Picture this, it's year five and you've just got into double figures, you got the dress you wanted from Tammy Girl/New Look 915, your glitter polish is on and your heel is at least 2 inches. But something... is missing. The school disco is that evening and you've poured over Shout magazine for every piece of style and fashion advice, and how to artfully look away from the lush classmate you have a crush on, but you haven't quite reached perfection.
And then you remember. You dive into the foot of your wardrobe, trainers and backpacks flying over your shoulders, and triumphantly emerge with a purple carrier bag from the pre-teen mecca, Claire's Accessories. Inside are the pink, lilac and baby blue clip in tinsel hair extensions that will elevate your look to the heights your new two digit age deserves. All is well.
Sorry I was having a moment there. I'll get right to the point. Emma Roberts' pastel tinsel hair extensions just gave me the most overpowering flashbacks and I'm still reeling.
Prime Video shared this first-look image of Emma in upcoming romcom Space Cadet, where she stars as a Florida party girl called Rex who turns out to be the NASA space program's only hope after she flukes her way into astronaut training. Obsessed already.
And natch for a party girl turned space adventurer, glittering metallic extensions just belong poking out from under her space helmet.
Described as having; "smarts, heart, and nerve," in the synopsis, we're already feeling like we could be pals with Rex. And we're already coveting those glitter hair extensions.
You can actually get a DIY home kit (with pretty high ratings) on Amazon so you can create your own.
(Or Easilocks tie in tinsel on Asos, if the kit is a little intimidating.)
As a curly girl my adoration for the clip in wonders back in the day was from a distance, unable to partake, but this home tinsel extension kit comes with heat resistant tinsel, that can be straightened or curled, as well as cut to length.
And yes it's already in my basket, I'm about to experience a childhood dream. Now where is my cola Lipsmacker?
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
