Perfect side bun

My friend had a party today and I created a really nice side bun for her, I think it worked out really well, what do you think? I've done these before and finally I seem to know exactly how to get it right.

My hair, on the other hand, looked like this. Well, it did at least in the morning, hair in the afternoon is totally different story, curls did not survive the one hour of snow work I did in the afternoon. I created the curls  by I had my hair up in a bun during the night, this time I had only one bun so the curls are not so tight.