A dad had his wife shocked when he picked a tool out of his workbox and used it to do his daughters' hair as he was getting them ready for school one day.
Electrician Matt, 37, from Utah, US, didn't want to wake his wife, Chelsea, up by going into her bedroom to find the girls' hair bobbles.
But that didn't stop him from giving his girls two adorable 'pigtails' as he instead used items he had at hand.
He dug into his toolbox and used zip ties on Scout, four, and Hendrix, two, to do their ponytails for school on December 12.
Chelsea then woke up and found the situation hilarious - because the zip ties worked better than expected.
She said: "He thought it would make me laugh - and it did. He thought they would be really durable in the hair and they did work out great."
However, the parents removed the zip ties from the girls' heads before they left the house.
Chelsea added: "They did start to slip out a bit and obviously we changed them for normal hair ties before they went to school.
"But they gave us all a laugh - the girls especially found it super funny. Hendrix is in the phase where she hates a hairbrush when I do it - but she'll let her dad do anything."
Meanwhile, a TikTok user has shared a hairdressing secret to achieving bouncy, perfectly curled hair easily and at home.
The video by @foxcraftcustom shows the curly-haired Liz using a pasta strainer or sieve to dry her hair, with the caption "I can’t tell the difference between genius and crazy anymore lol."
Stunned viewers watched as she released her hair from the strainer to find her hair in perfect curls, Liz wrote: "Just found out my pasta strainer is better at diffusing my waves than my diffuser."
Hairdresser Kelly Vowles, a specialist in curly hair, told The Mirror there could be some method to the madness as this is a "really old hack" that she herself has used before.
Kelly said: "When I started working with curly hair, I actually used to keep a sieve in the hair salon and use it to diffuse hair with. But I do find that using an actual diffuser gets much better results because of the way that the diffuser is formed."
According to the expert, the sieve does the same job as the diffuser by breaking up the air flow so it distributes evenly through your curls.
Kelly, from Pixal-Rose Hair Design in Swindon, added: "If you are new on your hair journey and you are wanting to experiment and you don't know if you want to start buying lots of different equipment, it is a good thing to try."
