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Title: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 24^th, 2007 at 11:12pm

Hello, it's your favorite twisted pup here*, offering up some more odd hair photos... and a dragonfly, for good measure. ( woke up and he was sitting on the ceiling as if to say, "wow, so there IS an end to the sky. huh. I owe that blue five bucks. "

First off, to show that I haven't always had good hair cuts, (well kempt, though) a picture of me when I was about 5 or 6. Actually, it could be as late as 8... I've always been a tiny, dorky, under-my-actual-age looking kid... please forgive the oh-so-seventies kitchen... I had nothing to do with that, I swear!

And, now for yet another picture of the back of my head! and a pretty knotted, odd sort of bun, with my antique rose painted wood sticks.

Now, for my very first successful rope braid! There've been about 100 before this one that all went, "sprong!" and ended up more as dreadlocks. :o

What I did with that rope braid, PT I - (the under the rose braid)....

And what I did with the rope braid, Part II (over the rose braid (along with a weird looking ear and part of a creepy arse painting, though you can't see it))

And, now for "Kelly the Gambling Dragonfly! (see above)"

Oh, yes, I finally organized all my hairtoys and most of my earrings yesterday. I'm pleased with the way it came out... Though I couldn't get the post style earrings to stay. :-/ And a couple of those earrings, I made myself. The amethyst teardrops, for one. The black and red dragon danglies the row above that, and the hematite circles above that. Oh, and the ones all the way to the left on the second row.

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Sakina on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 1:07am

Thanks for sharing, Kiraela! I really like the knot bun, and how you added the rope braid. It took me a long time to master the rope braid, too. Now I use it frequently.

Your hair looks so long, you lucky girl!!

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Lisabelle on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 5:56am

Wow neat do's and hair toys! I had some really dorky picutres of myself taken when I was little. There was the aweful school shots with my ears resembling dumbo! And then growing out a short cut, someone thought I was a boy! :P

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 10:03am

Yeah, I've developed a theory that my hair looks longer in half ups, because it's that much thinner... I can't wait until it looks that long ALL down! ;) Oy, Lisabelle.. I can remember a series of about four years where my school pictures all looked like I belonged in some of the "special" classes... :/ Then there was the year everybody thought I was a stoner due to the fact that I was in the middle of a blink when the camera went off... :( Which is sad, I've never done any sort of drugs in my life.

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Curlgirl64 on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 9:23pm

great pics and braids!! (pst-don't worry about the 70's kitchen! We've all had our share of our mother's......let say unique taste in decor ;)!)

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 25^th, 2007 at 11:24pm

well, it was there when she bought the house, and frankly, nothing exept the bedrooms got any sort of redecorating. really it was only mine and hers, my brother was perfectly happy with white walls.
I got pretty horsey wallpaper.
she got stripes and ivy.
everyone was happy.

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope
Post by juri on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 2:09am

I love that rope braid bun! I've seen something like that in someone's avatar on another community and wondered how she did that. Now I know!

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Curlgirl64 on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 8:09am

Sounds like you like the horsey paper! When we moved in this house, the woman had decorating taste,let's say, that left alot to be desired!! There was this huge green spanish olive wall paper in the kitchen. I'm talking olives that were about 18 inches tall all over the kitchen walls!!!! :o Not something you want to see when you get up in the morning and go to the kitchen for breakfast!! ::)

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 2:47pm

olives are good... olives the size of small ponies, that look like they might eat YOU...not so much.
:P
yeah, it was a nice little border thing, only about six inches high, but it was placed so that the horses were right where I could see them when I was falling asleep at night. One of them looked just like the mare I was taking lessons on at the time, too.
Juri: I got the instructions from the LHC articles section :D I had to learn rope braiding to do it, but with a name like "embellished rose bun" how could I resist, right?

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by bikerbraid on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 8:18pm

Great pictures!!!! Congrats on the rope braid. I think most people have to work at their first sucessful rope braid, and then wonder why it was so difficult!

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 10:38pm

exactly! once I found instructions that made sense, It was like, oh. well. hmm. why didn't I see that before???
DER....

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope
Post by juri on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 4:14am

Kiraela wrote on Aug 26^th, 2007 at 2:47pm:

Juri: I got the instructions from the LHC articles section :D I had to learn rope braiding to do it, but with a name like "embellished rose bun" how could I resist, right?

lol, agreed! I looked up the instructions on LHC and it seems simple enough. Now I just need to learn how to do a rope braid...

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by bikerbraid on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 9:39am

Just for a little clarification - the LHC instructions are for a 2 strand rope, the instructions here at LL are for a 3 strand rope. They both use the reverse twist, but adding the 3rd strand does make it a bit more complicated. Once you've mastered the 2 strand rope, then you can work on the 3 strand. :)

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 3:55pm

ooh, that sounds... like I don't have enough fingers... I'm going to have to go find and try this now.

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by VictoriaLynn on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 10:10pm

I enjoyed looking at your pictures so much. I love the rope braid and bun. Very pretty!

Lynn :)

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Kiraela on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 10:27pm

thanks!!

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by joeydog 1992 on Aug 28^th, 2007 at 7:35pm

K,

I love the pics and stuff. Rope braid huh. It looks so simple but I am seeing that it is not from what was written. Heck, I still can't do a decent braid on my own hair. Why is it so easy to do these things on others and so impossible to do on one's self!!

JD

Title: Re: Kiraela 8/24 - my first successful rope brai
Post by Joan-Ivy on Sep 20^th, 2007 at 4:49pm

Wow, you are AMAZING at doing hair!! And your hair is absolutely fabolous!! :D Great photos.