The Braid-y Bunch

For a few months now, young Hollywood has been fighting the good fight to bring braids to the black-nail polish point of ubiquity. A wide range of starlets have been snapped sporting the plaited 'do at all kinds of posh events from premieres and parties. But it sort of started to look like this was one of those 'fetch' situations, where the trend just wasn't going to catch on. That is until the fair ladies at ELLE posted their handy dandy how-to vid. The minute and change step-by-step visual guide gives everything you need to bring braids "from schoolgirl to sophisticated." It looks like the bandwagon has begun. — Jenna Mahoney
[photo: LA Fashion Week this past fall!]