Club Trend: Get Faded, Get Braided
There’s nothing worse than being at a rave with tightly packed sweaty bodies with your hair down. It’s even worse when you get that feeling you’ve left your one hairband at home or remember giving your last grip to your friend when her fly-away’s became unruly on the way to the club.
Then you get into the club and realise you have the whole night stuck with your hair, only if you could just shave it all off right there. Let’s rewind to the beginning of the night, before you left the house, when you should have braided your hair. No, it doesn’t make you look like a school child, more like a girl that knows she’s going to be partying hard that night.
It gives off the essence of an urban rave warrior with the brains not to let her hair get in the way of her dancing the night away into the early rising sun. Style it up in a way that suits you, channel your inner FKA Twigs, use corn rows in a section of your hair or do a loose fishtail to the side. Just don’t go looking like Pippy Long Stockings.
Hair braids work well with (excuse the buzz-word) ‘sports-luxe’ trend which is a ‘Vogue-y’ way of saying dressed like you’ve just left the gym. Relaxed or slouchy fit clothing, with sportswear brands like Nike taking centre stage. The ‘French plait’ hairstyle goes so well with this trend because of its implied practical aspects that is assuming you can plait the back of your head. If you can’t the girls down at Keash braids or the new braid bar in Selfridges have got your back.
Braids or plaits or have been around for longer than you’ve been alive. Their origins can be traced back 6,000 years often found seen in artwork from all around the world. There is evidence that the braid originated in North Africa as it is inscribed on cave walls. But also the hair style appears in Greek art and has been used in many cultures throughout the years. Braids have even been at the foot of a debate about race, with some claiming that people adopt ‘black hairstyles’ such as cornrows as fashionable fads, as this hairstyle has been worn by people of colour for years.
Whatever the argument, the fact is that the braid has played its long part in history. Showing that this hairstyles functionality has been tried and tested, so why not adopt it for one night of madness?
