I follow Birchbox on twitter and a couple of days ago they tweeted a picture of a braid they did on a girl.  I was instandly inspired and immediately tried to re-create it.  It’s actually pretty simple to do-I parted both sides of my hair in “pigtails” then I begain a french braid about halfway down my head on one side finishing the braid about halfway to the end of my hair and fastened with a rubber band.  I did the same on the other side and fastened.  Then I grabbed both braids and pulled the elastics off the ends and parted my hair to do a normal braid all the way down.  It was fast and I thought it provided a unique look.  Check it out, hope you like it!