Obsession with Top Knot Bands & Tea Sets’.
What in the world am I gibbering about? Most people would find me quite strange to make such a big deal about TOP KNOT RUBBER BANDS. Oh well!!! Somebody out there in cyberspace must understand me.
I LOVE having my dogs wear their hair up in top knots. Tweety pictured above uses up a ton of top knot bands as she has the longer ears and a very long top knot in a FUSION KOREAN cut.
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| Tweety in her pigtails, uses quite a few top knot bands from Claires. |
I have purchased hair bands from all types of specialty dog stores and dog bow stores and craft stores over the years. MOST of the bands purchased from specialty dog related stores as well as beauty supply stores have FAILED!!! They were too big, too small, too slippery, too stiff., too thin, too thick, broke hair, tangled the hair, snapped/broke easily…..etc, etc, etc. Sorry, I have to admit that I am pretty darn picky about my hair bands — BOTH for my dogs as well as for my girls and myself.
Today there are TONS of good choices for the Perfect Go To Top Knot Band. A smorgasbord of choices!!
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| BUFFET TABLE OF BANDS — nom..nom…nom |
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| Buffet table of edible treats! ~~~ we love parties at Maltese Obsession! |
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| Fun with so many choices of bands in a rainbow of colors |
After years of searching I used to only find GOOD bands in 2 places (Claires and toplinepet.com). Today, I can find great bands EVERYWHERE! Thanks to the latest TOY craze, there are CRAZY LOOM rubber bands all over town. girls are making LOOM BRACELETS using a plastic device and colorful rubber bands. These LOOM kits can be bought at toy stores, Michaels, Claires Accessory stores etc. Not all loom rubber bands are perfect for top knots. They vary VASTLY in thickness, stretchability and weight. We use the loom bands that are on the lighter side.
Rubber bands don’t go to waste in our house with three human girls that love to play with hair styles, piggy tails and top knots!!!
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| From Bottom to Top: 1) toplinepet.com SNAG FREE bands in lavender and white 2) Loom bands (rainbow) 3-6) Claires hair bands (hello, green, light blue, lavender) Last is Hello Kitty kit LOOM bands (pink, hot pink, black_ |
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| Loom kit rubber bands — this set did NOT cause ANY hair breakage. They were also very light weight! |
The above bands are all made for LOOMING!
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| Cheerios and Loom Kit Bands |
Here is where the CHEERIOS come in. The PERFECT band size for me happens to be the size where a CHEERIO will fit inside!
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| 1/4″ Latex bands on TOP of the Cheerios are TOOOOOO small |
The above picture shows TINY 1/4″ latex bands that I bought from a dog BOW SPECIALTY store on-line. My fingers are huge and these TINY bands do not work. You can see one in the above picture sitting on TOP of a cheerio.
Above you can see the PASTEL bands on the RIGHT SIDE of the cake plate. These are from CLAIRES Accessory stories and they are LITTLE GIRL HAIR BANDS. These have been my FAVORITE for years now. These little girl hair bands are THINNER then most looming bands.
On the left side of the cake plate:
Top — looming bands from a toy store (a Hello Kitty kit with light pink, hot pink and black)
Middle — thinner hair bands included when you purchase a Madan Top Knot scissor. (lavender, white)
Bottom — looming bands that are pretty thick and hold top knots for at least several days! (rainbow of colors)
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| Madan $5 band scissors come with SNAG FREE bands ~~ www.toplinepet.com |
The above picture shows what you get when you purchase the Madan band scissor. When I first received this bag of bands free with the Madan band scissor, I ended up ordering more scissors, just to get extra bags of these nice bands. They are thinner bands and are a bit slippery, so I found that they do break easier and the top knot slips out a bit quicker. I still love these hair bands and will continue to enjoy using them, as I like having these thin bands, when I do styles where I do not want the band to show.
NOTE: these snag free bands are available for sale at www.toplinepet.com LOVE THEM!!!
PUPPIES, would benefit from the LIGHT WEIGHT and THINNER human hair bands. I would NOT recommend using loom bands on puppies as they would be considered MED to Heavy weight and would definitely not be comfortable for a puppy that you are training to wear a TOP KNOT.
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| Looming bands are thicker then Madan or Claires snag free bands |
Tweety above is in between grooms and I just washed her face so her fur is wet around her nose and eyes. I am growing her hair out so that I can video tape how I do a Korean fusion cut on her face. When I put her hair up in this style, it will STAY NICE AND CLEAN FOR 5 days to 1 week! Gotta like that!
What is with the tea party you might ask? I LOVE going to tea and I have two daughters that never get tired of tea parties. We collected so many tea sets over the years that we love to pull them out to play or drink hot cocoa or lemonade or WHATEVER!
My younger daughter had so much fun organizing the bands into the little tea cups. I love how she arranged them so much that I added the TEA SET OF BANDS to my grooming station!!!
Note: All fluffs as wells as their groomers have different tastes, needs and favorites. Not every SPAW treatment need be the same. Maltese Obsession is happy to share our PAWSITIVELY Perfect GO TO Grooming experiences.
