Halloween Hair Carnival! Beautiful Butterfly With A Fancy Half Updo

Happy Halloween Everyone! I hope you all had a fun and safe night. Keyanna had a blast! (for the most part). 

This year, after eyeing a pair of wings at the craft store, Keyanna had her heart set on being  a butterfly. So we did another homemade costume this year. I think she looked super cute and it hardly cost us anything!. We got the wings on sale for $5.99, the tutu we reused from last years rockstar costume (we just took the pink out),  I spent about  $2.00 on a little more orange/black tulle to fill it up again and to make the headband. The make-up is LA Colors from the Dollar Tree, and the rest of the costume (boots, leggings, and a black gymnastics leotard) she already had! So.. Total cost? Only about 9.00! 

The hair was not exactly what we had originally planned, but Key absolutely LOVED it! We went with a half Updo, and since I wanted a lot of volume behind her headband I had the genius idea of using a Bumpit. Lol. 

I wanted her roots to be really straight for this style so I started by flat ironing her hair using…………… (I know a lot of you choose not to use heat on your child’s hair, I personally don’t have a problem using it on rare occasions and it hasn’t caused any problems for us.) I then added the Bumpit on the crown of her head, took the top half of the loose hair, gave it a little twist, and secured that part in the back of her head using a few more pins. 

For the bottom half of the hair I added a few medium size Curlformers and set them using Deva Curl AnGel (review coming soon) I left those in for a few hours and she was good to go! 

Here is my beautiful butterfly!

And here are a few pics of her 'do 

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Check out more Hair Carnival posts on these fabulous blogs! 

Untrained Hair Mom               Mainly Braids               Life With Captain Fussybuckets

Simmworks Family Blog (Dinosaur)               Simmworks Family Blog (Sushi Roll)

Happy Halloween               Charlotte's Avenue               Goldilocks*n*Me

You Can Do It Too               Diva Locks               The Shopping Duck   

Natural-Hair-Care-Info               Brown Girls Hair               Boys And Girls Natural Curls

Halloween Style: Cornrowed Spider/Web Design

So a lot of you have probably seen these pics on Beads Braids & Beyond  already, I was so honored when she asked to share our style as photo of the day! 

I did this style on Keyanna at the beginning of October, I though it was fitting since it had a Halloween feel to it, This was my first time doing spider/web braids and I think it was the most intricate style I have ever done. We got tons of compliments and Keyanna insists it’s her new favorite style. 

I’m hoping anyone who plans on trying to copy this style can do it by just looking at our pics and kind of following what we did through them because honestly this style is just too complicated for me to explain and I would probably just confuse you all more if I tried lol. I wil say that I started the style by parting her hair down the middle (from her forehead to the nape of her neck) and braided the left side first, and then did the right side making it as symmetrical as I could.. It is a little off though. I started with the top legs and did the rest of the spider, and then went on to do the web.  For the spiders bodyI actually tied her hair in a knot. I wanted to give it a 3D effect. 

In the first pics I just put the loose hair in 2 side braid pigtails and threw in some ballies, We switched it up a few days later and added some beads. 

Chocolate Hair/Vanilla Care also did a take on our style doing flat rope twists instead of cornrows and it came out gorgeous. She goes into a little more detail on how she did the style so definitely check that out if your having difficulty recreating our style or if you prefer flat rope twists over cornrows.

A few days later we took out the 2 large braids and did some singles with beads instead. She wore her hair this way until we were ready to take it down.

I know a lot of you are probably wondering what that blue and black thing is in her hair so let me just tell you it's a hair wrap. We had put it in a week or so before doing this style so I just worked around it. Anyways, that's a post for another time.

Hair Carnival! Past Halloween Costumes and Styles

This is our first Hair Carnival that Keyanna and I have participated in and we are so excited! The topic is past Halloween Costumes and styles, unfortunately most of these pics were taken before we started blogging (or even doing hair for that matter) so they are not super fancy or anything like that. But I love looking back through old pics of my baby when she was a baby so this was definitely a fun post to do! Hope you all enjoy it! 

Keyanna’s first Halloween she was 5 months old and went as a bunny, I waited until the absolute LAST second to get her a costume (we literally bought it Halloween morning lol) so needless to say everything was already picked over. This was the last costume they had in her size, I didn’t really care for it but at least it was warm.. Halloween in Portland in usually cold. Obviously we didn’t do anything special with her hair because.. Well, she didn’t have any! These pics are from my old film camera and I was not trying to bust out my scanner so I just took a pic of a page out of her baby book. 

By the way, she hated the hood and wouldn’t wear it lol. 

For her second Halloween she was almost a year and a half and went as a Carebear! We shopped a little earlier that year and when she saw the costume at Walmart she had to have it. And she was so cute in it! Didn’t do anything special with her hair this time either as it was going to be covered by the hood, or so I thought! She still didn,t like wearing hoods so this was the best pic I got. 

For her third Halloween she was about 2 and a half years and went as Tigger (the cutest Tigger I have ever seen if I do say so myself lol). I just tied her hair back into a pony, since yet again it was another hooded costume, but guess what?.. She actually kept the hood on that year! 

Keyanna wore the same costume for her fourth and fifth Halloween, I couldn’t find the pics from the fourth.. They are on a CD around here somewhere but here are a few from the fifth. She went as a witch. 

And finally.. 

Last year Keyanna was 5 years old and went as a ROCKSTAR! Her favorite costume so far. She even sang Hannah Montana/Camp Rock songs at peoples doors while she was trick or treating lol. And for once we had a warm Halloween. I made her tutu for the costume and just put an iron on transfer on the top to make it sparkle. This costume was easy to make and hardly cost us anything. For her hair I did a braided Mohawk, the product I used ended up being way too heavy for her hair and just weighed the top part down, but I didn’t have any time to fix it before we went out that night.  

And here's a bonus pic i just couldn't resist posting. Keyanna at a year and a half wearing her uncles mask. 

What will Keyanna be for Halloween this year??? Check out our next hair carnival at the beginning of November to find out!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Belle Hair

Our Version of Belle's Hair

Start with making a part in the front of her hair to give a center part.

Then pull up the top half of her hair into a ponytail

Next take the ponytail and make an upside down twist

The key is not to pull the hair all the way through the twist.

Take a ribbon and put around the ponytail part of the hair.

Tie the ribbon into a bow

Then make large ringlets out of the hair that is left down.

The picture below is a the side of her hair

Jasmine Hair

Our idea for Jasmine's Hair

Make 2 parts one in the center of her head and then take a small sections across the front of her head as shown below I put the pieces I wasn't using right now in elastics so I could control the hair a little better.


Here is a picture of the side of her head so you can see how the hair is parted.

Now put a ribbon behind the hair that was secured by the elastic on the side of her head.

I then back combed the crown of her head

Now take the hair on the sides and I twisted it all the way from the top since she has bands. I did this to keep the bangs in the right place. Twist on both sides then secure them together under about half of her hair.

The picture below shows how to secure the hair on the sides of her hair.



Take the remaining hair and secure in a low ponytail at the bottom of her head.

I then wrapped the ribbon around the ponytail. Then take another elastic and put it halfway down the remaining hair. I then took the ribbon and wrapped it around the last elastic.

Cinderella Hair

Pull all of her hair into a ponytail

Take the hair and make loops we did 3 different ones around the ponytail. I secured these in place with bobby pins

The goal is to make a loose bun

I used bobby pins to put the circles in place then we added a headband to top off the Cinderella Look.

Tinker Bell Hair

The 1st couple of steps are the exact same as Cinderella, however I did include them as well.
Pull the hair into a ponytail.

pull the hair and secure with bobby pins to make a loose bun. My daughters hair is longer so we rolled it into each other to make a smaller bun.

I made 3 different rolls to make the bun.

Once the bun is in place I took a small elastic and make a muffin top with her hair to give her the Tinker bell bun look.

This is the side picture below. Note: use bobby pins to place the hair where you want it.