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Just your average black, skinny elastic band.
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And I can more or less pinpoint when my aversion started: the mid-1980s.
And it was my arch (no pun intended) nemesis.
It’s not that I didn’t want to be part of the banana clip fan club.
She made banana clips look so fashionable and so easy.
But I recallhatingthem after attempting to wear them.
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“TikTok made me buy it.
I’m obsessed,” the voiceover says.
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And she’s not wrong.
She also appreciates how much fuller they can make ponytails look.
The world may never know.
Even though my hair is in disarray, it made it look like an actual style.
And a cute one, at that.
I experienced the same ponytail-lengthening effect, and I love how easy it was to create.
Even though my hair is at peak frizzy mess, I think it looks fantastic in this sort-of-updo.
Why on Earth did I reject these so hard as a child?
I blinked repeatedly and incredulously at the absurdity.
How adorably stupid of little Marci.
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