Braided Cinnamon Roll

This week was Thanksgiving here in the United States. Recently, I chopped all my hair to a bob at my chin, BUT most of us women have short hair anyways right? So I plan to show many hair-dos we can do with short hair. HOWEVER, this post is not about us short haired gals but rather, those with long medium-thick-crazy thick hair.

Introducing the Braided Cinnamon Roll!!!

This is my eleven year old niece. She has gorgeous long, super thick wavy hair. This do was Princess Anna inspired :)

Instructions: 

*Please forgive these instruction photos. We didn't realize how good this would turn out until after the fact, thus we didn't take photos of the process. So we decided to take pictures of her taking it out. However, my husband had already left to go home by that point and he took his camera with him...So my cell phone became the means of capturing this. The good photos (like the one above, were taken by him on our actual camera). 

1. Gather all your bobby-pins and one hair tie.

2. Beginning behind one ear, gather three groups of hair and create a Dutch Braid. 

*If you feel more comfortable just doing a regular french braid, then do that instead. I'm sure it'll still look just as awesome.

3. Instead of doing the braid from the top to the bottom of the head, stand at the side of the person and go from ear to nape of neck and braid it down.

Ignore the bun. We aren't to that step yet.

4. The hair that's left, gather the hair in the middle of the head and twist as much as possible.




5. Keeping it as flat/spread out against the scalp as possible (you don't want to create an "old lady librarian" bun) use your other hand pressing against the wrap around as you wrap and pin.

6. Gather the rest of the hair and twist towards the ceiling.

7. Wrap it around the pin.

8. Lastly, wrap that braid around the bun. Pin.

What do you think?!? It's my favorite thing I've ever done to her hair. When it was done my sister (my niece's mother) and my mom immediately started craving cinnamon rolls...For some strange reason ;)

For other hair-dos...

Princess Hair

Twisted Twirls

Dutch Braid

For questions or positive comments, feel free to use the comment section below. 

Have a great day!