OK girls, I need hair/tiara help!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
OK girls, I need hair/tiara help!
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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 8:07pm

I'm so not a girly-girl, and I have 2 ds', so you can guess my hair experience! I posted about DH renting the princess costume for the P&P party, and he is getting me a tiara also (to keep, for whatever reason). How do I fix my hair to wear that? I have straight hair, long layers, and no bangs. My hair is pitifully thin, so I'm probably going to have to pin the thing on also.

I was thinking of just curling it all over, but do I put it up? I think it will look bad if I don't, but how?

Thanks!
Steph

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 9:54pm

Steph,

Isabella has fine and thin hair as well. For her costume I curled her hair and then left it down. Her tiara has a comb built in. I would think your hair would be fine that way. :) Practice at home with it.

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Tue, 01-02-2007 - 8:05am

How exciting! Even a non-girly-girl needs to be a princess now and then.

When my girls went to Bippity Boppity Boutique, they were given a long,curly hair piece. It's very neat, and they still wear it.

I find that it looks best if I pull their crown hair - maybe about the top third - into a bun, attach the curls up high on this bun, and then put the crown in front. Does that make sense?

Here is a picture of a hairpiece kind of like they have:

http://www.ultimatelooks.com/hairpieces/charmcurly.htm

It's a lot easier to use "fake curls" than to hope real ones will stay in all night long. I'm sure you can find something like this cheaper in stores near you.

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Thu, 01-04-2007 - 7:59am

Speaking from recent personal experience of having to curl DD's dead straight hair for her part in the Nutcracker ballet before Christmas I have to agree about getting some fake hair if you really want to be curly lol!

However, you could just go with a bun, although if you have lots of short layers that could be tricky.

Have you seen the tiara yet? a lot of them do have some kind of comb attached to them to help hold it in your hair, if it doesn't then get some strong bobby pins and fix it to your hair with them, use 2 in an X shape at a few points around your head for a firmer hold.

Carole

Carole

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Thu, 01-04-2007 - 3:44pm

Nope, I haven't seen it! Hopefully I can go try this stuff on in the next couple of weeks, the dress may need altered.

How do you do a bun for thin hair? Everytime I've tried, it just sticks out funny and I can't pin it and make it stay.

Thanks!