Yesterday my husband called on his way home from work to tell me that our dinner date with his boss had been moved up an hour. An HOUR! Which meant I had to be ready in less time than it takes to boil water.

Luckily the babysitter had arrived so I could focus on getting dressed and making myself look presentable (the sweats and scrunchie combo clearly wouldn't cut it). My major dilemma -- I didn't have time to wash my hair and style it. The only solution was to pull my hair back ... again.

And since I didn't want to wear my go-to (blah) low ponytail, I started thinking about a few hairstyles I had seen on celebrities recently. Of course they have stylists to make them look fabulous, but I'm not completely hairstyling challenged, so I figured I could give one of the easier looks I saw a try.

I grabbed the magazine I had seen the styles in and after madly flipping through it, I found them -- one was on Jessica Alba and the other on Nicole Richie. They both looked fairly easy to pull off -- even with dirty hair, but I decided to go for the high ballerina bun that Nicole was wearing because it had a sleek finish. I wasn't sure I could pull of the whole messy-in-a-good-way Jessica style.

Here's how I recreated the look:

Step 1: I brushed out my hair to get it smooth and calm frizz. Then I applied a little bit of Lea Journo Mirroir Glossing Cream, $28 through my hair to give it some hold and add shine.

Step 2: I smoothed my hair into a high ponytail and secured it with an elastic. Then I twisted the tail into a tight bun and pinned it into place with four bobby pins.

Step 3: I sprayed the look into place with Sebastian Shaper Plus Hair Spray, $14.99 and patted down the frizzies in the front with my fingertips.

All in all the hairstyle took five minutes to do. I felt so confident all through dinner thanks to my sleek quickie style. What do you think? Was the high bun a good move or would you have done the messy ponytail?