Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Inspired by...


 Let me start by saying that I apologize for our absence. Education is very important to us and that has been our main focus. I hope that you can understand.

Now back to this style!!! For the September Hair Carnival, I was paired with the very talented onceuponacurl.blogspot.com. According to her blog, "Once Upon a Curl strives to provide affordable and Quality hair care products to children and parents of all colors. Our main goal is to reach those who otherwise have no access to products they like and need to take care of and maintain curly types of hair." In addition to offering products, she loves to style natural hair! Please visit her blog and Facebook fan page for more info on this wonderful blogger.

For this style, I decided to combine her love for freestyle cornrows and my love for protective styles such as box braids. I also decided to copy fellow blogger charlottesavenue.blogspot.com love for braided headbands.  If you haven't checked out her blog, you are missing out!! She covers natural hair, parenting and everything in between!

I started with clean, detangled, moisturized hair that had been banded for a couple of days.


Next, I began adding medium box braids starting at the nape area and working my way up. I was unable to finish the style on this particular day, so I added two twisted ponytails in the front section and secured them with ouchless bands.



The following day, I began adding freestyle cornrows in the front section in preparation for the braided headband. Although it is not visible in this photo due to the bow, the two overlapping cornrows lead into three cornrows.

The Results!!!



Do you find inspiration from others? Please share your thoughts!!

Stayed tuned for the update!!


20 comments:

  1. THAT IS GORGEOUS!! I love every single bit of it!! And you KNOW that headband is FIERCE!!! She's beautiful and her hair is amazing! Great job!! AND... Thanks for the shout out, lovely!!

    Char~

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  2. Thanks Charlotte! I might have to copy your copycat style as well! Lol!

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  3. This is a beautiful style! I definately get inspired by others, there are so many cute and creative hairstyles out there to try, recreate and make your own.

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  4. I love it! Boy this Hair Carnival has really inspired me to copy more, lol! I would love to copy this one!

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  5. Thanks GDL! Please copy it! I would love to see it! I've been inspired as well!

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  6. Love this style, her hair looks beautiful and healthy as it always does.

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  7. I'm gonna copy too!!! Looks beautiful!

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  8. That is so cute and I like how you can split it over two days. I have a question--if you band it for a few days, then braid, then cornrow, how soon after would you wash again? I hate washing soon after cornrowing--especially because mine just aren't that tight yet and they frizz up quickly.

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  9. I love it!!! you always do such an awesome job on ur Daughter's hair!

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  10. Gorgeous style! And those eyelashes...puhlease!!! Great job on this style and you're right, education is important!

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  11. So sweet! I love braided headbands, too. :) This style is beautiful!
    ~Karli
    www.curlyhairdoideas.com

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  12. Thanks again everyone!

    @ Mel - Her next wash will probably be within a week - week and a half.

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  13. Goldie, is right I sooo want to try so many more styles... and it was such a lovely post, I don't think my can compare thanks

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  14. This looks amazing. Then again, your styles ALWAYS look amazing! I love it!

    Oh...and pushing the blog to the back burner while you're focused on education is absolutely the right thing to do! Kudos to you, mommy, for keeping the priorities in the right order. <3

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  15. Love it! you make me wanna consider doing box braids

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