bondi band giveaway

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I won a contest on Racevine. I received ten Bondi Bands in the mail this week. The last time I checked, I only have one head and ten headbands seemed a little excessive so I figured I’d give away the extras if anyone would like them.

My hair is gnarly and frizzes immediately upon contact with sweat; usually I wear one of those elastic headbands that you can get at the supermarket or Target, like this. They aren’t too snazzy, but they stay on my head so it works for me. I was pretty stoked about branching out into new headband realm. I’ve seen Bondi Bands at expos and there’s usually a small horde of women frantically digging through the huge bins of headbands like there’s free money at the bottom. They’re pretty spendy, though, and $8 for a headband is not really in the budget especially not knowing if they would be any good or not. I am pretty sad to report that I wore one of the solid color bands (which is a thicker material than the other Lycra bands) to classes on Tuesday and it kept sliding off my head. You know when you have a headband on and then you have the dipstick moment where you realize you’ve been walking around with it half slipped off of your head and it’s sitting on your ponytail? Yeah, that was me…three times. I went for a short run before dinner on Tuesday after it cooled down a little bit and put on one of the Lycra bands to see if it’d do any better when I was running. The Lycra version is a lot thinner and more slippery than the solid color band. It slipped off within a mile of my house and I ended up just leaving it around my neck because I didn’t want to deal with it.

So, I kind of don’t want to dog something I was given for free, but I was really glad I did not purchase these. On the other hand, I Googled a bit and a lot of people DO like these headbands and maybe they just aren’t good for me. I don’t like wearing a headband down on my forehead like they’re pictured on the website; it’s a little too Hulkamania for me and I need at least a tiny bit of my hair in front. Maybe you need to pull it down your forehead to get it to stay put. They seem pretty popular so maybe it’s my head that is defective.

If you think my assessment is horribly unjust and love Bondi Bands or just want to try one out, I have eight headbands that I didn’t wear (unless you want my sweated in ones?). Leave me a comment by 10pm Friday telling me about your worst clothing mishap (running or otherwise). If one person leaves a comment, I’ll send them all the headbands…if more than eight comment, I’ll use a random number generator to pick eight.