As the saying goes: "Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn."

Which is the exact advice that some girls are taking lately. Unicorn hair used to mean that you dyed your hair in cotton candy-colored hues, leaving you with a look that gave your childhood My Little Pony a run for its money.

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But now, girls are wearing #UnicornHair in a literal sense. The horn is created using hair that's wrapped around a ponytail base. The key is to put your hair in a ponytail at the top of your head but only pull the ponytail through halfway to create a loop of hair. Then, you wrap your hair around the loop in a cone shape, leaving you with this result:

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Watch YouTuber Venus Angelic (who was clearly way ahead of her time) create her very own unicorn horn hairstyle back in 2012 (fast-forward to minute 10:15):

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Here are a few more examples of this magical, not-so-mythical style:

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