Category: Wear it

Braided T-shirt

I am just loving the T-shirt mods. Here’s another one from HerNewLeaf. Click on link for complete instructions.

Step 1: Find a shirt you’ve clearly never worn, made obvious by the fact that the tag is still attached. Make sure it’s really wrinkly. Bonus points if it has dog hair on it.

Step 2: Cut vertical slits all around the neck. Mine were about 2 inches long and a little less than an inch apart, but they don’t need to be perfect. You should make the first slit about half as long as the rest, since the weaving technique will cause it to open up into a hole. It’s okay if you don’t, though, you can just sew it up like I did.

Here’s a few pics to show you the scale of the slits I made. They definitely weren’t perfect, but they don’t have to be!

Step 3: Here comes the technical part. Take loop #2 and push it under loop #1, then pull it through in the direction of the remaining loops. It’s not hard, but if you do it wrong, just smooth your shirt out and start over.

Step 4: Continue by pushing loop #3 through loop #2 and so on. If you ever made a potholder out of loops when you were a kid, this is the exact same thing. You did it when you were a six-year-old at summer camp, you can do it now!

Step 5: Keep going and you’ll see your braid start to form. If you don’t, undo it and start over, no big deal, I’m not judging.

When you get to the end, you’ll need to sew a few stitches to attach the last loop to the shoulder of the shirt. I also had to put a few stitches at the beginning of my braid where the hole opened up, but I told you about that already, so yours should turn out even better than mine!

Dress up a Ponytail

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3.  Braid up the side
-Section out all of the hair from your ear forward on one side of your part, and clip everything else aside for later.
-Proceed to braid up the side by your ear.  You can do one braid, two braid, or even three if your hair is thick enough.  You can also do any type of braid – fishtail, regular, twist braid, whatever you want.
-Once your braids are complete, combine them with the remaining hair and put it in a ponytail as you normally would.
4.  Add some texture on top. 
-While your hair is still down, backcomb the top section of your hair.
-Using a wax or hairspray, run some product through the top of your hair with your fingers to add texture.
-Put your hair in a ponytail as you normally would, being careful not to flatten or mess up the top section.
 -After your hair is secure, you can also pull up slightly on the top to add more body.  

5.  Make it retro
-Decide where you want your part.  For a retro look, the part should be deep to one side.
-Section out the deep side of your bang area for later, and put everything else in a high ponytail.
-Curl the ends of the ponytail slightly and backcomb it a little at the base for more body.
-Brush softly through the curls for a more retro look.
-Shape your bangs into a swoop bang and either tuck them behind your ear or pin the hair beneath your ponytail.

6.  Low with a side part

-Flat iron your hair and apply smoothing serum for a more polished look.

-Part your hair to one side.
-Backcomb slightly at the base of your bangs for more body.
-Loosely put your hair in a low ponytail in the back, making sure everything is soft and smooth.

7.  Twist back the top

-Part your hair to one side.
-On the heavy side of your part, section out a 2-3 inch section that goes back to the middle of the top of your head.
-Clip everything else aside for later.
-With your bang section, you can do a french braid or a twist.  It helps to backcomb it first for more body.
-Once your braid/twist is complete, combine it with the rest of your hair and put it in a ponytail as you normally would.

8.  Add a pompadour
-Backcomb your bang area.
-Use your fingers to section out an area of your bangs however big you want your pompadour to be.
-loosely pin it back, being careful not to flatten it. 
-Put your hair in a ponytail as you normally would.