What do you use to tie your hair back?

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Just that really.....scrunchies ok?

@silkpyjamasallday How do you account for the multiple videos of animals being skinned alive?

I haven't seen a scrunchie since 1990.

Cut up old pair of 40+ denier black tights

The hair bands that look like old telephone coils

Scrunchies (the non-fur ones) are indeed back but prob not if you were old enough to wear them the first time round!

Cheapo ones without the metal bit. Usually from Boots.

Scrunched are dated. The only people I see still wearing them are private prep school girls and women of a certain age who probably aren't reading S&B.

Ethics aside (though the very concept is monstrous), that mink thing is quite spectacularly awful. I'm think Angie (as in Den and..) from Eastenders a very trashy day. Just hideous. I'm almost speechless.

Scrunchies?

Invisibobbles are the way forward.

A multipack of plain bobbles from Asda/Tesco/wherever I spot them when I'm running low.

Just no to mink. Or any kind of fur bobbles. Disgusting.

I wear a scrunchie in the house when I'm cooking/cleaning etc but when I go out a use a plain soft bobble with no metal or rubber etc (to try to combat breaking)

I used to get them from boots but they stopped doing them but I found some in primark about a year ago and bought three packs to keep me going.

This picture is not right as mine are just black and a bit bigger but the look quite close to the material I'm talking about.

Invisibobble here too - or at least the sainsburys version of them. I love them - my hair doesn't get knotted and it is always up.

Seriously, Mink hair bands? Scrunchies? Only in Mumsnet!

Just use a hair elastic. They're £2 for about 20 on Claire's or Primark.

To the poster who has friends working in allegedly ethically sound fur farms: are those the cheapest end of the Chinese market?

My teenaged DD has an extensive collection of scrunchies, which shocked me as a SATC fan, but she's a big Heathers (the musical) fan.

I use rubber grip band things, usually pick them up from asos or boots or Claire's. Transparent or neon or whatever colour they have really! The only trouble is like Kirby grips they end up everywhere

I do have two scrunchies I use sometimes when my hair is in a high bun. More for nostalgia purposes than anything

One is black velvet, the other a fuschia/green/blue flowery silky print.

For the lady who posted a pic of her hair in a scrunchie I'd say mid fifties?

Scrunchie are aging as they are very eighties.

As for the mink scrunchie, it's actually quite ugly. I can't imagine putting that in my hair.

I just used covered hair bands, you know the little black or brown ones you get, or bulldog clips. Normally however my hair is plaited as opposed to up, hence why the hair band works well.

Umm, hair coloured elastics with no metal bit (scunchies? From boots)

Or those 'telephone wire' ones are pretty good.

The reason i used scrunchies is cos i've got thick curly hair that would get tangled in normal bobbles, I agree that invisibobbles are the way forward.

scrunchielass

It's very ageing and I would assume you were mid 40's-50, sorry!

I use the elastic bobbles from Boots the same colour as my hair

Scrunchie photo here. I am nearly 47. Ah well.

I would have guessed you were in your teens to be fair! You look young in the photo.
As the 90s are in fashion and have been for a while, shops from Topshop to Cath Kidston are full of scrunchies.

Brown hair bands with no metal bits in them. (Same colour as my hair. I git blonde ones when I was bleached blonde)

Metal free hair elastics or invisibobbles. Scrunchies are very ageing.

Scrunchielass, nice hair though!

Why are scrunchies ageing?? (I'm not doubting any of you just wondering).