Hairstyles for Seven Daughters

....because this mommy finally decided to try.

I was never good at hair. When my twin first realized I liked Josh in college, she said "Hannah, admit it, you like Josh, you started brushing your hair"

For my wedding I think I sorta took some hair from the sides and twisted them into a ponytail in a kinda impromptu elven hairstyle. It fell out by the end of the reception, you can track its descent throughout my wedding photos.

Then I got obsessed with Youtube hair tutorials as a newlywed, but 99% of the time relapse into my simple hairstick/pencil bun or a side braid (you don't even have to reach behind your head).

Then I had kids, and I discovered Society's Child Hair Law.

SOCIETY'S CHILD HAIR LAW: The love (and sanity) of a mother is directly proportional to the state of her daughter's hair.

When I only had 5 kids I got lectured by a (sincere, freaking out) stranger in walmart about how I was having too many children. A full on speech. She was genuinely having a come-apart. Usually I got the chuckle "you have your hands full." I am convinced that it was because that day their hair was messy and their hairbows had fallen out. Ironically, because I had actually taken my poor apartment-pound kids out to the park to feed ducks and climb trees. I found that if I brushed their hair, stuck the top wispy bits into a hair elastic, and stuck a bow in there somewhere, people calmed down a lot. And smiled.

People worry about kid's well-being. And somehow, society believes that a child's hairstyle is  the barometer of Mother's mental state and ability to care for her children. I thought it was kinda silly, but grudgingly accepted it as a part of reality

But after spending 10 years griping about shallow humans and their hair-barometers, I am getting a taste of my own medicine as my 13 yr old thinks she should only have to brush her hair 2x a week. "I don't care how it looks" she says cheerfully.

But it looks terrible because she's got such beautiful fine, thick, hair. And fine hair = massive tangles. All of a sudden all those silly shallow-sighted society enforcers make sense now.

A woman's hair is her glory after all.

1. Monday-Bunday
• From the Basic Bun, to High Bun, to Cluster Buns
• Can split it in 2 roots (with ponytails at base) to keep the weight distributed. This also assists in giving volume back. 
• Can make a smaller base bun, and a looser one on top of that.
1. High Buns
1. Two loop bun "Wedding Hair" (it spreads the weight out soooo comfy)
2. Two Loop Bun, Braided variant.
3. Top of head, fan-ish bun.
4. Top of the Head Cluster Buns. (for curly hair), 3 wiggly buns, 3 shell buns, etc.
5. High Bun, Braid Wrapped. (Plus hanging braid--Princess Leia Ceremonial)
6. Pompador (Aunt Cornelia), from basic to romantic to traditional full to  traditional half to crazy... must wear the right clothes for this...
2. Mid Buns
1. Princess Leia Two Buns(Cinnamon) you can also use socks or bunmakers, or be less authentic and just do 2 shell buns.
2. Princess Leia Bespin
3. Shell Bun
1. set on a flipped base
2. Stack it with 2
4. Braid Wrapped Shell Bun---can set on a flipped base
5. Stick Buns--Infinity Bun, and Shell Bun
6. French Twist (Grace Kelley)
2. Tuesday--Two Braids
1. Pioneer
2. French
3. Lyman Girl
4. Kirsten (looped)
5. Medieval (looped plus hair coronet)
6. Medieval/Norman. Braid a headband in, and the ribbon into the length.
7. ...Get it up in a German Crown Braid off your neck
3. Wednesday--One Braid or "Low-Do"
• ONE BRAIDS---Always twist the sides and pancake the braid!
1. French or Dutch
2. Lyman Girl/Tamina
3. Medieval---with circlet or headband.
4. Flipped ponytail, hanging braid (rope, fishtail, English).
5. Princess Leia Bespin
• Lower Buns, plus side volume, early 1900s
1. Gibson roll, trick is make the braids first, and roll your hair around it. Gibson Roll or Gibson Tuck or Gibson Tuck with Braids
2. Hannah's Favorite, Side twist and sideways French across the back.
3. Side-twists plus Low volume---2 flipped ponytails turn into 3 low shell buns across back.
4. Gibson with wreath.
5. Bernadette Victorian you can make this way simpler by doing 2 flipped pony-tails into braids.
4. Thursday--Crown Braid
1. German (Heidi, Milkmaid) Braids
2. High German (twist base first like Pretty Shepherdess, sits higher)
3. Simple Dutch Crown (Princess Leia Hoth)
4. Cluster Coronet buns (top of head)---makes excellent curls the next day.
5. Friday---Free Day
1. Anything they want. The rules---BRUSH IT IN THE MORNING. 
6. Saturday---Ponytail. Baths. Sleep in sock buns.
1. High Pony or this flipped thru high pony
2. Low Pony
3. 3 roots high pony.
4. Urbosa version, 3 up-flipped high ponytials, linked with a big loose hair tie, plus side-swoop in place of bangs.
7. Sunday--Princess [Half Up] or Queen [Up-Do, Low-Do]
1. Princess
1. Princess Side Twists (Eowyn)
2. Rope Braid Rose half-up
3. Braided Princess half up (Pancake it)
4. Wrapped Flower wreath, half-up.
5. Elven (goes down in a v)
6. Double Elven (double v)
7. Braided Headband Zelda--BOTW
2. Queen 
1. Up-Do + Headband/coronet
1. Messy Buns like this or 2 stacked like this
2. Fan Buns for medium hair or longer hair
3. Claw Clip Fan Buns
4. Shell Bun set on a flipped base
5. Shell Bun set on a flipped base Stack it with 2
2. Low-Do + Headband/coronet. Bling takes it from early 1900s to queen
1. Gibson roll, trick is make the braids first, and roll your hair around it. Gibson Roll or Gibson Tuck or Gibson Tuck with Braids
2. Hannah's Favorite, Side twist and sideways French across the back.
3. Side-twists plus Low volume---2 flipped ponytails turn into 3 low shell buns across back.
4. Gibson with wreath.