Messy Glow Bun | 4th of July Hairstyles
July 04, 2011
We decided to get really creative with this 4th of July hairstyle! This can be done for any national celebration (July 4th, Canada Day, Australia Day, or for New Year’s Eve, etc.)
About six months ago I was surfing around the internet for fun hair accessories when I stumbled upon a really fun site. It is where I learned about Glowby’s! {Be sure to use coupon code CUTEGIRL10 to receive 10% off of all orders!}
I loved the fiber-optic concept and that you do not have to have a stack of AA batteries stuck in your hair for the lights to work. They do not get hot, and the strands can pretty much work with any style (without breaking). I decided to buy some Glowby’s and try them out.
I used our popular Messy Bun hairstyle as the base concept, and then wove in the strands of the Glowby throughout. {Luminence offers these in a variety of colors, so you can mix and match them for any holiday, or simply use white ones for weddings or formal dances.}
While we were at a fireworks display, our girls were constantly stopped and asked where we found the glow strands. We noticed plenty of people pointing to our girls, and some even wanted to take photos of the styles on their phones.
Trust us, your girls will be noticed with this style!!!
Items Needed: Brush, rat-tail comb, spray bottle, 1-2 large hair elastics, 1 Glowby.
Time Requirement: 5-10 minutes
Skill Level: Medium
Now, it may look like a bear to take the Glowby out of the Messy Bun, but it really is a 2 second process. Since the strands of the Glowby are smooth plastic fiberoptics, they literally slide right out with a gentle tug on the barrette! No pain!
Hope you enjoy this style, which can be used by girls of all ages on any holiday, or by older girls and women at concerts, dance clubs, etc! Enjoy!
Happy Hairdoing,
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Ribboned Bobby Pins | Tips and Tricks
February 13, 2011
This video tutorial shows a very simple way to spice up an updo hairstyle, for any holiday occasion. This one happens to be for Valentine’s Day.
In this video (you can use Messy Bun #1 or Messy Bun #2), I use a thin ribbon cut into small strips (length can vary), and then tie them onto bobby pins. You can tie the ribbons into tiny bows if you would like, but I did not have time when I filmed this tutorial. If you make the ribbons longer… you can curl them by running the edge of scissors along the ribbon so that they look like curly-q’s. Then I place the bobby pins throughout the messy bun until the hair style looks right.
Items Needed: 6-8 small bobby pins, thin colored ribbon, scissors
Time Requirement: 5+ minutes
Skill Level: Easy
Happy Hairdoing!
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Comment on this post »Winners | 2010 Halloween Costume Contest
November 09, 2010
After one full week of Facebook voting, here are the three 2010 Kids Halloween Contest winners! (You may click on a given photo to view them in a larger format.) Each of the three are absolutely amazing, as were all the 300+ photos submitted! You all seriously have the cutest kids!
1st Place Winner ($50 Gift Card)
Submitted by Alyssa C
Total Votes: 160
What a little doll! There is surely lots of personality here, and I absolutley love her jeweled nose and whiskers! This little one is certainly going to be a heartbreaker!
2nd Place Winner ($30 Gift Card)
Submitted by Hawley
Total Votes: 125
I absolutely love how this photo was set up. I am just waiting for the Queen to yell “Where’s my pig???” The family theme idea is so cute!
3rd Place Winner ($15 Gift Card)
Submitted by Abby W.
Total Votes: 100
Again, I had no idea that Disney had such elaborate costumes! Apparently all of you didn’t either, since 2nd and 3rd Place were based on Alice in Wonderland costumes! So fun!
In order to fairly tabulate the votes, I pulled up the top four photos at 11:55pm last night on four internet screens. At 12:00 midnight, I refreshed all four photos to get the exact vote count at that time and then captured screen shots for each (in case anyone wants to see them).
Since voting was so close for third place, I have decided to offer a $10 gift card for 4th place as an Honorable Mention.
Honorable Mention
Submitted by Peyton S.
Total Votes: 97
Thanks to each of you who submitted a photo and those of you who took the time to vote. I hope you all enjoyed this contest and received some good costume ideas for next year! If you are one of our four winners, please email me your gift card choice (WalMart, Target, or Sally Beauty Supply) as well as your full name and mailing address.
Thanks, and Happy Hairdoing!
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Comment on this post »Costume Contest: Your Vote Counts (Ended)
November 02, 2010
Thanks to all of you wonderful moms all over the world who submitted amazing photos of your children in super cute Halloween costumes! I must say, you are such a creative bunch! There are so many absolutely adorable faces in costume that it will be interesting to see who wins!
As for us, this is how we dressed this year…
Now, apparently Facebook has a limitation on the number of photos in an album (only 200), so with over 300 photos submitted (way more than I had anticipated), we had to create two albums. Both albums can be found on our Facebook Fanpage.
To give you a jumpstart, I added a link to my YouTube channel page that has about 40,000 visits per day and also here for our website visitors.
Remember, that in order to vote, that person must have a FB account and needs to “Like” our page. Instructions on how to vote are included here. Be sure to get all of your family and friends to vote! You may email them the links, post them on your blog/website, Facebook or Twitter status, etc, to try and get the most votes to win! Voting ends at midnight on November 8th!
Funny enough… I hadn’t actually counted on this contest’s votes beginning on November 2, National Voting Day! What excellent timing! Good luck and Happy Voting!
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