Four Bugs with Two Pigges

This was the day after Four Bugs Down. So I quickly redid the four bugs (since she slept on them), then I continued the center part all the way down, and put all of the hair hanging down into piggies and added bows....CUTE! I really like this one.

I'm not sure how long it took, maybe 5-7 minutes is all.

Four Bugs Down

Some of you may have already noticed that I love braids! I love them because they are simple, you can do a lot with them, they don't take a lot of time and I think they look fabulous. You may have also noticed that I do really simple hairdos. One thing that I was not blessed with was patience (along with bow making capabilities), so you have probably noticed that most of our hairdos take less than 20 minutes. If I know that a hairdo will take longer, I don't even attempt it. And it seems I'm always running late so I never have time to do really extravagant hairdos like a lot of my fellow hairdo bloggers - whom BTW I admire so much, they are SO talented - so with that said her is another simple, fun and quick hairdo;

Four Bugs Down

* Part the hair down the middle to her crown.
* Part it on each side, about two inches from the original part.
* Part across the top from both side parts to make four sections.
* Put each section into a ponytail in the middle of the section.
* Either use a Topsytail or do a knot with each pony. I did the bugs/knots on the outside corners of the bottom sections and the bottom outside corners of the top sections.

* this took about 5 minutes.

Bug Pyramid

This is another one that I use the topsytail on, but you can do it without, click here for a great tutorial by blackeyedsue on how to do a "knot" or as we call it a "bug."

*I part her hair down the middle into two sections. (You will notice that I didn't part far enough back on this day, Piper's cowlick on her left side shows.)
*Then from the end of the part, I part down the sides, but not all the way, I left some hair down on either side. I stopped about an inch and a half above her ears.
*Of course, I put all of the remaining hair in a ponytail holder so it wouldn't get in the way.
*For some reason, I always start on her right side. I started with the top section and parted it about an inch down from the original center part, then into three sections.
*I put each of the three sections in a rubber band and did a bug.
*On the next section, again I went down about an inch from the second part and then divided it into only two sections. I included half of the middle bug and the entire left or right bug in the next two pony's, then turned them into bugs.
*On the final section, I included both bugs from the middle section into the final pony and then turned it into a bug.
*I then repeated everything on her right side.
This took about 15 minutes.

Bug March

So, whenever I use the good old fashioned "topsytail," that my mom bought via infomercial back in Jr. High, Piper calls them "bugs."


Since there is a line of "bugs," she came up with the name "Bug March." Or Aaron calls it "The Spinal Column," which ever you prefer...... If you don't have a topsytail, click here for a tutorial by Girly Do's.

Anyway, I start by parting a square on the top of the head, then I secure the rest of the hair in a ponytail holder so it doesn't get in the way.

Then I do a diagonal part from front to back, mostly for symmetry, then I know that I do 3 bugs on each side.

I do the first ponytail and pull it through with the topsytail, then I include the first ponytail in the second ponytail and pull it through the topsytail and so on....until it looks like this.