What do you tie your hair back with?
 

I just asked my friend for a hair bobble and she brought one and was all like "is this what you mean?" because apparently it's called a hair tie. Which do you say? Is this perhaps a regional thing?

A bobble is how you explained it a peice of elastic to put hair up with.

I'd say a hair tie is like ribbon and such like not stretchy

I've never heard the term hair bobble before.

Hair ties all the way! And yes, they are elastic!

Booble.

Am from up north. When I moved to Yorkshire I said my hair was tatty (knotted) and that caused confusion!

Hair bobble! I would think of a hair tie as a thing you actually tie..

I also apparently can't spell. Or was imagining moar lesbians.

A bobble, I've heard beauty Youtubers say hair tie, I presumed it was more of an American thing.

Not to thread hijack but on a related note, what do you call this?

Hair tie, or a hair elastic. I've also heard people call it hairband(I used to have very long hair and was a long hair enthusiast). Have never heard of the term 'hair bobble'.

Also, as epic said, there is such a thing as a scrunchie.

ETA: I thought 'hair elastic' was an American thing?

I call that a bobby pin.(again, I assume this might be American, as I picked it up from a long hair forum whose members were mostly American)

I call it a hair bobble.

Sentient Treacle: that's a hair grip

I call it a hair grip too.

I call it a bobble.

The hair grip I call a kirby.


My hair is too short to do anything elaborate, but I sometimes wear it in two little bunches with bobbles or I pin what there is of it up. Today it is pined up with hair grips with fish and ducks on them, contrasting with my new purple hair. I got fed up with pink.

I call it a hair tie or a bobble. Interchangeably.

and that's a hair pin.

I call it a hairband - which no one appears to have mentioned here about from Lucy! I also call those big puffy hair bands scrunchies.

See to me, this is a hairband:

^same

^I'd call that a headband, not a hairband.

I agree with mikey! Do you remember those velvety hairbands that you could get your name put on? Them were the days.

From what I know of the people voting, it looks like bobble might be a northern thing and hairband could be Welsh?

My friend who I mentioned in the original post is not on RYL but knows about it and is threatening to make ten accounts just so she can vote for elastic ten times because she does not approve of the current poll results :P

Also, I now call that hairgrip a bobby pin, but I picked that up from someone fairly recently and I can't remember what I used to call it.

I have never actually heard anyone here call it a hairband though(I've only seen this term used online).

Does seem like bobble is northern!

Yup, I'm northern and bobble it is!

I interchange between hair booble/hairband but have also heard it called a hair tie. The other thing is a head band

I call the grip a hair grip or kirby grip.

Yay booble!x

I can't believe how many words there are for hair accessories.

Whoever mentioned hair elastic being American, that does actually ring a bell, I thought they said hair tie as well.

I call what I posted a kirby grip as well.

As for the hairband and headband thing,

I'm thinking hair tie/elastic may be used ~interchangeably in America.

I would call both of those headbands, just different types.

Hair band.

The grips bobby pins and the other one a headband!

hair band or hair thingy

I'm American and call them hair ties, never heard of "hair bobble" until I moved to the UK--and have always thought it would be spelled "bauble"!

I'm apparently odd, I call them hair ties, bobble, elastic, hair band. But mainly I use bobble (I'm Yorkshire)

And those grip things, Kirkby grips, Bobby pin, hair grip and hair pin.

I think you're right--though my brain-logic had been thinking of these types of things that children wear, which to me would be classed as baubles? And I thought the term had evolved from that!

Hair bobble is the picture above. Elastic ring with a bobble.

Hair tie or hair thingy are what I usually use.

Hair ribbon if I'm actually using a ribbon.

Hair band goes all the way around the head.

I'm from the South West and I would usually say hair tie, but I use bobble too and would know what it means. I've had people be confused when I ask them for a hair tie before (mostly when I lived in the Midlands for university).

That's a bobby pin! And to me, a hair band is a u-shaped band that goes on the top of your head to push your hair back. I wear them all the time and usually call them Alice bands but I don't know where I got that from. Maybe it's an Alice in Wonderland reference?

I usually tie my hair up with scrunchies these days because I have ALL the hair and it needs special equipment, haha.

Mali, yes it is an Alice in Wonderland reference because she has been depicted as wearing those headbands since forever.

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Hair tie, bobbie pin, headband.

Like Carmen mentioned, I've also heard hair ties called rubber bands which was very confusing to me until I realized they meant hair ties.

Defs a bobble people! Though I am 99.9% sure its a regional north UK thing.

I agree an actual elastic band is so very painful!

I call it a bobble and I'm from south-east England. Though my mum and sister laughed at me when I called it a bobble as apparently bobbles have to be 'bobbly'. Whatever that means.

Now I've typed the word 'bobble' so much it doesn't look like a word.

Lio despite not being able to see that last line on LFV I thought you'd written it and wandered into the thread to say purely reading it secondhand and the word 'bobble' doesn't look like a word anymore :P

I use bobble. I don;'t use the word hairband but have heard others use that. I am from a middle Northern region (I'm a hobbit really :P)

I forgot the name once in year two and my teacher made me sit on the floor of the classroom crossed legged whilst everyone at desks stared at me until I remembered it 10 minutes later. Why she placed such emphasis on knowing such a word I'll never know :P Doubt I'll have that issue again thanks to this thread :P

I DIDN'T INITIALLY SEE THE P-O-L-L

I voted hair bobble AND moar lesbz, naturally. Glad to see the re-instatement of that latter option concretely a feature of every poll

Speaking of bobble and bauble, I have had a lot of fun trying to teach one American member on here how to pronounce them differently- she said them both exactly the same! Americans on this thread, do you pronounce them differently to each other?

I'm in Ireland and I call them bobbins. I never heard them called bobbles or hair ties! A scrunchy is the velvety ones, a hairband is like what Mikey posted. And now I'm thinking boobles instead lol.

i got about 5 yards of elastic from a sewing store, cut pieces about 6 inches long, and tied the ends. that's what i use at home, and i got pretty elastic ties for going out.

I may be biased as I've now been living in Wales for 3 years and although I've not lost my American accent, my pronunciation of some things has naturally changed...but I would say "bauble" sounding like "baw-bull" and "bobble" more like "bah-bull".

Hair tie with bobbles
 

I like to tie my hairs with ribbons because i thought that elastic(bobbles) is not suitable for hairs

Just skimmed this thread... Why does nobody call it a hairband like I do? D:

^because a hair band is like a headband... like one of those things ou wear either side of your ears over your head?

I call it a hairband or a scrunchy.

I saw them called elastics in a shop here yesterday. I would never have called them that. Perhaps I'm just too old to get the lingo!

I call it a hair band.
The 'kirby clip' things I call a 'grip' and the band that goes over your head I call a headband :)

I call it a hair bow and everyone I know here also calls it that.

Also, as epic said, there is such a thing as a scrunchie.