Flower Crowns

Flower Crowns 

With summer well on its way, it is finally time to put away the dull winter wardrobe, fold away those restricting roll necks and break out the colour. This summer is going to be filled with colour, and your hair and its accessories will be no exception, These flower garlands are easy to create and look amazing. These one of a kind pieces are perfect for that bohemian wedding or an upcoming festival.

To make these simple garlands follow this step by step guide;

Materials needed;

Flexible green garden wire

Florist wire (both items can be bought at DIY stores

Flowers of your choice (you will need foliage to build up the bulk of the garland)

Step 1, Measure the green garden wire around the circumference of your head, secure.

Step 2, Take the foliage and start weaving the foliage around the green wire, building this up with more foliage until you are happy with the depth and thickness of the garland.

Step 3, Choose the flowers that you would like on your garland, trim the stem leaving around 3 inches of stem with the flower, wrap the florist wire around the flower and secure into the garland. Repeat this process as required.

Step 4,   Secure any pieces with florist wire that you feel are not sitting right and WAHLA a beautiful hand made flower garland ready for you to rock! 

If in between working, feeding the children, the dogs, the gold fish, studying, you find that there is not possibly enough time in the day, then check out these beautiful Flower crowns/garlands online that are pretty awesome! 

http://www.bloomingloopy.com/shop/pearl-wave/

Pearl Wave £60

The Arabella Cream Rose Flower Crown £32

http://www.beauxoxo.com/collections/flower-crowns/products/the-arabella-cream-rose-flower-hair-crown-headband

10% off at checkout with the code BLOGXO 

The Olivia White Rose and Baby's Breath Flower Crown £32

http://www.beauxoxo.com/collections/flower-crowns/products/the-olivia-white-rose-and-baby-breath-flower-hair-crown-  

    10% off at checkout with the code BLOGXO   

        
 ASOS Statement Flower Hair Garland

                                            £12.00

http://www.asos.com/asos/asos-statement-flower-hair-garland/prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=5782931&clr=Red&SearchQuery=flower+garlands&pgesize=9&pge=0&totalstyles=9&gridsize=3&gridrow=1&gridcolumn=2

Go on realise your inner hippy!! 

Break Out The Braids!

Break out the Braids!

Whether we love or loathe them, the Kardashians do know how to start up a trend, and the newest one being Braids. A couple of months ago I would have laughed  at the thought of braiding my hair, like I do for my daughter every day at school to keep the nits at bay. But sometime between then and now, subconsciously seeing the Kardashian's rocking them on every occasion, I have decided that for a day trip or even a night out, this style actually looks amazing.

This is not the easiest look to achieve, and really is, practice makes perfect.

Prepping the hair is very important especially if you have layers, as these can come out of the braid and make it look messy. I have found that the best product to use is Redken Move Ability 05. Take a small amount, warm the cream in your hands and then smooth into the hair. Afterwards brush through to make sure it's evenly distributed.

                                                            Redken Move Ability 05 £10.50

Part the hair into the amount of sections that is required, making sure that the partings are completely straight.  clipping away the hair that is part of the other braid/braids.

We have used the method Dutch plaits to create this particular style, if you watch the video below it will show you how we created this look.

To stop any flyaway hairs spray with a strong hairspray concentrating around the neckline and forhead for those babyhairs.

I also like to finish with a shine spray for added glossiness.

                                                       
                                                                        Redken Control Addict £11.75

                                                                                  Redken Shine Flash 02 £14.75

Hope this has helped, go on and try it, release your gangster self! 

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