That wierdo with five colours in her hair

I'm not going to start with a big 'ol shpeel about how "colourful hair is back!!" but, yeah... it is, and in a big way in the blog-world anyways. Not to sound pretentious, but I've had a thing for bright hair for years now. I remember seeing a beauty editorial in Teen Vogue (ah TV, how I used to love you! Now you're filled with Twilight stars and not-so-convincing arguments about how denim is SO big this year, which really just doesn't float my boat) a few years ago with some crazy coloured fake hair stuffed in big ponytails with a million hair accessories bouncing around everywhere. To make sure this colourful vision isn't something I just made up (I do tend to do such things when pondering magazine editorials), I scoured through my huge stack of Teen Vogues that I've collected over time. Am I the only one who keeps magazines FOREVER? I mean, I can't even allow myself to cut things out of my mags never mind throwing them out! These are sacred fashion artifacts!! I even still have stacks of Cosmo Girls from when I was in grade 11! Oops, maybe shouldn't have admitted that... ANYWAAAYS, after sifting though about 35 Teen Vogues, in the VERY LAST issue in my stack I found the editorial. Slightly less amazing than I remember, but still pretty good.

My point is with all of this is that I LOVE RAINBOW HAIR, but I'm not one to commit to anything, and bleaching and dying the mane I've been growing out for 7 years is just not happening. Sooooooooo, y'all know I had to think of a DIY for this!
Things you'll need for this hair DIY (first one EVER on the blog... yey!) are bobby pins, mini hair elastic(s), hair straightener, and most importantly your fake, candy-coloured hair. People, you need to suck up your pride and start scouring your Claire's and other such fine establishments to find this. The DIY will depend on what kind of hairpiece you can get your hands on, but I'm going to show you what to do using a row of fake hair, like the ones used for extensions. I found mine in the toys section of a dollar store which was SUCH a score that I'm going to go back and get a blue one too.

You could always find a cheap blonde weave at a drugstore and dye it the colour you want, but I lucked out and I was really impressed with the one I found. Just my length and super soft! I bought it as this hair-headband, so to prep it I removed the braid, plastic headband, and cut off all the shimmery strands in it. Then I had one long weave-type piece to work with.
Just a warning: I overloaded on pictures here so bear with my narcissism for one post, k? Well actually, they're grainy and pretty unflattering as they're taken from my laptop's built in web cam, so not all that self-ingulgent. Maybe more pictures = clearer instructions? I hope so...

First thing to do is to prep your hair by straightening it really well. I have naturally straight hair, but with all hair types you want your hair to blend with the fake hair as well as possible, therefore it should be pin-straights like the weave.

Next, decide how far up on you scalp the hairpiece will go depending on the length of your real hair. I didn't want to cut mine so I'm placing it about half-way up the back of my head.

Section off the hair on top and clip it aside, making sure the horizonal part is as straight as possible. I know, I look really hot right? Yooz like my bolo tie?? So country!

This process was inspired by the time I got extentions a few years ago. If you've never had the, errrm, pleasure of having extentions put in, the way they did mine was basically they made horizontal cornrows on a few sections of my hair and then sewed in the extensions. Since I don't know how to do cornrows (so shocking, I KNOW) I'm just doing regular braids.
Take a small section of hair above your ear (or however far up or down on your scalp your putting yours in) and braid it.

Do the same on the other side so you have 2 little braids on either side of your face. Then grab each braid and pull them back so they meet at the back of your head against the scalp. Use the small elastic to tie them together TIGHTLY. And I mean tight. You should have a mini facelift by the end of this!!! Ideally you want the braids to lie right along the horizontal hair part, but as you can see mine's below it. Sorry, I was rushing...

The last step was kind of hard to photograph, but basically all your doing is bobby-pinning the hair to the braid. Use about 10 bobby pins. No need to overload, but make sure it's secure so you can dance yourself crazy later. You will be really happy with rainbow hair, garanteed!!

What it should look like when pinned properly:

Then you just take the top clip out and give your head a shake! I would NOT recommend running your straightner through your hair again, don't want to risk melting the fake stuff. Just make sure you do a really good job straightning in the beginning.

There you have it. Rainbow coloured hair for commintment-phobics everywhere. Rejoice!!Aaaand, of course, some manditory hair flippage. I told you you'd wanna dance!!

Note the Rodarte for Target lace cardigan!! Tavi had a contest on her blog to give away a few of these bad boys. I didn't enter, but she sent some to a few bloggers, including myself, just because she's so dang nice! Thanks again gurlie! Check out how Isabel rocked it too. Sooooo good.