Braided Beehive

First of all, I'd like to point out that you may see some vertical lines visible on these photos due to my camera being damaged. Sometimes I get these lines and sometimes I don't....

 

 

 

I call this hairstyle the Braided Beehive and I just so happen to come up with it on my own! YaaaY! I just went with the flow... I didn't get it from the internet whatsoever, meaning from no blogs, no pictures, and no videos. Now I did try googling the name Braided Beehive and came up with many wacky hairdos. You may find this somewhere out there just probably under a different name. So I don't think that I'm that genius enough.

Making this hairstyle is very easy and straightforward. I just parted her hair down onto one side, then parted all her hair in a circle around her whole head with a rattail comb leaving equal amounts of hair all around her head outside of the circle I made. After that, I gathered the hair in the middle or on the inside of the circle and secured it in a bun in the center of her head to get it out of the way. Then I started a simple lace braid starting from the part line and close to her forehead. A lace braid is a type of braid where you add in new strands of hair only from one side. When I reached the top of her head forming my first braided circle, I temporarily pinned it down and out of the way and parted a new circle leaving equal amounts of hair all around. I combined the strands from the previous circle into the strands of the new circle to form one set of strands and started braiding a new braid. I made a third circle using this strategy and when I had no more hair to add into my lace braid, I just finished it off by braiding a normal braid and secured with an elastic. I tucked the ending of the braid inside the middle of the third circle as neat as possible and secured it with bobby pins. You can place a hair accessory like a nice flower or butterfly or something in the middle, but I thought that it looked better without anything so I skipped this step. I think this hairstyle would be great to wear on formal occasions.

 

 

Updated Pictures (same hairstyle, different day)