This little life of mine: This weeks braiding obsession.

One day earlier this week i woke up and my hair was a hot mess. This hot mess was due to my laziness and going to bed with wet hair (ladies you feel me?) and tossing and turning all night from the lovely combo of restless legs and drinking caffeine far too late into the day. any who...I woke up and this hair of mine was not fixable ....so i just decided what the heck, i'm just gonna put it all up on the top of my head in a messy bun, and call it a day... but it was one of those days where your messy bun just starts becoming more of a challenge than it would be to actually just sit down and properly style your hair?! so i turned to my go to ....The Braid. I was a bit tired of my old ways, so i wanted to try to mix it up and try something a little different and this is what ended up happening..... something a little bit messy...but a little bit beautiful.... and i'm probably going to do it all the time now. aka a hot mess turned into a beautiful mess.

(ya, i totally photo bombed my own picture by accident...real cute)

-this little style you see here basically starts as a waterfall braid all across the parietal ridge (aka the widest part of your head) and then continues back and forth until you have no hair or space on your head left. it ends up looking like a bunch of braids, but really its just one long continuous braid all accross the back of your head. I kind of made it up as i went but i loved the end result, and it took almost no time at all . I think I may just post a tutorial on it at some point just so I can help show you guys how to turn a really bad hair day into a pretty good one very easily.

this little braiding session i had earlier in the week inspired a little more braiding action yesterday while spending time with one of my best gal pals Jackie. What started as me just playing with her hair while she edited photos (she is a photographer),soon turned into a full on styled hair story, and i love it. For jackie we decided to go with a bohemian feel that was soft, yet really fun and sweet ,with the added touch of a partial floral crown that we picked from her moms garden. Underneath that crown is a double waterfall braid that i secured together in the middle with a hairtie, then hid the tie with another braid wrapped around. Jackie's hair is naturally really beautiful and straight, but to create a softer more tosselled look , I added some waves in her hair by loosely wrapping her hair around the barrel of a curling iron unti it created the wave that I desired. The Finished result was just what we were going for, and we has so much fun with our little impromptu shoot.