I asked Charlotte how she wanted her hair done today. I fully expected a ponytail request, or pigtails, or braids. Instead, Miss Salty replied, "Make a hair do that nobody has ever seen before." Well, en garde! Challenge accepted.
And
don't get too boggled studying the photo. I've put together a Hair-Do
How-To pdf to untwist the mystery. Click on the image below to
download the pdf instruction sheet.
This hairdo reminds me of a celtic knot
-- and is a real cart-stopper I should warn you. Three different
people stopped us on our milk-run to the grocery store to ask how
Charlotte's hair was put together. I figured a pdf would make the
explaining much easier.
If downloadable hairdos work for you, let me know and we'll put together some more Trash Ties tutorials. In fact, send us photos of your own Trash Ties hairdo creations and perhaps we'll design a pdf to show off your twisted ingenuity.
(Learn more about patented Trash Ties at www.TrashTies.com or visit www.HeatherBaileyStore.com to pick up a set or three.)
wow, impressive!!! love this. will see if i can pull it off on my girl.
Posted by: Girly Muse | February 16, 2009 at 05:32 PM
Very, very cute hairdo.
Posted by: Theresa | February 16, 2009 at 05:38 PM
That is flippin' adorable. I may do that on my own hair while it is still long enough!
Posted by: Brandis | February 16, 2009 at 05:42 PM
I wish you were my mom, do come do cool hair styles every morning.
Posted by: alice | February 16, 2009 at 05:43 PM
That is a hairdo I've never seen before! Yes, that pdf was really helpful. I'd love to see more of them!
Posted by: Lydia | February 16, 2009 at 05:50 PM
oh wow, that is too cute!!
Posted by: natalie | February 16, 2009 at 06:11 PM
I loved this PDF! Please make more of them. I am hair-do impaired.
Posted by: Heather | February 16, 2009 at 06:13 PM
That's amazing! Looks super-cute. My daughter's hair is long, but not thick enough (yet) to do something like that. But you can bet I'll bookmark this and come back!!
Posted by: Sturgmom | February 16, 2009 at 06:43 PM
This is awesome! I love the pdf! Now, I might actually have a do that remotely resembles the photo! I can never figure out how to make a hairdo from just a picture! Thanks so much!
Posted by: Csmoferret | February 16, 2009 at 06:55 PM
My 5 year old just looked at the up do and proclaimed "That's what I told you I wanted my hair to be like!!" Out of the mouths of babes...she would never sit still long enough! I will try it one day.
Posted by: nicole | February 16, 2009 at 07:45 PM
dang! you are amazing!!
Posted by: made sweet | February 16, 2009 at 07:49 PM
whoa baby...
Posted by: Heather | February 16, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Adorable hairdo - but couldn't be near as great without such thick, shiny, healthy hair. So cute.
Posted by: Mary on Lake Pulaski | February 16, 2009 at 08:35 PM
if i had a little girl she would so have this "hair do". stop by my blog i am "do"-ing a giveaway for some very cute hair clips that would look great in charlotte's hair as well. pamela www.frenchknots.blogspot.com
Posted by: pamela | February 16, 2009 at 08:49 PM
That is adorable!
Posted by: Natalie | February 16, 2009 at 09:07 PM
Do you ever have sales on TrashTies or promotions? I'd love to try them but can't bear to pay full price without knowing whether they will work for me or not.
Posted by: Jenerek | February 16, 2009 at 10:17 PM
love it! yes please more tutorials!!!
Posted by: rachael | February 16, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Yes, we have TT promos. Pretty often there's a chance to get a box or two for free even. I expect we'll have some new promos and perhaps some new colors before Easter rolls around.
Posted by: Heather Bailey | February 16, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Everything you do is creative! Your miss salty is fabulous!
Posted by: Ravenhill | February 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM
wow! great sitting still. can she teach my girls that skill?? hey for some hair inspiration i turn to this gal for ideas! http://cute2tryhairdos.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Shay | February 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
LOL, that is some request you got there! :) I love the result!
Posted by: Astrid | February 17, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Dang (that was my jaw hitting the desk) That is just too much for words :o) I love this and the pdf was more than helpful. I d love to see more of then, as I would love to try those trash ties (but they re kinda get off to pricey when you include the shipping all the way to Greece) Great job
Posted by: Maria | February 17, 2009 at 01:05 AM
I now know for SURE that I have NO hair styling skills. Can my daughter come and live with a cool mom????
Posted by: Jeanne | February 17, 2009 at 01:19 AM
Hello, am based in the UK and love your blog. Have just discovered online stockist in the UK selling trash ties so have now ordered some. The PDF instructions are a great idea, can't wait to play. Have put link to UK stockist on my blog.
Posted by: Lolodesigns | February 17, 2009 at 01:29 AM
She has got to pull of "coolest girl in school" with that hair! Well done :)
Posted by: rachel | February 17, 2009 at 03:13 AM
this is awesome!!!! thank you so much for doing this!! The PDF's are a great idea!
Posted by: Melanie | February 17, 2009 at 04:32 AM
I definitely haven't seen that "do" before - impressive!
Posted by: Annie Wynen | February 17, 2009 at 04:45 AM
Great hairdo, and what a great "sit-stiller" your daughter is. I think she would love the book Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch. It's a favorite amongst the 4-7 year old set.
Posted by: debbue | February 17, 2009 at 05:26 AM
please please please do more tutorials!!! i have the short and a long one and have tried over and over to get a good result but can't! i was beginning to think it was me.:0) so i would LOVE to have tutorials! thank you so much!!
Posted by: anna | February 17, 2009 at 05:55 AM
I LOVE it that she wants something no one else has! What a sense of self!
Posted by: Sarah | February 17, 2009 at 06:42 AM
Yes PLEASE! More trash ties tutorials! I have many sets of them but can never seem to get anything to work!!!
Posted by: Amy | February 17, 2009 at 07:30 AM
I would love to see these, too! I would love to use Trash Ties at my wedding in the fall, but don't seem to see any ideas for short-haired girls. Would it be possible to include us as well?
Posted by: A,my | February 17, 2009 at 07:55 AM
The key with Trash Ties is to wrap them super tightly. If your hair is fine or slippery, wrap each around twice -- tightly. That's how each tie is wrapped in the photo above. And make sure that each wrap forms a complete circle around the hair (not a spiral) so your hair won't twirl out. And that's really all there is to it.
Also, twisting them like a twist tie is not nearly as effective and it kinks the ties all up too, so twisting isn't preferred. Wrap tightly -- and wrap twice if your hair is fine or slippery.
Posted by: Heather Bailey | February 17, 2009 at 07:56 AM
Wow- mission accomplished, thats a new one to me! Im going to have to order some TT for my daughter before summer. Her hair is now down to her tush and I know it will drive us both nuts once the hot weather gets here. Bravo design and I adore Little Miss Salty's desire for originality!!
Posted by: Jennifer S. | February 17, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Yowzer Heather - I love that and it in fact does look like a celtic knot! You're one creative chick! Good for you and thanks for the pdf.
Smiles, JEN
Posted by: Jen holyoak | February 17, 2009 at 10:15 AM
she's definitely a heather bailey baby, huh?? my girls know to stick to the regular ...
Posted by: jen | February 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM
You're such a cool mom!!! That hairdo is incredible. Wow.
Posted by: Carolyn | February 17, 2009 at 02:56 PM
Wow! We've known you're original, but that's pretty impressive to come up with that on the spot. I've been dying to order some trash ties, but have no clue what I'd do with them (unlike someone whose name I won't mention...I am better at copying than coming up with an original). PDFs would be great!
Posted by: Jen Sterk | February 17, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Seriously cute! Thanks for the pdf... I'd have never figured it out
Posted by: Barbara | February 17, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Oh wow! That is amazing.
Hello BTW. I came across your blog while surfing crafters. I LOVE the fabric you design.
Nichole
Posted by: Nichole | February 17, 2009 at 09:06 PM
I think the PDF's should also include how many of which size trash tie the style will take. Once you get a a bunch of PDF's of styles, a search for a style based on how many ties I want to use would then pull up the right styles. I hope that makes sense!
Paige
Posted by: Paige | February 18, 2009 at 08:50 AM
H,
Adorable! This style is so sweet & funky - I love it! I will have to try in on my DD for our HSM2 show at the local theatre tonight.
PDF tutorials are GREAT! Please keep them coming. :)
Posted by: Diana | February 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM
That's AWESOME! I *love* the pdf and it looks like I'll be picking up some trash ties in the not too distant future ;o) I'd been on the fence, wondering whether to start with long ones or short ones, and now I know lol!
Posted by: AdronsCatherine | February 18, 2009 at 01:56 PM
Oh my! My little girl won't let me run a soft brush through her hair. It's not even really hair. More like kitty fur.
Posted by: min | February 18, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Have you ever read Stepanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch to Charlotte? You really must. It's a riot.
Cassie
Love the hair-do, by the way.
Posted by: Cassie | February 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Fantasticalala! As my girls would say! I have been using your trash ties for a couple of years now, and living in the UK, having those cuties in the girls' hair always draws questions. Iv'e been doing creative hairdos for a while now, but yours takes the cake. Wow, I've just finished two heads with that cool design. My girls look fantasticalala! Thanks a bunch, please keep the pdfs coming.
Posted by: Terri in the UK | February 19, 2009 at 01:37 AM
Love it!!! Really, really amazing!
-FringeGirl
Posted by: the domestic fringe | February 19, 2009 at 07:06 AM
PDF's of Trash Ties ideas are a great idea! More, please! Some for adults that can be done by the wearer would be really useful. But the kid hair-do's are probably cutest and offer the most possibilities for colorful looks.
Posted by: bernadette | February 19, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Heather, I love the PDF - much easier to see and understand than with photos. I'd love to wear Trash Ties since I have long hair, but since I'm in my late 30's, I'm wary of looking like a grown-up teenager. I'd love some help ditching the 'frump' and embracing the 'funk' when young styles will no longer do. Got any ideas?
Hopefully our new baby will be a girl so that I get to play with her hair!
And thanks!
Angela
www.LoveAngelaHandmade.blogspot.com
Posted by: Ange | February 20, 2009 at 03:05 PM
I can't wait to turn my baby girl's head into a soft sculpture!
Locks of Love recently received (what I feel was) a generous donation...I don't regret it, but I REALLY miss it. Do's like this one will have to wait a while!
Posted by: Kim | February 20, 2009 at 08:53 PM