About a week ago, we asked what kind of hair accessories were appropriate for the office. As always, the poll is still open, but the preliminary results are in — roughly 50% of you said that as long as the ‘do and the accessory was conservative, anything was ok as long as it worked for you, including jeweled elastic bands, claws, headbands, and more. Another 34% of you thought that “fanciful minimal” best described it — simple, hair-colored type accessories from J.Crew. 13% of you thought bare minimal was best for the office — to the point that the elastic holding your hair back should match your hair color. Only 3% said that anything went, including the feathered headband we’d used to illustrate the quiz.
Commenters lauded a ton of different brands, including:
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Brighton also has great, conservative hair accessories.
Does anyone know how to create the hairstyle featured in the main photo (and again with the bottom photo)? I always end up with the basic jaw clip/sort of messy twist do and would love to get something sophisticated like this one!
That looks like a simple french twist – her hair looks like it was a bit long for it, so they did a second twist with the extra hair.
http://beauty.about.com/od/hairstylephotogalleries/ss/holidayhair_2.htm
I have very straight, fine hair and it tends to look a bit messy on me too. It helps if I do it while wet. I think it works best with thicker hair maybe.
Thanks, K — especially for the link to a “how-to!”
I risk being called snobby, no doubt, but here’s my two cents: A tasteful tortoise-shell patterned barrette, as pictured with the up-do above, is one thing, but plastic hair clips (“claw” clips) are plain lazy, if you ask me, and just look like plastic junk in your hair, even in their more expensive iterations. That’s just me, I guess, but I think those things are best confined to pulling your hair back to wash your face or, if you’re pushing it, to wear to the gym. We’re ladies – we can learn to use bobby pins! Can you imagine Jackie O in one of those things? Uh, no.