What Is This Hair Thing?

What Do You Call These?

July 29, 2009

There are few designations as likely to cause an argument among friends, I've found, than what exactly the item to the right should properly be called. We almost all use them, but the variety of terminology is quite wide, and I never realized till I moved away from home for college that they could be called anything other than what I'd grown up knowing them as. So what's it gonna be? What are these incredibly helpful little hair devices to you?

Hair Accessories

106 Comments

2 years 3 days

I call them hair ties or hair bands. To me, scrunchies are those big cloth or decorative things. And why call them "rubber bands"? then what do you call ACTUAL rubber bands? Psh! Lol And "ponytail holder" just sounds meh. So yeah.

3 years 41 weeks

I'm gonna go REAL OLD SCHOOL on u all. I called them Buffy's for the character on Family Affair a 70's tv show.I just really aged myself! anyone else out there remember it?

RachLA 3 years 41 weeks

hair BINDER! I guess I'm weird.

ThePerfectScore 3 years 41 weeks

Pony tail holder.

ThePerfectScore 3 years 41 weeks

Pony tail holder.

stephcorinn 3 years 42 weeks

I've always said "rubber band" or "ponytail holder." I know when I lived in the South, people made fun of me for "rubber band" so maybe that's when I started using "ponytail holder."

chelseacbboyles 3 years 42 weeks

I call them "hair elastics" and sometimes, very rarely "rubberbands" which seems silly because I think of a rubberband as something that goes around the newspaper, for example, or around a bunch of asparagus at the grocery store! haha!

Nadia24gv 3 years 42 weeks

Hair ties. They tie up my hair.

3 years 42 weeks

i used to skip the holder part and go just call it a ponytail, then people would correct me and i started saying hair tie.

mrsld 3 years 42 weeks

ponytail holders. Unless covered in fabric and then a scrunchy.

Stacey Cakes 3 years 42 weeks

Back in my cheerleading days (and the early/mid 90's) we called these "hardies" and the big fabric scrunchies, "softies". But now I call them 'hair elastics' or just elastics.

confidante 3 years 42 weeks

They've always been scrunchies to me

xoxoxx 3 years 42 weeks

Scrunchies! :D

xoxoxx 3 years 42 weeks

Scrunchies! :D

3 years 42 weeks

I've always called them "twisties" but sometimes use "hair tie" because no one knows what I'm talking about. "Scrunchies" are the big puffy decorative ones that American Apparel is woefully trying to resurrect.

mguy414 3 years 42 weeks

I call them hair thingie(s). Not hair thing, gotta be a thingie even if I only have one!! Sometimes I call them ponytail holders, if in polite company :) I may call it a hair tie sometimes.... I don't really monitor it! But my hair is sooo short now, I have no use for hair thingies...sad