French Braids when you're growing out bangs

With Valentine's Day over, we're taking a little break from more complicated styles and doing this nice simple one.

Right now, we're growing Ruthie's bangs out... so it can be hard to incorporate those into braids if you aren't really really good at braiding and working with mixing the shorter hairs without tons of flyaways and escaping hair.

So I started by sectioning off a rectangle/square top knot in a pony... you could do a pull through or reverse pull through if you want, but I didn't.

Then, divide all the hair, including that from the top knot pony in half... (I used a loose elastic to hold one side off while I did the first side)  Do a French Braid on each side... to incorporate the hair from the pony, I used it as the middle of the three starting sections on each side.

You can tie ribbons at the ends after sealing with elastics... you could also choose to tie a ribbon around the top elastic before you braid and braid in the ribbon in the section that uses the hair from the top knot pony.

I don't have any ribbon right now, or I would have done one or both of those things.... must get to the store and buy some.