Celia Ellenberg will be back on Beauty Counter duty on Monday. For those of you who’ve missed her, and her milkmaid braid-loving ways, we present this look back at pop culture’s most memorable plaits. Happy weekend!
—Fiorella Valdesolo

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Nicole Richie has pretty much mastered any/all forms of braid love. One of the first to (successfully) embrace the milkmaid movement that swept Hollywood a few years ago, she continues to experiment with the style, frequently alternating between a coronet of braids and the reverse style which wraps around the back of the head, [...]

At the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s A Magical Evening Gala last night, Lindsay Price chose a loose side braid to compliment the layers of chiffon billowing from her Grecian-inspired dress— creating a haphazard wreath of sorts. We’re conflicted as to how we feel about seeing this typically casual look on the red carpet but [...]

It took this ceramics teacher six haircut-free years to get her braid to Rapunzel-rivaling lengths. (We’re assuming the large dreadlock she likes to fasten into an interesting topknot was cultivated over this period of inaction as well.) The pink blush just above the apples of her cheeks was a style that took a little less [...]

Breaking into the music industry is no longer contingent on your record falling into the hands of a sheisty A&R man. Instead, if you’re lucky, it will cross the radar of an influential blogger—or the good folks at Apple, who, with every new commercial for their constant stream of product innovations, are inadvertently churning out [...]