When I was about 14 or 15, there were three types of girl at school. One who had pierced ears (this girl was acceptable), one without pierced ears (basically the equivalent of social suicide, she was probably very good at maths), and one who laughed in the face of the all girl, convent rules and got that extra, all important, upper ear piercing. Or two. Or three. These were the girls who usually smoked and/or knew a lot of boys. That upper ear thing always makes me think back to that time, before we merged with the neighbouring boys school (that was a good year), and the gaggle of girls who were untouchable.
And so, to sport this trend with aplomb one should probably adopt the persona of a bad girl. Lots of black, tonnes of eyeliner - again, much like school, if you didn't own a Bourjois kohl and circle the inside and outside of your eye like 30 times a day, you were a nobody - and plenty of attitude. A la Cara. Our it girl of right now.
Or Rhianna, with her undercut as seen below - oh my god, she would have known, 'like', so many boys.
But what we're also seeing is these fierce cuffs gracing the likes of the pretty sweet type. Emma Watson? She never had a detention in her life. And why can she pull them off? Because hers are ludicrously sparkly rather than 'I got these cuffs in Camden'. And why is she wearing them? Because she's shaking off her good girl wizard thing.
Sienna? Well she can channel both the good girl and the bad as seen below. We know she smoked like a trouper, swore like a sailor and got around a bit. But, oh, she's just SO damn pretty.
To try the trend, sweep your hair back as Diane Kruger has done. A savvy little top knot and multiple cuffs. Simple yet brilliant.
But the star of this show has got to be Edie Campbell. An effortless pony, minimal makeup, prim little shirt and one HELL of an example of pure ear BLING. Fabulous.
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