Lovely hairstyles

Lately I've become so bored of my hair. I want to learn to do more interesting things with it. I guess you learn from experimenting but I never seem to have the time, and I always spend more time on my makeup in the mornings than my hair. I love how all these girls look with their interesting hair-dos!

I tried practising doing a French plait on Polly AB and it did not look anything like that picture above! (though I'm not sure if that's a French plait either... but it looks impressive!)

Any tips for thick long-ish blonde hair?! ALL PICS VIA TUMBLR

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