Brain Fertilizer

My wife won't let me near the barrets or scrunci's.

You're a brave man for the cutting. We've only snipped off a few hairs off of Georgia in her entire life!

Yes. As the mom of four daughters, we have this down :D

1)Divide hair evenly with small, inexpensive black pocket comb, but only after throughly, patiently brushing hair.
2)Use only covered elastics(rubber bands can get stuck in hair and really hurt!) They cost a bit more, but are worth it.
3)Gently hold hair in your less dominate hand (left for me).
4)While holding hair, place thumb,index and middle finger into elastic, stretching it open.
5)Wrap fingers with the elastic on them around base of hair-grouping held in other in hand.
6)Now the hand with the elastic should be the only hand holding the hair.
7)With left hand,pull elastic over hair grouping.
8)Elastic should now be over the hair group.
9)Counter pull the hair against one side of the elastic with right hand (so should look like a figure eight with hair in one of the loops). .
10)With left hand, take slack in elastic and twist elastic over.
11)Repeat steps 4-10 until hair is held sufficiently tight.

A teeny tiny bit of pomade rubbed between hands and lightly applied to hair will smooth it down and give a better groomed style.

How was that, Nate?

Rae,
Well, part of my problem is probably inexperienced, clumsy man-hands, but so far, the only way I've been able to avoid having too many stray strands and pulled hair on the 2nd warp is to actually twist and hold the hair...that kinda keeps it in a more consistent clump.
I can get 'em in there, but the shape of the hair being held by the elastic band (yeah, no rubber bands) isn't at all consistent...most of the time, they aren't even symmetrical (one ending up higher on the head than the other).
I may try at some point to put all the long back stuff in a ponytail at some point...but she likes the two Boo-like pigtails. I'll post a pic of 'em in the next few minutes.
SaaM,
I'm probably going to let it all grow out from here, now.

Wow...wait until you have to do braids!

One thing I tell dads about is the twist method...divide sections in two, and then just twist each section of hair until it makes a little twisty-bun on her head, and pin the end of it down with a snap clip style barrette. When you pop out the barrettes at the end of the day, you get some cute curly waves, too.

Actually, I can kinda do braids already...not well, of course, but at least someone can look at it and go, "Hey, those are braids, aren't they?"

Your twist method sounds interesting, but I may need pictures. Right now, it sounds like a fairly decent toture method for Guantanamo Bay.

I think I am gonna have to post some suggested new books for the newly single dad, Nathan, over on my blog. You know, solicit some gift giving via Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

P.S. You know, the style these days is for hair to be slightly messy, so even if the do isn't perfect, it will still be a)stylish, and b) cute because everyone will know her daddy did her hair.

Use Chip-Clips!

When it comes to pulling my daughter's hair up, I cheat. I use chip-clips. Yes, I only do it at home so people don't think I'm cruel, but they work extremely well and are easy to operate. Plus, they save me from having to clean the food out of their hair.

My Daughters love using them now at home and whenever they sit down to eat they ask for their chip-clips.

Go figure...

I love the idea! I'll try it!