I have shortish/medium length hair and if I try to put it into a ponytail, it doesn’t hang gracefully like a real pony’s tail, but rather it sticks straight out in back and looks like a beleaguered hen’s tail that has been plucked down to a few stiff feathers.
The other night, I was at a dinner party and saw a woman with hair that was about my length, and she had it fashioned up into a cute messy bun. I asked her how she styled it and she said she learned how on a YouTube video. Yes, I too was shocked to learn that there are videos on YouTube that don’t have animals in them. It never occurred to me to look for any other kind.
So, I did a quick search and found some rather amusing and slightly annoying hair/makeup nuts that apparently spend all day teasing and back-combing and spraying their hair into poofy head-sculptures that will only remain in place if you hold perfectly still all day and stare at yourself in the mirror.
Then I found Little Miss Lush Life. I can never aspire to have the poise, grace and lovely mannerisms as Miss Lush Life, but I think I will try her hair style, if only to have an excuse to watch her adorable video a few more times.
What a cutie. When I was her age I would have been doing tutorials on how to get gum out of your hair. Enjoy:
“oh silly me..”
She is adorable.
My favorite part!
We all could do that with our eyes closed. Just reach to the back of your hair, slap an elastic in it, ruffle it up a bit, and your done. It looks like a rubbed horse’s tail to me. It is the accent she has that makes it sound good.
Plus, she’s ten.
ten! a diva in the making…..I was nothing like her at ten; I was oblivious to hair/makeup at that age & now that I’m older than dirt, I’m getting that way again
Oh My God, she is too precious. How old do you think she is, 10, maybe 12? I’ve never had her poise and grace at any time in my life! Good luck with the hairstyle Ann.
Try Goody Spin Pins. My hair is very fine and thin. I use a child size rubberband for my pony tail and end up with a pony tail the thickness of a pencil. With the spin pins I just grab hair, twist in to bun, and twist one pin from top,one from bottom and I have my bun. Works great on thicker hair.
Ok, she’s really cute. And I love her hair cut! She’s so sophisticated for her age.
Believe it or not, I use horse show braiding rubber bands for my hair when I’m braiding my own and/ or putting it in a bun. It’s the only way to control my hair, and you can get 700 of them for $6! Zeus wears them, I wear them…it’s like Best in Show by Christopher Guest, but with horses.
Best in Show. One of the funniest movies ever made.
Love that movie!
Me too! And let’s not forget “A Mighty Wind”, and my all time favorite – This is Spinal Tap.
So cute!
OMG, she is soooo cute. This is now hair tip #2 for me from the blog. I use the Clairol root buster and I love it. (thank you Ann for saving me so much money). I am going to try this when I get home, thanks again, great clip!!!
Little Miss Lush Life works awfully hard to look messy. I just wake up in the morning and — done!
PS: She frightens me.
Isn’t she adorable? I just found her on youtube, and she lives in Ukraine and speaks 3 languages. I love youtube. I learned how to do the “smoky eye” by watching a tutorial. Now I know how to do a messy side bun and an updo–Miss Lush’s other video available on youtube. Of course, my hair is too short for either of these styles, but I know how to do them!
Love her. Tug at my bun. Accessory. Elastic. Love her accent too.
Hi, I’m a new reader of your blog! Loved your book! Anyway, I can’t do hairstyles to save my life, so my hair is either down (sometimes brushed), in a ponytail, or a messy bun/topknot or whatever will keep it out of my face. BUT, I aspire to actually do something with it on occasion and found some youtube videos by someone named whippycake that meet my three essential criteria for hairstyles. 1. out of my face; 2. so easy that my dogs could do it; and 3. something that doesn’t look like it’s geared toward the teen set.
After the recent experience of my god daughter being targeted by a child predator through the internet, all I can do is wonder why on earth the parents of this 10 year-old child are allowing her to put videos of herself out to the universe.
:::shudder:::
The creep that came after Ana initially met her via the comments section of a teenaged girl’s series of videos on You Tube where she talks about fashion, make up & what’s in her purse. Initially he pretended to be a 13 year-old girl, then once they were “friends” he confessed to being a 16 year-old boy. Which was a lie too of course.
WOW! That’s awful, Denise. So how old was he?
Yes, Denise, just think of all the dirty old men who are watching her on youtube and doing you-know-what.
The profiler from the Crimes Against Children unit estimates the age of the man (identity still unknown) communicating w/Ana to be in the range of late 30s – late 40s, highly educated & extremely proficient at “seduction & grooming” of children, which suggests he’s been doing so for at least a decade, probably more.
I’m fascinated by the behavior profiling process. In this case the detective examined the available conversations–from texts, comments on You Tube & in chat-room logs–to build the profile. The detective’s finding was that our god daughter was in “imminent danger.” Though Ana still believes this “guy” is her best friend, her soul mate, & hopes he will find a way to be in touch with her again so that they can be together. That’s how brain-washed she is. Which is not a comment on her level of intelligence, mind you, but testament to the persuasion & power & charm of a skilled predator aimed at a pre-teen girl.
My husband just arrested a 32yr old man with over 700 pictures of child porn and pictures of missing children on his many computers. just makes you sick to think of who is out there watching..
On one of our vacations we were watching the home town parade and there was a guy who had his camera around waist level,, we both spotted him at the same time and started to follow him.. he was taking pictures of the little girls in the crowd.. I snapped a picture of him with my cell phone when he figured out what we were doing,, my husband chased him for blocks and finally caught up with him,, we found one of the local policemen and found out he was a registered child sex offender and he had 100′s of pictures from the parade.. we have some interesting vacations =)
Mary L, that totally disgusts me. Actually, it disgusts and frightens me. I just don’t understand. Those poor little girls.
I yi yi.
Mary, that’s awful, but unfortunately doesn’t surprise me. When we lived in FL we decided to spend a year on the beach & rented a wee-tiny apt right on Hollywood Broadwalk. From my living room window & the bench in our courtyard, I saw guys – young & old, every race, looking wealthy to not-so – exercising their photography “skillls” similarly. Had no idea there were that many perves (sp?) in the world till living on the beach.
What a well spoken young lady. She’s a stunner in the making for sure.
This week I tried Show Sheen on my hair to control the craziness and it worked REAlly well! More healthful and cheaper than a blowout…and I was desperate.
To keep a hair clip (mandatory for barn chores in the heat and humidity) from sliding down, I wind a thin rubber band around the flat metal part that goes under the hair, to give traction. It won’t be in any videos or fashion mags, but it holds my hair–even with the show sheen. Lol.
I need to see a demo on youtube first Carol.
My youtube thing wouldn’t attract creepy predators–that’s for sure!!!
A couple of observations:
(1) As a loyal reader of Ann’s blog regardless of the day’s subject matter, I watched the video that accompanies this latest entry. It REALLY creeped me out.
(2) The girl’s hair-styling tips were pretty unusable to me. On the other hand, if she can offer a sure-fire cure for baldness, she might have my attention.
I didn’t think it was creepy but I was watching it after viewing this kind of thing:
http://youtu.be/84Qibz7p5yA
The little girl seemed refreshing and sweet after the human Barbie video. I didn’t even consider the predator thing. I too hope her parents are watching out.
Alan, funny as always.
The one shoulder shirt works great with the angle of her arms from a visual design standpoint, but I think it’s a bit naiive for the times we live in.
She’s already gorgeous enough to invite that creepiness.
That girl is fantastic. “I’ll just secure it with a bobby pin…” Wish I made narrative films instead of documentaries because I’d cast her in something lickety-split. She’s a natural talent.
I just watched the video. That little girl is adorable. She’s a real girly-girl. I loved the part where she talks about using a pink elastic band, but suggests, in a very serious tone, that we use a darker one. So cute!
I think she may just be one of Britain’s Top Model contestants one day. Such a little beauty. Bless her little heart.
Sadly, I too worry about online predators. This little girl is so innocent, and there are whackjobs out there just waiting for those children. I hope her parents are keeping an eye on her.
Yeah, at that age I too owned some elastics–who knows what color? The accessories that concerned me most were a battered pair of jodhpur boots and a bike to take me to my friend’s horse.
Of course, she will have a stunning early career start, fraught with its own perils, while I’m going the Frank McCourt route.
I find it sort of sad, that at 10 years old, she is doing this. Where the heck are her parents. She should be out bike riding or looking for her battered pair of jodhpur boots.
I don’t know that much about YouTube but isn’t it possible to disable comments that accompany the videos? My 18 year old son plays guitar and sometimes he posts videos of the latest song he has learned for his friends to see. I think he might delete the comment feature so he doesn’t get a lot of haters. And he never has more than a handful of views. How do these videos get so many hits?
The British always sound so well-spoken. I love how grown up she sounds and wish I could have that ‘sweet’ look too. When I put my hair up I look like I am going to clean out the garage!!!!!!!!! Bobby pins only make me look worse…like after the garage I going to clean the basement.
Christine, I am British and you have obviously never heard me talk…… I sound common as Muck…..
I needed to wait until Saturday to weigh in on this; I was too busy dealing with a few of ” her” Monday through Friday!! I guess I’m about to be the grump in the group. I didn’t find her cute, darling or adorable at all, lol. They often say teachers have a hard time picking names for their kids–every name reminds them of someone they’ve had. I guess I don’t think she should sound grownup. She should sound like a kid who wants to hang out with her friends. I agree with Stephanie–except that I’ll bet her parents think she’s another Kim K or Lindsay L in the making. And when she errs–it’s going to be someone else’s fault. Cause everybody thinks she’s so great! Youtube has some wonderful, wonderful videos, but in so many others, we are creating monsters !
Thanks Barbara. I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought like this. I totally agree about your thoughts on her parents. Cetainly wouldn’t be my wish for my daughters.
Kim K? Who’s that? I do know about Lindsey L but can assure you that we don’t want her going down any celeb route at all. She a normal kid, loves dressing up, watching movies with the family, spends most of her time up trees and playing with chickens, cats and goats, and swimming in the lakes (Summer time). She also plays marathons on the Wii with her brother, bakes cakes, helps round the house and is a bunch of fun. We’d rather she did a few fun videos about hairstyling than run around the neighbourhood after boys or trying her first cigarette with goodness knows who. We know who her friends are and where she is. Be assured that with Mum, Dad, a big sister and a big brother, her videos are checked, discussed and we monitor her replies and her activity. Mum PS: I used to be a teacher too
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Just because it’s Saturday and its my favorite day of the week, I want to keep my post on the lighter side. I would love to put my hair up in a messy bun…but, if I did that I would expose my horrendous gray roots and my genetically inspired receding temples (right more than left). Not a good look. I have not been successful with creating an unfussy, Farmer’s Market Saturday hair or skin glow with that je ne sais pas quoi attitude that I so aspire to. So instead of a messy bun, I prefer rocker chick with a wide crazy patterned head band. Ann, you have saved me money with your Clairol tip. My husband thanks you.
Just an FYI–I am really good at the messy bun. You don’t need that second pony holder. When you are pulling your hair through the first one for the third time just stop when you hair is in the loop. Then pull on the loop and the ends to create the messy bun. Some hair pokes out, some stays looped. Love the messy bun! Maybe I should do a video….
She’s my niece!I’m so proud of her!
…and Lucie is my sweet grandaughter – we are truly blessed with all our 14 grandchildren and Lucie is the youngest of the bunch.