Hair malfunction

Today I am wearing my hair in a sort of Heidi-braid crossover.  I was inspired by this (thanks to Jenny at sushi-cat.net):



But the first thing the girl who I share a bench with at work said to me?
"Oh, you have your hair like that Estonian/Lithuanian politician!"
AKA Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian Prime Minister.



EPIC HAIR FAIL.

Update:

Tris asked for a pic, so here it is:



Also four randoms at the shop told me they thought it was cute, so maybe it's not so fail after all.