How To: Messy fishtail braid with a twist :)

Hi Ladies,

I just thought I'd share with you one of the ways I have been wearing my hair lately (and give you a quick how to!) Its a super messy fish tail braid, secured with a hair wrap at the top and a bow at the bottom :)

I love messy fish tail braids, I think they look really relaxed and beachy for summer. Although fishtail braids can take a bit of practice, once you get the hand of it they're actually quite quick and easy to do, and the great thing about messy fishtail braids is even if you do go a bit wrong - it doesn't matter! :)

So, Time for the How to!

Step 1 Take all of your hair over to one side and split into two even sections. Don't worry if some of your hair wont reach round to one side, this will contribute to the messy look and you will need keep a section of loose hair to wrap wrong the top of the braid later on :)

Step 2 Take a piece of hair from the back one of your two sections, pass it over the top of this section and add it to your other section of hair. Repeat this step, this time taking the piece of hair from the other section of hair, passing it over the top and adding to the other section. Then keep repeating, alternating between the two sections untill you are happy with the length of your braid. If you are learning to fishtail braid, I find its easier to practice this without looking in the mirror, then once you have finished - have a look and see how you have got on!

Step 3 Secure your braid at the bottom with a regular hair bobble, I then added a hair bow from H&M to hide the bobble :)

Step 4 Fish tail braids tend to start off a lot looser than a regular braid, and although we want it to be messy, we don't want it to fall out! To secure the braid take a longer strand of the loose hair you left at the beginning of the braid and wrap tightly around the top of the fishtail braid, once you have completely wrapped the piece of hair around the top of the braid secure the end with a hair grip. (you can probably see this the best in the 3rd and 1st pictures) I think this looks really cute and gives the braid a bit of a twist.

Step 5 Lightly spray the braid with hairspray (I use loreal ellnet normal strength) and you are ready to go!

and there we have it! I hope this was helpful, let me know it you try it and it you would like more hair related how to's :)

How to jazz up your pony tail (2 easy tips!)

Hi Ladies! I know lots of you have just gone back to school/college/uni so I thought I'd show you two easy ways of ''dressing up'' your pony tail :-) They're both really quick to do and are just fun ways of making your pony tail a bit different from the rest!

Ok, so the first one is the hair wrap pictured below :

I always seem to get lots of compliments when I do my hair like this (which is nice!) and its sooooo easy to do! People also always say ''wow how have you tied your hair up with your hair!?'' well truth is - I havn't lol. To do this I just do a pony tail as normal, its best to use a hair tie the same colour as your hair and also tie it quite tightly. I then take about a 1cm thick piece of hair from the side of my pony tail and wrap it all the way around the hair tie (my hair is quite long and it normally goes round about 3-4 times. Once I've got to the bottom of this piece of hair, I secure it using two hair grips underneath my pony tail one going to the left and one going to the right, spray it with a little hairspray and volia! This also looks really nice if you do it on a loose side pony tail, and you can plait the piece of hair before you wrap it round if you fancy doing something different too :-)

The second way is even easier and super cute! all you do it tie a bit of ribbon around your hair tie into a cute little bow!

I have quite a collection of ribbons (to match different outfits!) but I really love this black polka dot one. This is such an easy way of adding a little extra something to an everyday hairstyle, and with all the different colours/types of ribbon - the possibilites are endless!

I hope you enjoyed this post - I know it was a litttle different! Let me know if you want me to do more things along these lines :-)

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend! did you watch X factor? I loved the guy at the end - did anyone else think he looked like a teenage Gary Barlow?! or was it just me and my mum!

Speak soon

DaisyBee xxx