright, cute hair colours without having to worry about the commitment?
Oh my god I sound like an informercial.
Well there are several ways to do it but my favorite answer is using soft art pastels.
Please don’t use oil pastels for this. Oil pastels and soft pastels are not the same thing.
Soft pastels have a chalky feeling where as oil pastels are obviously really oily.
So you’re not going to get the same effect.
The pastels I’m using are from Daiso and they were $2.80.
The hardest thing about this tutorial is picking the colour.
For the actual technique, all you need to do is separate the hair you want to colour.
Put a piece of cardboard or paper under it to protect the hair underneath.
And draw the pastel on.
You can make it as bright as you want just by drawing more on. Super easy!
Before you ask, yes it does work on dark hair.
If you have dark hair you may need to apply a bit more to get the colour as bright.
Keep in mind also that artists pastels come in different grades so make sure to look for a soft pastel that is really pigmented.
Don’t forget to do the underneath and the ends as well.
So far I haven’t experienced any damage using this technique on myself or others.
If you are concerned or you’ve had hair damage in the past, I would always suggest that you go to a hairstylist and get them to look over your hair first just in case.
Once you are finished with the colour, add some hair spray to seal it in.
Then just brush it through with the rest of the hair and you’re good to go.
Afterwards you can just shampoo your hair and get rid of the colour completely.
It’s a great way to have crazy colours on the weekend if you’re working in an office or still going to school with strict dress codes.
Now that I’ve tried it with some different pinks, I think I want to try it with blues and purples.
I think that would be super cute.
I hope this was a useful video, good luck if you give it a try.
Make sure you check out the blog post linked in the description, there’s a photo tutorial there you can download as well.
And thanks so much for watching, bye!
Water Colour Nail Art
This week I’ve been in planning mode, at the end of the month we’re going to be visiting Queensland for work/a short holiday and there’s so much to schedule in! Sometimes it seems like even holidays are a lot of work XD
The lack of craft tutorials lately has been because I’ve been using my nights to paint… or you know, sleep like a normal person. I have a scheduled craft day this Thursday so hopefully I can start some new projects!
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The painting has made me really curious though, water colours are my medium of choice so I wondered if they could make some interesting nail art.
The answer is yes!
It’s an interesting technique which can have a lot of different results, let me know if I should do a tutorial for this ^_^
I used a yellow base but next time I want to give the base the texture of thick art paper too.
And in case you were wondering, the background is from one of the pictures I’ve been working on!
I think I would like to do a lot more painting, it’s very relaxing after a very long day.
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