If you have long hair and the kind of lifestyle that you need to look sophisticated more often than not, then why (when you put your hair up) are you using plastic barrettes or scrunchy’s to hold your up-do in place?Here are some elegant products to hold your hair perfectly with more than enough sophistication for any occasion. Exotic wooden hair pins (stay all day in even the finest hair, left)

Exotic wooden barrettes (right)

Art Glass hair sticks (below)

This company makes hundreds of different handmade styles of pins, sticks and barrettes in either plain or with inlaid metals or gemstones for your hair. Some of them are a bit over the top for me, but if you keep it simple, they can be quite elegant.

Check them out at Blue Heron Woods