Hippie Pocahontas Hair How-To

Welp.  This is basically what happens when you've driving home from Georgetown on a Sunday afternoon, but all roads leading to your home are closed because of a St. Patrick's Day parade.  If you're like me, you get bored, and you start doing funny stuff to your hair.

Firstly, I feel the need to emphasize that I am not some sort of Hair Guru.  Like, whatsoever.  Like, at all.  I am only posting this because a few people have asked me how I did this with my hair.  My husband kept saying I looked like a "hippie Pocahontas."  Um.  I'll take that as a compliment?  Evidently, a lot you women out there like the flower-child-slash-first-peoples look.  

As previously mentioned, I am not a Hair Guru, so this so-called "How To" is going to sound overly simple.  Alas...

1.  Sit in the passenger's seat while cars are bumper-to-bumper in DC traffic.

2.  Get really bored.  

3.  Start feeling angsty, and just slip the beaded hairband you impulsively bought at CVS atop your head of hair.  Don't do the traditional way of keeping the lower-end of the headband underneath all your hair.  You must be feeling bored and weird in traffic, so you have to keep it over all your hair, like you're wearing an elastic crown or something.

4.  Take small handfuls of your hair, and stuff the ends of your hair in the headband, so that the hair is covering the lower-end of the band.  Since I have long hair, I had to find the middle point between my roots and the ends, and then stuff it from there.  (Is any of this making sense??!  Maybe we should just Skype this demo?!)

5.  Keep repeating steps 3-4 until all your hair is up in a hippie-Pocahontas "bun" of sorts.

6.  Rock the look like you just painted with all the Colors of the Wind.  The end.