A Headband Emergency

Ever since I started watching Gossip Girl, I’ve had an obsession with headbands.  Seriously Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) has influenced a new trend and movement just from a TV show. Do you watch the show? I do, because I love some drama. Seriously though, the fashion on the show is awesome.  I love their stylists, and what they put together for the actor’s wardrobes. It’s amazing!

I’ve never really been a hair accessory person. I have thick and fluffy hair. I do, I swear.  My hair is always too thick for cute clips and other things. I did rock the scrunchie in the 90′s though. I’ve always had long hair until the past few years. My hair was such a hot mess though when it was long.  I pretty kept it in a ponytail 24/7.  This is one of the main reasons that I decided to cut my hair so short, was the everlasting ponytail. I decided that I needed a style, and that would be easier for me to maintain shorter hair.

I’m trying to accessorize my hair a little more.  I don’t want to look or be called a boy.  I loathe the term “boy short hair”.  Please call it “pixie” or something else, that will imply cute and stylish. I’ve used hair clips, barrettes, flowers, and now the headband.  I am obsessed with headbands. I rock the headband. I’ve also found someone else who has an obsession worse than mine. Do you follow, or read Tip Junkie? You should, because Laurie and her site are fabulous. We bonded at Blissdom over our headband obsessions.

Photo by Angie Arthur. She’s also the Co-Founder of i heart faces.

Hanging out with Laurie fueled my obession with headbands. I have quite a collection already.  They range from simple to quite fancy.  I started out with basic black headbands, but I’m moving onto to more colorful and fancy ones.

On Friday night, I was on Twitter.  I tweeted to Brooke that there was a headband on her site, that I needed.  I was not joking. I saw this headband and instantly decided it would be mine.  I actually met Brooke a few months ago at The Handmade Brigade. I got her business card and bookmarked her site. Brooke responded back that I should get the headband.  I don’t think she understood me. I had a headband emergency. I needed instant gratification. Brooke lives locally to me, which is a good thing.

I finally got a hold of Brooke on Saturday.  I spoke with her on the phone.  I told her that I had an event on Sunday.  I bought the perfect dress.  I neeeeeeeeeeed this headband to match the dress. She laughed a little, I’m sure. I said, seriously, where can I meet you? She knew I was not joking.  So we agreed that she would make me the fabulous headband.  I would meet her the next morning.

Brooke came through. She’s fabulous!!!! We chatted a little, ok maybe I blabbed my mouth off. But, she made me that most fabulous headband ever! We met in the Target parking lot at 9am Sunday morning. Cause I’m fabulous like that! I was hiding in my Tahoe with my unwashed wild hair barely awake. I felt like I was doing a drug deal or something. I was in my car handing over cash for a box.  It’s pretty funny when I tell the story in person.  But seriously, I can’t say enough good things about Brooke and her talents.  Here’s a close-up photo of the headband.  Isn’t it pretty? You can buy it HERE.

As for my entire outfit with the awesome headband. Well, I think it came out well.  Don’t you think it looked great with my awesome dress, from Tar-jay? And the ocean view isn’t too bad either!