Girl's Hair Bow

This hairstyle, I have to admit, Kayla and I decided to try just simply because we thought it would be a good laugh. The picture in the book has a tiny little chubby faced girl wearing this do, and we thought "Why not try it?" This hairstyle in my opinion is very silly and meant to be for little girls. But, in a competition dance routine this year, Kayla plays the role of a little girl, so we figured we could try this and see if it would suit the purpose of that. But for the most part, the only thing this hairstyle did to benefit us was that it gave us a good laugh :)


As I said, this hairstyle is meant for little girls. It is cute on little girls with shorter hair. Kayla on the other hand is a highschooler with extremely long and thick hair, so we knew this would be... interesting. In the context of little girls, this hairstyle would be adorable, and it is fast and easy. It would be great for moms with princesses who love being girly. This style is intended to turn out looking like a bow, but made of the hair. As Bond states: "As a mother of a little girl, I adore putting bows in my daughter's hair- anything from those small enough to fit on a barrette to very much oversize bows. This hairstyle allows you to style your little girl's hair into an actual hair bow. Your little lady will look darling with this bow atop her head. It will shine on the dance floor at a recital or add spunk to her Sunday best. Whichever way she decides to wear this bow, it's sure to be adorable" (Bond 231). As you can see, this hairstyle is an adorable one that moms and daughters all over will find cute. For teens with extremely long hair though, lets just say Kayla and I do not recommend this hairstyle for daily use.


The tools needed for this style are bobby pins, colorful or clear hair ties, and hairspray (optional).


Step 1 said to start with dry hair. Kayla's was straight from when she straightened it from the day before.

Step 2 said to tease the top of the hair, but I found this useless so I did not do that step. Next, Step 3 instructed to gather the hair into a high ponytail and to secure with an elastic band. To be extra wacky, Kayla handed me a hot pink hair tie :)

Step 4 said to wrap another elastic band around the ponytail, but not to pull the ponytail all the way through. This therefore creating a bun-looking top half, with the ends of the ponytail hanging out on the bottom half.

Step 5 showed to divide the bun into two pieces down the center, creating two little separate buns.

Step 6 showed how to wrap the ends up and around the two buns, to create the "bow". Step 7 showed where to pin the hair to secure it and to finish the look.

As you can see from this final product of mine, this hairstyle did not at all fit Kayla's hair. Her hair is much too long for this style, and instead of a bow we ended up with a tangled mess as a result. This hairstyle would be perfect for a little girl, but on Kayla's head, it just didn't fit quite right.

Although this was not a success for my fifth and final blog, Kayla and I got quite the laugh out of this hairstyle and out of trying to detangle her long mane. We needed a good laugh, because finals studying has definitely been stressing us out, which I'm sure all of you can relate to. Hairstyling can be quite fun, and I enjoy it quite a lot. There is so much that you can do with hair, it's a crazy world of infinite ways to be classy, put together, wacky, wavy, and even crazy at times :)


What hairstyle fails have you experienced? Any fails with heat products like curling irons?


Citation:
Bond, Kylee. Idiot's Guides - Hairstyles. New York: Mike Saunders, 2014. Print.