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.

Medieval Princesss Leia. I've wanted to make this for a decade, but haven't had a chance yet. Maybe I'll make the outfit for Jenny one day..... (I worked with ChatGPT to get this image)

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---weight is on the top (this is gentle on the scalp, as the weight of the hair is literally supported by your skull, not tension on the follicles)
1. Two loop bun "Wedding Hair" (it spreads the weight out soooo comfy)
2. Two Loop Bun, Braided variant.
3. Cute High Bun Top of head, Chinese topknot w/hair-tie, rest of hair elastic the end, split open, flip and pin around the topknot.
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---weight is supported on the side, tension on the other hair
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)
7. Claw Clip Fan Buns
8. Fan Buns for medium hair or longer hair
3. For Volume---cluster buns, wear it down with 2 side-clips when Josh comes home
2. Tuesday--Two Braids
1. Pioneer
2. French
3. Lyman Girl 
4. Kirsten (pioneer, looped)
5. Medieval (twisted around circlet or headband, then braided. Can braid a ribbon in for the full Norman effect)
6. 14th cent Medieval. Medieval Princess Leia....
7. Romantic ( 2 flip throughs with elastic on each side, give side texture)
8. ...Get it up in a German Crown Braid off your neck
9. For Volume---do this but make it look Norman and on purpose, take it out at 5 when Josh comes home.
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.
6. 2 min chignon top half of hair into flip-through, then the rest of the hair treats it like a wreath
7. Really clever updo for shorter hair, 2 ponytails, gibson tuck and then flip through ponytail on top
8. FOR VOLUME: Do a gibson roll around a wreath or stretchy hairband. Round and round. Gibson roll way HERE and inverted way HERE
4. Thursday--Crown Braid
1. German (Heidi, Milkmaid) Braids
2. High German (twist base first like Pretty Shepherdess, so braid sits higher)
3. Simple Dutch Crown (Princess Leia Hoth)
4. FOR VOLUME 6 Cluster Tiara buns (top of head, then strung together with pins)---makes excellent curls
5. OR REPEAT FOR VOLUME: Do a gibson roll around a wreath or stretchy hairband. Round and round. Gibson roll way HERE and inverted way HERE
5. Friday---Flip-Through Ponytail (and girls hair-wash day)
1. Rope Braided flip through
2. Double Flip through, fishtail.
3. Braided ponytail
4. Ponytail root with stick bun (#4,#5,#6 are the best) (braided or unbraided. Sometimes called "Chinese Buns")
5. Claw Clip High ponytail here and no-hair-tie variation here
6. High Pony or this flipped up high pony
7. Low Pony
8. Try this 3 roots ponytail for stress? 3 ponytails Triforce shape, then bring the two lower up over the top one and join them together? And flip them up? Or flip all 3? 
9.  TRY THIS crazy Urbosa version, 3 up-flipped up high ponytials, linked with a big loose hair tie, plus side-swoop in place of bangs. Use this as a starting point
10. For VOLUME, wash this day, do a simple scrunchie on top of head and split and pull the hair round and round it.
11. At night....LEGGING CURLS
6. Saturday---Free Day 
1. Anything they want. The rules---BRUSH IT IN THE MORNING. 
2. Sleep in Sock buns OR LEGGING CURLS
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.

FOR THE WAVY-HAIRED DAUGHTER

This easy routine and This comprehensive one