The Hair Essentials - A Celebration

When I was about ten years of age, I had a serious thing for butterfly clips. Yes, at that age and especially around that time, (ten year olds are after all probably too cool now to wear such an accessory faux pas), butterfly clips were the 'in' thing, along with Pokemon and sticker books. As per usual, I had to go that one step further and looked quite frankly like I had raided Claire's Accessories in some mad 'all you can wear' hairclip frenzy and even earned the rather unfortunate nickname from the playground bully - 'Christmas tree'. That didn't stop me though, I still piled on the flowers, enormous garish things, one may even had come free with a magazine, and the glittering clips and believed my self to be every inch the 'individual', a word I learnt about the same time and had became quite obsessed with the idea.

Things haven't changed. I might have ditched the plastic butterfly clips and sunflower hair slides but I still like the idea of something adorning my hair. I'm not much of a hat person, I like the odd beret but that's about it, so instead I like to experiment with ribbons, bows, headbands, the odd hairclip, the occasional hairband and even more so of late. I just think 'Why not'?

It's kind of stating the obvious that headbands and ribbons/bows have been popular with indie/street/Facehunter esque people with quite a while now but I still am entirely fascinated with the concept and only wish to see even more people doing the same. To put something in your hair after the age of 12, was always going to be a daring idea but with more and more people proving that it can actually be done with out looking like an overgrown little princess, no time is better then the now to celebrate hair accessorising.

I admit I am going over covered ground here as I mentioned the rise of the headscarf in my previous post but I just can't help but love this wonderfully old - fashioned accessory. Agyness looked particularly old - school in her plastic head covering. Grandma - chic at its best, for sure.The hair ribbon has seen such a rise in popularity in recent months that surely it is only right to celebrate this quirky piece of kitsch accessorising. In my opinion, Amy Winehouse's best contribution to society has been her 60's kitchen sink soap opera style hair ribbon. As usual, Facehunter provides endless inspiration.

The pretty headband is a personal favourite for it obvious Grecian connotations. I love Kirsten Dunst's Flapper style band too. The pretty headband adds ethereal/feminine beauty as well a certain element drama to any outfit.

The hippie headband has become the hipsters' favourite piece over the past year or more but still despite perhaps the slight case of 'hippy headband overkill', the hippy headband still manages to look well just plain cool.

Last but certainly not least, is a selection of the more 'out there' hair pieces. I think almost everyone must harbour that secret desire to take a large piece of pastel tulle and create a giant bow ala Louis Vuitton.