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Halloween Hair Style: Pumpkin Top Bun
I’m so excited to have one of my oldest and dearest friends contributing some of her awesomeness!
Cadan and I went to high school together a million years ago and even back then she was crafty and creative! I’ve finally got her to share some of the fun she does with her family and I’m so excited! This is her first post and it is adorable…
Who doesn’t love a cute top bun?
Now, just for Halloween let’s turn that cute top bun into an even cuter “pumpkin” top bun. ooo, I love it even more! 🙂
Just gather a few inexpensive and easy to obtain accessories, and you’re on your way to a fashionable expression that is sure to get a few, “oh how cutes” and “how’d ya do that’s”. Shall we….
Gather:
5-8 Orange Chenille Pipe Cleaner
1 Green Chenille Pipe Cleaner
1 Hair Band
1 Hair Clip
1 Sock bun form (instructions on making a sock bun form from a sock, below)
Create a sock bun form. (Skip this part if you have a store-bought form)
The size of the bun will depend on the size sock you’ll want to use. I used one of my husband’s old (clean) socks for by 7 year olds bun. Cut the toe off the sock and begin to roll the sock from the toe down to the elastic part. Voila! You just made your very own bun form. So easy, right!
Create the Stem – Grab that one green chenille pipe cleaner and wrap it around your finger creating a spiral. Make the spiral smaller at the top, this is our stem. Wrap the bottom of the spiral aka stem, around the base of the medium clippie. Set aside.
ONE – Using the hair band, gather all of the hair into a semi-high pony. Securing it well. (You can use water and smooth out the hair. Opted for a more loose more natural look)
TWO/THREE – Take your orange chenille pipe cleaners and hook them under the hair band, twisting them back onto themselves. Do this all around making a sun of pipe cleaners around the base of the pony.
FOUR – Pull out a few pieces of hair, the same amount as your orange chenille pipe cleaners. One at a time, begin to wrap the hair around the pipe cleaners. At the ends bend the pipe cleaner about an inch or two down and wrap back onto itself. Do this all the way around.
FIVE – Now fun part! Pull the left over hair straight up, take your bun holder and place it at the top of the “hair tower”, pulling the hair through the middle and letting the hair cascade all around the bun form.
SIX/SEVEN – Begin rolling the hair under the bun form, keep rolling down, keeping the hair taut as you roll down.
EIGHT – Now take each of the hair wrapped chenille pipe cleaners and pull them over the bun, tucking them into the center.
ADD THE STEM –Once all orange pipe cleaners are tucked in tight, take the clippie stem, and collect as many of the orange pipe cleaners, from the middle, as possible. Grip into the center and push the clippie into the middle securing your beautiful pumpkin bun! Pumpkin Bun Done!
Now for the best part, go out and show the world!!! Or at least your family, friends, schoolmates and co-workers!
What is your favorite Halloween candy?
What a cute look. Great tutorial.
What a cute idea! I love it!
Oh gosh that is so cute. Perfect excuse for a bun. Kiddo had to cut her hair before school started so its not long enough for a bun this year. But I’ll have to remember this for next year.
I saw this on Google+ and had to come over and comment and check it out. My child’s hair is long enough for this. I’ve got to try it out on her.
Yay! So glad you stopped by! I hope your daughter loves her top bun :). Send me a pic, I’d love to see your creation 🙂 @cgmammag or #cgmammag
Oh my gosh, this is adorable!! I wish mine or my daughter’s hair was long enough to do this for Halloween! Hopefully next year. 🙂
Oh my gosh, this is adorable!! I wish mine or my daughter’s hair was long enough to do this for Halloween! Hopefully next year. 🙂
That is too adorable! I can’t wait for my toddler to grow some hair so I can do styles like this for her. Haha!
How cute is that bun. I wish I had long enough hair to do that.
Wow! First, I cannot imagine having that much hair. Her hair is amazing! And I certainly cannot imagine the creativity that went into that idea. She looks looks like a great model…such a unique idea!
Thanks Danielle! She puts up with her Mommy ;). Pipe cleaners are very versatile.
is it weird if i do this for my own hair? hahah
Not at all..then there will be two of us 😉
THAT was a lovely tutorial and such a great model! I loved it! I know a couple of cuties who would love something like this for fall festival!
Thank you Danielle! She is so patient with me, and my endless requests of her 😉 Love to see your Fall Festival pics! Twitter: @CGMammaG.
How cute and creative!
This is so cure I am going to try it with my hair. I guess you could do this for any holiday. I think silver and blue, or silver blue and white would be AWESOME for Christmas.
The possibilities are endless. Great ideas!
I love this bun idea. I think I’ll do it at Christmas time with my girls. They have abundant long hair.
That’s so cute! I really like buns and this is a fun way to decorate it.
This is such a cuTe idea! I love how festive it would make my kids hair buns!
I love it. Halloween is a great time to be playful and whimsical!
This is such a cute idea for a Halloween hairstyle! Thanks for sharing!
Just pulling it up to show my teen. She’s the one I already commented about that I made a similar style for w/a cute spider. 🙂 She loves this too!
Nice! Good to know hair styles such as these cross generational! Thanks for sharing it with her.
Totally sharing this with my friend who has THREE girls. Sadly, I have only boys. 🙁
I love this Pumpkin top bun because it is so creative and unique. Awesome idea indeed. Thanks for sharing.
OMG I JUST LOVE IT! I have got to do that with all my granddaughters hair! Heck, I think I’ll do it to my hair too. We’re all meeting here for Halloween so it should be fun! Thank you so much for sharing.
I am totally in love with this idea. It is so cute I really want to try this on myself…lol
That is so neat. I have got to try this on my daughter’s hair. Thanks for sharing.
This is so so cute! My daughter doesn’t have much hair yet, but I think I might do this myself! Now, do I have orange pipe-cleaners? Thank you x
This is SUCH a cute style. I even want to try it!
This is the cutest hair tutorial I’ve seen in a long time. I’m going to do this to my daughter’s hair for Halloween day when she goes to school!
My girls don’t have long enough hair to try this, but I do! It’ll be perfect to wear to my kids fall parties this week!
What a colorful and fun look for fall! Nice tutorial, I’ve never made a bun before.
Oh my gosh that is absolutely adorable! I can’t wait to have a little girl to do her hair! Not much you can do with a boys short hair lol
I love how this turned out! Cannot wait to try with my little girl!
Too cute! I am going to have to try that on my daughter this week
This bun is adorable! I love it
What a cute Halloween hairstyle! I’d love to try this!
How cute is this? My daughter would absolutely love to do this with her hair!
That is the cutest hairdo I’ve seen in a while. It is so fun, free and creative. Loved it.
That is so cute! My poor girls are stuck with me doing nothing fun with their hair.
What a cute hairdo! Very creative.
That is so adorable! I would have never thought of this. 🙂
I have never seen this hair style before but absolutely think its the cutest thing ever. I’m forwarding on to friends that have little girls. 😉
How creative! I think I might try this for my daughter’s hair for Halloween day.
That is such a cute idea – you were very creative, let me tell you. I am sure your model was very pleased by the scarry effect too. 😉
Great style! I like that the hair looks neat even if the bun is like that.