Normally I dont use any hair ornaments, with the exception of fabric hair ties for the gym and a feather barette or chain mail headdress for renfaire. In summer sometimes Ill twist it up and clip it with a tortie or dichroic glass clip.
I blow dry after each wash and flat brush, or flat iron it, and use bobby pins on uncooperative bits. I use heat protector, dry shampoo, and color spray to minimize grey between proper coloring.
My hair is just about shoulder length now and layered, so I can do much with it, but when it was long I did all sorts of French and Dutch braids and buns and french twists. I love the look of herringbone braids, especially with different colors, but never mastered it. I should try to come up with a better style for the gym, instead of my sad little ponytail with layers that arent long enough to tie in!

Fun topic but I don’t have much to add! I’m a hair minimalist.

I have long, straight, fine hair that I have highlighted and cut every 15-16 weeks. I wash my hair every other day. On a wash day I usually air dry if: it’s not cold out or I have the time (weekends). Otherwise I roughly blow dry it. If I’m going somewhere I’ll put in little cc cream or something, blow dry and put up in jumbo Velcro rollers for 20-30 minutes.

Yes, I have a few styling tricks because I’ve almost always had long hair and my daughter does as well: French braids, fishtails, buns, rolls ...

For some reason I feel weird about braiding my hair in winter but not summer ...

I have some hair ornaments. I can’t wear hairbands because they irritate the spot behind my ears. I do have elastics, scrunchies, large barrettes (to hold all of my hair).

You’re inspiring me to figure out a couple of ways to better style my second-day hair than just a sad ponytail!

Question 1: occasionally I'll pull the front & top into a do-do-ball if I'm trying to concentrate on something and the hair is in my face. When its longer, I do a lot of ponytails with those black elastics because I'm lazy and black is the very color DH prefers for his mohawk ponytail so we just buy a bunch and share

Question 2: I use a blow dryer in winter, because my hair is stupid thick and takes for. ever. to dry. I sometimes use the Chi iron, sometimes I go with a more textured/messy look and let it do what it wants.

Question 3: I can do french braids on somebody else's head, but not my own. I do change my hair quite a bit, although less now than when I colored it. I was always tweaking the color formula: just a little more auburn, or more of a strawberry blond, or koolaid red. These days, I sort of switch between that sleek, flat-ironed look and a textured look. I've recently cut off the length and have a bob, but I'm already letting it grow back out. I'll probably keep it inverted for a while longer before I switch it up and have it cut so it frames my face better.

No, none, no need. How's that for an easy answer and easy hair!

Runcarla, I love your hair in pic 1!!! This is my dream/holy grail hair I wish I had every day ... I can achieve it but seldomly and there's nothing easily repeatable.

Here are two (older) pics of me with similar effect. In both, my hair was cut shorter than it is now, so it curled easier due to lighter weight. This seems to be a common factor. The longer it gets, the less curly.

Pic 1 below, I made tiny braids all over my head while hair was wet, and let that completely dry (took hours) before unbraiding and then fluffing. This is just not practical on a daily basis. Even sleeping in braids does not work, as I mentioned, they were tiny braids, too tiny for barettes etc to hold the ends. Would come unbound in sleep.

Pic 2, I had blown out my hair and flat ironed it but then got caught in a rainstorm. Which happened to have just the right amount of rain -- not too much not too little. Not shown because I can't find a pic but similar to pic 2 is the rare "beach/salt water" day.

As I said on another thread today I have done okay lately with the "flop" method: after 4 or 5 days without shampooing, I wet my hair in the shower, wrap in a turbie, then flop it out. Important NOT to comb it, not even finger comb. Just let it dry. This works okay if my hair is shorter. It works longer too, but I get more of a Rosanna Dana triangle head thing going on.