so frustrated, oh my god.

[bedlamsbard]

I just spent over an hour trying to put my hair in milkmaid braids and failing horribly*. I could get in the braids! I could get on top of my head! I could not get it to fucking stay on top of my head in such a way that it actually looked good. Bobby pins and me, we just don't get along. Also I need thinner hair elastics. I REALLY REALLY WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT HAIRSTYLE, OKAY. Some part of me is positive that there must be a way to do it that just involves braids and hair ties, no pins or hairspray. Or at least minimal use of pins. For whatever reason, my hair just does not hold pins very well -- that or I'm putting them in entirely wrong. (I don't have particularly fine, slippery hair -- I actually have reasonably coarse hair, so it holds hair elastics really, really well, but pins are always a disaster for me.)

In a fit of frustration, I have finally given up and defaulted to a braided half-back, which I'm not a hundred percent pleased with, but whatever, seriously.

* I have looked at so many tutorials for milkmaid/Heidi braids. So many. For about a million different hairlengths, and all of them say essentially the same thing and none of them WORK. Or at least aren't in simple enough terms for me to understand. (It's the hairpins. I swear it's the hairpins. I'm going to go see if I can buy smaller ones; mine are left over from when I had my hair done for Tolo in sophomore year of high school.)