If you're anything like me, you've tried your hand at dozens of YouTube hair and makeup tutorials over the last...oh, I don't know, 10 years or so. Even as early as yesterday, I struggled to perfect my box braid halo crown, only to later throw it up into a messy bun out of impatience.
Thankfully, I'm not alone in this. In fact, the struggle trickles down all the way to the kindergarten crew. Ryleigh, an adorable 6-year-old, demonstrated the not-so-perfect reality of vloggers worldwide in a video shared by her mom, Tara Watkins. "Hair tutorial gone WRONG!!!" she titled the post last month. And that's just putting it lightly.
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In the beginning, Ryleigh had the right idea. She gave a rundown of the tools in her arsenal: cocunut oil mixed with water, a teasing brush, a rattail comb, clips, elastic bands, and a pink bow. The young beauty guru-in-the-making began by smoothing her hairline with edge control...but then dropped her brush with a clatter. Sadly, her attempt to create a ponytail didn't fare any better, either. "I got way too much hair!" she complained. Eventually, she settled to wear her enviable head of hair loose, with an of-the-moment side part.
"I've always been hesitant about letting her do the hair tutorial — either because I'm fearful of her not being gentle and careful with her hair, or because it's usually braided up," Watkins told the Daily Mail. "So that day, I had shampooed and conditioned it earlier. I was preparing to braid it up for the week and decided if I was going to let her do it, that would be the best time."
Watkins' patience — as well as her openness to letting Ryleigh learn how to do her own hair routine — is admirable, too. "She came out so many times that were cut out of the video," she continued. "I don't remember it all but I do recall telling her that last time to try something natural and to the side." Hey, you know what they say about practice...