The Sideways Braid to Bun

We've all done it. Seen something on pinterest and fall in love.  I finally recreated one of the hairstyles that I saw. I found the pin here. 

I decided I wanted to try it. I have this secret talent that I don't often share. I'm actually really good at braiding. French, Dutch, waterfall, fishtail, whatever. Anyway, I found my sister and made her let me try this on her I did a french braid that started at one side of her head, went to the other and then curved back into a bun. It was actually super simple!

The front kind of reminds me of a seashell. 

I did a successful messy bun for the first time. It's one of my downfalls really. I just can't do it!

My sisters hair is really unbraidable. It likes to sit in place and not be messed with. Plus it's really short so I feel pretty successful with the results of this... besides the fact that there was a slight bald patch that I left in the first picture. hahahaha. woops.

So then I tried it again. It looked okay but I still wasn't like totally amazed with it. So I tried it again with her hair slightly damp. It looked great! Here's the outcome of the third time:

My sister finally lost patience when I tried to get some pictures of the front.

 She's going to hate me for these!

I found it was easier to part the hair parallel to the forehead to create the head band part and put the rest of the hair in a loose pony tail.
 When the headband part is all braided, simply take the hair bandout and do the curve around braid. Braid the braided part to the very end of it and hair band it off.

This will prevent any of it from coming out. Simply gather the rest of the hair into a pony tail and then add the little braid to it.

Secure the whole hair into a ponytail and take out the hairband that was in the little braid. If anyone would be interested, I can do video or step by step picture tutorials.

I apologize for all the crappy iphone pictures and my messy room.