No Sock Sock-bun

The Sock Bun!!

We all know what the sock bun is.  It is pretty and simple but sleek too.  Back in the day my synchronized skating team would use bun forms to make this nice little shape, and now girls do it in real life with a cut up sock.  Usually when I wear my hair in a bun I literally just tie it in a top on the top of my head without using anything to secure it. A literal "top-knot" if you will, but today I decided to switch it up.  Since I have a limited number of socks (why am I always buying them and never having any?!), I decided to fake my way to a sock bun. 

From the front, it looks like a normal but, sock or no sock.  What I did was put my hair in a high pony tail, and folded that into a semi loop, only halfway down. Then I twisted the rest of it around that loop, so it looks like a donut from the top and front, but from the side it has a little more lift in the back, because that's the loop I folded from the pony tail.

 You see what I'm saying about the lift in back?

Et Voila! from the top, it looks exactly like a sock bun!

Braided Bow

So, the other night I had a dream that I called my friend Elli, and despite the rest of the dream being very bizarre, I had this awesome braided bow on the side of my head!  I decided to give it a shot, and I'm a little bit in love with it.  I hate being one of those people who take pictures of themselves and puts it on the internet, but I'm really feeling this bow, and I want other people to try it! I was sitting there thinking, how can I do that, but then I remembered that I started this blog like over two years ago, and since for the moment my job is job-hunting, why not try to start it up again, right?

I even think it looks nice from the front! It's super easy too, you literally braid two relitively small pieces of hair from the bottom near your ear, and tie the two braids in a bow. I used a couple of bobby pins to keep it's bow form.