Monday Must-Haves | Keeping it Together.

Today’s “Monday Must-Have” is so simple, I shouldn’t have even had to write about it! But I fell victim to it this morning so write I must! As long as I can remember, I’ve been rocking the hair-tie-as-a-bracelet look. When I was a kid, my parents would yell at me because surely this tiny piece of elastic covered by string was going to cut off the circulation to my hand + I was going to lose it. Well I’m a few days shy of 27 + I’m still sporting two hands so I think I’ll be okay. Long gone are the days when my hair-holding device on my wrist was a scrunchie. As Carrie Bradshaw taught me, no New Yorker in her right mind would be caught dead wearing one + with my long-lived desire to be the Chicago Carrie, I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing one either.

Since the scrunchie days, I’ve used chunky round ones, thin ones, flat ones, ones that supposedly don’t kink your hair + ones that look like a phone cord. I’ve doubled up on hair ties for softball games, used a stretchy headband when I couldn’t find one. I’m a fan of the pony tail, the braid, the messy bun + the fan bun. You can always tell how stressed I am based on how high my pony tail is. I should start warning men about that. Like, “See how high this bun is? Look what you made me do!”

This weekend I had a highly active weekend down at Disney visiting my sister + celebrating my birthday a little early. I arrived home a little after midnight, quickly changed into PJs + went to bed. Unfortunately my mind went a million miles an hour over the next hour + it took forever to settle down. When my alarm went off at 5:00 AM, I knew that “doing” my hair was not happening today. Messy bun it was. Days like this, I’m the definition of “messy bun + getting stuff done.”

As I sat at the light immediately after getting off the highway near work, I glanced in my rearview mirror + noticed a huge hair bump. Just because it’s a messy bun doesn’t mean I need to look that sloppy on Monday. I pulled my hair tie out of my hair to attempt to fix my bun + noticed the string protecting the elastic had broken. Being able to get this hair tie back around a bun was unlikely but I had to try.

Unlikely was too kind. I didn’t get one loop out of it. But with the state my hair was in, I couldn’t just leave it down so i tied the ends together while throwing my hair behind my headrest to keep it as smooth as possible. I wasn’t sure if I’d have enough room to wrap the broken hair tie to be secure, but it’s all I had. It was a learning moment. From now on I’ll be wearing two hair ties to ensure my beast isn’t forced to be unleashed on unsuspecting bystanders.

As I wrap this up, I do have to tell you about my favorite ponytail holder! I ordered the Invisibobble on a whim from Sephora. Surely I was attempting to get free shipping so I threw anything that’d be relevant in my cart. For $8 you get a pack of three. I’m on my second since November + that’s only because I gave my friend Brittani my first one, which she used for several months. She has hair much thicker than mine + it holds both of our hair types expertly! Not to mention my hair doesn’t get wrapped around them like they can on a regular hair tie. I mistakenly took it off my wrist for my trip as I needed to wear my Fitbit + my Magic Band. Not making that mistake again! Give these a shot! You’ll probably love them! Click the image to get them a little bit cheaper on Amazon

xo.

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