One of the best things about being in London is seeing what everyone in New York will be wearing in six months.
Sure enough, peplums were already in the window of every high street store, everyone’s rocking Alice Dellal-like grungy booties, and there were an inordinate amount of super stylish fashion show-going girls with a perfectly plaited braid wrapped around their long wavy hair.
Each time we saw one of them we’d wonder, how’d she braid that so perfectly? How is it staying in place just so? Until finally, when we had thirty minutes to spend in Topshop on the very last day, we saw a wall stocked with fake braid headbands and felt like an ass for not realizing they were fake three days before.
We’ll blame it on exhaustion, being far away and blurred fashion vision at this point – but for all the railing we’d do in an argument against fake hair, we couldn’t even tell the difference.
Which makes us wonder, would you wear a fake braid on your head? Because all the cool girls are doing it.
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The key to “fake” hair is trying to make it look like your own. As long as I can pull that off, I don’t see why not.
The fake braid headbands were big in Iceland a few years ago
I’m sorry- didn’t LC put this look to death? I was under the impression it was over by now. I’m so sick of seeing it.
Every time I think of fake hair head bands I think of Claire’s. And then I die a little.
“[W]e saw a wall stocked with fake braid headbands and felt like an ass.”
Ever heard of a little rule in simple grammar called “subject-verb agreement”?
but it’s the “royal we”!
i wouldn’t do fake hair but i’ve worn real hair that wasn’t mine. which i guess is kind of weird, but can be cool.
what about weaves and hair extensions?
I’ve never successfully found hair attachments that match my red hair, so no.
ewww no, it looks soo soo bad.
Well I wear extensions or a weave as I like to call it all the time. I did the whole braid thing over the summer (I’m in the states). I thought this trend had already passed however. LC did kill it and so did every Georgetown girl.
I don’t think i would wear fake hair
but celebs like Lady GaGa do it all the time and it looks fine on them.
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Oh… well if everyone else is doing it – why not?
i do this with my (real) hair all of the time.. all it takes is 2 braids and some carefully placed bobby pins :)
i wear a fake braid in my hair but i suppose that doesn’t count since i live in london and everyone does..
I can braid my own damn hair if I want to, but I wont do it like that. I don’t like the milkmaid look so much.
This is very funny – in South Asian cultures, it’s popular for women to add a braid to their braid, so their mane almost falls to the floor. I think it’s been a habit for decades, if not centuries, and I have always hated it, since the hair is clearly another texture!
haha guest no. 12, touche!
Um, this isn’t exactly new. We’ve done that in Nigeria for decades and I know a lot of girls (black girls anyway) that use hair pieces in the states. It can be tacky or tasteful depending on the look your going for and whether you know what your doing. I personally prefer not to.
i want bullet-proof weave!
i can just see myself telling people how it takes no time at all to do my hair when it would just fall out
I second guest 8. so I’ve been saved from making bad choices.
This post is so old any I know no one will ever read it… but I successfully did my hair in exactly that manner today, and just so everyone knows it’s would be impossible to do it without thick hair that goes all the way to your butt.