A day in San Francisco + average to long hair – something to reign it in = a bad hair day.
San Francisco is a wonderful city to live in, but the wind, oh the wind! To avoid looking like a wild woman, I’ve gotten into the habit of twisting my just-past-shoulder-length hair into a messy top knot anytime I know I’ll be outside for more than say, five minutes. It’s easy, it’s quick, and … it’s boring. I need an alternative.
I’m not so talented with the hairdryer—I can braid my hair and just about blow dry it straight, but that’s the extent of my styling skills—so I recently decided to try and mix things up with hair accessories.
Pretty As a Print
I like the idea of a headscarf, but have always feared that wearing one will make me look like an eighty-year-old Russian grandmother. Twenty minutes in front of a mirror at Saks, and I’m so over that fear. I’ve discovered that the key to looking more Jackie O and less Granny-o is to find a scarf with a funky print and/or bright, bold, or unusual colors. I love, love, love Pucci’s silk scarf in orange, yellow, bronze, gold, and white. “I could wear it as a neck scarf, a headscarf, and even a belt,” I rationalize with my reflection, but my budget-conscious half in the mirror insists that I drop it and move on to less expensive versions.
Luckily for me, less expensive funky print options abound. Vintage stores are a great scarf resource as are my local consignment stores. Stores like JCrew, Banana Republic, and Anthropologie all boast fun affordable scarf prints, as do most major department stores. If after checking my main street options, I find that I can’t release that image of me in a Pucci print, then I’ll do one last check at both eBay and Craigslist before heading back to Saks.
The great thing about headscarves is that they are a very flexible hair accessory so you can play around with different ways to tie them. The options may be limited, of course, depending on the size and shape of the scarf, but in general, there are three ways: tied at the back of the neck, underneath the chin, or wound around the neck. Tied under my chin with my large, white-framed sunglasses and a simple tan tank, that Pucci scarf would look amazing. Sigh …
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