One of Mindy McKnight's younger daughters models Minnie Mouse Buns. All of the family's instructional videos and photos feature their children, but only the older daughters are identified by name.
When Mindy McKnight dropped her twin girls Brooklyn and Bailey off at school, the other moms noticed. The well-coiffed girls, who are now 14, always attracted attention.
“People were always asking how I styled their hair; how I did a particular braid. And, I thought, ‘I’m going to do a blog and put up pictures, ’” says McKnight, who lives outside of Salt Lake City. “It was a hobby and a way to document the hairstyles I had done.”
Easy Youtube Hairstyles For Little Girls
For months, she wrote how-to instructions and posted photos of the hairstyles—some of which were her original creations, while others modifications of old standards.
Slowly, the blog became more popular and McKnight’s husband, Shaun McKnight, suggested they take a video of her in action. The mom of six, with only one boy in the group, agreed.
One morning before school, Shaun videotaped a pajama-clad McKnight as she styled one of her daughters’ hair. They posted a few videos YouTube and thought little of it.
Cute Hair Styles For Girls Make Mom A Youtube Star
About six months later, McKnight received an email from YouTube asking if she would host a channel because of her videos' popularity.
“At first we thought it was a joke and thought it was spam, ” she says. “My husband started researching it and thought we should try it.”
What started out as a fun project for McKnight has transformed into a wildly popular YouTube channel and blog. More than 1.6 million people subscribe to Cute Girls Hairstyles, where McKnight posts new videos every Sunday.
Youtube Hair Tutorials For Girls That You Can Actually Do
“I am a mom. My point wasn’t ever to make money or draw an audience. My point was to document hairstyles and [I] thought it would be a cute way for my girls to have it. I had no idea it would resonate with so many people, ” she says.
“Something about our family dynamic and the interactions with the kids, it really catches the attention and [people are] really curious about who we are and how we do it, ” she says.
Sarah Sharp, whose daughter attends school with Brooklyn and Bailey, often admired the girls’ hair and was the first subscriber to Cute Girls Hairstyles on YouTube when it started about five years ago. She now watches a video daily.
“In the morning when we get up for school, we pick a different hairstyle, ” she says. “Mindy is really good [at breaking it down] step-by-step.”
The most popular hairstyle is the waterfall braid, the video for which has been watched more than 23 million times. Other favorites include the ladder braid and the Katniss braid, which resembles the style sported by the main character in “The Hunger Games.”
For the stylistically challenged, McKnight advises checking out the “Daddy Do's” section, which shows Shaun styling the girls’ hair. While this feature provides easy instructions aimed at dads, McKnight says that any novice can learn from Shaun. “Daddy Do's” started after McKnight quipped, “It’s so easy, a dad can do it.”
In one episode, Shaun was using pomade when he decided to taste it—he thought it smelled of buttercream icing and believed it would taste like it, too. (He was so wrong.) The next day, someone contacted McKnight to say she visited Sephora to buy that pomade and the clerks told her the store had sold out of it because some dad on YouTube ate it and everyone wanted it.
Hearing stories about her videos’ far reach still surprises McKnight: “It’s just mostly a cute story (about) a mom and a family doing our thing.”
Sharp agrees: “She is a real mom; she is an amazing mom. What she does is a little entry into her house and I think it resonates with people. It is nice to see a clean, happy, wholesome family.” With three girls in my house, I’ve got an awful lot of hair to brush and style, and with the holidays almost here, I’ve been wanting to change up from the usual hairband. It’s true you’ll find no shortage of YouTube hair tutorials, but after watching hundreds of videos (not even kidding you), I found that most of them were really hard to follow, were way too complicated and advanced, or didn’t offer up styles that were great for little girls.
Plus, I don’t have the time or budget to run out and buy all sorts of hair gadgets and products. I’d much rather be able to use what I already have in my home.
So after many hours, I narrowed it down to the 6 best YouTube hair tutorials that I think work for little girls. They are styles that you can actually do, even if the only thing you’re able to do right now is pull your daughter’s bangs back with a barrette. They are all great for the holidays, or really any day. And the best part? They all take under 5 minutes–maybe even quicker once you get the hang of it.
Your daughter will definitely need long hair for this French Twist into Rope Braid tutorial, which was the only tutorial I liked that was actually done on a little girl. While it does help if you know how to French braid because the concept is very similar, it’s certainly not necessary. This style is pretty easy to execute but looks like it took you a long time.
I just love the way this Dutch side braid looks, working beautifully on natural ethnic hair, though I imagine it could work well on caucasian hair too. If you’re not familiar with the Dutch braid, it’s just an inverted French braid. But if you don’t, don’t worry. This particular video gives one of the best Dutch braid tutorials (or inverted French braid) that I found on YouTube.
These four headband braids are super easy, can be done on long or short hair, and even on you, mamas, if you’re growing out your bangs. The video contains four separate headband braid video tutorials, including a half French braid technique that I never even knew existed.
I just love the way a fishtail braid looks and surprise, it’s really not as hard to do as you might think. This particular fishtail hair tutorial is really easy to follow and takes less than a minute to execute. Plus, it can be worn half up or in a pony tail. The final result is so pretty.
I cannot tell you how many waterfall French braid tutorials I watched until I found this one. While the video quality isn’t as clear as some of the other tutorials out there, you’ll see why it has so many views; she does a fabulous job of showing you how to execute this particular technique, especially if you’ve never done a French braid before.
You will find tons of Elsa coronation hair tutorials on YouTube, but most of them require a lot of hair tools, hair spray, and even back combing, along with some intricate hair braiding and twisting techniques. This tutorial is super simple, and just requires a band and a few bobby pins to hold the bun in place. Keep in mind, she does add extensions to her own hair to do this look, but that’s obviously not necessary, although you’ll definitely need long hair to make this work best.
Kristen co-founded Cool Mom Picks and is a busy mom of four kids in the Philly 'burbs. Though really, name a mom who isn't busy.
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