Shay Mitchell just fanned the flames of my current Juicy Couture obsession. I was a little too young to enjoy the brand's heyday, so have spent the year making up for lost time, getting addicted to their iconic tracksuits. And no one told me they did hair accessories! Ok, I'd seen the scrunchies, but clips? Need need need.
Attending Usher's Lovers and Friends festival in Las Vegas, Nevada – with who appear to be her... lovers and friends – Shay pulled back her long dark tresses and twisted them up into a claw clip. I mean, claw clips alone are y2k excellence, but this beauty is encrusted with the word 'Juicy' in diamantés and it fully deserves this close-up in her gallery of pics from the festival. Just swipe and see:
One commenter wrote: "Also known as Slay Mitchell 🔥" and that's a fact. The style and accessory choice was even more apt for the 00s packed lineup of the Hip Hop and RnB festival, with headliners including 50 cent, Missy Elliot, Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera. It's hard to see someone living your dream.
While a trip to Vegas for this festival next year isn't exactly in my budget, the hair clip seemed more feasible. So obviously I was on Google shopping search as fast as my fingers could carry me.
At first I couldn't track down this clip, thinking it was either no longer on sale or potench a relic from Shay's original 00's collection?
But I did find these diamanté slides that caused my jaw to drop so low and fast our beauty assistant Lia asked what I'd just seen on my laptop. #breakingnews
Did I mention they're half price?
But all hope was not lost, the clip was actually a collab with adorable accessories brand Emi Jay, and now I'm down the rabbit hole looking at every single clip on their site.
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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.
