A couple of nights ago I attended ELLE’s Women in Television Celebration. This is the second year they have done this, but this was my first time attending. It was truly a wonderful evening. So wonderful that I thought it deserved a proper thank you to ELLE and Robbie Myers and a few special shout out to some FAB ladies. These “dinners’ and “events” are a part of my job and truthfully it can often be work. I am not complaining, getting dressed up and going to wonderful fancy parties is fun, and I feel blessed to be enjoying these kinds of things as a result of my career, but like everything …they can be a mixed bag. Often we have to  attend these things solo so it can feel lonely and anxiety provoking, and sometimes these events feel like a mind field of comparison and judgement.  Well, this dinner was none of that for me.

I was maybe 11, 12, or 13 years old when my neighbor, Hillary Shaw, taught me how to french braid. She taught me how to do an inside and outside braid. Since then I have tried all kinds of styles of braiding and I have become an expert at doing most of them myself.  When I saw these inspiration pictures in some magazine, I started perfecting what is now one of my favorite go to hair styles -”The Milkmaid Braid.”