I spend a lot of time traveling.
Whether it’s logging miles on the planes, spending hours on the road from PA to Amherst MA/Woodcliff Lake NJ/wherever there’s a meeting/conference/training, I’m on the go nearly all the time.
And a lot of the time, my hair looks awful. Especially during long flight journeys.
I’ve been obsessed with achieving the perfect messy bun since I was 10 years old, when girls in my class gathered up their silken locks and twisted them around their hands and hair ties to achieve a look of messy elegance. My unruly, thick hair never wound as easily around my clumsy hands. My heavy locks often fell out of the hair tie, no matter how strong they were or how tightly I wound them around my bun.
15 years later, I was about to give up and accept my hair life with my Indo-Frizz-Fro when two amazing things happened:
- I discovered the Keratin hair treatment (many thanks to my hair stylist Melanie at Salon l’Etoile who convinced me to take the plunge on this, as well as other brilliant hair decisions. I am never going back to un-Keratin treated hair. If you’re in Philly and need a great stylist, make your appointment ASAP. She’s the best.)
- These step-by-step instructions on achieving the perfect French messy bun.
Who knew it was so easy? I opted to use a hair tie to secure my bun and tugged at the bun until I got the shape and diameter I wanted. My hair kept its disheveled chicness all the way from Philadelphia to Hyderabad, the hour drive home to our apartment, and still looked the same the next day. Because the bun is set so high, the hairstyle is comfortable to sleep in, and the loose fastening doesn’t tug at your head and give you a headache.
Now, if someone can tell me how to give myself a sleek blow out, I will love you forever. Until then, I will indulge in the hot oil head massages/shampoo/blow-out combination that cost less than a Starbucks latte and make my hair look fabulous. Only in India :)
