Days Hairstyles

Your ponytail looked fine in the car. By the third inning, half of it was stuck to your neck and the rest was poking out from under your helmet like straw. Almost every girl who plays has been there. The usual advice is to pull it back tighter. But a tight ponytail still swings, still…

It’s the second quarter, the sun is beating down on the metal bleachers, and the ponytail you spent twenty minutes on has slid halfway down your neck. The wind keeps blowing loose strands into your nachos, and halftime is still a long way off. Football season is hard on hair. You’re outside for hours, you…

Most picture day hair goes wrong before anyone leaves the house. Someone tries a brand new style at 7:15 in the morning, it falls apart in the car, and the photo shows a lopsided bun and a cowlick standing straight up like an antenna. The photographer usually gets one or two tries. Nobody checks a…

The school flyer says Crazy Hair Day is Friday, and your kid’s hair is about an inch long. Every idea online seems to need braids, buns, or enough length to wrap around a soda bottle. That leaves a lot of boys, plus plenty of girls with pixie cuts and bobs, standing in the bathroom doorway…

It is 8:45 on a Sunday night when your kid remembers, very casually, that tomorrow is crazy hair day. Of course it is. The flyer is crumpled at the bottom of the backpack, under a banana that has seen better days. You do not need a craft store run or an hour in the bathroom…