Fashion Alert: Give the rubber band a break, try hair accessories. 

So its a weird, hot and sweaty summer afternoon, and you are far from a "Good hair day". Don't stress. Only open, smooth, silky shiny hair that just do not tangle are no longer required to put up with a good presence, even at a party!

All you need now girls, is the correct hair accessory for the occasion, your outfit, and your hair.A hair accessory could be anything ranging from a dramatic embellished headband, to floral clips. Just pick the right one from anywhere around and you are definitely good to go.
However, all you need to really take care of, is how you pull off a hair accessory without looking like a child. A hairband for instance is something very 12-13 year old, when seen individually. However, wearing them up with a messed up side bun will just finish out your look very well.
And if you by any means think that long hair is necessary for a hair accessory to compliment, then babe you are just not right. Wait till you see some of the very short haired actresses, from both Hollywood and Bollywood, use crystal hairbands and bows to their hair. They have all ended up looking superb.

Here's how you should use some of the hair accessories:

1. Flowers: Think Flowers and think of the beach and the summer. The trick behind using flowers as a hair accessory is that they should be used lower than the level of your eyes. That is basically in the lower half of your hair.Never, wear them on top of your head. They will lose their grace and look just too historic.
   
2. Fabric: In other words, silk headbands. They may not necessarily make you look retro unless you want them too. The trick is to tie it loosely on open hair and just make it look fab. Brownie points for matching it with your outfit.
   
3. Scarves: Choose your color and the way you want to tie it up. You could give it a chick turban look or a headband one. Just be sure of how experimental you can be.
   
4. Barrettes: These are traditionally chunky wooden hair clips that use a wooden stick to hold the hair together. Today however you have plenty of fancy embellished, colorful and dreamy options available. Go pick one up and you can get sorted for almost any outfit.
   
5. Headbands: Headbands are easy to use, commonly available and I would say the least experimental of the lot. However I would say that most of us go wrong while using it. The trick is first of all not to end up looking like a child, who's mommy just did her hair. The second would be, not to pull back your hair very tightly with a headband. To add some drama, always leave some hair out, or just make it rest on your hair like a pair of sunglasses. 

Not only does the fictional character of "Blair Waldorf" play around with hair accessories, our very own Bollywood damsels have used this to enhance their hairdos many a times.

I think all of the above just look wow. From Deepika's retro bow to Sonam's headgear in Aisha. Blake Lively does just perfect justice to her plain white maxi by adding this blingy chain which she ties around her loose bun.

So use the tips above, ditch the elastics and go very very trendy. 

Make 2014 your year, and guess what, it has merely begun! ;)