Putting the parts together

She leaned forward and looked at something on the counter. I found myself staring at her hair (bare with me, I know this sounds crazy, but there’s a point, I promise). Her hair was parted in the middle and combed very tight down the side of her head and then somehow she had still managed to put the two sides of hair back in a ponytail.

The front of her hair was cut quite short, but still long enough to be brushed literately straight up in the air. When you looked at it from above, it looked like her hair was parted in three almost the same size partings. But somehow the three parts worked together as an united unit and she completely pulled it off, by the way.