Ok, first off, I promise this will be the last one of my “turkey tail’s” for a while! I’ve just had so much fun with the “fan” or “spray” of hair like this I couldnt’ resist posting another. So I hope you’ll humor me! And secondly … if you haven’t noticed I’ve got a poll or two in my sidebar. Because some of this blogger & Google stuff is still so foreign to me, I’m just curious about a few things, so if you’d please vote so I can be better informed, that’d be great. … especially if it means actually coming to my blog instead of viewing me through your reader.
This one is pretty much a no brainer and it’s quite simple & quick. I started by making a zig zag part and then parting down to the ear on both sides. Do a simple 3 stranded braid (or whatever your forte is) and tie it off with a rubberband. Don’t go all the way down, because you need hair to make the “fan.”
Repeat to the other side and tie off with a rubberband too. I like to secure them both with rubberbands before joining in the back because that way I can play with the location of it all, how tight I want them to join, etc. without worrying about the braids unraveling on me in the process.
Then join them in back. I always cross one over the other as I’m putitng the rubberband in to secure them. Somehow they just lay better for me. Oh, and ignore Goose and her lovely freak-o look she’s got going on. She’s recently discovered she can make nasty looking cross eyes and she’s started doing it regularly when I take her picture. And as it is my motherly duty to tell her such BS … I keep telling her they’ll stick like that! 🙂 Obviously it hasn’t detered her one bit!
Once I’ve got them joined and sitting how I want, I pull out the 2 rubberbands from each braid and just leave the one in the center.
Now it’s time to flip the ends up to make the “fan”, “turkey tail” or whatever in the heck this should be called! Take the ends and flip them upwards and secure it up that way with a rubber band.
Here’s a view from the side. It kind of makes a little loop beneath the rubberband. And depending on what type of a clip you use, this is a good place to slide it through. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
Once you’ve got the hair flipped up I like to curl the ends down. It’s your call on what you think looks best. I, of course, spray it a bit before curling and then piece it out so the hair spreads out nicely.
Add your accessory of choice and there you have it. I actually clipped this flower above the rubberband and it stayed nicely – but that little loop that the hair makes also makes it so clips don’t slide out too. But whatever works for you.
She at least didn’t try doing cross eyes in this pic! She’s getting to such a silly age with some of the stuff she’s been doing.
Oh, and P.S. — I forgot, I did this on the Sunday before Christmas too. This isn’t the greatest of pictures, but I did corkscrews with it this day and added a fabulous red flower I got from Maiden America. (And might I say again, how fabulous her clips are!) It looked so great with Goose’s Christmas dress. 
