Do you want to build a hair do!? Well you have come to the right place! Today's look is an Elsa inspired hair tutorial! In this post I have included step by step pictures to show you how to get a volumized french braid like the one Elsa wears in Frozen! Frozen is one of my favorite movies right now so this was a super fun look to create, especially while listening to all of the songs from the movie, and singing along! I hope you enjoy my take on Elsa's look! Here go's!
To Start you need: Optional items:
* Hair brush * Heat protection spray
* Bobby pins * Curling iron
* Ponytail * Decorative hair clips
(aka hair tie they are called ponytails in our house)
* Hair spray
Step 1
Brush hair and create a poof at the front of your hair. To create a textured look like Elsa has don't grab all of the hair in one swoop grab small sections at a time. Twist/swoop all of the front hair sections back into the poof including your bangs. Keep working with it until it you like the look. Bobby pin in place.
This is about the amount of hair you want to include in the poof. Section off hair above ears only.
Step 2
Once you have formed the front of your hair to your desired look; take the hair you sectioned off earlier (The section divided horizontally above your ears) and ponytail or clip it out of the way so you can work with the bottom section of your hair.
Step 3
Grab a 2 to 3 inch section of hair from behind one of your ears. This will be the piece used to start the braid. Since this is a side hair do think about which side you want the braid to end up on in the finished looked and pick up a section of hair to start off with from the opposite side.
Step 4
Start a diagonal French Braid beginning at the base of your neck behind one ear and continue braiding aiming the braid up toward the top corner of your other ear.
Once you have braided across the back of your head scooping up all the hair into the Diagonal french braid (moving from the base of one ear upward toward the top of the other) make a ponytail at the back of your head close to the top of your ear.
It should look something like this...don't worry looking horrible mid hair style is part of it turning out good lol
Scooping large sections when you are making the braid creates the same textured look that we used for the poof earlier it's ok if the braid looks piecey like this because we are going for the textured look... See :)
Step 5
Once you have secured the ponytail to hold the diagonal braid take down the top section and tease it. Be careful not to tease it to hard and mess up the poof or make the bobby pins fall out ( you want the poof intact you are just trying to add volume to the top chunk of hair directly behind the poof....the crown.) Tease then loosely bobby pin the section like this just to keep it poofed up.
At this point you have two choices: to make this a wearable messy french braid or special occasion hair do. This sectioned off piece of hair is the part we will use to make the look everyday or fancy. I'll show you how in just a second but lets continue.
Step 6
Take out the ponytail from above your ear and begin french braiding again (you don't have to grab the same sections as you did when you made the first braid...the messy-ness is part of the style) Start braiding from where the ponytail sat on your head and when you run out of hair to french braid (you'll probably only get 2 to 3 french braid pieces) Continue braiding the tail of your hair as a regular 3 strand braid.
** MAKE SURE NOT TO BRAID IN THE TOP CHUNK OF HAIR LEAVE IT ON TOP**
The Options
1.) Wearable Messy Braid
Tuck the poofed top section of hair into the top of the braid at the back of your hair and arrange it in a second textured poof as shown.
Or....
2.) Special occasion textured curls braid
Curl the top section of hair and arrange the curls on top of your head behind the poof above the braid.
Another idea to make this style truly special is to add sparkly hair clips inspired by Elsa's snow flake adorned hair. Check out these gorgeous twist in clips! Try adding a few to the length of the braid.
These clips were found at Wedding Favor Set, but my favorite are from Icing! Links below!
Step 7
Once you have decided whether you want to go everyday wearable or fancy do some final styling.
(I decided to do Wearable...I am trying to grow my hair longer so I am attempting to avoid heat styling)
You can pull out some small pieces of hair to frame your face like this.
You can also re-adjust the front poof by snagging/fluffing it with a bobby pin to make it more textured.
Step 8
Hairspray and Voila your done with your Elsa Inspired do!!!
**SURPRISE**
I couldn't do a Frozen Princess hair tutorial without including Anna! Today's post is a two-fer!
Anna
Since Anna's pigtail braid hair do is so simple I just included a few photos of styling ideas!
1.) Teased crown pigtail braids
2.) Head band Pigtail Braids
Thanks for checking out this Elsa and Anna Frozen hair tutorial and p.s. I hope your singing and smiling and have all of the wonderful Frozen songs in your head now!!! I have been singing them all day ;) !!
God Bless and I can't wait to post the next tutorial on Rapunzel!!!!
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