I don't know how many schools do this, but Jenna's school does a 'spirit week' of sorts. They have all kinds of themed days such as crazy hat day, team spirit day, etc. This year they had a Crazy Hair Day! (Although this could also work for anyone whose little one wants to do a Trolls costume for Halloween.) Now, JJ is far more outgoing then I was and she is all in for participating. Being the crafty guardian, all heads turned towards me. I suggested the Trolls since they've become a big deal again. So here we go, my tutorial for a Troll Hair. YOU WILL NEED:
The trick to this is the water bottle. You will want to place the water bottle on the top of your child's head (or whoever you're doing this for) and pull their hair up over the bottle. This is where the hair brush comes into play. I didn't end up needing it, and with how curly her hair is I'm glad I didn't need to brush her hair up and over the bottle. IF the person's hair isn't long enough simply cut the very bottom of the bottle off. I will note that you should be careful doing this, plastic hurts if it's not properly smoothed. Jenna's hair was a little too short, so I did have to cut an inch off the bottom of the bottle. Once I did that, it was the perfect height to pull her hair up and over the top of the bottle. You're going to use your ponytail holder to attach the hair to the bottle. The hair tie will go around the neck of your water bottle and leave a cute little poof of hair at the top. You can see that little poof in the picture above. You can also see that she has some small strands of hair that aren't long enough to go all the way up to the top of the water bottle. This is why those bobby pins are suggested. Using those bobby pins you can pull those hairs up and really hold them into place. Now that you got that hair pinned / tied up you're going to want to hit that hair with some major hair spray! I have thick straight hair and it doesn't believe in staying put, curling, etc. It's a mess, lol. Jenna has thick CURLY hair, and it doesn't believe in behaving either. So I use MEGA HOLD hair spray. I LOVE Aussie, it's the first hair spray that did anything to keep my hair in place, and it smells AMAZING! I'll be perfectly honest, I applied multiple coats of hairspray. The hole in the ozone? Yeah, it's over my sister's head. (I'm sorry guys.) Once the coats of mega spray have been applied I used the colored hair spray to give her that "Troll" colored appearance. I like to use the colored hair spray you can buy at Party City. I use it on St Patty's Day, but I find that if you just apply a standard color-wheel-color to normal hair, it doesn't really pop. You should first do a coat of white spray. Just a little something I find works best. If you have really light hair or blonde hair, you may be fine, but remember these are cheap dyes and colors and if you want them to look like the cap color you'll really want that first layer of white. (I forgot to mention that I covered her in a towel to make sure the color didn't stain her clothing.) Give the coat of white hairspray a few minutes to dry and then apply the coat of whatever color you picked. Jenna wanted to have purple Troll hair, so that's what we went with. NOW, I sent someone else to pick up the hair spray. I didn't realize until the next morning (at 6 am) that they had only bought one can of the colored spray. I HIGHLY recommend having at least two cans of the colored spray. Since I only had one it's not a very vibrant purple. It looks kind of lavender in certain lighting, but she was still thrilled with it. Once the purple hair spray has dried I hit her hair with another coat of Mega Hold. I'm dead serious that this wasn't going anywhere! Now, in the new trolls movie the main girl wears flowers in her hair. I was hoping I had some flower clips but I couldn't find any. Instead I used a flower crown we had from her Moana Party (check the party tab for Moana party crafts and DIY projects). Using those trusty Bobby Pins I attached the crown to her hair. This way it stayed in place the entire day- because she's a hyper kid. Her hair held the entire day, except for a few strays that had managed to pop out of their bobby pins. I'll post a photo of that below to show you guys. We also made sure she was wearing a button up shirt so that we weren't attempting to pull a school shirt over this volcano of a hair-do, lol. This was relatively simple (I expected her hair to put up a bigger fight) and it only took about a half hour when all was said and done. Very worth it just from her smiles alone. AND for anyone wondering it came out in the shower no problem.
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