How To Wear It : Silk Scarf

I am head over heels loving on silk scarves right now. I have always loved winter scarves, how they add another layer of texture and color to an outfit. But when the weather starts to get warmer, most of these scarves must be banished to back of the closet until fall returns. Enter, the silk scarf.

Throughout the years, head scarves have come in and out of style - but silk scarves, like the Hermes-style ones your grandma used to wear, remain forever classic & chic.  

I have been seeing more and more lightweight scarves popping up around me, from bloggers to NYC ladies, even in magazines. I was reading Elle the other day and before even getting to the first article I saw three advertisements with lightweight scarves being styled in various ways!

So, I took to Pinterest to find some inspiration for wearing the silk scarf this spring and discovered I was just as smitten with it as a hair accessory as I with it as a neck accessory. I pulled together some of my favorite looks below to get you all in the scarf frame of mind too!

 

Hair Look #1 - The Messy Headband

Messy buns and chignons look casual yet at the same time classy with your scarf nonchalantly knotted around your head.

Wave Hello.

I don't have straight hair. I don't have curly hair. I'm not even  sure you could call it wavy; it's straight in some spots, gets waves in others. All in all, it does it's own thing. In the many years since I have learned how to style my hair, I have opted for the curling-iron-waves over the pin-straight-straightener look. Creating curls with a curling iron adds body to my thin hair, while also adding some  va-va-voom-ness to my look, (hey, anything thing that makes me look older than 16 helps). However....the big However. I do not curl my hair the traditional way: clip in the ends and wind up to the root. Too poodle-y. Rather I utilize a method I saw years ago in an Olsen Twin beauty clip (don't ask). I have attempted to explain this method to others, but it always helps to see a demo. I stumbled across this video on DailyCandy, and found it showed exactly how I do my hair! So I thought I'd share it here, so anyone who has ever asked me how I make my waves: this is it; hello waves.

-E

Nerds.

MUST. START. WEARING. GLASSES. Thankfully Jenna and I splurged last weekend on Canal Street. Phew. Bring on the books.