When you have long hair, you welcome any way to conveniently — and stylishly — keep it neat and protected, especially during winter when it can get tangled up in extra layers. A solution I’ve been leaning into for much of quarantine, virtually glued to my couch while working from home, has been a set of grown-up pigtails. “When you’re lounging on a sofa or bed more, the excessive friction against these materials could cause more damage to your strands,” cautioned my hairstylist, Treehouse Social Club founder Mischa G during the early days of lockdown. So rather than pulling my mop top of curls back into a top knot or ponytail, which can place tension on strands, I’ve been keeping it tied back in pigtails worn loose or in plaits.