Four-Braid Low Bun

Sure, I'm making up names for most of these hair styles, but I think they're relatively appropriate.
Anyway, my cousin's having an engagement party this weekend and even though it's nothing particularly formal, I thought that since I'll probably just wear a summer dress with comfortable flats, I may as well have a presentable head of hair considering it's too short to ever do anything to it on a regular basis. So I tried this number on my own head, and I think it turned out fairly well. I might just point out that my hair is only shoulder length, making it really hard to do waterfall braids and standard french braids or "only grab from the bottom strand" french braids (I don't know what they're called but that's what I did for this). Also my hair was still wet and to be honest, I didn't brush it, I just ran my fingers through my hair to get out the tangles so it doesn't look as great as it should, but bear with me.

You gotta give me credit for getting this shot. I had to pull some crazy yoga business to get my arms in the proper position for my dslr to focus and what not; turned out fairly decent though.

The "Somewhat" Instructions

Okay so I can't explain exactly how I did it step by step, but essentially, the two top-most braids on either side of the head are waterfall braids that I tied at the middle with a black elastic (because it can hide with my hair colour). If you have blonde hair or whatever other colour hair that black elastics wouldn't be ideal with, just use clear ones.
Okay, So given the fact that it's a waterfall braid, you'll have all that hair chillin at the bottom so with that I did a french braid on either side, but this is where it gets hard to explain. If you notice in the picture, it doesn't look like a french braid because only one side is connected to the braid itself. That's because you only pull hair with the bottom strand. I guess that makes absolutely no sense without a visual but whatever. I'm bad at explaining how to do hair. Deal with it.

Anyway, because there are four braids--two on either side--they connect in the middle. If you have short nasty hair like me, then you tuck it in behind the counterpart braid. I know that doesn't make sense either.. I apologize for my crappy, somewhat instructions!
Anyway.. Once the braid-ends are tucked into the counterpart braids, you just pin it so that it's secure and HIDDEN. None of that prickly braid-end bullocks; after doing that, it'll naturally form a bun
So yeah, it should look similar to what I have. If you have longer hair, you'll probably end up with a larger bun. If you have shorter hair then me, I'm sorry to say, but you won't be able to do it. 

Et Voila! Four-Braid Low Bun!

ENJOY! :)

czaR2-D2

Double Braid Side-Bun

After doing the waterfall braid with ChelC-3p0's hair, I decided to try something else to turn the down-do into a more elegant up-do for the lavishly classy folk.
Or simply for those who are equally as entertained by hair as we are!

Waterfall Braid

So we decided to experiment with the waterfall braid; managed to do a couple need things with it, but for the basic gist of it, we ended up working with the straight and the curly! Just for the record, I used chelC-3P0's hair this time to try it out.







Clearly, they both look really well. I personally think that the curls would be better for a more formal occasion, regardless, it's really simple to do so you could definitely put it together in under 10 minutes. We hope you like it!

Crown of Braids

I don't know if the intention of this blog page was to give tutorials on how to do hair or just to put pictures and explanations of hair styles we've done. However, I did my best friend's hair last night and it looked awesome! I literally just combined normal braids and french braids and had them intertwined and inter-braided to make a sort of head-band/crown effect with her hair. I hope you like it!
-czaR2-D2





On a side note, we also made those earrings; a list of materials and a brief tutorial with pictures will be going up sometime this evening :)