Teen Slide-Up Braid | St. Patrick’s Day Hairstyle {Lucky Do #4}

Tween Hairstyle
Ok, so I was thinking about St. Patrick’s Day hairdo’s and it occured to me that most tweens or teenagers aren’t going to want a huge shamrock on their heads. But they still want to celebrate the spirit of St. Patty’s day. So I came up with a couple of simple, easy tween versions. This is the first. We’ll call this the “Slide-Up Braid” hairdo. It’s SUPER easy and look’s adorable on girls of all ages!

Items Needed: Brush, comb, spray bottle, 1 rubber band, and hairspray.

Time Requirement
: 5-10 minutes.

Begin by brushing hair. This DD has very straight fine hair to begin with so I quickly ran a flat iron over it to flatten any bed-head waves. But you can do this hairdo with long, straight, or curly hair. You can do it on short, but it’s a little harder just because you do not have much hair to work with. Part the hair on left (or right if that is your DD’s natural part)…

Tween Slide-Up Braid #1

Section off a small chunk of hair right next to the part…

Tween Slide-Up Braid #2

Apply a little pomade or spritz lightly with water (just to keep down the frizz). Form this hair into a LOOSE braid. You don’t want this as tight as you can do it… it needs to be a medium loose. Not crazy loose either – just look at the picture…

Tween Slide-Up Braid #3
When you get the very end of hair instead of adding a rubber band hold the MIDDLE piece of hair with two of your fingers…

Tween Slide-Up Braid #4

Now using your free hand, slide the rest of the braid upward. The braid will naturally slide upward along the middle strand and gather up near the roots of her hair…

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Now, pull the braid slightly downward again until you think it lays right. The braid should look somewhat lace-like…

Tween Slide-Up Braid #7

Rubber band the end of the braid. If having one piece of hair hang out of the rubber band longer bugs you simplye twist that hair up and then rubber band it all in. I never mind since I think it just sort of blends into her other hair. It’s a very cool look that seems really difficult to do – but we all know it’s a snap!

To make it festive for St. Patty’s Day, simply add a cute green ribbon. I found my ribbon in the craft/ribbon section of Walmart for $1.00. The ribbons says “Shaking my Shamrocks” which I thought was very funny and appropriate!

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19 Responses to “Teen Slide-Up Braid | St. Patrick’s Day Hairstyle {Lucky Do #4}”

  1. Dakota Johnson says:

    i love this!!! im going to were this in high school next week! =DDD

  2. wadie says:

    oh…i love it very much!!!! im going to do this on my head!

  3. cinthia says:

    OMG!!! totally love ur hairstyles!!!!!!!

  4. thank u says:

    this is shit, this webby is ment 4 mums 2 do on their girls, not lesbians who think they’r kool 2 do on themselves….

  5. thank u says:

    but on the other hand

  6. thank u says:

    I LUV ALL THESE STYLES SOOOOOO MUCH I JUST WANT 2 SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CNT W8 2 DO THIS ON MY YYUNGG

  7. thank u says:

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  8. ELI says:

    Thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu YOUUUUUUUUU AREEE THE BESTTTTTTTTTT ….I CANT HOW TO EXXPRESS HOW HAPPY I’M …LOVE YOUUUUUU

  9. RAINBOW!! says:

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR SOO FRICKEN GOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!! I’VE LEARNT SOOOO MANY THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

  10. grace.h says:

    these are really cute styles

  11. Yanelli says:

    Mindy, i luv u and ur hairstyles!!!! <3

  12. anastasia says:

    very beautiful braid :) )

  13. anastasia says:

    very beautiful braid

  14. Aayushi Garg says:

    This is a really cool website 4 all ages of girls because every girl loves styling her locks and this website has cool and plenty of easy styles . amaaaaazing work :)

  15. charlotte says:

    Wow! I did this to my daughter and it was really cool. Thank you, Mindy! YOU have great ideas.

    -Char

  16. charlotte says:

    I love your work!

  17. yasmin says:

    this is so very pretty im going to do it most of the time

  18. Viviane says:

    Beautiful!!

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