How to Wear a Multi-Elastic Headband Properly

Wearing a multi-elastic headband can seem strange, even if you're used to wearing standard headbands. To wear a multi-elastic headband properly, focus on finding variations that suit your wardrobe. Multi-elastic headbands are a great way to shake up your hair accessories without much effort, and they always create a clean, polished look no matter what the occasion.

Things You'll Need

• Multi-elastic headband
• Hair cream or smoothing serum
• Wide-tooth comb
• Hair elastic
• Hair pins

Instructions

Putting on a Multi-elastic Headband

1. Get control of your hair. Use a smoothing serum or hair cream to tame frizzy hair or flyaways. Because a multi-elastic headband has several bands, it's easy to get hair caught in between them. Use a cream to control your mane and use a wide-tooth comb to evenly distribute product to ensure hair doesn't tangle.

2. Choose a headband that works with your lifestyle. A simple version with neutral colors will work for every day occasions, while metallic shades like gold and silver look good for special events or evenings out. Multi-elastic headbands are found at many price points, so check the drugstore, department stores and online stores for options.

3. When wearing a multi-elastic headband at the office, keep hair sleek. If you're having a bad hair day, or simply don't have time to style your hair, a multi-elastic headband adds pizazz with little effort. Another option is to wear the multi-elastic headband and pin up the rest of your hair in a bun for a classic look. Good multi-elastic headbands for the office include neutral colors, soft shades of metallic, and subtle tortoise or leopard prints.

4. Go wild with hair at night. If you want to wear hair curly with a multi-elastic headband, keep the roots of your hair sleek. Apply styling cream (see step 1), and go wild after the headband is on. After the multi-elastic headband is securely on your head, tease your hair or touch up any curls with a curling iron. This is a fun look for going out at night, or for embracing the humidity on a beach vacation. Because the look is more fashion forward, feel free to experiment with bright colors and textured multi-elastic headbands.

5. Put your multi-elastic headband to work at the gym. Multi-elastic headbands are fantastic to wear while working up a sweat. They keep hair up and away from the forehead, preventing your hair from mixing with sweat, which can cause blemishes. After putting on the headband, place hair in a ponytail or bun to keep hair off the neck. Tote some hair cream with you, and pin up your hair again post-shower if you have errands to run after the gym. Multi-elastic headbands look great with casual outfits such as a sun dress or a t-shirt and yoga pants.

Tips & Warnings

• When putting on your multi-elastic headband, place the headband around the front of your neck, smooth the top of your head (where the headband will go) using a wide-tooth comb or your fingers, and then pull the headband on, making sure it is secure and won't slip.