Working from a collection of inspiration, I decided to try my hand at cornrowing... again. It took some time, but I was finally able to get a workable technique going, and come out with something that resembled cornrows. I gave Miss J these box braids about a week or so ago, a re-boxing of some older box braids from her shampoo. We have been doing different things with the front, and since her dress came with a headband, I decided to try a style that I saw on a Youtube video.



Although the BronzeGoddess has beautiful locs, I thought I should be able to do a variation of this style on Miss J's hair. Starting with one side, I attempted the cornrows.

As you can see, the bit of braiding that is close to the scalp looks NOTHING like a braid *sad face*. I'm starting to feel like I am not a 'small cornrowing' kind of girl, but I know that with more practice I will get better at it. I took these two side cornrows and connected them into the big braid on the other side (which I now realize I should have left the ends lose!)

Instead of taking the big side braid all the way around the back of Miss J's head like the BronzeGoddess does, I opted to only incorporate 3 of the box braids from the back left side so that the big braid would hand toward the back with the rest of the braids. It sort of worked.

And in place of a flower, of course we used the headband, which had a fabulous red bow. After removing the three back box braids from the big side braid, I liked the way the braids had a crinkle to them, and decided to take a page from Beads, Braids, Beyond and braid the back box braids into about 4 big braids for sleeping. We'll see what the result turns out to be.