Tinkerbell Beaded Headband Ponytail

I took a simple concept like slightly curved cornrows into a ponytail and added a little flair...

I started off with a halo braid around her head then moved to doing curved cornrows into a ponytail alternating purple flower and clear pony beads at the base of the braid. Using two pieces of skinny green ribbon and a needle I weaved in clear beads to form a halo. I also weaved in black yarn extensions at the ends of her braids so her head would get hot but she would have a longer ponytail and added clear beads and flowers.

Products:
Shea Moisture shampoo
Bee Mine Luscious Moisturizer

Bre and My Make Up

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I didn't realize just how pale I was until I came out of the bathroom to find Bre putting on my foundation.

Elegant Veil Style

I started by washing and conditioning with Shea Moisture.  We rinsed out some of the conditioner, divided her hair into 4 sections, and applied olive oil hair lotion and extra virgin coconut oil.  Then keeping the hair in the four sections, I detangled.  The back was fairly tangled this time because I didn't put it into a protective style

I made a circle around her head about an inch and a half to 2 inches from her hairline around and divided it into boxes each with a white rubber band.  I then divided each box into 2 pieces and did 2, 2 strand twists for each box.

I parted off another ring of hair around her head and made brick style boxes.  I added 1 twist from each box to go toward the center box that I had just created and rubber banded them together with another white rubber band.  I repeated the process with a third ring of hair.

I added all the hair into a pony tail and put a fake flower in her hair.  The next morning I sprayed her hair  down with TW mist bodifier and made sure I got the ends of her hair and baby hair extra moisturized.

This was her extra elegant birthday and Resurrection day hair.  I really enjoyed the twists instead of how the veil style is usually done with braids.

Beads and Racism.

One of my girls is getting a special style tomorrow.  She wanted to get some glow in the dark beads and a regular AA hair store doesn't sell them we have to go to Hobby Lobby to get them.  We went in a Hobby Lobby, got beads and laces so the girls could make keychains and checked out.  When we tried to walk out the alarm went off.

Nobody came for a bit so I told my girls to just keep walking and then a lady came over by us and rudely ushered us back in the store.  She not only looked at out receipt, but went through the bag taking each item out.  Then she made me dump my purse out over the counter and the kids had to flip their pockets inside out.  Then when they still did not find anything they made us go through the scanner one at a time.  When the alarm didn't go off they handed us back our stuff and we walked in silence to the car.  My youngest girl says when we start driving away that she never wants to go back there and that they didn't like black people.

Being white I've never experienced this before.  It was infuriating the way a Christian store full of white people can treat someone who is black, even kids when the alarm goes off.  All they saw was black faces and dirty school uniform clothes.