FAIL

[tenlittlebullets]

HAHAHA I just tried to French braid my own hair. I don't know which is more failtastic, the sad result or the fact that I have had long hair for years and still don't know how to do this.

It is, technically, a French braid. A teeny tiny row of loosely French-braided hair going all at once into a monster braid that is falling out at the base of my skull because I got the tension all wrong. A WINNER IS ME.

Comments

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

It's complicated the first few times you do it. It helps if you have two mirrors, so you can see the back of your own head.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I don't, alas. I'll just have to go by feel.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

I can't do a french braid either, and I have had plenty of hair with which to do so for... probably longer than you have. XD

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've had yours for what, twenty-some years? XD Mine's only been long enough to braid for three years or so.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

I had above-the-shoulder-length hair between the ages of 6 and 12. XD

[apkdsmith.livejournal.com]

I've always had long hair - never managed to do this, but then my hair's a bit too ... frizzy, for it to look nice anyway. I can't do it on other people either. I have a friend who can do several in her hair in quite complicated patterns and without a mirror - I don't know how she does it!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Long practice, I guess! I love the elaborate styles though--my secret motivation for learning how to French braid is so I can do real crown braids now that my hair's long enough.

[ladybranwen.livejournal.com]

I learned how to French braid my hair by watching the girl in front of me in global studies do it all the time, so it's an easy peasy style for me to do. But, now I find it easier to do it on myself than others (though, it also doesn't help that my most recent victim was my little niece).

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, I think for most people it's a one-or-the-other thing: either you can do it on yourself or you can do it on other people.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

I had long hair (like Jenn's length long) through high school, and I could never do it to myself. I could do it on other people, but I could never manage the tension at that angle.

So really, it isn't fail - it's hard!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I can never get the tension right, even when I'm doing a simple braid. Ugh.

And yet I cling to the fantasy of one day being able to do elaborate Princess Leia hairstyles.