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"When I asked you guys to choose which celebrity hairstyle I should recreate for a wedding on Saturday, I was so nervous you&amp;#x27;d choose Taylor Swift&amp;#x27;s braided bun, because I worried I lacked the skillz to pull it off. So of course you chose that one. And I did my best, taking pictures every step of the way. Here&amp;#x27;s Taylor&amp;#x27;s braided bun, as a refresher. As you check out my attempt at this, please keep in mind that what you don&amp;#x27;t see in the photos is the toddler who was clinging to my leg basically the whole time, inexplicably and incessantly saying &amp;quot;app-le app-le app-le&amp;quot;. Which would have been cute under other circumstances, but not when I was under pressure to replicate intricate braids an hour before the wedding began. Speaking of which, I nixed the idea of copying Taylor&amp;#x27;s fishtail braid and opted to do mine regular-style instead as a time-saving measure (I am not practiced in fishtailing). I started by giving myself a deep side part and putting boing-y curls all over my head with a curling iron. Then I made a little braid behind one of my ears, sliding a bobby pin on the bottom because I didn&amp;#x27;t have any tiny clear elastics. (I just took the bobby pin off later when I pinned the braid into my bun.) Next I twisted the crown section of my hair and pinned it; I was trying to recreate some of that twisty texture Taylor has going on above her bun. I think I needed to do a series of smaller twists instead, but it was really hard to do that when I couldn&amp;#x27;t at all see what I was doing! So I went with this simplified single twist. Then I clipped up my ends, leaving a small section loose and then braiding it like I did the section behind my ear. I then formed my bun and pinned it, then wrapped both braids into it and pinned them in. The &amp;quot;hidden&amp;quot; back braid was nestled right under the bun, so it wrapped around more fully than just the front braid would have. But it all looked like one continuous braid. See, the main thing I&amp;#x27;d do differently next time is break up that main twist into smaller wavy twisty sections. Meanwhile, I left some curled wisps loose in front; mine were longer than Taylor&amp;#x27;s, but I liked how they looked, especially with my dangly earrings. I&amp;#x27;d been convinced this hairstyle would be a total flop and I&amp;#x27;d have to regroup and do the Rachel Bilson-style ballerina bun instead--just like piedpiperofcool said--but I was actually pretty happy with the result. Does it look exactly like Taylor&amp;#x27;s hairstyle? No, but it&amp;#x27;s not SUPER far-off, and it&amp;#x27;s cute and different than my usual go-to wedding hairstyles. It held up so well all night, too! What do you think of my attempt to copy Taylor Swift&amp;#x27;s braided bun? What steps would you try doing differently if you were to D.I.Y. this look? Pick Up Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s 1,000 Beauty Dos &amp;amp; Donts to Live By Forever, On Newsstands Now! Download Glamour on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes. Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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