Hair Styles of 2011

To recap 2011, here are a few of my favorite styles from the past year.

French Twist (for long hair) with a Flexi-Eight.

Fan Bun for my friend Jordan.

These photos are from the big re-enactment this fall.

Doing the hair train. 

A figure-eight braid.  I haven’t written a tutorial for this one yet.

Horse shoe braid for Miss H.  Basically, start with Luanna Braids, cross the braids, and hide the ends under the other braid.

I did another version of my Civil War Ball style.  This is the only picture I have of the back!  It’s is pretty much the same as the tutorial version except with less flowers.

Then I went to a masquerade formal.

I did my 18th Century Style with a rose on one side . . .

and a butterfly on the other.  I had the hardest time making those ringlets look decent!  They did not set well at all so I ended up folding them in half and hiding the ends under that big rose.

Happy New Year!  May the Lord bless you with His love and grace in this new year.

I’m Engaged!!!

“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Wonderful Wednesday, everybody!  So this is why I haven’t been posting much lately. 

To make a long story short, Samuel and I met when he came down to attend the Bible college at my church.  We started courting about this time last year, and he graduated this past spring.  On Friday after a performance of Handel’s Messiah, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes.

We went together to pick out a ring on Saturday, and we ended up designing it custom.  Here is a close-up.

I’m so happy!!!  The LORD has blessed me greatly beyond my wildest dreams with a man who is so godly, loving, and strong.  Lord willing, we’re hoping to get married this fall.

Merry Christmas!!!

Thanks to my sister Melissa (quiltinghoneybee.wordpress.com) for helping me with pictures!

Fan Bun

“What God is like to Him I serve?
What Saviour like to mine?
O never let me from Thee swerve,
For truly I am Thine.

“My thankful mouth shall speak Thy praise,
My tongue shall talk of Thee;
On high my heart O do Thou raise
For what Thou’st done for me.”

– Anne Bradstreet

Today’s tutorial is for the Fan bun/updo.  Recently, this has been my go-to hair style for days when I want something a little nicer than a basic french twist but don’t have a lot of time.  It’s a soft, easy look that will work on all hair types.

Shirley Temple Ringlets, Restyled

I grew up watching a lot of Shirley Temple movies.  Every time my sister and I had the opportunity, we would ask our mom to do our our hair just like her.

Here is a more grown-up version I did for my sister.  This is also a simplified-for-shorter-hair version of my Curly Formal Updo.

This style is perfect for those of you doing hair for little girls’ (daughters, sisters, etc.), especially active ones who don’t like to have hair in their eyes.

Shirley did wear versions of this style in her movies as she got older, such as this clip from “the Little Princess.”  By the way, this song makes me happy. 

Click here for the step-by step pictures

Hello!

Hi everybody!

Please excuse my prolonged absence. I lost my main computer this summer. As in it wouldn’t turn on.  At all.  I lost all my original copies of the pictures for Rapunzel’s Resource and my other blog, for that matter.  After super mom spent much geeky bonding time with the cpu, it can run basic stuff, but it still spontaneously restarts for no apparent reason. Very frustrating.

I have some new tutorials and videos in the works, but first I have to get through a really important exam, piano recital, and three emergency sewing projects. So, in the meantime, please enjoy some pictures from my summer vacation. (Best trip EVER!)

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Video: French Twist for Long Hair

Here is a video version of how to do a french twist with long hair!
To see the text version, click on the following page.

• French Twist

“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him”
– Colossians 2:6.

Video: How to Set Your Hair with Bandanas

After many requests, here is a video version of how to do bandana waves and bandana curls!
To see the text versions, click on the following pages.

• Bandana Waves
• Bandana Curls

“The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.”
– Proverbs 15:33

May Update from Elizabeth

Happy May, Ladies!!!  (I know I’m a few days late, but better late than never, right? )

I hope you all had a great Easter.  For those of you who haven’t seen it, you can read my thoughts from last year here.  This year, I spent some time just thinking about the fact that this was my God Who gave His life for me.  You can hear a great song about that idea here.

I’ve received quite a few comments and e-mails asking when there will be a new tutorial, what’s happened to me, etc.  Let me assure you: I’m not dead, just my computer is– or as my southern daddy would say “day-yed.”    The computer that I do all my pictures on has developed this nasty habit of randomly shutting down every so often.  The internet isn’t really functional, but we have the system on life support so that we can write papers for school.  If you have written me or asked a question, I’ll try to respond when I can.  It’s just that at this stage of my life right now, blogging isn’t my top priority.  Real life has thrown more at me in the last few months than you can imagine.  The rest of this month is going to be so busy, I probably won’t be able to post again for several weeks.  So what does that mean for Rapunzel’s Resource?

1. I have about a half-dozen new tutorials I want to write this summer– specifically some new updos, rope braid ideas, and some stuff from the first two Narnia movies.  There are also some styles that I would like to do videos for, as well.
2. Some of you have requested some styles and I haven’t approved your requests.  This is because I have decided not to do Sci-Fi styles on Rapunzel’s Resource.  The reason I developed this site was to provide creative styling techniques for long-haired ladies for both modern life and historical re-enactment events.  And Sci-Fi styles are usually impossible without fake hair anyway.
3. For other movie style requests, I’m working on how to implement a discussion-based movie hair style section on WordPress.  I hope this will allow those who want to be able to work together to figure out how those looks can be replicated.

So after school ends, and graduation and wedding season is over, I hope to have some new things ready for ya’ll.  See you then!

P.S.  I finally saw “Tangled”!  If you’d like to post your thoughts on the movie as a long-haired gal, that would be great. 

Special Feature: Movie Musical Styles

Please enjoy this bit of classic Rapunzel’s Resource!!

Today’s topic will be the styles of not one but two movie musicals!

Not Hair Related: Piano Recital

Hi ladies!

Some of you have asked me what do I do other than hair– my life beyond the blog. One of my favorite things is piano! I just did a recital this week, and here’s what I played.

It’s Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonata in F minor. Born the same year as J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, Scarlatti was an exceptional baroque composer and one of the fathers of solo keyboard music. Each of his over five hundred one-movement sonatas is a unique gem. This beautiful piece is one of my favorites, and I performed it at a recital in March 2011. For this recording, I played it on my 1991 Baldwin Hamilton 243 named Schroeder. If you don’t know Schroeder’s story, you can read it here.

I just wanted to share that with ya’ll. Have a terrific Thursday!