Fishbone Braid

I'm sure you have seen girls/women around with their hair like this:

(That picture up there is not Annalise.)
I have always thought this looked really cool, but I had no idea how they did it.  Plus, I'm extremely uncoordinated, so I didn't think I could do whatever elaborate hair trickery you have to do to get hair to look like this.  Last week, one of my facebook friends had this tutorial posted on her page, and I watched it.

http://cutiepiehaircreations.blogspot.com/2009/10/fishbone-braid-tutorial.html

My first thought after watching this was, "So that's what that's called."  And my second thought was, "That's easy!  Even I could do that!"

This morning I tried it on Annalise.  The top would not stay tight and looks terrible, but it's not bad for my first attempt.  I wanted to take it out and try it again, but she wouldn't let me, so she went to school looking like this:

I'm going to keep trying it.  I really like the way it looks, when it's done right.