Valentine's Rope Braided Bun

 

The tools you will need are a comb, soft brush, spray bottle, 3 ouchless elastics, 1 hair band, and hair spray.

First part her hair right down the middle on top.

With your comb draw or part the hair to make the top right side of a heart.

Do the same thing on the left side.

Then draw the bottom right side of the heart and the bottom left side of the heart.

When it looks the way you want, put the hair into a low ponytail with an elastic.

Add an elastic.

Divide the hair in half under the ponytail and pull the pony tail into the left side that will be brought into a floppy bun to keep it out of the way.

Starting like the Lace Braided Bun, use your comb to get a wide, thin piece to begin with. Go right near the part to get your first piece. 

Divide it in two.

To do a rope braid, you twist both pieces to the right and cross to the left.  This is not easy especially at first.  Keep your pieces twisted tight.  Then you add hair from the front and the back kind of close to the heart part. 

So you are twisting right  and crossing left, then adding hair to each, then twisting right and crossing left again.

Keep twisting to the right and crossing over to the left, adding hair from the front and the back.
The first few are tricky, so hang in there.

Continue this until you get to the half way part under the ponytail.

When you get to that place, let out your bun and half the ponytail.

Take the right half of the ponytail and half it again.  Add it to your two pieces that you are twisting.

Continue twisting to the right and crossing over the left until it is tightly twisted all the way down. 

Add an elastic on the end. 

Repeat on the left side. 

Take the two twisted braids and twist them together crossing over left.

Put a new elastic on the end of the new twisted braid and remove the old elastics.

Roll her hair up into a bun.

Pin it when it is how you want it.

This can be the finished product, but if her hair is too heavy, then add another elastic to hold the hair into a lower ponytail.

Pin the bun higher.

My Favorite Valentine's Hair Style

 

 This one takes a little more time, so you might want to start a movie.  It's totally worth it.

Tools that you will need are a brush, spray bottle, comb, 3 ouchless elastics, one hair band and hair spray. 

LACE BRAIDED HEART ( a lace braid is like a half french braid.  You only add hair from one side)

Wet and brush her hair.

Part it down the middle from the front to the back.

Put one side in a ponytail bun to get it out of the way.

When you start this braid, you only add hair from the front.  Use small pieces and do the braid further back than normal.  You shape your braid in the direction that you want your heart.  So, the part is the middle of the heart.  Go up toward her face, then around and back.

Grab from the front then braid like normal from the back.

After you have shaped the round part on the top, then you start pulling toward the back, like you are attaching the two sides together eventually, which you are.

When you get to just above her ear, you do a tradtional braid to the end.

Add  an ouchless elastic.

Get the right side of the hair out of the way.

Spray and brush the left side again. 

Use your comb to get a thin but wide piece of hair to start with.

Start the lace braid by adding hair from the front and not from the back.  

Finish it off with an ouchless elastic.

The back of the hair should be smoothed and hair sprayed.

Pull the two braids around and add one more ouchless elastic.

Unbraid the two ends up to the new elastic.

Brush the ends.