Being a sharp and perspicacious reader you will, by now, have realised that you are deep in an ES travel issue.
A special magazine all about… the power of possibility. The broadening of horizons. Portals to compelling new worlds. And so, my adventurous beauties, I ask you to turn your minds to kirby grips.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking. ‘Kirby grips? Bit basic, no?’ And so I ask you to channel the audacious spirit of the explorer. I wonder if you might suspend your beliefs about these common or garden hair accessories and approach with a fresh eye and a fresher attitude. Because kirby grips throw up all manner of opportunities.
Travel is often an opportunity to experiment and this applies to hairstyles. Grab a packet of 30 for £1.49 at Superdrug and you will find them cheap (you won’t cry if you lose a couple), nostalgic, cute, edgy and — crucially — freeing.
Fancy trying that surfer girl look by twisting a couple of ropes of hair behind your ears and leaving the rest as God intended? Secure with a kirby grip and proceed until apprehended. Attempting the perfect, sundown ponytail? Insure against escaping strands with kirby grips, then go forth and devastate. Considering a Parisian schoolgirl bob secured on one side only for asymmetrical irresistibility? Kirby grip. They are also the gateway grip to all those splashy pearl, diamanté and gold clips and slides that are everywhere now. But kirby grips are far cooler. Even if they don’t spell ‘DAMN’ or ‘DISCO’.
