Today's hair

Two vertically stacked Nautilus buns for the gym today. Held well!

Today's hair

Heh, I did two vertically stacked five-stranded braids and thought they looked really awesome. So I wanted to take one of those instagrammable, cool pictures of it, only to have the light conditions refusing to cooperate. Oh well.

I got his cool shot instead:

I really do love the structure of the five-stranded braid!

Throwback Tuesday

Throwback Thursday Tuesday: "A blast from the past"

I loved this style so very much when my hair was short. For a while, between my hair reached flip length/shoulder length and until it reached below bra strap length, this was my only real option for properly putting my hair up.

The style is so very simple:

1. Make a ponytail and secure it with elastics
2. Then pull the end of a scarf through the elastic
3. Wrap the main part of the scarf around the ponytail to cover it
4. Wrap the scarf+hair around like making a regular cinnamon bun
5.  Then tie the two ends of the scarf together to hold it up

I tried this style again today and fully expected it to slip, but it actually held well!

It must depend on how much friction the scarf offers, because a regular, unbraided cinnamon bun would slip like crazy for me. 

This is still a wonderful style, but for different reasons than it used to be. Now it's a good sun protecting style for the length instead of a way to force my short hair up in an updo.